1869 in Norway

Events in the year 1869 in Norway.

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See also:1869 in Sweden
List of years in Norway

Incumbents
  • Monarch: Charles IV.[1]

Events
  • 14 August – Charles Wilhelm Thesen leaves Norway in his 117-ton schooner Albatros, loaded with timber to sell in New Zealand.
  • 16 November – 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 – 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
Johan Hjort
  • 18 February – Johan Hjort, fisheries scientist, marine zoologist and oceanographer (died 1948)
  • 23 March – Waldemar Ager, newspaperman and author in America (died 1941)
  • 1 April – Peter Egge, writer (died 1959)
  • 11 April – Gustav Vigeland, sculptor (died 1943)
  • 5 May – Hjalmar Christensen, writer (died 1925)
  • 8 May – Andreas Tostrup Urbye, politician and Minister (died 1955)
  • 15 June – Anna Gjøstein, politician and proponent for women's rights pioneer (died 1956).[4]

July to December
Gitta Jønsson
  • 5 July – Holger Sinding-Larsen, architect (died 1938)
  • 31 July – Johannes Irgens, diplomat, politician and Minister (died 1939)
  • 23 August – Rasmus Olai Mortensen, politician and Minister (died 1934)
  • 13 September – Kristen Holbø, painter and illustrator (died 1953)
  • 17 September – Christian Lous Lange, historian, teacher and political scientist, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921 (died 1938)
  • 29 September – Harald Sohlberg, painter (died 1935)
  • 5 October – Gitta Jønsson, politician and proponent for women's rights (died 1950).[5]
  • 11 October – Johan Aschehoug Kiær, paleontologist and geologist (died 1931)

Deaths
  • 6 March – Niels Nielsen Vogt, priest and politician (born 1798)
  • 28 October – 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)

See also

References
  1. Langslet, Lars Roar; Mardal, Magnus A. "Karl 4.". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  2. "Lightleys Holiday Houseboats". Archived from the original on 2 June 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  3. Grieg and the Danish Connection
  4. Bolstad, Erik (ed.). "Anna Gjøstein". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  5. Tennes, Ragnhild Seel. "Gitta Jønsson". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
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