1869 in Norway

← 1868 1867 1866 1869 in Norway → 1870 1871 1872
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	1869 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles IV

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.

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.

Births

January to June

• 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)

July to December

• 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)
• 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)