1843 in Norway

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See also:	1843 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1843 in Norway .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Charles III John. ^[1]

Events

• 14 September – 2/3 of the town of Egersund burns down. ^[2]

Births

Edvard Grieg

• 5 January – Jørgen Christian Knudsen, ship-owner and politician (b. 1922)
• 8 January – Johan Jeremiassen, ship-owner, consul and politician (d. 1889)
• 2 February – Knute Nelson, Governor of Minnesota from 1893 till 1895 and United States Senator from Minnesota from 1895 till 1923. (d. 1923)
• 9 April – Canute R. Matson, Norwegian American Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois at the time of the Haymarket Square Riot (d. 1903)
• 6 June – Henriette Wulfsberg, school owner and writer (d. 1906) ^[3]
• 15 June – Edvard Grieg, composer and pianist (d. 1907)
• 24 June – Konrad Dahl, writer and priest (d. 1931) ^[4]
• 18 August – Johan Henrik Paasche Thorne, businessperson and politician (d. 1920)
• 4 October – Christopher Knudsen, priest, politician and Minister (d. 1915)
• 8 October – Kitty Lange Kielland, painter (d. 1914)
• 31 October – Oscar Nissen, physician, newspaper editor and politician (d. 1911)

Full date unknown

• Axel Gudbrand Blytt, botanist (d. 1898)
• Yngvar Nielsen, historian and geographer (d. 1916)
• Herman Johan Foss Reimers, politician and Minister (d. 1928)
• Theodor Løvstad, musician, magazine editor (d. 1913). ^[5]

Deaths

Mensen Ernst

• 17 March – Lars Andreas Oftedahl, priest and politician (b. 1781)
• 13 June – Ole Edvard Buck, politician (b. 1799)

Full date unknown

• Mensen Ernst, road runner and ultramarathoner (b. 1795)

References

1. Mardal, Magnus A. "Karl Johan". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
2. "Bybrannen i 1843 [Egersund byhistoriske leksikon]".
3. Borgen, Per Otto (1996). De skriveføre drammensere : drammensdiktere gjennom 220 år (in Norwegian). Drammen: Forl. for by- og bygdehistorie. pp. 82–85. ISBN   8291649022.
4. "Konrad Neumann Hjelm Dahl". Store Norske Lesikon (in Norwegian).
5. Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Theodor Julius Løvstad". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 6 April 2015.