PoliticalLegal & treatiesCulturalSpace
- 1918Independence1 December 1918 (became a sovereign state under the Danish Crown); 17 June 1944 (from Denmark; birthday of Jon SIGURDSSON, leader of Iceland's 19th-century independence movement)CIA World Factbook
- 1949Ratified the Genocide ConventionUN Treaty Collection
- 1979Ratified the ICCPR (civil & political rights)UN Treaty Collection
- 1985Ratified CEDAW (women’s rights)UN Treaty Collection
- 1992Ratified the Convention on the Rights of the ChildUN Treaty Collection
- 2000Joined the ICC (Rome Statute)UN Treaty Collection
- 2004First UNESCO World Heritage siteÞingvellir National ParkUNESCO World Heritage
- 2016Ratified the Paris Climate AgreementUN Treaty Collection
- 2019Most recent World Heritage inscriptionVatnajökull National Park - Dynamic Nature of Fire and IceUNESCO World Heritage
- 2024Most recent legislative election2024-11-30IPU Parline
