1862 in Norway

Events in the year 1862 in Norway.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 23 June – Norway's second railway, Hamar-Grundsetbanen, is opened.
• 3 October – Kongsvingerbanen, Norway's third railway opens between Lillestrøm and Kongsvinger, is opened.

Arts and literature

• The poem Terje Vigen, written by Henrik Ibsen, is published.

Births

January to June

• 22 February – Hulda Garborg, writer, novelist, playwright, poet, folk dancer and theatre instructor (died 1934)
• 14 March – Vilhelm Bjerknes, physicist and meteorologist (died 1951)
• 16 June – Olaf Frydenlund, rifle shooter and Olympic silver medallist (died 1947)
• 25 June – Thomas Wegner Larsen Haaland, politician

July to December

• 4 August – Albert Gran, Norwegian-American actor (born 1932)
• 15 August – Fernanda Nissen, journalist, literary critic, theatre critic, politician and feminist pioneer (died 1920)
• 21 September – Johan Castberg, jurist and politician (died 1926)
• 23 September – Bernt B. Haugan, Norwegian American minister, politician and temperance leader
• 24 September – Arnt Severin Ulstrup, physician and politician
• 14 November – Ludvig Larsen Kragtorp, physician and politician
• 11 December – Otto Valstad, educator, painter, book illustrator and children's writer (died 1950).

Full date unknown

• Samuel Balto, explorer and adventurer (died 1922)
• Johan Olaf Bredal, politician and Minister (died 1948)
• Jørgen Brunchorst, politician and Minister (died 1917)
• Anna Bugge, feminist (died 1928)
• Ove Christian Charlot Klykken, politician
• Anders Sandvig, dentist and ethnologist (died 1950)

Deaths

• 30 September – Josephine Thrane, teacher and journalist (born 1820).

Full date unknown

• Jacobine Gjertz, pianist, composer and writer (born 1819)
• Jon Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (born 1790)
• Knut Mevasstaul, rose painter (born 1785)
• Jørgen Herman Vogt, politician (born 1784)

See also

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