1602 DENMARK (Greenland) - Queen Margrethe II

Greenland - 70th birthday of the Queen Margrethe II,
dressed in Greenlandic national costume

Greenland became a  Danish colony in 1814, and a part of the Danish Realm in 1953, as an autonomous country. Since 2008, Greenland enjoy broad autonomy, but still is part of the  Kingdom of Denmark, and Queen Margrethe II is the head of state. Margrethe II, full name: Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid; born 16 April 1940) is the eldest child of King Frederik IX and Ingrid of Sweden, and succeeded her father on 14 January 1972. On her accession, she became the first female monarch of Denmark Margrete I, ruler of the Scandinavian countries in 1375–1412 during the Kalmar Union. In 1967, she married Henri de Laborde de Monpezat, with whom she has two sons: Crown Prince Frederik (born 1968) and Prince Joachim (born 1969). The Queen and her siblings belong to the House of Glücksburg, which is a branch of the Royal House of Oldenburg.

0317 DENMARK (Greenland) - National Museum in Nuuk

"In the summer Eirik went to live in the land which he had discovered, and which he called Greenland, Because, said he, men will desire much the more to go there if the land has a good name." Thus is described in the Saga of Erik the Red the way that received the current name the world's largest island, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. A marketing strategy that has succeeded somewhat to Erik Thorvaldsson (950-1003), known better as Erik the Red, a Icelander from norwegian parents, exiled for three years for murder, who founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland (on the west coast) in 986 AD.