1850 in Norway

← 1849 1848 1847 1850 in Norway → 1851 1852 1853
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	1850 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events

• June 19 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.

Arts and literature

• Henrik Ibsen's first play Catilina is written (but not performed until 1881)
• 26 September - Henrik Ibsen's second play, The Burial Mound, is performed at Christiania Theater

Births

Einar Løchen

• 1 January - Oscar Jacobsen, engineer and politician (died 1902)
• 9 February - Hjalmar August Schiøtz, ophthalmologist (died 1927)
• 18 March - Olefine Moe, opera singer (died 1933)
• 4 July - Ole Olsen, organist, composer, conductor and military musician (died 1927)
• 8 October - Sven Aarrestad, writer, politician and leader in the Norwegian temperance movement (died 1942 in Norway)
• 17 October - Johannes Christiansen, politician (died 1913)
• 25 December - Elizabeth Fedde, Lutheran Deaconess who established the Norwegian Relief Society (died 1921)

Full date unknown

• Einar Løchen, jurist and politician (died 1908)
• Knut Eilevsson Steintjønndalen, Hardanger fiddle maker (died 1902)
• Karenus Kristofer Thinn, judge (died 1942)
• Ivar Peterson Tveiten, politician and Minister (died 1932)
• Erik V. Vullum, politician and author (died 1916)

Deaths

• 28 March - Bernt Michael Holmboe, mathematician (born 1795)
• 10 September - Andreas Martin Seip, military officer and politician (born 1790)
• 8 December - Georg Sverdrup, philologist (born 1770)

Full date unknown

• Jens Gasmann, businessperson and politician (born 1776)
• Christian Ulrik Kastrup, jurist, military officer and politician (born 1784)
• Jacob Andreas Wille, priest and politician (born 1777)