1851 in Norway

Events in the year 1851 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Oscar I.

Arts and literature

 * 10 January – The Norwegian Booksellers Association (Den Norske Bokhandlerforening) is founded.

January to June

 * 2 January – Haldor Boen, teacher and politician in America (died 1912)
 * 25 January – Arne Garborg, writer (died 1924)
 * 28 January – Andreas Aubert, art historian (died 1913)
 * 12 February – Randi Blehr, women’s rights activist (died 1928).
 * 11 June – Oscar Borg, composer (died 1930)

July to December

 * 23 July – Peder Severin Krøyer, painter (died 1909)
 * 20 August – Abraham Berge, politician and Minister (died 1936)
 * 23 September – Ola Thommessen, newspaper editor (died 1942)
 * 2 October – Elias Sunde, politician and Minister (died 1910).
 * 30 October – Leonhard Hess Stejneger, zoologist (died 1943)
 * 10 November – Waldemar Christofer Brøgger, geologist and mineralogist (died 1940)
 * 25 November – Hans Andersen Foss, author, newspaper editor and temperance leader in America (died 1929)

Full date unknown

 * Gunvald Aus, engineer (died 1950)
 * Peter W. K. Bøckman, Sr., bishop and theologian (died 1926)
 * Nicolai A. Grevstad, diplomat, politician and newspaper editor in America (died 1940)
 * Knut Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (died 1880)
 * Herman Jeremiassen, ship-owner and politician (died 1943)
 * Carl Sofus Lumholtz, discoverer and ethnographer (died 1922)
 * Olaj Olsen, jurist and politician (died 1920)
 * August Geelmuyden Spørck, politician and Minister (died 1928)
 * Oscar Sigvald Julius Strugstad, politician and Minister (died 1919)
 * Aasmund Halvorsen Vinje, politician and Minister (died 1917)

Deaths

 * 5 July – Olaus Michael Schmidt, judge and politician (born 1784)

Full date unknown

 * Palle Rømer Fleischer, politician and Minister (born 1781)
 * Hilmar Meincke Krohg, politician (born 1776)