1851 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar I.
• First Minister: Nicolai Krog

Events

• Hattemakerfeiden, labour revolts in Ringerike.
• Norwegians starts to settle at the mouth of the Jakobselva river, and the area develops into the village of Grense Jakobselv.

Arts and literature

• 10 January – The Norwegian Booksellers Association is founded.

Births

January to June

• 2 January – Haldor Boen, teacher and politician in America
• 25 January – Arne Garborg, writer
• 28 January – Andreas Aubert, art historian
• 12 February – Randi Blehr, women’s rights activist.
• 8 May – Ole Dehli, organizational leader.
• 11 June – Oscar Borg, composer

July to December

• 23 July – Peder Severin Krøyer, painter
• 20 August – Abraham Berge, politician and Minister
• 23 September – Ola Thommessen, newspaper editor
• 29 September – Rasmus Flo, philologist, teacher and magazine editor.
• 2 October – Elias Sunde, politician and Minister.
• 30 October – Leonhard Hess Stejneger, zoologist
• 10 November – Waldemar Christofer Brøgger, geologist and mineralogist
• 16 November – Valborg Seeberg, writer
• 20 November – Gyda Gram, painter
• 25 November – Hans Andersen Foss, author, newspaper editor and temperance leader in America

Full date unknown

• Gunvald Aus, engineer
• Peter W. K. Bøckman, Sr., bishop and theologian
• Nicolai A. Grevstad, diplomat, politician and newspaper editor in America
• Knut Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker
• Herman Jeremiassen, ship-owner and politician
• Carl Sofus Lumholtz, discoverer and ethnographer
• Olaj Olsen, jurist and politician
• August Geelmuyden Spørck, politician and Minister
• Oscar Sigvald Julius Strugstad, politician and Minister
• Aasmund Halvorsen Vinje, politician and Minister

Deaths

• 5 July – Olaus Michael Schmidt, judge and politician

Full date unknown

• Palle Rømer Fleischer, politician and Minister
• Hilmar Meincke Krohg, politician