Events in the year 2005 in Norway.

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority and power i ...

Harald V Harald V ( no, Harald den femte, ; born 21 February 1937) is King of Norway. He acceded to the throne on 17 January 1991. Harald was the third child and only son of King Olav V of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden. He was second in the li ...

Regent A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...

: Haakon from 29 March to 7 June 2005 (during the King's recovering from heart surgery) *

President of the Storting The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ...

: *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

Kjell Magne Bondevik Kjell Magne Bondevik (; born 3 September 1947) is a Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician. As leader of the Christian Democratic Party, he served as the 33rd prime minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005, making him, af ...

(

Christian Democratic Party __NOTOC__ Christian democratic parties are political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social tea ...

) to 17 October, then

Jens Stoltenberg Jens Stoltenberg (born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician who has been serving as the 13th secretary general of NATO since 2014. A member of the Norwegian Labour Party, he previously served as the 34th prime minister of Norway from 2000 to ...

( Labour Party)

Events

January

* 1 January ** New Year's celebrations all over Norway fall silent for two minutes as mark of respect for Scandinavian memorial service for those affected by the

2004 Indian Ocean tsunami An earthquake and a tsunami, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, occurred at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7) on 26 December 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Suma ...

. ** The University of Stavanger is established.

February

March

* 11 March –

Ole Christian Kvarme Ole Christian Mælen Kvarme (born November 11, 1948 in Molde) is a Norwegian bishop of the Church of Norway. He was bishop of Oslo in the Lutheran Church of Norway from 2005 and 2017. As Bishop of Oslo, Kvarme was the personal prelate of the Norw ...

is appointed bishop of

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...

April

May

June

* 8 June – At least 10 people are feared dead after an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. The source is localized to a Borregaard treatment plant in

Sarpsborg Sarpsborg ( or ), historically Borg, is a city and municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sarpsborg. Sarpsborg is part of the fifth largest urban area in Norway when paired with neigh ...

. * 13 June – The new

Svinesund Bridge The Svinesund Bridge ( no, Svinesundsbrua, sv, Svinesundsbron) is a through arch bridge crossing Iddefjord at Svinesund, and joining Sweden and Norway. Svinesund is a sound separating the Swedish municipality of Strömstad from the Norwegian mun ...

is opened. The old Svinesund Bridge still stands 1 kilometre to the east.

July

* 14 July – The

Nærøyfjord The Nærøyfjord (or ''Nærøyfjorden'', ) is a fjord in Aurland Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The narrow fjord is a branch of the large Sognefjord, and it is featured on the "Norway in a Nutshell" daytrips for tourists. The long fj ...

, the

Geiranger Fjord The Geiranger Fjord ( no, Geirangerfjorden) is a fjord in the Sunnmøre region of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located entirely in the Stranda Municipality. It is a branch off the Sunnylvsfjorden, which is a branch off the Storfjo ...

and the Struve Geodetic Arc are designated by

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

World Heritage Site A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). World Heritage Sites are designated by UNESCO for h ...

August

September

* 12 September – The 2005 Parliamentary election takes place. The election was won by the opposition centre-left Red-Green Coalition, which took 87 seats. * 19 September – The trial of the accused in the

NOKAS robbery On 5 April 2004, at 8am the Nokas Cash Handling (formerly Norsk Kontantservice AS or NOKAS) in Stavanger, Norway was raided by heavily armed men. It was the biggest-ever heist in Norway. Although the police had intelligence that a raid was e ...

starts in Stavanger.

October

* 17 October –

Norwegian Prime Minister The prime minister of Norway ( no, statsminister, which directly translates to "minister of state") is the head of government and chief executive of Norway. The prime minister and Cabinet (consisting of all the most senior government department ...

's Second Cabinet was appointed after the 2005 Parliamentary elections and Bondevik's step down.

November

December

Popular culture

Sports

Music

Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 Norway was represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 by the song " In My Dreams" performed by Wig Wam. The song was written and composed by Trond “Teeny” Holter. Before Eurovision Melodi Grand Prix 2005 ''Melodi Grand Prix 2005'' ...

* Rock band Accidents Never Happen forms

Film

Literature

Television

Anniversaries

* 7 June – Centennial of the

dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden The dissolution of the union ( nb, unionsoppløsningen; nn, unionsoppløysinga; Landsmål: ''unionsuppløysingi''; sv, unionsupplösningen) between the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden under the House of Bernadotte, was set in motion by a resolu ...

Notable births

* 8 April –

Leah Isadora Behn Leah Isadora Behn (born 8 April 2005) is a member of the Norwegian Royal family. She is the second daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and her late former husband Ari Behn, and a grandchild of King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway. S ...

