1869 in Norway
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Events in the year 1869 in Norway.
Incumbents
Events
- 14 August â Charles Wilhelm Thesen leaves Norway in his 117-ton schooner Albatros, loaded with timber to sell in New Zealand.
- 16 November â Charles Wilhelm Thesen arrives in Cape Town. After bad weather delays his onward journey, he decides to stay in South Africa.[2]
Arts and literature
- 3 April â Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor receives its première in Copenhagen, played by Edmund Neupert, with Holger Simon Paulli conducting.[3]
Births
January to June
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- 18 February â Johan Hjort, fisheries scientist, marine zoologist and oceanographer (died 1948)
- 23 March â Waldemar Ager, newspaperman and author in America (died 1941)
- 1 April â Peter Egge, writer (died 1959)
- 11 April â Gustav Vigeland, sculptor (died 1943)
- 5 May â Hjalmar Christensen, writer (died 1925)
- 8 May â Andreas Tostrup Urbye, politician and Minister (died 1955)
- 15 June â Anna Gjøstein, politician and proponent for women's rights pioneer (died 1956).[4]
July to December
- 5 July â Holger Sinding-Larsen, architect (died 1938)
- 31 July â Johannes Irgens, diplomat, politician and Minister (died 1939)
- 23 August â Rasmus Olai Mortensen, politician and Minister (died 1934)
- 13 September â Kristen Holbø, painter and illustrator (died 1953)
- 17 September â Christian Lous Lange, historian, teacher and political scientist, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921 (died 1938)
- 29 September â Harald Sohlberg, painter (died 1935)
- 5 October â Gitta Jønsson, politician and proponent for women's rights (died 1950).[5]
- 11 October â Johan Aschehoug Kiær, paleontologist and geologist (died 1931)
Deaths
- 6 March â Niels Nielsen Vogt, priest and politician (born 1798)
- 28 October â Gustav Peter Blom, politician (born 1785)
Full date unknown
- Melchior Schjelderup Olsson Fuhr, politician (born 1790)
- Jon Eriksson Helland II, Hardanger fiddle maker (born 1849)
- Bernt Sverdrup Maschmann, priest and politician (born 1805)
- Christopher Simonsen Fougner, politician (born 1795)
