1816 in Norway

← 1815 1814 1813 1816 in Norway → 1817 1818 1819
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
See also:	1816 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events

• Bodø was granted township status.

Births

Johan Sverdrup, Prime Minister of Norway

• 5 January – Jens Zetlitz Kielland, consul and artist (d.1881)
• 16 March – Vilhelmine Ullmann, proponent for women's rights (d. 1915)
• 30 May – Jacob Smith Jarmann, firearms designer (d.1894)
• 6 June – August Thomle, jurist and politician (d.1889)
• 30 July – Johan Sverdrup, politician and first Prime Minister of Norway (d.1892)
• 16 October – Christian Torber Hegge Geelmuyden, navy officer and politician (d.1885)
• 16 December – Adam Hiorth, merchant and industrial pioneer (died 1871).^[1]

Full date unknown

• Paul Peter Vilhelm Breder, politician (d.1890)
• Erik Jonsson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (d.1868)
• Wilhelm Nielsen, politician

Deaths

• 26 July – Johan Nordahl Brun, poet, dramatist, bishop and politician (b.1745)

References

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