1867 in Norway
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January to June

  • 19 January - Isak Kobro Collett
    Isak Kobro Collett
    Isak Kobro Collett was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.-Personal life:He was born as the second son of Thomas Collett and Sine Kobro , in Lindaas where his father was stationed as a county physician. He had one older and two younger brothers...

    , politician (d.1911
    1911 in Norway
    -Events:*14 December - Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition becomes the first to reach the South Pole.*Norsk Hydro's second plant opens at Rjukan, four years after its first plant at Notodden.-January to March:*1 January - Håkon Melberg, linguist...

    )
  • 20 January - Mons Monssen
    Mons Monssen
    Mons Monssen was a sailor in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor for heroism while serving about the .-Biography:...

    , sailor in the United States Navy
    United States Navy
    The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

     who received the Medal of Honor
    Medal of Honor
    The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...

     (d.1930
    1930 in Norway
    -Events:* 12 November - Norway relinquishes its claim to the Sverdrup Islands.* Having established two years earlier, what is to become Norway's largest industrial park at Herøya outside Porsgrunn, Norsk Hydro opens up its first plant in this location....

    )
  • 29 January - Carl L. Boeckmann
    Carl L. Boeckmann
    Carl Ludwig Boeckmann was a Norwegian-American artist best known as a portrait painter.-Biography:Boeckmann was born in Oslo, Norway, the youngest of five children. In 1883, he began to study at Knud Bergslien's school of painting...

    , artist (d.1923
    1923 in Norway
    -Events:* 4 November – the Communist Party of Norway is formed, following a split in the Norwegian Labour Party.-January to March:*1 January - Kristin Kverneland Lønningdal, politician...

    )
  • 5 March - Ingebrigt Vik
    Ingebrigt Vik
    Ingebrigt Vik was a Norwegian sculptor. Vik is regarded as having been one of Norway's greatest sculptors....

    , sculptor (d.1927
    1927 in Norway
    -Events:* Norsk Hydro forms a companionship with the German company IG Farben in order to gain access to the newly developed Haber-Bosch process for manufacturing artificial fertilizer...

    )
  • 15 May - Hjalmar Johansen
    Hjalmar Johansen
    Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen was a polar explorer from Norway. He shipped out with Fridtjof Nansen's Fram expedition in 1893–1896, and accompanied Nansen to notch a new Farthest North record near the North Pole on what was then the frozen Arctic Ocean...

    , polar explorer (d.1913
    1913 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:...

    )

July to December

  • 24 July - Olav Kringen
    Olav Kringen
    Olav Kringen was a Norwegian newspaper editor.He was born at a croft in Sel, and was a manual laborer in Norway before emigrating to the United States in 1887. There, he studied and took a teacher education. He worked as a teacher in Minnesota and Dakota. For the next two years he worked in the...

    , newspaper editor (d.1951
    1951 in Norway
    -Incumbents:* Monarch - Haakon VII of Norway* Prime Minister - Einar Gerhardsen until 9 November, Oscar Torp -Events:* 19 November – Torp's Cabinet was appointed.* Norsk Hydro opens a PVC plant at Herøya....

    )
  • 27 July - Mikal Angell Jacobus Landmark
    Mikal Angell Jacobus Landmark
    Mikal Angell Jacobus Landmark was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1916, representing the constituency Nordre Nordmør...

    , politician (d.1939
    1939 in Norway
    -Incumbents:* Monarch - Haakon VII of Norway* Prime Minister - Johan Nygaardsvold -Events:*17 May - Sweden, Norway, and Finland refuse Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts.*1 June - Oslo Airport, Fornebu is opened....

    )
  • 15 August - Anathon Aall
    Anathon Aall
    Anathon August Fredrik Aall was a Norwegian academic. Originally educated as a theologian, he was rejected for a professorship in this field, and switched to philosophy and psychology...

    , academic (d.1943
    1943 in Norway
    -Incumbents:*Government in Exile ** Monarch - Haakon VII of Norway** Prime Minister - Johan Nygaardsvold *German Military Governor** Reichskommissar in Norway - Josef Terboven*German Puppet Government in Oslo...

    )
  • 8 October - Christian Hansen Wollnick
    Christian Hansen Wollnick
    Christian Hansen Wollnick was a Norwegian newspaper editor, jurist and politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Tjølling as the son of a shipmaster. He took his secondary education in Skien in 1885, and worked one year as a school teacher in Larvik...

