1870 in Norway

Events in the year 1870 in Norway.

← 1869 1868 1867 1870 in Norway → 1871 1872 1873
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	1870 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Charles IV.^[1]
• First Minister: Frederik Stang

Events

• Augustus Halvorsen Hilton, migrated from Norway to San Antonio, New Mexico, establishing the American branch of the Hilton family.
• The 1870 Norwegian parliamentary election

Arts and literature

Births

Einar Borch

• 23 January – Ole Sæther, Olympic rifle shooter (died 1946)
• 17 April – Haaken Hasberg Gran, botanist (died 1955)
• 19 May – Nils Nilsen Ronning, Norwegian-American author and editor (died 1962)
• 4 July – Barbra Ring, writer (died 1955).^[2]
• 11 September – Nils Kjær, writer (died 1924).^[3]
• 14 September – Einar Borch, landowner and politician (died 1952).^[4][5]
• 22 October – Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, three-times Prime Minister of Norway (died 1943)
• 26 November – Elise Sem, barrister (died 1950)
• 29 November – Eivind Heiberg, engineer and railway director (died 1939)
• 7 December – Worm Hirsch Darre-Jenssen, engineer and politician (died 1945)

Full date unknown

• Theodor Bull, businessperson and genealogist (died 1958)
• Helmer Hanssen, polar explorer (died 1956)
• Severin Andreas Heyerdahl, physician (died 1940)
• Ivar Lykke Falch Lind, jurist and politician
• Christian Pierre Mathiesen, politician and Minister (died 1953)
• Birger Stuevold-Hansen, politician and Minister (died 1933)
• Jens Thiis, art historian, conservator and museum director (died 1942)

Deaths

• 9 January – Ole Gabriel Gabrielsen Ueland, politician (born 1799)
• 30 July – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, poet, journalist and writer (born 1818).^[6]
• 4 November – Otto Vincent Lange, politician and Minister (born 1797)
• 5 December – Herman Severin Løvenskiold, composer (born 1815)

See also