1843 in Norway

Events in the year 1843 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Charles III John.

Events

 * 14 September – 2/3 of the town of Egersund burns down.

Births

 * 5 January – Jørgen Christian Knudsen, ship-owner and politician (b.1922)
 * 8 January – Johan Jeremiassen, ship-owner, consul and politician (d.1889)
 * 2 February – Knute Nelson, Governor of Minnesota from 1893 till 1895 and United States Senator from Minnesota from 1895 till 1923. (d. 1923)
 * 9 April – Canute R. Matson, Norwegian American Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois at the time of the Haymarket Square Riot (d. 1903)
 * 15 June – Edvard Grieg, composer and pianist (d.1907)
 * 18 August – Johan Henrik Paasche Thorne, businessperson and politician (d.1920)
 * 4 October – Christopher Knudsen, priest, politician and Minister (d.1915)
 * 8 October – Kitty Lange Kielland, painter (d.1914)
 * 31 October – Oscar Nissen, physician, newspaper editor and politician (d.1911)

Full date unknown

 * Axel Gudbrand Blytt, botanist (d.1898)
 * Yngvar Nielsen, historian and geographer (d.1916)
 * Herman Johan Foss Reimers, politician and Minister (d.1928)
 * Theodor Løvstad, musician, magazine editor (d.1913).

Deaths

 * 17 March – Lars Andreas Oftedahl, priest and politician (b.1781)
 * 13 June – Ole Edvard Buck, politician (b.1799)

Full date unknown

 * Mensen Ernst, road runner and ultramarathoner (b.1795)