1829 in Norway

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See also:	1829 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1829 in Norway.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch: Charles III John

Events[]

• 17 May – Henrik Wergeland became a symbol of the fight for celebration of the constitution at May 17, which was later to become the Norwegian National Day. He became a public hero after the infamous "Battle of the Square" in Christiania.
• The present Kvitsøy Lighthouse was built.

Arts and literature[]

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Births[]

Georg Andreas Bull

Ole Richter

• 9 January – Hans Christian Harboe Grønn, barrister and politician (d. 1902).^[1]
• 26 March – Georg Andreas Bull, architect and chief building inspector (d.1917)
• 6 April – Ole Irgens, politician (d.1906)
• 19 May – Julius Nicolai Jacobsen, businessperson and politician (d.1894)
• 15 June – Ulrik Frederik Christian Arneberg, politician (d.1911)
• 28 July – Josephine Sparre, courtier and royal mistress
• 28 September – Erik Bodom, painter (d. c1879)
• 21 December – Hans Christian Heg, colonel and brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War (d.1863)

Full date unknown[]

• Ludvig Daae, politician (d.1893)
• Hans Christian Hanssen-Fossnæs, politician
• Hans Hagerup Krag, engineer (d.1907)
• Niels Mathiesen, politician and merchant (d.1900)
• Ole Richter, lawyer, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (d.1888)
• Lorentz Henrik Müller Segelcke, politician and Minister (d.1910)

Deaths[]

Niels Henrik Abel

• 6 April – Niels Henrik Abel, mathematician (b.1802)
• 6 December – Baltzar von Platen, Governor-general of Norway (b.1766)

Full date unknown[]

• Peder Jacobsen Bøgvald, politician (b.1762)
• Johan Randulf Bull, judge (b.1749)
• Ole Clausen Mørch, politician (b.1774)
• Lars Jakobson Thingnæsset, farmer and politician (b.1760)

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