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- ÅlesundÅlesundis a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre, and the center of the Ålesund Region. It is a sea port, and is noted for its unique concentration of Art Nouveau architecture....
received city rightsTown privilegesTown privileges or city rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium.Judicially, a town was distinguished from the surrounding land by means of a charter from the ruling monarch that defined its privileges and laws. Common privileges were related to trading...
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Notable births
- 3 February - Jørgen LøvlandJørgen LøvlandJørgen Gunnarsson Løvland was a Norwegian politician and Prime Minister. He was Minister of Labour 1898-1899, 1900-1902 and 1902-1903, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1899-1900, Prime Minister in Stockholm in 1905, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1905 and 1905-1907, Prime Minister...
, politician and Prime Minister of NorwayPrime Minister of NorwayThe Prime Minister of Norway is the political leader of Norway and the Head of His Majesty's Government. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Stortinget , to their political party, and ultimately the...
(d.19221922 in Norway-Events:* 8 January - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.* 30 November - The establishment of Norwegian government-owned alcoholic beverage retailer "Vinmonopolet"....
) - 2 May - Hans Gabriel Nissen BuckHans Gabriel Nissen BuckHans Gabriel Nissen Buck was a Norwegian physician and politician for the Conservative Party.Born in Innerøya as the son of captain Jørgen Mandix Buck and his wife Fredrikke Gebhardine Nissen , he enrolled as a student in 1867 and graduated as cand.med. in 1874...
, physician and politician (d.19241924 in Norway-Events:* The 1924 Parliamentary election takes place.* Kringkastningselskapet A/S was founded. This was the predecessor to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, established in 1933-Notable births:*5 January - Ottar Dahl, historian and historiographer...
) - 17 May - Erik JørgensenErik JørgensenErik Jørgensen was a Norwegian master gunsmith, well known for his cooperation with Ole Herman Johannes Krag in developing the successful Krag-Jørgensen rifle.Erik Jørgensen was born in Asker, Norway, and grew up on the farm Solstad...
, master gunsmith (d.18961896 in Norway-Events:* 11 July – Noregs Ungdomslag was founded.-January to March:*2 February - Einar Ræder, long jumper *5 February - Paul Tjøstolsen Sunde, politician...
) - 27 May - Johan BøghJohan BøghJohan Wallace Hagelsteen Bøgh was a Norwegian museum director and art historian based in the city of Bergen.-Personal life:...
, museum director and art historian (d.19331933 in Norway-Events:* 17 May - Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort establish the Norwegian fascist party "Nasjonal Samling" * 1 July - The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation was founded....
) - 12 June - Nordahl RolfsenNordahl RolfsenJohan Nordahl Brun Rolfsen was a Norwegian writer, educationalist and teacher, journalist, translator and speaker. He is best known for the series of five readers for elementary school, Læsebog for folkeskolen , which became the most widespread schoolbook in Norway.-Family:Rolfsen was born in Bergen...
, writer, educationalist and teacher, journalist, translator and speaker (d.19281928 in Norway-Events:* 27 June – The opening of the underground railway line to Nationaltheatret station in Oslo .* At Herøya, outside Porsgrunn, Norsk Hydro establishes what is to become Norway's largest industrial park....
) - 20 June - Jens Carl Peter BrandtJens Carl Peter BrandtJens Carl Peter Brandt was a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Frogn as the son of Captain Ole Peter Brandt and his wife Mathilde Kristine Brandt. He enrolled in law studies in 1865 and graduated as cand.jur. in 1869. He then worked six years as an...
, businessperson and politician (d.19121912 in Norway-Incumbents:*King of Norway - Haakon VII of Norway*Prime Minister of Norway - Jens Bratlie-Events:*7 March - Roald Amundsen announces his success in reaching the South Pole*Norsk Hydro establishes artificial fertilizer production at Glomfjord in Nordland...
) - 19 September - Gunnar KnudsenGunnar KnudsenGunnar Knudsen , born Aanon Gunerius Knudsen, was a Norwegian politician from the Liberal Party who had two spells as Prime Minister of Norway from 1908 to 1910 and from 1913 to 1920...
, politician and twice Prime Minister of NorwayPrime Minister of NorwayThe Prime Minister of Norway is the political leader of Norway and the Head of His Majesty's Government. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Stortinget , to their political party, and ultimately the...
(d.19281928 in Norway-Events:* 27 June – The opening of the underground railway line to Nationaltheatret station in Oslo .* At Herøya, outside Porsgrunn, Norsk Hydro establishes what is to become Norway's largest industrial park....
) - 22 November - Lars HolstLars HolstLars Kristian Holst was a Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor and politician. He was editor-in-chief of Dagbladet from 1883 to 1898 and chairman of the Liberal Party of Norway from 1900 to 1903.-Personal life:...
, journalist, newspaper editor and politician (d.19151915 in Norway-Events:* The 1915 Parliamentary election takes place.-Notable births:*16 January - Aase Bjerkholt, politician*19 January - Håkon Kyllingmark, politician and Minister *25 January - Sverre L...
