1842 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Charles III John.
• First Minister: Nicolai Krog

Events

• Porsgrunn was granted full city status. Limited city status was granted in 1807.
• Flekkefjord was granted full city status.
• Lillehammer was granted full city status.
• Drøbak was granted full city status.
• The Norwegian Missionary Society was founded in Stavanger.
• The eleventh Storting convened, following the 1841 election.
• The Conventicle Act was repealed.
• The Witchcraft Act (Trolldomslov) is abolished.
• Russian ship of the line Ingermanland sinks outside the coast of Jæren.

Arts and literature

• Ivar Aasen commenced his research on rural dialects all across Norway

Births

January to June

• 16 March – Theodor Nilsen Stousland, politician (d.1910).
• 1 April – Edmund Neupert, pianist and composer (d.1888)
• 12 June – Rikard Nordraak, composer (d.1866)
• 26 May – Evald Rygh, banker, politician and Minister (d.1913)

July to December

• 6 August – Karl Gether Bomhoff, pharmacist, politician and Governor of the Central Bank of Norway (d. 1925).
• 31 August – Ole Bornemann Bull, ophthalmologist (d.1916)
• 2 December – Robert Collett, zoologist (d.1913)
• 16 December – Otto Sinding, painter (d.1909)
• 17 December – Sophus Lie, mathematician (d.1899).

Full date unknown

• Nils S. Dvergsdal, politician (d.1921)

Deaths

• 16 January – Thomas Fearnley, painter (born 1802).
• 16 March – Maurits Hansen, writer (b.1794)

Full date unknown

• Henrik Anker Bjerregaard, poet, dramatist and judge (b.1792)
• Wilhelm Jürgensen, military officer (b.1762)

References

References

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3. "Theodor Nilsen Stousland". Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD).
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5. "Sophus Lie". Norsk nettleksikon.
6. Østby, Leif. "Thomas Fearnley". Norsk nettleksikon.