1838 in Norway

Events in the year 1838 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Charles III John.

Events

 * 1 January – Fulfilling a law from 1837 all parishes form the bases for the establishment of altogether 396 formannskapsdistrikts, the precursor of municipalities.

Births



 * 10 January – Johan Christopher Brun, pharmacist and politician (d.1914)
 * 12 March – Johan Gerhard Theodor Ameln, politician (d.1917)
 * 23 March – Johan Christian Heuch, bishop and politician (d.1904)
 * 28 December – Albert Marius Jacobsen, military officer and politician (d.1909)
 * 31 December – Jacob Aall Bonnevie, politician and Minister (d.1904)

Full date unknown

 * Ludvig Aubert, politician and Minister (d.1896)
 * Edvard Hans Hoff, politician and Minister (d.1933)
 * Christian Johansen Ihlen, politician
 * Ole C. Johnson, soldier in the American Civil War (d.1886)
 * Anders Nicolai Kiær, statistician (d.1919)
 * Christian Homann Schweigaard, politician and Prime Minister (d.1899)

Deaths



 * 10 March – Jonas Greger Walnum, politician (b.1771)
 * 27 June - Nils Christian Frederik Hals, military officer (b.1758)
 * 20 November - Syvert Amundsen Eeg, farmer and politician (b.1757).
 * 29 December – Søren Christian Sommerfelt, priest and botanist (b. 1794).