1850 in Norway

Events

• June 19 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.

Arts and literature

• Henrik Ibsen's first play Catilina is written (but not performed until 1881)
• 26 September - Henrik Ibsen's second play, The Burial Mound, is performed at Christiania Theater

Births

• 1 January - Oscar Jacobsen, engineer and politician (d.1902)
• 9 February - Hjalmar August Schiøtz, ophthalmologist (d.1927)
• 18 March - Olefine Moe, opera singer (d.1933)
• 4 July - Ole Olsen, organist, composer, conductor and military musician (d.1927)
• 8 October - Sven Aarrestad, writer, politician and leader in the Norwegian temperance movement (d. 1942 in Norway)
• 17 October - Johannes Christiansen, politician (d.1913)
• 25 December - Elizabeth Fedde, Lutheran Deaconess who established the Norwegian Relief Society (d.1921)

Full date unknown

• Einar Løchen, jurist and politician (d.1908)
• Knut Eilevsson Steintjønndalen, Hardanger fiddle maker (d.1902)
• Karenus Kristofer Thinn, judge (d.1942)
• Ivar Peterson Tveiten, politician and Minister (d.1932)
• Erik V. Vullum, politician and author (d.1916)

Deaths

• 28 March - Bernt Michael Holmboe, mathematician (b.1795)
• 10 September - Andreas Martin Seip, military officer and politician (b.1790)
• 8 December - Georg Sverdrup, philologist (b.1770)

Full date unknown

• Jens Gasmann, businessperson and politician (b.1776)
• Christian Ulrik Kastrup, jurist, military officer and politician (b.1784)
• Jacob Andreas Wille, priest and politician (b.1777)