1870 in Norway

Events in the year 1870 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Charles IV.

Births



 * 23 January – Ole Sæther, Olympic rifle shooter (died 1946)
 * 17 April – Haaken Hasberg Gran, botanist (died 1955)
 * 19 May – Nils Nilsen Ronning, Norwegian-American author and editor (died 1962)
 * 4 July – Barbra Ring, writer (died 1955).
 * 14 September – Einar Borch, landowner and politician (died 1952).
 * 22 October – Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, three-times Prime Minister of Norway (died 1943)
 * 26 November – Elise Sem, barrister (died 1950)
 * 29 November – Eivind Heiberg, engineer and railway director (died 1939)
 * 7 December – Worm Hirsch Darre-Jenssen, engineer and politician (died 1945)

Full date unknown

 * Theodor Bull, businessperson and genealogist (died 1958)
 * Helmer Hanssen, polar explorer (died 1956)
 * Severin Andreas Heyerdahl, physician (died 1940)
 * Ivar Lykke Falch Lind, jurist and politician
 * Christian Pierre Mathiesen, politician and Minister (died 1953)
 * Birger Stuevold-Hansen, politician and Minister (died 1933)
 * Jens Thiis, art historian, conservator and museum director (died 1942)

Deaths

 * 9 January – Ole Gabriel Gabrielsen Ueland, politician (born 1799)
 * 30 July – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, poet, journalist and writer (born 1818).
 * 4 November – Otto Vincent Lange, politician and Minister (born 1797)
 * 5 December – Herman Severin Løvenskiold, composer (born 1815)