, the second daughter of

Princess Märtha Louise of Norway Princess Märtha Louise of Norway (born 22 September 1971) is a member of the Norwegian royal family, a businesswoman and a self-described clairvoyant. The only daughter of King Harald V and Queen Sonja, she is fourth in the line of success ...

and husband

Ari Behn Ari Mikael Behn (; , or ; 30 September 1972 – 25 December 2019) was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist. Known as Mikael Bjørshol until 1996, Behn achieved early literary success with his 1999 short story collection ''Trist so ...

* 3 December – Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, the second child of

Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway (; Haakon Magnus; born 20 July 1973) is the heir apparent to the Norwegian throne. He is the only son of King Harald V and Queen Sonja. Haakon represents the fourth generation of the sitting Norwegian royal fa ...

and his wife

Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway (born Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby, , on 19 August 1973) is the wife of Crown Prince Haakon. Haakon is the heir apparent to the throne, which means that should he ascend to the throne, she will automatica ...

Notable deaths

*6 January –

Nora Strømstad Nora Strømstad (January 26, 1909 – January 6, 2005) was a Norwegian alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics. She was the younger sister of 1924 Winter Olympics skier Thoralf Strømstad Thoralf Strømstad (13 January 1897 &n ...

, alpine skier (born 1909) *13 January –

Karstein Seland Karstein Seland (5 January 1912 – 13 January 2005) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was born in Gyland. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hedmark in 1965, and was re-elected on one occasion. He had previou ...

, politician (born 1912) *20 January – Per Borten, Prime Minister (born 1913) *2 February – Anders Hveem, bobsledder (born 1924) *2 February – Svein Kvia, footballer (born 1947) *20 February – Johan Østby, politician (born 1924) *12 March – Johan Skipnes, politician (born 1909) *17 March – Sverre Holm, actor (born 1931) *8 April – Jeremi Wasiutyński, Polish-Norwegian astrophysician, philosopher and depth-psychologist (born 1907) *31 May –

Ole J. Malm Ole Jacob Malm (21 December 1910 – 31 May 2005) was a Norwegian physician. He was born in Kristiania, and was a grandson of Ole Olsen Malm. He was professor of medicine at the University of Oslo and senior consultant at Ullevål Hospital in ...

, physician (born 1910). *2 June –

Gunder Gundersen Gunder Gundersen (12 September 1930 – 2 June 2005) was a Norwegian Nordic combined skier and sports official. He was born in Asker. Competitive career During his active career he won two individual FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medals (195 ...

, Nordic combined skier and sports official (born 1930) *7 July – Gunnar Fredrik Hellesen, politician and Minister (born 1913) *20 July – Finn Gustavsen, politician (born 1926) *21 August – Liv Aasen, politician (born 1928) Kaare Kristiansen politiker KrF

*24 September – Arna Vågen, missionary and politician (born 1905) *8 October –

Erik Grønseth Erik Grønseth (13 September 1925 – 8 October 2005) was a Norwegian sociologist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Oslo from 1971 to 1989, and "one of the post-war pioneers of sociology" in Norway. He is regarded as one of the fo ...

, social scientist and sociologist (born 1925) *18 October – Sverre Mitsem, judge (born 1944) *29 October – Elsa Skjerven, politician and Minister (born 1919) *1 November – Carl Mortensen, sailor and Olympic silver medallist (born 1919) *23 November – Ingvil Aarbakke, artist (born 1970) *1 December – Roar Petersen, novelist (born 1934). *3 December – Kåre Kristiansen, politician (born 1920) *17 December – Sverre Stenersen, Nordic combined skier, Olympic gold medallist and World Champion (born 1926) *24 December – Georg Johannesen, author and professor of rhetoric (born 1931) *29 December – Gerda Boyesen, founder of Biodynamic Psychology (born 1922) ;Full date missing * Jens-Halvard Bratz, businessman, politician and Minister (born 1920) *

Eivind Erichsen Eivind Erichsen (28 January 1917 – 21 January 2005) was a Norwegian economist and civil servant. Life and career He was born in Kristiania as a son of postmaster Erik Emanuel Erichsen (1884–1963) and Petra Antoine Olsen (1885–1930). In Ma ...

, economist and civil servant (born 1917) * Reidar Grønhaug, social anthropologist (born 1938) * Geir Grung, diplomat (born 1938) * Ivar Johansen, journalist and editor (born 1923) * Ola H. Metliaas, civil servant and politician (born 1943) * Ove Skaug, engineer and civil servant (born 1912)

References

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