1842 in Norway

Events in the year 1842 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Charles III John.

Events

 * Porsgrunn was granted full city status. Limited city status was granted in 1807.
 * Flekkefjord was granted full city status.
 * Lillehammer was granted full city status.
 * The Norwegian Missionary Society was founded in Stavanger.
 * The eleventh Storting convened, following the 1841 election.
 * The Conventicle Act was repealed.
 * The Witchcraft Act (Trolldomslov) is abolished.

Arts and literature

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

January to June

 * 16 March – Theodor Nilsen Stousland, politician (d.1910).
 * 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

 * 6 August – Karl Gether Bomhoff, pharmacist, politician and Governor of the Central Bank of Norway (d. 1925).
 * 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)
 * Wilhelm Jürgensen, military officer (b.1762)