2025 in Norway

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Events in the year 2025 in Norway .

Incumbents

• Monarch – Harald V
• President of the Storting – Masud Gharahkhani (Labour).
• Prime Minister – Jonas Gahr Støre (Labour).

Events

• 8 January – 2 February – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship in Croatia, Denmark and Norway. ^[1]
• 4 February – Former prime minister Jens Stoltenberg is appointed as finance minister in the Støre Cabinet after his predecessor, Trygve Slagsvold Vedum and his Centre Party withdraw from the coalition government. ^[2]

Scheduled

• Norway aims to ban the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars by this year. ^{[3] [4]}
• 8 September – 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election ^{[5] [6]}

Holidays

Further information: Public holidays in Norway

Source: ^[7]

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 17 April – Maundy Thursday
• 18 April – Good Friday
• 20 April – Easter Sunday
• 21 April – Easter Monday
• 1 May – May Day
• 17 May – Constitution Day
• 29 May – Ascension Day
• 8 June – Pentecost
• 9 June – Whit Monday
• 25 December – Christmas Day
• 26 December – Second Day of Christmas

Art and entertainment

• List of Norwegian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Deaths

January

Håkon Bleken

• 4 January – Elisabeth Haarr, textile artist (born 1945). ^[8]
• 7 January – Øyvind Vågnes, writer, editior, and professor of media science (born 1972). ^[9]
• 8 January –
  • Kjell Kjær, actor (born 1942). ^{[10] [ better source needed ]}
  • Karsten Klepsvik, diplomat (born 1952). ^{[11] [12]}
• 10 January – Einar Olav Skogholt, politician (born 1947). ^[13]
• 13 January – Kjell Svindland, politician (born 1933). ^[14]

• January – Kjell Gjerseth, journalist (born 1946). ^[15]

• 20 January – Harald Paalgard, cinematographer (born 1950). ^[16]
• 21 January – Tore Austad, politician (born 1935). ^[17]
• 21 January – Håkon Bleken, painter (born 1929). ^{[18] [19]}
• 26 January –
  • Signe Howell, social anthropologist (born 1942). ^{[20] [21]}
  • Asbjørn Larsen, industrial leader (born 1936). ^[22]
• 27 January – Anna Hannevik, Salvation Army commissioner (born 1925). ^[23]
• 30 January – Kåre Øvregard, politician (born 1933). ^[24]
• 31 January – Brynjar Aa, writer and playwright (born 1960). ^{[25] [ better source needed ]}

February

• 12 February – Barthold Halle, stage instructor, film director and theatre director (born 1925). ^[26]
• 21 February – Alf Bakke, entomologist and forest researcher (born 1927). ^{[27] [ better source needed ]}
• 26 February – Kjell Alrich Schumann, convicted robber and murderer (born 1966). ^[28]
• 27 February –
  • Bjørn Opsahl, photographer and film director (born 1968). ^[29]
  • Kjartan Rødland, journalist and newspaper editor (born 1938). ^[30]

References

1. "IHF Council awards events up to 2027". ihf.info. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
2. "Former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg returns to government in Norway as finance minister". AP News. 4 February 2025. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
3. Coren, Michael J. (7 August 2018). "Nine countries say they'll ban internal combustion engines. So far, it's just words". Quartz. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
4. "Norway is electric". Government.no. Government of Norway. 29 November 2019. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
5. "Lov om valg til Stortinget, fylkesting og kommunestyrer (valgloven) - Kapittel 9. Tidspunktet for valg. Stemmegivningen på valgtinget - Lovdata". lovdata.no. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
6. "Valgdagen blir 8. september 2025" (in Norwegian Bokmål). government.no. 3 May 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
7. "Norway Public Holidays 2025". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
8. Mæhlum, Lars; Linder, Mats (7 January 2025). "Elisabeth Haarr". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
9. Drangsholt, Janne Stigen. "Øyvind Vågnes". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
10. Kjell Kjær (in Norwegian)
11. Lundbo, Sten; Bech, Jon (14 January 2025). "Karsten Klepsvik". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
12. "Minneord over Karsten Klepsvik". Fiskeribladet (in Norwegian). 13 January 2025.
13. Bolstad, Erik (ed.). "Einar Olav Skogholt". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
14. "Svindland, Kjell (1933-2025)" (in Norwegian). Storting . Retrieved 18 January 2025.
15. Hetland, Tom (14 January 2025). "Kjell Gjerseth er død" . Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian).
16. "Filmfotograf Harald Paalgard er død". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 20 January 2025. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
17. Bolstad, Erik (ed.). "Tore Austad". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
18. Hanssen, Tina. "Håkon Bleken". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
19. "Håkon Bleken (96) er død". NRK (in Norwegian). 21 January 2025. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
20. "Professor Signe Howell har gått bort". uio.no (in Norwegian). 27 January 2025. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
21. Schakt, Jon (29 January 2025). "Signe Howell". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
22. Qvale, Andreas; Smith-Solbakken, Marie. "Asbjørn Larsen". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
23. Bolstad, Erik, ed. (12 February 2025). "Anna Hannevik". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
24. Askheim, Svein (3 February 2025). "Kåre Øvregard". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
25. Brynjar Aa (in Norwegian)
26. Bang-Hansen, Kjetil (13 February 2025). "Minneord: Barthold Halle (1925–2025)". Norsk Shakespeare tidsskrift (in Norwegian). Retrieved 16 February 2025.
27. Alf Bakke (in Norwegian)
28. Bogen, Simon Elias; Jonsbråten, Berit Helle (27 February 2025). "Kjell Alrich Schumann er død". NRK (in Norwegian). Retrieved 27 February 2025.
29. Clausen, Åsmund (28 February 2025). "Bjørn Opsahl (56) er død". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 28 February 2025.
30. Eskeland, Hanne Ørnhaug (27 February 2025). "Tidligere sjefredaktør Kjartan Rødland er død, 86 år gammel". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian). Retrieved 28 February 2025.

External links

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