1859 in Norway

← 1858 1857 1856 1859 in Norway → 1860 1861 1862
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	1859 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events

• 8 July - Charles XV succeeds his father Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (as Charles IV)

Notable births

• 5 April - Harald Smedal, politician and Minister (died 1911)
• 15 May - Olav Bjørkum, politician (died 1936)
• 23 June - Daniel Isaachsen, physicist (died 1940)
• 29 June - Ragnvald Bødtker, engineer (died 1946)
• 30 July - Christian Sparre, politician (died 1940)
• 4 August - Knut Hamsun, author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (died 1952)
• 29 August - Thomas Vigner Christiansen Haaland, politician (died 1913)
• 7 October - Thorleif Frederik Schjelderup, businessperson (died 1931)
• 15 November - Bjørn Bjørnson, actor and theatre director (died 1942)
• 15 November - Christopher Hornsrud, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (died 1960)
• 17 November - Fredrik Stang Lund, politician and Minister (died 1922)
• 23 December - Sigurd Ibsen, author and politician (died 1930)
• 27 December - Bernt Holtsmark, politician (died 1941)

Notable deaths

• 26 May - Engebret Soot, canal engineer (born 1786)
• 7 June - Lauritz Dorenfeldt Jenssen, businessperson (born 1801)
• 27 August - Catharine Hermine Kølle, adventurer and painter (born 1788)
• 29 October - Nils Landmark, jurist, farmer and politician (born 1775)
• 19 December - Niels Arntzen Sem, politician (born 1782)
• 23 December - Even Hammer Holmboe, politician (born 1792)

Full date unknown

• Michael Sevald Aamodt, politician (born 1784)