) - 16 December - Georg Sverdrup, theologian and educator (d.19071907 in Norway-Incumbents:*King of Norway - Haakon VII of Norway*Prime Minister of Norway - Christian Michelsen-Events:* June 14 – Norway adopts female suffrage.* Norsk Hydro, having been founded in 1905, opens up its first plant at Notodden....
) - 21 December - Viggo UllmannViggo UllmannJohan Christian Viggo Ullmann was a Norwegian educator and politician of Venstre, the Norwegian social-liberal party....
, educator and politician (d.19101910 in Norway-Events:* Norwegian Institute of Technology is established in Trondheim.* Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.-Notable births:*10 January - Kitty Petrine Fredriksen, politician...
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- Hjalmar Hjorth BoyesenHjalmar Hjorth BoyesenHjalmar Hjorth Boyesen was a Norwegian-American author and college professor.-Biography:He was born at the Norwegian naval base Fredriksvern, near the village of Stavern in Vestfold County, Norway. Boyesen grew up in Fredriksvern, then in Kongsberg, and, from 1854, at Systrand in Sogn...
, author and college professor in America (d.18951895 in Norway-Incumbents:*Prime Minister of Norway: Emil Stang, succeeded by*Prime Minister of Norway: Francis Hagerup -January to March:*28 January - Johannes Pettersen Løkke, politician *23 February - Toralv Kollin Markussen, politician...
) - Holm Hansen MuntheHolm Hansen MuntheHolm Hansen Munthe was a Norwegian architect.Between 1878 and 1885 he cooperated with Henrik Nissen. From 1889 he worked for the Holmenkol-Voxenkol-Selskabet, among others drawing the well-known Frognerseteren restaurant in the so-called dragon style...
, architect (d.18981898 in Norway-Incumbents:*Prime Minister of Norway: Francis Hagerup , replaced by:*Prime Minister of Norway: Johannes Steen-Arts and literature:*Olaus Alvestad publishes the songbook Norsk Songbok for Ungdomsskular og Ungdomslag-Notable births:...
) - Kristian Mauritz MustadKristian Mauritz MustadKristian Mauritz Mustad was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1883, representing the constituency of Kristians Amt. He was re-elected in 1886, 1889 and 1892....
, politician (d.19131913 in Norway-Incumbents:*King of Norway - Haakon VII of Norway*Prime Minister of Norway - Jens Bratlie-Events:* Female suffrage is enacted in Norway* Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.-Sport:...
) - Henrik NissenHenrik NissenJohannes Henrik Nissen was a Norwegian architect.-Biography:After his final exams in 1866, Nissen was a student at the Royal Drawing School in Christiania. He studied architecture at the Bauakademie in Berlin 1869–74...
, architect (d.19151915 in Norway-Events:* The 1915 Parliamentary election takes place.-Notable births:*16 January - Aase Bjerkholt, politician*19 January - Håkon Kyllingmark, politician and Minister *25 January - Sverre L...
) - Andreas Lauritz ThuneAndreas Lauritz ThuneAndreas Lauritz Thune was a Norwegian engineer and businessman, associated with the company Thunes Mekaniske Værksted.He was born in Drammen. His grandfather, who was a blacksmith by profession, had founded a workshop in that city in 1815. The workshop developed to the manufacturing company Thunes...
, engineer and businessman (d.19201920 in Norway-Events:* 9 February – The League of Nations gives Spitsbergen to Norway.* 17-19 June – The Centre Party was founded.* Aalesund ship is discovered embedded in the earth south of Ålesund.-Notable births:*2 January - Anne-Sofie Østvedt, resistance leader...
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Notable deaths
- 24 December - Hans Nicolai LangeHans Nicolai LangeHans Nicolai Lange was a Norwegian priest and politician.Born in Jevnaker to Johan Jørgen Lange and Dorothea Helena Larsen, he was the older brother of politicians Otto Vincent and Ulrik Frederik Lange, brother-in-law of Nils Landmark and Even Hanssen and uncle of Johan Jørgen Lange Hanssen.In...
, priest and politician (b.17951795 in Norway-Births:*23 March - Bernt Michael Holmboe, mathematician *2 December - Hans Nicolai Lange, priest and politician -Full date unknown:*Nicolai Benjamin Cappelen, jurist and politician *Mensen Ernst, road runner and ultramarathonist...
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- Ole Hersted SchjøttOle Hersted Schjøtt-Personal life:Ole Hersted Schjøtt was born in 1805 to shipmaster Niels M. Schjøtt and his wife Anne Hersted. The family moved from their native Jutland to Christiania in 1808....
, clergyman and politician (b.18051805 in Norway-Full date unknown:*Jørgen Wright Cappelen, bookseller and publisher *Bernt Sverdrup Maschmann, priest and politician *Ole Hersted Schjøtt, clergyman and politician *Jacob Staalesen Velde, politician...
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