Incumbents
Monarch: Charles III John.
Events
11 June - 25 June – The Norwegian ultramarathoner Mensen Ernst ran about 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) from Paris to Moscow in 14 days.
Arts and literature
The newspaper Drammens Tidende is established.
Det Dramatiske Selskab in Tromsø is founded.
Births
19 March – Frantz Bruun, priest (d.1908)
27 May – Laura Gundersen, actor (d.1898)
22 July – Ananias Dekke, ships designer (died 1892).
1 August – Andreas Olsen Sæhlie, farmer, distillery owner and politician (d. 1895).
20 September – Marie Wexelsen, writer (died 1911).
13 October – Johan Wilhelm Eide, printer, publisher and newspaper editor (died 1896).
8 December – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d.1910).
15 December – Wilhelm Christopher Christophersen, diplomat (d.1913)
Full date unknown
Nils Henrik Bruun, engineer (d.1916)
Jens Andersen Hagen, politician
Anders Heyerdahl, violinist, composer and folk music collector (d.1918)
Knud Knudsen, photographer (d.1915)
Bernt Julius Muus, Lutheran minister (d.1900)
Deaths
28 January - Carsten Tank, politician (b.1766)
3 November - Gabriel Lund, merchant and representative at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly (b.1773)