1869 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Charles IV.
• First Minister: Frederik Stang

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.

Births

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)

References

References

1. "Karl 4.". Norsk nettleksikon.
2. "Lightleys Holiday Houseboats".
3. [https://web.archive.org/web/20071113232314/http://eng.grieg07.no/?page=66&news=183&history=archive&PHPSESSID=4997fb240397c9a2baf05646163dd170 Grieg and the Danish Connection]
4. "Anna Gjøstein". Norsk nettleksikon.
5. Tennes, Ragnhild Seel. "Gitta Jønsson". Norsk nettleksikon.