Events in the year 2018 in

Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch () is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary. "Monarch". Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest ...

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Margrethe II Margrethe II (; Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is a member of the Danish royal family who reigned as Queen of Denmark from 14 January 1972 until her abdication on 14 January 2024. Having reigned for exactly ...

* High Commissioner –

Mikaela Engell Mikaela Engell (born 4 October 1956) is a Danish civil servant who served as High Commissioner of Greenland, a post she held from 2011 to 2022. She had previously worked in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, first as a Permanent Secretary a ...

Premier Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier. A premier will normally be a head of govern ...

– Kim Kielsen * Speaker of the ''Inatsisartut'' –

Hans Enoksen Hans Enoksen (born 7 August 1956) is a Greenlandic politician who has been a member of the Parliament of Greenland since 1995, and was prime minister of Greenland from 2002 to 2009, the third to hold the position. A monolingualism, unilingual Gre ...

Events

*24 April – 2018 Greenlandic general election

Sports

*16 to 24 June – Greenland hosted the

2018 Pan American Men's Handball Championship The 2018 Pan American Men's Handball Championship was the 18th official competition for senior men's national handball teams of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. It was held from 16 to 24 June 2018 in Nuuk, Greenland. It also acte ...

Deaths

*9 July – Hans-Pavia Rosing, politician and civil servant (b. 1948). *2 August –

Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ Uusarqak Qujaukitsoq (Older spelling: Ûssarĸak Kʼujaukitsoĸ; ; 10 February 1948 – 2 August 2018) was a Greenlandic politician for Siumut party. Uusarqak Qujaukitsoq was the son of Kʼujaukitsoĸ Kʼujaukitsoĸ and his wife Eĸilana. His gra ...

, Inuk politician and human rights activist, member of the

Inatsisartut The Inatsisartut (, ; ), also known as the Parliament of Greenland in English, is the unicameral parliament (legislative branch) of Greenland, an autonomous territoryMultiple sources: * * * in the Danish Realm. Established in 1979, the parli ...

(b. 1948).Uusaqqak Qujaukitsoq er død

References

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