1843 in Norway

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See also:	1843 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1843 in Norway.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch: Charles III John

Events[]

• 14 September – 2/3 of the town of Egersund burns down.^[1]

Arts and literature[]

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Births[]

• 5 January – Jørgen Christian Knudsen, ship-owner and politician (b.1922)
• 8 January – Johan Jeremiassen, ship-owner, consul and politician (d.1889)
• 2 February – Knute Nelson, Governor of Minnesota from 1893 till 1895 and United States Senator from Minnesota from 1895 till 1923. (d. 1923)
• 9 April – Canute R. Matson, Norwegian American Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois at the time of the Haymarket Square Riot (d. 1903)
• 15 June – Edvard Grieg, composer and pianist (d.1907)
• 18 August – Johan Henrik Paasche Thorne, businessperson and politician (d.1920)
• 4 October – Christopher Knudsen, priest, politician and Minister (d.1915)
• 8 October – Kitty Lange Kielland, painter (d.1914)
• 31 October – Oscar Nissen, physician, newspaper editor and politician (d.1911)

Full date unknown[]

• Axel Gudbrand Blytt, botanist (d.1898)
• Yngvar Nielsen, historian and geographer (d.1916)
• Herman Johan Foss Reimers, politician and Minister (d.1928)
• Theodor Løvstad, musician, magazine editor (d.1913).^[2]

Deaths[]

Mensen Ernst

• 17 March – Lars Andreas Oftedahl, priest and politician (b.1781)
• 13 June – Ole Edvard Buck, politician (b.1799)

Full date unknown[]

• Mensen Ernst, road runner and ultramarathoner (b.1795)

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