1842 in Norway
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Events in the year 1842 in Norway.
Incumbents
Events
- Porsgrunn was granted full city status. Limited city status was granted in 1807.
- Flekkefjord was granted full city status.
- Lillehammer was granted full city status.
- Drøbak was granted full city status.
- The Norwegian Missionary Society was founded in Stavanger.
- The eleventh Storting convened, following the 1841 election.
- The Conventicle Act was repealed.
- The Witchcraft Act (Trolldomslov) is abolished.[2]
- Russian ship of the line Ingermanland sinks outside the coast of Jæren.
Arts and literature
- Ivar Aasen commenced his research on rural dialects all across Norway
Births
January to June
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- 16 March â Theodor Nilsen Stousland, politician (d.1910).[3]
- 1 April â Edmund Neupert, pianist and composer (d.1888)
- 12 June â Rikard Nordraak, composer (d.1866)
- 26 May â Evald Rygh, banker, politician and Minister (d.1913)
July to December
- 6 August â Karl Gether Bomhoff, pharmacist, politician and Governor of the Central Bank of Norway (d. 1925).[4]
- 31 August â Ole Bornemann Bull, ophthalmologist (d.1916)
- 2 December â Robert Collett, zoologist (d.1913)
- 16 December â Otto Sinding, painter (d.1909)
- 17 December â Sophus Lie, mathematician (d.1899).[5]
Full date unknown
- Nils S. Dvergsdal, politician (d.1921)
Deaths
- 16 January â Thomas Fearnley, painter (born 1802).[6]
- 16 March â Maurits Hansen, writer (b.1794)
Full date unknown
- Henrik Anker Bjerregaard, poet, dramatist and judge (b.1792)
- Wilhelm Jürgensen, military officer (b.1762)
