* 5 November - Christiania Offentlige Theater burns down.
* 29 November – Population Census: Norway had 1,194,827 inhabitants.
Arts and literature
Births
*15 May –
Henrik Mohn
Henrik Mohn (15 May 1835 – 12 September 1916) was a Norwegian astronomer and meteorologist. Although he enrolled in theology studies after finishing school, he is credited with founding meteorological research in Norway, being a professor at the ...
, meteorologist (d.1916)
Full date unknown
*
Baard Madsen Haugland
Baard Madsen Haugland (12 January 1835 – 7 May 1896) was a Norwegian merchant and politician with the Liberal Party.
Biography
He was born at the Haugland farm at Stord (''Haugland på Stord'') in Hordaland, Norway. Haugland was a merchan ...
, politician (d.1896)
* Olaf Isaachsen, painter (d.1893)
*
Nils Trondsen Thune
Nils Trondsen Thune (1835 – ??) was a Norwegian politician.
He was elected to the first session of the Norwegian Parliament in 1871, 1874, 1877 and 1880, representing the constituency of Christians Amt. He worked as a farmer there.August Weenaas, Lutheran minister, founding President of Augsburg University in the USA (d.1924)
Deaths
*24 March – Ole Olsen Amundrød, farmer, schoolteacher and politician (b.
1771
Events January– March
* January 5 – The Great Kalmyk (Torghut) Migration is led by Ubashi Khan, from the east bank of the Lower Volga River back to the homeland of Dzungaria, at this time under Qing Dynasty rule.
* January 9 ...
1759
In Great Britain, this year was known as the ''Annus Mirabilis'', because of British victories in the Seven Years' War.
Events
January–March
* January 6 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
* January 11 &ndas ...
).
*15 September – Henrik Carstensen, businessman, timber merchant and shipowner (b.
1753
Events
January–March
* January 3 – King Binnya Dala of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom orders the burning of Ava, the former capital of the Kingdom of Burma.
* January 29 – After a month's absence, Elizabeth Canning returns ...
)
*26 September – Nils Astrup, politician (b.1778)