1842 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Charles III John.
• First Minister: Nicolai Krog

Events

• Porsgrunn was granted full city status. Limited city status was granted in 1807.
• Flekkefjord was granted full city status.
• Lillehammer was granted full city status.
• Drøbak was granted full city status.
• The Norwegian Missionary Society was founded in Stavanger.
• The eleventh Storting convened, following the 1841 election.
• The Conventicle Act was repealed.
• The Witchcraft Act is abolished.
• Russian ship of the line Ingermanland sinks outside the coast of Jæren.

Arts and literature

• Ivar Aasen commenced his research on rural dialects all across Norway

Births

January to June

• 16 March – Theodor Nilsen Stousland, politician.
• 1 April – Edmund Neupert, pianist and composer
• 12 June – Rikard Nordraak, composer
• 26 May – Evald Rygh, banker, politician and Minister

July to December

• 6 August – Karl Gether Bomhoff, pharmacist, politician and Governor of the Central Bank of Norway.
• 31 August – Ole Bornemann Bull, ophthalmologist
• 2 December – Robert Collett, zoologist
• 16 December – Otto Sinding, painter
• 17 December – Sophus Lie, mathematician.

Full date unknown

• Nils S. Dvergsdal, politician

Deaths

• 16 January – Thomas Fearnley, painter.
• 16 March – Maurits Hansen, writer

Full date unknown

• Henrik Anker Bjerregaard, poet, dramatist and judge
• Wilhelm Jürgensen, military officer