Events in the year 1825 in Norway.

Incumbents

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Events

Norse American Centennial Sloop 1925 Issue-2c

* 4 July – The

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'' Restauration'' set sail from

Stavanger Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the a ...

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. It is considered the first organized emigration from Norway to the

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. * 27 November – Population Census: Norway had 1,051,318 inhabitants.

Arts and literature

Det Dramatiske Selskab Det Dramatiske Selskab is the name for several Norwegian amateur theatre drama troupes. These troupes were the first permanent theatre troupes in the cities of Norway. The period between 1780–1830 is described by many as ''the age of the dramatic ...

in Egersund is founded.

Births

*13 March – Hans Gude, painter (d.1903) *30 March – Theodor Kjerulf, geologist and poet (d.1888) *28 April –

Lorenz Juhl Vogt Lorenz Juhl Vogt (28 April 1825 – 3 July 1901) was a Norwegian politician. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Con ...

, politician (d.1901) *1 June –

Jacob Aall Ottesen Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jac ...

Norwegian American Norwegian Americans ( nb, Norskamerikanere, nn, Norskamerikanarar) are Americans with ancestral roots in Norway. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the latter half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the ...

minister, theologian and church leader (died 1904) *10 June – Sondre Norheim, skier and pioneer of modern skiing (d.1897) *16 June – Herman Amberg Preus,

Lutheran clergyman and church leader (died 1894) *9 October –

Oluf Andreas Aabel Oluf Andreas Aabel (9 October 1825 – 24 December 1895) was a Norwegian priest and writer. He was born in Sogndal as the son of priest Peter Pavels Aabel. He was a brother of Morten Andreas Leigh Aabel, and an uncle of Hauk Aabel. He finished h ...

, priest and writer (d.1895) *24 October –

Carl Anton Bjerknes Carl Anton Bjerknes ( , ; 24 October 1825 – 20 March 1903) was a Norway, Norwegian mathematician and physicist. Bjerknes' earlier work was in pure mathematics, but he is principally known for his studies in hydrodynamics. Biography Carl Ant ...

, mathematician and physicist (d.1903) *17 November – Jacob Kielland, naval officer and politician (d.1889)

Full date unknown

* Carl Johan Severin Steen, politician (d.1874)

Deaths

* 18 March – Henriette Mathiesen, culture personality (born

1762 Events January–March * January 4 – Britain enters the Seven Years' War against Spain and Naples. * January 5 – Empress Elisabeth of Russia dies, and is succeeded by her nephew Peter III. Peter, an admirer of Frederick t ...

) * 12 August -

Magdalene Sophie Buchholm Magdalene Sophie Buchholm (15 March 1758 – 12 August 1825) was an 18th-century Norwegian poet. She was the only acknowledged female Norwegian writer of her time, and the only female in the academic society Det Norske Selskab. Biography Magdalene ...

, poet (born

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...