1877 in Norway

First performance of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

Events in the year 1877 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar II .
• Prime Minister: Frederik Stang

Events

• The Røros Line was opened.

Arts and literature

• 25 April - The local newspaper Agder Flekkefjords Tidende was first published.

Births

January to June

• 11 February – Aasa Helgesen, midwife and politician (died 1968).
• 25 February – Bernt Tunold, painter (died 1946)
• 5 March – Klaus Sletten, organizational worker, editor and politician (died 1946)
• 23 March – Marta Steinsvik, author and translator (died 1950)
• 29 March – Nils Waltersen Aasen, arms inventor (died 1925)
• 12 April – Ragnvald A. Nestos, governor of the U.S. state of North Dakota (died 1942)
• 19 April – Ole Evinrude, inventor, known for the invention of the first outboard motor with practical commercial application (died 1934)
• 26 April – Alfred Næss, speed skater (died 1955)
• 5 May – Halfdan Egedius, painter and illustrator (died 1899)
• 6 May – Bjarne Solberg, physician and politician (died 1928)

July to December

• 18 July – Arne Sejersted, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1960)
• 17 August – Bernhoff Hansen, wrestler and Olympic gold medallist (died 1950)
• 28 August – Anna Schønheyder, painter and textile artist (died 1927).
• 8 September – Rasmus Pettersen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (died 1957)
• 8 September – Gunnar Ousland, writer, editor and politician for the Labour Party (died 1967)
• 13 September – Harald Halvorsen, politician (died 1943).
• 16 September – Carsten Tank-Nielsen, admiral (died 1957).
• 9 October – Isak Halvorsen, politician
• 12 October – Alf Hjort, electrical engineer in America (died 1944)
• 16 October – Bjørn Helland-Hansen, oceanographer (died 1957)
• 16 October – Per Savio, polar explorer and dog sled driver (died 1905).
• 4 November – Benjamin Blessum, Norwegian-American painter, graphic artist, illustrator (died 1954)
• 29 November – Fredrik Barbe Wallem, art historian (died 1945).

Full date unknown

• Ole Ludvig Bærøe, politician (died 1943)
• Halfdan Egedius, painter and illustrator (died 1899)
• Per Klingenberg Hestetun, politician (died 1928)
• Karl Hovelsen, Nordic skier (died 1955)
• Ivar Larsen Kirkeby-Garstad, politician and Minister (died 1951)
• Lars Oftedal, politician and Minister (died 1932)
• Nikolai Nissen Paus, surgeon (died 1956)
• Haakon Shetelig, archaeologist (died 1955)
• Gunnar Ousland, writer, editor and politician (died 1967)
• Erik Solem, judge (died 1949)

Deaths

• 9 October – Eskild Bruun, barrister, judge and businessman (b. 1804).
• 25 December – Hans Gerhard Colbjørnsen Meldahl, jurist and politician (born 1815)

Full date unknown

• Christian Peder Bianco Boeck, doctor, zoologist and mountaineer (born 1798)
• Hans Wille, priest and politician (born 1807)

See also

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