Events in the year 1869 in Norway.
Incumbents
Events
- 14 August â Charles Wilhelm Thesen leaves Norway in his 117-ton schooner Albatros, loaded with timber to sell in New Zealand.
- 16 November â Charles Wilhelm Thesen arrives in Cape Town. After bad weather delays his onward journey, he decides to stay in South Africa.
Arts and literature
Births
January to June
July to December
- 5 July â Holger Sinding-Larsen, architect (died 1938)
- 31 July â Johannes Irgens, diplomat, politician and Minister (died 1939)
- 23 August â Rasmus Olai Mortensen, politician and Minister (died 1934)
- 13 September â Kristen Holbø, painter and illustrator (died 1953)
- 17 September â Christian Lous Lange, historian, teacher and political scientist, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921 (died 1938)
- 29 September â Harald Sohlberg, painter (died 1935)
- 5 October â Gitta Jønsson, politician and proponent for women's rights (died 1950).
- 11 October â Johan Aschehoug Kiær, paleontologist and geologist (died 1931)
Deaths
Full date unknown
See also
References