1850 in Norway

Events in the year 1850 in Norway.

Incumbents

May - The Labour Union delivered a petition to King Oscar I and the Norwegian Storting, which was signed by 13,000 members. The union asked for universal voting, the extension of mandatory military service to those with property, equality before the law, better schools, low or no border taxes on necessary goods, such as grains, and special support for poor farmers in the form of arable land on reasonable terms.
June 19 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.

Henrik Ibsen's first play Catilina is written
26 September – Henrik Ibsen's second play, The Burial Mound, is performed at Christiania Theater

1 January – Oscar Jacobsen, engineer and politician
9 February – Hjalmar August Schiøtz, ophthalmologist
18 March – Olefine Moe, opera singer
4 July – Ole Olsen, organist, composer, conductor and military musician
6 October – Thomas Engelhart, jurist, politician and civil servant.
8 October – Sven Aarrestad, writer, politician and leader in the Norwegian temperance movement
17 October – Johannes Christiansen, politician
25 December – Elizabeth Fedde, Lutheran Deaconess who established the Norwegian Relief Society