1859 in Norway

Events in the year 1859 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Oscar I (until 8 July); then Charles IV.

Events

 * 8 July – Charles XV succeeds his father Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (as Charles IV)

Notable births



 * 28 January – Ambrosia Tønnesen, sculptor (died 1948).
 * 5 April – Harald Smedal, politician and Minister (died 1911)
 * 15 May – Olav Bjørkum, politician (died 1936)
 * 23 June – Daniel Isaachsen, physicist (died 1940)
 * 29 June – Ragnvald Bødtker, engineer (died 1946)
 * 30 July – Christian Sparre, politician (died 1940)
 * 4 August – Knut Hamsun, author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (died 1952)
 * 29 August – Thomas Vigner Christiansen Haaland, politician (died 1913)
 * 7 October – Thorleif Frederik Schjelderup, businessperson (died 1931)
 * 11 November – Belle Gunness, serial killer
 * 15 November – Bjørn Bjørnson, actor and theatre director (died 1942)
 * 15 November – Christopher Hornsrud, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (died 1960)
 * 17 November – Fredrik Stang Lund, politician and Minister (died 1922)
 * 23 December – Sigurd Ibsen, author and politician (died 1930)
 * 27 December – Bernt Holtsmark, politician (died 1941)
 * 27 December – Minda Ramm, novelist, translator and literary critic (died 1924).

Notable deaths

 * 14 February – Ole Rasmussen Apeness, district sheriff, soldier, and farmer (b. 1765)
 * 26 May – Engebret Soot, canal engineer (born 1786)
 * 7 June – Lauritz Dorenfeldt Jenssen, businessperson (born 1801)
 * 27 August – Catharine Hermine Kølle, adventurer and painter (born 1788)
 * 29 October – Nils Landmark, jurist, farmer and politician (born 1775)
 * 19 December – Niels Arntzen Sem, politician (born 1782)
 * 23 December – Even Hammer Holmboe, politician (born 1792)

Full date unknown

 * Michael Sevald Aamodt, politician (born 1784)