1842 in Norway

← 1841 1840 1839 1842 in Norway → 1843 1844 1845
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	1842 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events

• Porsgrunn was granted full city status. Limited city status was granted in 1807.
• The Norwegian Missionary Society was founded in Stavanger.
• The eleventh Storting convened, following the 1841 election.

Arts and literature

• Ivar Aasen commenced his research on rural dialects all across Norway

Births

January to June

• 16 March – Theodor Nilsen Stousland, politician (d.1910).^[1]
• 1 April – Edmund Neupert, pianist and composer (d.1888)
• 12 June – Rikard Nordraak, composer (d.1866)
• 26 May – Evald Rygh, banker, politician and Minister (d.1913)

July to December

• 31 August - Ole Bornemann Bull, ophthalmologist (d.1916)
• 2 December – Robert Collett, zoologist (d.1913)
• 16 December – Otto Sinding, painter (d.1909)
• 17 December – Sophus Lie, mathematician (d.1899)

Full date unknown

• Nils S. Dvergsdal, politician (d.1921)

Deaths

• 16 March - Maurits Hansen, writer (b.1794)

Full date unknown

• Henrik Anker Bjerregaard, poet, dramatist and judge (b.1792)

References

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