1851 in Norway

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Events in the year 1851 in Norway .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar I. ^[1]

Events

• Hattemakerfeiden, labour revolts in Ringerike.
• Norwegians starts to settle at the mouth of the Jakobselva river, and the area develops into the village of Grense Jakobselv.

Arts and literature

• 10 January – The Norwegian Booksellers Association (Den Norske Bokhandlerforening) is founded. ^[2]

Births

January to June

• 2 January – Haldor Boen, teacher and politician in America (died 1912)
• 25 January – Arne Garborg, writer (died 1924)
• 28 January – Andreas Aubert, art historian (died 1913)
• 12 February – Randi Blehr, women’s rights activist (died 1928). ^[3]
• 8 May – Ole Dehli, organizational leader (died 1924). ^[4]
• 11 June – Oscar Borg, composer (died 1930)

July to December

• 23 July – Peder Severin Krøyer, painter (died 1909)
• 20 August – Abraham Berge, politician and Minister (died 1936)
• 23 September – Ola Thommessen, newspaper editor (died 1942)
• 29 September – Rasmus Flo, philologist, teacher and magazine editor (died 1905). ^[5]
• 2 October – Elias Sunde, politician and Minister (died 1910). ^[6]
• 30 October – Leonhard Hess Stejneger, zoologist (died 1943)
• 10 November – Waldemar Christofer Brøgger, geologist and mineralogist (died 1940)
• 16 November – Valborg Seeberg, writer (died 1929) ^[7]
• 25 November – Hans Andersen Foss, author, newspaper editor and temperance leader in America (died 1929)

Full date unknown

• Gunvald Aus, engineer (died 1950)
• Peter W. K. Bøckman, Sr., bishop and theologian (died 1926)
• Nicolai A. Grevstad, diplomat, politician and newspaper editor in America (died 1940)
• Knut Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (died 1880)
• Herman Jeremiassen, ship-owner and politician (died 1943)
• Carl Sofus Lumholtz, discoverer and ethnographer (died 1922)
• Olaj Olsen, jurist and politician (died 1920)
• August Geelmuyden Spørck, politician and Minister (died 1928)
• Oscar Sigvald Julius Strugstad, politician and Minister (died 1919)
• Aasmund Halvorsen Vinje, politician and Minister (died 1917)

Deaths

• 5 July – Olaus Michael Schmidt, judge and politician (born 1784)

Full date unknown

• Palle Rømer Fleischer, politician and Minister (born 1781)
• Hilmar Meincke Krohg, politician (born 1776)

References

1. Bratberg, Terje; Mardal, Magnus A. "Oscar 1.". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
2. About us Archived 1 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine – the Norwegian Booksellers Association (in Norwegian)
3. Moksnes, Aslaug. "Randi Blehr". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
4. Bolstad, Erik (ed.). "Ole Dehli". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
5. Grepstad, Jon. "Rasmus Flo". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
6. Tvedt, Knut Are. "Elias Sunde". In Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
7. Barth, Bj. Keyser (1930). Norges militære embedsmenn : 1929 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Hanche. p. 529.