1829 in Norway

Events in the year 1829 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Charles III John.

Events

 * 17 May – Henrik Wergeland became a symbol of the fight for celebration of the constitution at May 17, which was later to become the Norwegian National Day. He became a public hero after the infamous "Battle of the Square" in Christiania.
 * The present Kvitsøy Lighthouse was built.

Births

 * 9 January – Hans Christian Harboe Grønn, barrister and politician (d. 1902).
 * 26 March – Georg Andreas Bull, architect and chief building inspector (d.1917)
 * 6 April – Ole Irgens, politician (d.1906)
 * 19 May – Julius Nicolai Jacobsen, businessperson and politician (d.1894)
 * 15 June – Ulrik Frederik Christian Arneberg, politician (d.1911)
 * 28 July – Josephine Sparre, courtier and royal mistress
 * 28 September – Erik Bodom, painter (d. c1879)
 * 21 December – Hans Christian Heg, colonel and brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War (d.1863)

Full date unknown

 * Ludvig Daae, politician (d.1893)
 * Hans Christian Hanssen-Fossnæs, politician
 * Hans Hagerup Krag, engineer (d.1907)
 * Niels Mathiesen, politician and merchant (d.1900)
 * Ole Richter, lawyer, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (d.1888)
 * Lorentz Henrik Müller Segelcke, politician and Minister (d.1910)

Deaths

 * 6 April – Niels Henrik Abel, mathematician (b.1802)
 * 6 December – Baltzar von Platen, Governor-general of Norway (b.1766)

Full date unknown

 * Peder Jacobsen Bøgvald, politician (b.1762)
 * Johan Randulf Bull, judge (b.1749)
 * Ole Clausen Mørch, politician (b.1774)
 * Lars Jakobson Thingnæsset, farmer and politician (b.1760)