1848 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar I

  Events

• Ålesund received city rights.
• 10–12 March – March riots: after the newspaper Morgenbladet publishes news of the French Revolution of 1848, some 100 youths gather to make catcalls outside the house of the newspaper's editor, Adolf Bredo Stabell, in Christiania. Counter-demonstrations, in support of the French revolution and against a local ban on trade on Sundays, involved up to 3–4,000 people and led to clashes with the police and the military. Some 70 people were arrested.
• 21 May – Fatal accident in Vanse Church where eight people were killed and several were injured. The accident occurred when there arose panic in the crowded church and several people were trampled to death.
• 27 December – Marcus Thrane founded Drammens arbeiderforening.
• Christiania Bank was founded.
• Fred. Olsen & Co. was founded.

  Arts and literature

• Bridal Procession on the Hardangerfjord was painted.

  Notable births

• 3 February - Jørgen Løvland, politician and Prime Minister of Norway
• 2 May - Hans Gabriel Nissen Buck, physician and politician
• 17 May – Erik Jørgensen, master gunsmith
• 27 May – Johan Bøgh, museum director and art historian
• 12 June – Nordahl Rolfsen, writer, educationalist and teacher, journalist, translator and speaker
• 20 June – Jens Carl Peter Brandt, businessperson and politician
• 19 September – Gunnar Knudsen, politician and twice Prime Minister of Norway
• 22 November – Lars Holst, journalist, newspaper editor and politician
• 16 December – Georg Sverdrup, theologian and educator
• 21 December – Viggo Ullmann, educator and politician

  Full date unknown

• Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, author and college professor in America
• Holm Hansen Munthe, architect
• Kristian Mauritz Mustad, politician
• Henrik Nissen, architect
• Andreas Lauritz Thune, engineer and businessman

  Notable deaths

• 2 January – Frederik Motzfeldt, politician.
• 25 March – Nicolai Wergeland, priest, writer and politician.
• 24 December – Hans Nicolai Lange, priest and politician

  Full date unknown

• Ole Hersted Schjøtt, clergyman and politician