1847 in Norway

Events in the year 1847 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar I.
• First Minister: Nicolai Krog

Events

• November - The piano manufacturer Brødrene Hals was founded.
• The 1847 Norwegian parliamentary election.

Births

• 11 April – Ebbe Carsten Horneman Hertzberg, politician (d.1912).
• 14 April – Karl Lous, barrister (d. 1928).
• 17 April – Just Bing Ebbesen, priest and politician (d.1929)
• 20 June – Gina Krog, suffragist (died 1916).
• 31 July – Johan Kristian Skougaard, military officer and politician (d.1925)
• 20 October –Frits Thaulow, painter (d.1906)
• 26 October – Helge A. Haugan – Norwegian-American banking executive (d.1909 in USA)
• 9 November – Carl Wilhelm Bøckmann Barth, artist (d. 1919).
• 18 November – Oluf Iversen, politician (d.1917)
• 1 December – Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer (d.1907).
• 15 December – Rolf Andvord, shipowner and consul (d. 1906)
• 26 December – Hans Christian Albert Hansen, politician (d.1925)

Deaths

• 16 January – Ole Devegge, librarian, numismatist and collector (b.1772)

Full date unknown

• Knut Andreas Pettersen Agersborg, politician (b.1765)
• Paulus Flood, merchant and politician (b.1804)

See also

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