1845 in Norway

Events in the year 1845 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Oscar I.

Events

 * Skutterudite, a mineral containing nickel and iron, was discovered. The discovery was made in Skuterud Mines, Modum, Buskerud.
 * The twelfth Storting convened, following the 1844 election.
 * The Dissenter Act was enacted on 16 July 1845.

Notable births



 * 10 January – Jørund Telnes, farmer, teacher, writer and politician (d. 1892).
 * 17 January – Erika Nissen, pianist (d. 1903)
 * 7 March – Jens Braage Halvorsen, librarian, magazine editor and literary historian (d. 1900).
 * 27 March – Jakob Sverdrup, bishop and politician (d. 1899).
 * 18 June – Gustav Storm, historian (d. 1903).
 * 15 July – Christian Holtermann Knudsen, typographer, newspaper editor, publisher, trade unionist and politician (d. 1929)
 * 17 July – Ragna Vilhelmine Nielsen, pedagogue and feminist (d. 1924)
 * 6 August – Edvard Liljedahl, politician and Minister (d. 1924)
 * 5 September – Hans Hein Theodor Nysom, politician (d. 1903)
 * 9 September – Christen Christensen, shipyard owner, ship-owner and whaling manager (d. 1923)
 * 28 September – Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck, dermatologist (d. 1917)
 * 10 October – Anton Jörgen Andersen, composer (d. 1926)
 * 7 December – Tinius Olsen, Norwegian American engineer and inventor (d. 1932)

Full date unknown

 * Sofus Arctander, politician and Minister (d. 1924)
 * Peter Olaf Debes, politician
 * Hans Jensen Haga, politician
 * Ludwig Andreas Olsen, United States Navy sailor awarded two Medals of Honor (d. 1886)
 * Ole Andres Olsen, Seventh-day Adventist minister and administrator (d. 1915)
 * Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou, jurist and professor (d. 1929)
 * Jon Eilevsson Steintjønndalen, Hardanger fiddle maker (d. 1902)

Notable deaths

 * 13 February – Henrik Steffens, philosopher, scientist, and poet (b. 1773)
 * 29 March – Ingebrigt Belle, peasant agitator (b. 1773)
 * 17 May – Christopher Borgersen Hoen, farmer and politician (b. 1767).
 * 12 July – Henrik Wergeland, poet (b. 1808)
 * 22 October – Fredrik Riis, civil servant (b. 1789)
 * 31 October – Johan Reinhardt, professor in zoology (b. 1778)

Full date unknown

 * Erich Haagensen Jaabech, farmer and politician (b. 1761)
 * Christian Sørenssen, bishop and politician