1857 in Norway

Events

• 6 June - Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway

Births

• 4 January - John N. Kildahl, Norwegian-American Lutheran church minister, author and educator (d.1920)
• 15 March - Christian Michelsen, shipping magnate, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (d.1925)
• 27 April - Theodor Kittelsen, artist (d.1914)
• 8 May - Agnes Mathilde Wergeland, Norwegian-American historian and poet (d.1914)
• 2 June - Urban Jacob Rasmus Børresen, rear admiral (d.1943)
• 28 July - Andreas Thidemand Carlsen Ruud, politician
• 21 October- Frederick William Cappelen, Norwegian American architect and civil engineer (d.1921)
• 10 November - Aad J. Vinje, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (d.1929)
• 18 November - Gunnar Heiberg, playwright (d.1929)

Full date unknown

• Waldemar Hansteen, architect (d.1921)
• Johan Peter Jacobson, politician

Deaths

• 14 October - Johan Christian Dahl, painter (b.1788)
• 28 October - Hother Erich Werner Bøttger, politician (b.1801)

Full date unknown

• Diderik Bøgvad, politician (b.1792)