January 31 - Icelandic teenager Blaer Bjarkardottir wins a legal fight to use the name given to her by her mother, which the Icelandic Naming Committee had argued was not a proper female given name.
February
February 27 - Gæðakokkar 30% meat pie on Iceland is found to not contain any meat at all.
April
April 27 - Voters in Iceland go to the polls for a parliamentary election with a centre-right coalition expected to regain office.
May
May 22 - Prime Minister elect of Iceland, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, declares that a January decision to freeze European Union membership talks will be extended indefinitely.
December
December 2 - The Icelandic police kills a person for the first time since it became a republic in 1944.[1][2]
December 12 - Four former Icelandic bank bosses are jailed over concealing illegal activities within the bank Kaupthing.
