1867 in Norway
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January to June
- 19 January - Isak Kobro CollettIsak Kobro CollettIsak 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.19111911 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 MonssenMons MonssenMons 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 NavyUnited States NavyThe 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 HonorMedal of HonorThe 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.19301930 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. BoeckmannCarl L. BoeckmannCarl 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.19231923 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 VikIngebrigt VikIngebrigt Vik was a Norwegian sculptor. Vik is regarded as having been one of Norway's greatest sculptors....
, sculptor (d.19271927 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 JohansenHjalmar JohansenFredrik 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.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:...
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July to December
- 24 July - Olav KringenOlav KringenOlav 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.19511951 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 LandmarkMikal Angell Jacobus LandmarkMikal 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.19391939 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 AallAnathon AallAnathon 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.19431943 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 WollnickChristian Hansen WollnickChristian 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.19361936 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 HalvorsenMartin Julius HalvorsenMartin 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 ChristiansenLauritz ChristiansenLauritz 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.19301930 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 BirkelandKristian BirkelandKristian 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.19171917 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 StangFredrik StangFredrik 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.19411941 in Norway-Incumbents:*Government in Exile ** Monarch - Haakon VII of Norway** Prime Minister - Johan Nygaardsvold *German Military Governor** Reichskommissar in Norway - Josef Terboven-Events:...
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- Hauk AabelHauk AabelHauk Erlendssøn Aabel was a popular Norwegian comedian and actor in Norwegian and Swedish silent film.-Career:...
, comedian and actor (d.19611961 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 CrannerBarthold Hansteen CrannerBarthold 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.19251925 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 FahlstrømJohan FahlstrømJohan 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.19381938 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 KlingenbergAlfred KlingenbergAlf 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.19441944 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 MagelssenWilhelm Christian MagelssenWilhelm Christian Magelssen was the Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1926-1927....
, politician and Minister (d.19301930 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 PetersenKristian Friis PetersenKristian 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.19321932 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...
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Deaths
- 14 August - Bersvend Martinussen RøkkumBersvend Martinussen RøkkumBersvend 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.18061806 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 MøllerHans Eleonardus MøllerHans 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.18041804 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 BøyesenPeter BøyesenPeter 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.17991799 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...
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- Jørgen FloodJørgen 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.17921792 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 KiærHans KiærHans 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.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...
) - Hans Andersen KiærHans Andersen KiærHans 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.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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