1854 in Norway

Events in the year 1854 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar I.

Events

• 26 August – A new conscription law was sanctioned, under which all Norwegian men regardless of condition and position had an obligation to serve in the armed forces.
• 1 September – The first Norwegian railway, Hovedbanen between Oslo and Eidsvoll, is opened. This also constitutes the establishment of the now state owned Norwegian State Railways.

Arts and literature

Births

• 4 January – Henrik Jæger, literary historian (died 1895).
• 9 February – Ole Georg Gjøsteen, educator and politician (died 1936)
• 14 March – Ole Olsen Malm, physician, veterinarian, civil servant and politician (died 1917).
• 25 March – Tycho Kielland, jurist and journalist (died 1904)
• 16 June – Herbjørn Gausta, artist (died 1924)
• 2 September – Hans Jæger, writer, philosopher and anarchist political activist (died 1910).
• 2 October – Mathias Larsen Blilie, politician
• 5 October – Haakon Ditlev Lowzow, military officer, politician and Minister (died 1915)
• 16 October – Einar Sundt, businessman, writer and publisher (died 1917).
• 31 October – Otto Sverdrup, Arctic scientist and explorer (died 1930)

Full date unknown

• Bernhard Brænne, politician and Minister (died 1927)
• Knut Johannes Hougen, politician and Minister (died 1954)
• Nils Olaf Hovdenak, politician and Minister (died 1942)
• Ivar Kleiven, local historian and poet (died 1934)
• Fredrik Anton Martin Olsen Nalum, politician and Minister (died 1935)
• Christian Skredsvig, painter and writer (died 1924)
• Johan Turi, first Sami author to publish work (died 1936)

Deaths

• 27 January – Andreas Samuelsen Vibstad, politician (born 1783)
• 1 April – Peter Motzfeldt, politician and Minister (born 1777)
• 29 July - Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon, businessman and patron of the arts (born 1784)
• 14 October – Aslak Hætta, Sami leader, executed (born 1824)
• 12 December – Georg Jacob Bull, jurist and politician (born 1785)
• 21 December - Oluf Borch de Schouboe, politician and Minister (born 1777)

Full date unknown

• Samuel Mathiassen Føyn, ship-owner and politician (born 1786)
• Nicolai Niels Nielsen, priest and politician (born 1777)
• Johan Frederik Thorne, businessperson and politician (born 1801)

See also

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