2002 in Norway
Encyclopedia
Incumbents
- Monarch - Harald V of NorwayHarald V of NorwayHarald V is the king of Norway. He succeeded to the throne of Norway upon the death of his father Olav V on 17 January 1991...
- Prime MinisterPrime 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...
- Kjell Magne BondevikKjell Magne BondevikKjell Magne Bondevik is a Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician . He served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005, making him Norway's longest serving non-Labour Party Prime Minister since World War II...
(Christian Democratic Party)
Events
- June – World Bank Oslo 2002 ProtestsWorld Bank Oslo 2002 ProtestsDuring the World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics in Oslo, Norway in 2002 large globalization-critical protests were held. A coalition of many organizations organized an alternative conference and a demonstration with more than 10 000 participants, thus making it the largest...
Notable deaths
- 1 January - Arne RøgdenArne RøgdenArne Røgden was a Norwegian bobsledder who competed during the 1950s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 11th in the four-man event at Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956....
, bobsledder (b.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....
) - 24 January - Ragnar HornRagnar HornRagnar Horn was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.In 1946 he became the first chairman of the Youth of the Christian People's Party, the youth wing of the Christian Democratic Party....
, politician (b.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:...
) - 31 January - Jens P. FlåJens P. FlåJens P. Flå was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag in 1973, and was re-elected on two occasions...
, politician (b.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...
) - 1 February - Sigurd BergeSigurd BergeSigurd Berge was a Norwegian composer.He graduated in 1952, then studied at the Music Conservatory in Oslo. He studied modern electronic music in Copenhagen and Utrecht. Groundbreaking "modern music" pieces from late 50's to early 80's including Horn Call and Illuxit...
, composer (b.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....
) - 18 April - Thor HeyerdahlThor HeyerdahlThor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a background in zoology and geography. He became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands...
, ethnographer and adventurer (b.19141914 in Norway-January to March:*31 January - Hans Martin Gulbrandsen, canoeist *3 March - Håkon Johnsen, politician *7 March - Knut Bergsland, linguist *7 March - Arne Jensen, banker*18 March - Trygve Haugeland, politician and Minister...
) - 29 April - Sverre BratlandSverre BratlandSverre Bratland was a Norwegian military leader.-Career:He grew up at a farm in Utskarpen in Rana, and took his military education in Harstad at the Norwegian 6th Division Under-Officers' Training School. He was a sergeant of rank when Norway was invaded by Germany on 9 April 1940...
, military leader (b.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....
) - 28 May - Kai PaulsenKai PaulsenKai Paulsen was a Norwegian journalist, photographer, and computer collector.In 2000 he founded "IT Insider", a technology periodical.His collection has been donated to the Norwegian Computer History Society by his relatives....
, journalist, photographer and computer collector (b.19471947 in Norway-Incumbents:* Monarch - Haakon VII of Norway* Prime Minister - Einar Gerhardsen -Events:* 7 August - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day, 4,300 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, proving that pre-historic peoples...
) - 29 June - Ole-Johan DahlOle-Johan DahlOle-Johan Dahl was a Norwegian computer scientist and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard.- Career :...
, computer scientist (b.19311931 in Norway-Incumbents:*King of Norway - Haakon VII of Norway*Prime Minister of Norway - Peder Kolstad-Events:* 27 June – Norway occupied and claimed parts of the then-uninhabited eastern Greenland , claiming that it constituted terra nullius.* Municipal and county elections are held throughout the...
) - 10 August - Kristen NygaardKristen NygaardKristen Nygaard was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer and politician. He was born in Oslo and died of a heart attack in 2002.-Object-oriented programming:...
, mathematician, computer programming language pioneer and politician (b.19261926 in Norway-Events:* May 11-14 – Roald Amundsen makes the first airship flight over the North Pole. The Norge leaves Spitsbergen and arrives in Teller, Alaska three days later.-Notable births:*1 January - Rolf Fjeldvær, politician...
) - 26 September - Eleonore BjartveitEleonore BjartveitEleonore Bjartveit was a Norwegian politician for the Christian People's Party. Born in Alta, she worked as a medical doctor for several years, before entering politics. Bjartveit was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in 1989, serving until 1993...
, politician and Minister (b.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...
