1851 in Norway
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Events in the year 1851 in Norway.
Incumbents
Events
- Hattemakerfeiden, labour revolts in Ringerike.
- Norwegians starts to settle at the mouth of the Jakobselva river, and the area develops into the village of Grense Jakobselv.
Arts and literature
- 10 January – The Norwegian Booksellers Association (Den Norske Bokhandlerforening) is founded.[2]
Births
January to June
- 2 January – Haldor Boen, teacher and politician in America (died 1912)
- 25 January – Arne Garborg, writer (died 1924)
- 28 January – Andreas Aubert, art historian (died 1913)
- 12 February – Randi Blehr, women’s rights activist (died 1928).[3]
- 8 May – Ole Dehli, organizational leader (died 1924).[4]
- 11 June – Oscar Borg, composer (died 1930)
July to December
- 23 July – Peder Severin Krøyer, painter (died 1909)
- 20 August – Abraham Berge, politician and Minister (died 1936)
- 23 September – Ola Thommessen, newspaper editor (died 1942)
- 29 September – Rasmus Flo, philologist, teacher and magazine editor (died 1905).[5]
- 2 October – Elias Sunde, politician and Minister (died 1910).[6]
- 30 October – Leonhard Hess Stejneger, zoologist (died 1943)
- 10 November – Waldemar Christofer Brøgger, geologist and mineralogist (died 1940)
- 16 November – Valborg Seeberg, writer (died 1929)[7]
- 20 November – Gyda Gram, painter (died 1906)[8]
- 25 November – Hans Andersen Foss, author, newspaper editor and temperance leader in America (died 1929)
Full date unknown
- Gunvald Aus, engineer (died 1950)
- Peter W. K. Bøckman, Sr., bishop and theologian (died 1926)
- Nicolai A. Grevstad, diplomat, politician and newspaper editor in America (died 1940)
- Knut Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (died 1880)
- Herman Jeremiassen, ship-owner and politician (died 1943)
- Carl Sofus Lumholtz, discoverer and ethnographer (died 1922)
- Olaj Olsen, jurist and politician (died 1920)
- August Geelmuyden Spørck, politician and Minister (died 1928)
- Oscar Sigvald Julius Strugstad, politician and Minister (died 1919)
- Aasmund Halvorsen Vinje, politician and Minister (died 1917)
Deaths
- 5 July – Olaus Michael Schmidt, judge and politician (born 1784)
Full date unknown
- Palle Rømer Fleischer, politician and Minister (born 1781)
- Hilmar Meincke Krohg, politician (born 1776)
