1857 in Norway

Events in the year 1857 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar I.
• First Minister: Jørgen Herman Vogt

Events

• 6 June – Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway
• The town of Steinkjer is founded.
• The town of Skudeneshavn is founded.

Births

• 4 January – John N. Kildahl, Norwegian-American Lutheran church minister, author and educator (died 1920)
• 15 March – Christian Michelsen, shipping magnate, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (died 1925)
• 6 April – Per Sivle, poet, novelist, newspaper editor (died 1904).
• 13 April – Fanny Ingvoldstad, painter (died 1935).
• 27 April – Theodor Kittelsen, artist (died 1914)
• 8 May – Agnes Mathilde Wergeland, Norwegian-American historian and poet (died 1914)
• 2 June – Urban Jacob Rasmus Børresen, rear admiral (died 1943)
• 28 July – Andreas Thidemand Carlsen Ruud, politician
• 19 August – Haldor Børve, architect (died 1933).
• 21 October- Frederick William Cappelen, Norwegian American architect and civil engineer (died 1921)
• 10 November – Aad J. Vinje, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (died 1929)
• 18 November – Gunnar Heiberg, playwright (died 1929)

Full date unknown

• Waldemar Hansteen, architect (died 1921)
• Johan Peter Jacobson, politician

Deaths

• 16 April – Ferdinand Carl Maria Wedel-Jarlsberg, commanding general of the Norwegian Army (born 1781)
• 11 June – Jens Rynning, priest (born 1778)
• 14 October – Johan Christian Dahl, painter (born 1788)
• 28 October – Hother Erich Werner Bøttger, politician (born 1801)

Full date unknown

• Diderik Bøgvad, politician (born 1792)

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