) - 10 October - Sverre L. MoSverre L. MoSverre L. Mo was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1965, and was re-elected on three occasions...
, politician (b.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...
) - 24 November - Odd LienOdd LienOdd Lien was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Vest-Agder in 1973, and was re-elected on one occasion...
, newspaper editor and politician (b.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...
) - 5 December - Magnar SætreMagnar SætreMagnar Sætre was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Bergen.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Rogaland in 1989, and was re-elected on one occasion...
, politician (b.19401940 in Norway- Overview :1940 is the year when Norway becomes drawn into World War II. On 9 April Nazi Germany invades the country which, however spared many of the atrocities which befell other nations, remains occupied until 8 May 1945...
) - 20 December - Tore TønneTore TønneTore Tønne was the Norwegian Minister of Health and Social Affairs 2000-2001 in the first cabinet Stoltenberg. Tønne committed suicide after newspaper writings about investigations over alleged economic improprieties committed after the conclusion of his term in the Norwegian cabinet...
, politician and Minister (b.19481948 in Norway-Incumbents:* Monarch - Haakon VII of Norway* Prime Minister - Einar Gerhardsen -Events:* August 30 – The opening of the University of Bergen....
) - 21 December - Harald U. LiedHarald U. LiedHarald U. Lied was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oppland in 1973, and was re-elected on three occasions....
, politician (b.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...
) - 24 December - Kjell AukrustKjell AukrustKjell Aukrust was a Norwegian author, poet and artist. He was the nephew of Olav Aukrust. He is most famous for his memoirs of his childhood in Alvdal in the books Simen, Bonden and Bror Min, and his creation of the fictional Norwegian village of Flåklypa and its cast of idiosyncratic characters...
, author, poet and artist (b.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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- Odd Chr. GøtheOdd Chr. GøtheOdd Christian Gøthe was a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party.He was a cand.oecon. by education, and was head of economics in the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions from 1947 to 1952...
, civil servant and politician (b.19191919 in Norway-Events:* Production of zinc begins in Glomfjord at the state-owned industrial plant.* Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.-January to March:*14 January - Harry Hansen, politician...
) - Johan Berthin HolteJohan Berthin HolteJohan Berthin Holte was a Norwegian businessperson.He was born in Notodden, and graduated in chemistry from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1938. He was hired in Norsk Hydro in 1948 as head of their Notodden department. He advanced to become director of research from 1957 to 1964 and...
, businessperson (b.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...
) - Nils Peder LangvandNils Peder LangvandNils Peder Langvand was a Norwegian judge.He was born in Volda. He was a presiding judge in Gulating Court of Appeal from 1971 and in Eidsivating Court of Appeal from 1977, and a Supreme Court Justice from 1984 to 1996.-References:...
, judge (b.19291929 in Norway-Events:* 8 May – Norway annexed the volcanic island Jan Mayen located in the Arctic Ocean.-Notable births:* 1 January - Fredrik Olsen, shipping magnate* 3 January - Grethe Rytter Hasle, planktologist* 17 January - Jan Rasmus Skåre, judge...
) - Oddrunn Pettersen, politician and Minister (b.19371937 in Norway-Incumbents:* Monarch - Haakon VII of Norway* Prime Minister - Johan Nygaardsvold -Events:*29 May - Stavanger Airport, Sola is opened by King Haakon VII* Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.-Notable births:...
) - Fritz RøedFritz RøedFritz Røed was a Norwegian sculptor. He is most associated with his work, Sverd i fjell, the commemorative monument which symbolizes the unification of the nation of Norway. -Biography:...
, sculptor (b.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....
) - Einar SkinnarlandEinar SkinnarlandEinar Skinnarland DCM was a Norwegian resistance fighter during the Second World War.Einar Skinnarland was born in Vinje, in Telemark county, Norway...
, resistance fighter (b.19181918 in Norway-Events:* Norsk Hydro's artificial fertilizer production at Glomfjord is bought by the Norwegian government. In 1947 it is leased back to Hydro. This activity is Yara International.* The 1918 Parliamentary election takes place.-Sport:...
) - Knut TjønnelandKnut TjønnelandKnut Tjønneland was a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party.He is known as mayor of Bergen, the second largest city in Norway, from 1953 to 1960...
, politician (b.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....
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