    , newspaper editor, jurist and politician (d.1936
    1936 in Norway
    -Incumbents:* Monarch - Haakon VII of Norway* Prime Minister - Johan Nygaardsvold -Events:* 13 September – A rockfall slide occures in the village of Loen in the Sogn og Fjordane county, killing 74 people....

    )
  • 4 November - Martin Julius Halvorsen
    Martin Julius Halvorsen
    Martin Julius Halvorsen was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.Born in Kristiania, he took an education as a book printer. Having founded his own printing press in 1897, he moved it from Kristiania to rural Jessheim in 1902. Here, he founded the newspaper...

    , newspaper editor and politician
  • 10 December - Lauritz Christiansen
    Lauritz Christiansen
    Lauritz Christiansen was a Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was a crew member of the Norwegian boat Atlanta, which won the gold medal in the 12 metre class ....

    , sailor and Olympic gold medallist (d.1930
    1930 in Norway
    -Events:* 12 November - Norway relinquishes its claim to the Sverdrup Islands.* Having established two years earlier, what is to become Norway's largest industrial park at Herøya outside Porsgrunn, Norsk Hydro opens up its first plant in this location....

    )
  • 13 December - Kristian Birkeland
    Kristian Birkeland
    Kristian Olaf Birkeland was a Norwegian scientist. He is best remembered as the person who first elucidated the nature of the Aurora borealis. In order to fund his research on the aurorae, he invented the electromagnetic cannon and the Birkeland-Eyde process of fixing nitrogen from the air...

    , scientist (d.1917
    1917 in Norway
    -Events:* Bratsbergbanen railway line began traffic between Eidanger and Notodden. The line was closed in 2001.-Sport:*2 April - Lillestrøm SK football club is founded after the merger of two local football clubs.*19 May - Rosenborg BK football club is founded....

    )
  • 27 December - Fredrik Stang
    Fredrik Stang
    Fredrik Stang was the Norwegian Minister of Justice 1912–1913. He was chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee 1922–1940.-Personal life:He was born in Kristiania as the son of Emil Stang and his wife Adelaide Pauline Berg...

    , politician and Minister (d.1941
    1941 in Norway
    -Incumbents:*Government in Exile ** Monarch - Haakon VII of Norway** Prime Minister - Johan Nygaardsvold *German Military Governor** Reichskommissar in Norway - Josef Terboven-Events:...

    )

Full date unknown

  • Hauk Aabel
    Hauk Aabel
    Hauk Erlendssøn Aabel was a popular Norwegian comedian and actor in Norwegian and Swedish silent film.-Career:...

    , comedian and actor (d.1961
    1961 in Norway
    -Incumbents:* Monarch - Olav V of Norway* Prime Minister - Einar Gerhardsen -Events:* 12 January - Princess Astrid marries Johan Martin Ferner.* March - Ingrid Bjerkås, ordained as first female minister in the Church of Norway...

    )
  • Barthold Hansteen Cranner
    Barthold Hansteen Cranner
    Barthold Hansteen Cranner was a Norwegian botanist.Born in Oslo, he worked as a professor at the Norwegian College of Agriculture. He especially worked with phosphoric, lipidic matter in plant cells.-References:...

    , botanist (d.1925
    1925 in Norway
    -Events:* 1 January - The city of Christiania reclaimed its original Norwegian name, Oslo; a decision which caused much debate in its time.* 17 July - the Parliament of Norway passed the Svalbard Act which established Norwegian sovereignty on the island of Svalbard, and stated that Norwegian...

    )
  • Johan Fahlstrøm
    Johan Fahlstrøm
    Johan Peter Broust Fahlstrøm was born in Trondheim, Norway. He was regarded as Norway's leading male actor before World War I. Fahlstrøm was also a theatre manager, and, together with his wife Alma, he ran the Fahlstrøm's Theatre in Christiania...

    , actor and theatre manager (d.1938
    1938 in Norway
    -Incumbents:* Monarch - Haakon VII of Norway* Prime Minister - Johan Nygaardsvold -Events:* January 14 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.* 20 November - Queen Maud of Norway dies* Construction starts on Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik...

    )
  • Alfred Klingenberg
    Alfred Klingenberg
    Alf Klingenberg , a Norwegian pianist of great distinction, was the Eastman School of Music´s first director . He was succeeded by composer Howard Hanson in 1924. Klingenberg started the DKG Institute of Musical Art in Rochester 1912. This School would later become the Eastman School of Music....

    , pianist (d.1944
    1944 in Norway
    -Incumbents:*Government in Exile ** Monarch - Haakon VII of Norway** Prime Minister - Johan Nygaardsvold *German Military Governor** Reichskommissar in Norway - Josef Terboven*German Puppet Government in Oslo...

    )
  • Wilhelm Christian Magelssen
    Wilhelm Christian Magelssen
    Wilhelm Christian Magelssen was the Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1926-1927....

    , politician and Minister (d.1930
    1930 in Norway
    -Events:* 12 November - Norway relinquishes its claim to the Sverdrup Islands.* Having established two years earlier, what is to become Norway's largest industrial park at Herøya outside Porsgrunn, Norsk Hydro opens up its first plant in this location....

    )
  • Kristian Friis Petersen
    Kristian Friis Petersen
    Kristian Friis Petersen was the Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs 1914-1916 and Minister of Trade 1916-1919.From 1918 to 1929 he was County Governor of Hordaland.-References:...

    , politician and Minister (d.1932
    1932 in Norway
    -Incumbents:*King of Norway - Haakon VII of Norway*Prime Minister of Norway - Peder Kolstad, until death in March-January to March:*7 January - Tormod Knutsen, Nordic combined skier and Olympic gold medallist...

    )

Deaths

  • 14 August - Bersvend Martinussen Røkkum
    Bersvend Martinussen Røkkum
    Bersvend Martinussen Røkkum was a Norwegian politician.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1842, representing the rural constituency of Romsdals Amt . He worked as a farmer. He served only one term.He was born and died in Ålvundfjord.-References:...

    , politician (b.1806
    1806 in Norway
    -Births:*2 February - Bersvend Martinussen Røkkum, politician *2 March - Carl Andreas Fougstad, politician *7 August - Tellef Dahll Schweigaard, politician *15 November - Hans Severin Arentz, politician -Full date unknown:...

    )
  • 12 September - Hans Eleonardus Møller
    Hans Eleonardus Møller
    Hans Eleonardus Møller was a Norwegian politician and businessperson.-Personal life:Hans Eleonardus Møller was born in 1804 to Hans Eleonardus Møller, Sr. and Inger , née Aall. He had two younger sisters Simonine and Marianne...

    , politician and businessperson (b.1804
    1804 in Norway
    -Births:*19 September - Elling Eielsen, minister and Lutheran Church leader in America *8 November - Hans Eleonardus Møller, politician and businessperson -Full date unknown:*Paulus Flood, merchant and politician...

    )
  • 24 November - Peter Bøyesen
    Peter Bøyesen
    Peter Johan Bøyesen was a Norwegian businessperson and politician.-Personal life:Peter Johan Bøyesen was born in Western Porsgrund 1799 as the son of shipmaster and boat pilot Peter Bøye Larsen....

    , businessperson and politician (b.1799
    1799 in Norway
    -Births:*28 October - Ole Gabriel Gabrielsen Ueland, politician *14 November - Ole Edvard Buck, politician -Full date unknown:*Jens Henrik Beer, politician*Peter Bøyesen, businessperson and politician...

    )

Full date unknown

  • Jørgen Flood
    Jørgen Flood
    -Personal life:Jørgen Flood was born in 1792 to merchant Peder Jørgensen Flood and Inger Jørgine Jørgensen , née Wesselstoft. He had ten brothers and sisters. They grew up in Skien, but Jørgen later moved to Eidanger. Following the death of his wife Hanna in 1863, Jørgen moved to Grimstad...

    , merchant and politician (b.1792
    1792 in Norway
    -Events:* Denmark-Norway declares transatlantic slave trade illegal after 1803 -Births:*1 January - Henrik Anker Bjerregaard, poet, dramatist and judge *18 November - Even Hammer Holmboe, politician...

    )
  • Hans Kiær
    Hans Kiær
    Hans Kiær was a Norwegian politician.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1830, representing the constituency of Drammen. He worked as a timber merchant in that city. He sat through one term.-References:...

    , politician (b.1795
    1795 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...

    )
  • Hans Andersen Kiær
    Hans Andersen Kiær
    Hans Andersen Kiær was a Norwegian businessperson and politician.He was a part of a large ship-owner family, starting with his father Anders Hansen Kiær...

    , businessperson and politician (b.1795
    1795 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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