1876 in Norway

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See also:	1876 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1876 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar II

Births

January to June

• 8 January - Nils Tveit, politician (died 1949)
• 23 March - Nils Erik Flakstad, businessperson and politician (died 1939)
• 22 April - Ole Edvart Rølvaag, novelist and professor in America (died 1931)
• 9 May - Johan Arndt, politician (died 1933)
• 18 May - Thorvald Astrup, architect (died 1940)
• 11 June - Christen Gran Bøgh, jurist, tourism promoter and theatre critic (died 1955)

July to December

• 22 August - Christen Wiese, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1968)
• 16 September - Albert Helgerud, rifle shooter and Olympic gold medallist (died 1954)
• 24 September - Jacob Thorkelson, elected official, naval officer and medical doctor in America (died 1945)
• 18 October - Erik Colban, diplomat (died 1956)
• 19 October - Oluf Christian Müller, politician (died 1938)
• 21 November - Olav Duun, novelist (died 1939)
• 8 December - Jan Østervold, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1945)

Full date unknown

• Edvin Alten, judge (died 1967)
• Olaf Amundsen, politician and Minister (died 1939)
• Sverre Hassel, polar explorer (died 1928)
• Lars Olai Meling, politician and Minister (died 1951)
• Embrik Strand, arachnologist (died 1947)
• Ole Nikolai Ingebrigtsen Strømme, politician and Minister (died 1936)

Deaths

• 18 January - Asbjorn Kloster, social reformer and leader of the Norwegian temperance movement (born 1823)
• 8 May - Christian Lassen, orientalist (born 1800)
• 7 June – Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Swedish and Norwegian queen (born 1807)

Full date unknown

• Karelius August Arntzen, politician (born 1802)
• Eilev Jonsson Steintjønndalen, Hardanger fiddle maker (born 1821)