1869 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Charles IV

  Events

• 14 August – Charles Wilhelm Thesen leaves Norway in his 117-ton schooner Albatros, loaded with timber to sell in New Zealand.
• 16 November – Charles Wilhelm Thesen arrives in Cape Town. After bad weather delays his onward journey, he decides to stay in South Africa.

  Arts and literature

• 3 April – Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor receives its première in Copenhagen, played by Edmund Neupert, with Holger Simon Paulli conducting.

  Births

January to June

• 18 February – Johan Hjort, fisheries scientist, marine zoologist and oceanographer
• 23 March – Waldemar Ager, newspaperman and author in America
• 1 April – Peter Egge, writer
• 11 April – Gustav Vigeland, sculptor
• 5 May – Hjalmar Christensen, writer
• 8 May – Andreas Tostrup Urbye, politician and Minister

  July to December

• 5 July – Holger Sinding-Larsen, architect
• 31 July – Johannes Irgens, diplomat, politician and Minister
• 23 August – Rasmus Olai Mortensen, politician and Minister
• 13 September – Kristen Holbø, painter and illustrator
• 17 September – Christian Lous Lange, historian, teacher and political scientist, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921
• 29 September – Harald Sohlberg, painter
• 11 October – Johan Aschehoug Kiær, paleontologist and geologist

  Deaths

• 6 March – Niels Nielsen Vogt, priest and politician
• 28 October – Gustav Peter Blom, politician

  Full date unknown

• Melchior Schjelderup Olsson Fuhr, politician
• Jon Eriksson Helland II, Hardanger fiddle maker
• Bernt Sverdrup Maschmann, priest and politician
• Christopher Simonsen Fougner, politician