1861 in Norway

Events in the year 1861 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Charles IV.
• First Minister: Frederik Stang

Events

• The town of Gjøvik is founded.

Arts and literature

• Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860 (A remembrance of a journey in the summer 1860) was written by Aasmund Olavsson Vinje.

Births

• 1 January – Nicoline Hambro, politician and women's rights pioneer (died 1926).
• 9 March – Monthei Eriksen Haug, politician
• 18 April – Christian Emil Stoud Platou, railroad director and politician (died 1923)
• 19 April – Amalie Andersen, actress (died 1924).
• 23 July – Hans Bergersen Wergeland, politician
• 10 October – Fridtjof Nansen, explorer, scientist and diplomat, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 (died 1930)
• 9 November – Fredrikke Mørck, liberal feminist, magazine editor (died 1934).
• 21 December – Valentin Valentinsen, engineer and politician

Full date unknown

• Pauline Fjelde, Norwegian-American painter, needlework artist and weaver (died 1923)
• Ludvig Meyer, barrister, newspaper editor and politician (died 1938)
• Olaf Norli, bookseller and publisher (died 1959)
• Anton Thorkildsen Omholt, politician and Minister (died 1925)
• Edvard Sverdrup, theologian (died 1923)

Deaths

• 22 January – Peder Klykken, politician (born 1772)
• 6 June – David Vogt, politician (born 1793)
• 16 October – Broder Lysholm Krohg, military officer and civil servant (born 1777)

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