1842 in Norway

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See also:	1842 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1842 in Norway .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Charles III John. ^[1]

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.
• 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• The Conventicle Act was repealed.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. ^[2]
• 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

Rikard Nordraak

• 16 March – Theodor Nilsen Stousland, politician (d.1910). ^[3]
• 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

Sophus Lie

• 6 August – Karl Gether Bomhoff, pharmacist, politician and Governor of the Central Bank of Norway (d. 1925). ^[4]
• 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). ^[5]

Full date unknown

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

Deaths

• 16 January – Thomas Fearnley, painter (born 1802). ^[6]
• 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

1. Mardal, Magnus A. "Karl Johan". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
2. Scott, Jess (22 May 2020). "The Story of Spå-Eilev: Once Upon a Time in 19th-Century Telemark". Life in Norway. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
3. "Theodor Nilsen Stousland" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 7 November 2012.
4. Gram, Trond. "Karl Gether Bomhoff". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
5. Aubert, Karl Egil; Delphin, Inger Lise A. "Sophus Lie". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
6. Østby, Leif; Ernst, Frode. "Thomas Fearnley". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 8 February 2025.