1861 in Norway

Events in the year 1861 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Charles IV.

Arts and literature

 * Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860 (A remembrance of a journey in the summer 1860) was written by Aasmund Olavsson Vinje.

Births

 * 9 March – Monthei Eriksen Haug, politician
 * 18 April – Christian Emil Stoud Platou, railroad director and politician (died 1923)
 * 23 July – Hans Bergersen Wergeland, politician
 * 10 October – Fridtjof Nansen, explorer, scientist and diplomat, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 (died 1930)
 * 21 December – Valentin Valentinsen, engineer and politician

Full date unknown

 * Pauline Fjelde, Norwegian-American painter, needlework artist and weaver. (died 1923)
 * Ludvig Meyer, barrister, newspaper editor and politician (died 1938)
 * Olaf Norli, bookseller and publisher (died 1959)
 * Anton Thorkildsen Omholt, politician and Minister (died 1925)
 * Edvard Sverdrup, theologian (died 1923)

Deaths

 * 22 January – Peder Klykken, politician (born 1772)
 * 6 June – David Vogt, politician (born 1793)
 * 16 October – Broder Lysholm Krohg, military officer and civil servant (born 1777)