1842 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Charles III John

  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.

  Arts and literature

• Ivar Aasen commenced his research on rural dialects all across Norway

  Births

January to June

• 16 March – Theodor Nilsen Stousland, politician.
• 1 April – Edmund Neupert, pianist and composer
• 12 June – Rikard Nordraak, composer
• 26 May – Evald Rygh, banker, politician and Minister

  July to December

• 31 August – Ole Bornemann Bull, ophthalmologist
• 2 December – Robert Collett, zoologist
• 16 December – Otto Sinding, painter
• 17 December – Sophus Lie, mathematician

  Full date unknown

• Nils S. Dvergsdal, politician

  Deaths

• 16 March – Maurits Hansen, writer

  Full date unknown

• Henrik Anker Bjerregaard, poet, dramatist and judge
• Wilhelm Jürgensen, military officer