1869 in Norway

Events in the year 1869 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Charles IV.

Events

 * 14 August – Charles Wilhelm Thesen leaves Norway in his 117-ton schooner Albatros, loaded with timber to sell in New Zealand.
 * 16 November – Charles Wilhelm Thesen arrives in Cape Town. After bad weather delays his onward journey, he decides to stay in South Africa.

Arts and literature

 * 3 April – Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor receives its première in Copenhagen, played by Edmund Neupert, with Holger Simon Paulli conducting.

January to June



 * 18 February – Johan Hjort, fisheries scientist, marine zoologist and oceanographer (died 1948)
 * 23 March – Waldemar Ager, newspaperman and author in America (died 1941)
 * 1 April – Peter Egge, writer (died 1959)
 * 11 April – Gustav Vigeland, sculptor (died 1943)
 * 5 May – Hjalmar Christensen, writer (died 1925)
 * 8 May – Andreas Tostrup Urbye, politician and Minister (died 1955)
 * 15 June – Anna Gjøstein, politician and proponent for women's rights pioneer (died 1956).

July to December



 * 5 July – Holger Sinding-Larsen, architect (died 1938)
 * 31 July – Johannes Irgens, diplomat, politician and Minister (died 1939)
 * 23 August – Rasmus Olai Mortensen, politician and Minister (died 1934)
 * 13 September – Kristen Holbø, painter and illustrator (died 1953)
 * 17 September – Christian Lous Lange, historian, teacher and political scientist, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921 (died 1938)
 * 29 September – Harald Sohlberg, painter (died 1935)
 * 5 October – Gitta Jønsson, politician and proponent for women's rights (died 1950).
 * 11 October – Johan Aschehoug Kiær, paleontologist and geologist (died 1931)

Deaths

 * 6 March – Niels Nielsen Vogt, priest and politician (born 1798)
 * 28 October – Gustav Peter Blom, politician (born 1785)

Full date unknown

 * Melchior Schjelderup Olsson Fuhr, politician (born 1790)
 * Jon Eriksson Helland II, Hardanger fiddle maker (born 1849)
 * Bernt Sverdrup Maschmann, priest and politician (born 1805)
 * Christopher Simonsen Fougner, politician (born 1795)