1847 In Norway
Events in the year 1847 in Norway. Incumbents *List of Norwegian monarchs, Monarch: Oscar I of Sweden, Oscar I. Events Arts and literature Births *11 April – Ebbe Carsten Horneman Hertzberg, politician (d.1912 in Norway, 1912). *14 April – Karl Lous, barrister (d. 1928 in Norway, 1928). *17 April – Just Bing Ebbesen, priest and politician (d.1929 in Norway, 1929) * 20 June – Gina Krog, suffragist (died 1916 in Norway, 1916). *31 July – Johan Kristian Skougaard, military officer and politician (d.1925 in Norway, 1925) *20 October –Frits Thaulow, painter (d.1906 in Norway, 1906) *26 October – Helge Alexander Haugan, Helge A. Haugan – Norwegian-American banking executive (d.1909 in USA) *9 November – Carl Wilhelm Bøckmann Barth, artist (d. 1919 in Norway, 1919). *18 November – Oluf Iversen, politician (d.1917 in Norway, 1917) *1 December – Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer (d.1907 in Norway, 1907). *15 December – Rolf Andvord (consul), ...
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Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ...
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