1910 in Norway

Incumbents

Monarch – Haakon VII.
Prime Minister – Gunnar Knudsen ; Wollert Konow

Events

15 February – Norsk Gjærde- og Metaldukfabrik is established.
30 April – The Parliament passes a resolution about universal suffrage for women in municipal elections.
29 May – Nationalforeningen mot tuberkulose founded.
13 July – The railway line Kirkenes–Bjørnevatn opened.
30 July – First ascent of Stetind, by Bryn, Rubenson and Schjelderup.
1 August – First ascent of Svolværgeita, by Bryn, Rubenson and Schjelderup.
3 August – First ascent of Trakta, by Bryn, Rubenson and Schjelderup.
15 September – Norwegian Institute of Technology is opened in Trondheim.
4 December – The railway line from Flisa to Elverum opened.
Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.
Bøkfjord Lighthouse is established at the mouth of Bøkfjorden, outside Kirkenes.

Popular culture

Sports

26 March – The sports club Grane SK is founded
29 May – The sports club Stenkjær FK founded
2 July – Norges Rigsforbund for Idræt is founded.

Full date unknown

Eidsvold TF founded
Hornindal IL founded
Mjøndalen IF founded
Stjørdal IL founded
IL Varden founded
Vestfossen IF founded

Literature

5 April – First issue of the newspaper Fjordenes Tidende.
5 May – First issue of the newspaper Tidens Tegn.

;Full date unknown

The periodical Kunst og Kultur established.
The Olav Duun novel Nøkksjøliga was published.
The Knut Hamsund play Livet i Vold, was published.

Notable births

10 January – Kitty Petrine Fredriksen, politician
11 January – Trygve Bratteli, twice Prime Minister of Norway
14 January – Chris Bruusgaard, midwife
18 January – Jens Henrik Nordlie, military officer
18 January – Oddmund Hoel, politician.
22 January – Petter Mørch Koren, politician
25 January – Alf Brodal, professor of anatomy
1 February – Birger Tvedt, physician
4 February – Asbjørn Lindhjem, politician
6 February – Gunnar Syverstad, resistance member.
9 February – Rønnaug Alten, actress
14 February – Leif Juster, comedian, singer and actor
15 February – Odd Granlund, media personality
18 February – Randi Monsen, illustrator
24 February – Parelius Hjalmar Bang Berntsen, politician.
1 March – Torgeir Svendsen, politician
13 March - Sverre Nordby, football goalkeeper
15 March - Rolf Johannessen, football defender
20 March – Edmund Fjærvoll, politician.
20 March – Borghild Rud, illustrator
27 March – Ludvig Olai Botnen, politician
29 March – Ingrid Semmingsen, historian
16 April – Jens Haugland, politician and Minister
19 April – Magdalon Monsen, soccer player and Olympic bronze medallist
22 April – Lars L'Abée-Lund, police
27 April – Johan Melander, banker
28 April – Åsmund Sveen, writer
3 May – Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa, folk musician, fiddler
9 May - Lorentz Brinch, barrister, military officer, resistance member and politician
14 May – Sverre Holm, sociologist
15 May – Onar Onarheim, businessperson
28 May – Helga Dagsland, nurse educator.
2 June – