1844 in Norway

Events

• 8 March - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway

Arts and literature

Births

• 2 March - Ole Larsen Skattebøl, judge and politician (d.1929)
• 8 March - Jens Jonas Jansen, priest (d.1912)
• 22 March - Sven Oftedal, helped found the Lutheran Free Church (d.1911)
• 23 May - Klaus Hanssen, physician and politician
• 15 July - Thorbjorn N. Mohn, American Lutheran church leader and the first president of St. Olaf College (d. 1899)
• 8 August - Alf Collett, writer (d.1919)
• 11 September - N. O. Nelson, founder of the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company (d. 1922)
• 2 October - Peter Harboe Castberg, banker (d.1926)
• 29 December - Brynild Anundsen, founder of Decorah Posten (d.1913)

Full date unknown

• Oluf Hansen Hagen, politician
• Nils Otto Hesselberg, politician (d.1929)
• Christian Wilhelm Engel Bredal Olssøn, politician and Minister (d.1915)
• Steinar Schjøtt, philologist and lexicographer (d.1920)
• Oscar Wergeland, painter (d.1910)

Deaths

• 4 August - Jacob Aall, historian and statesman (b.1773)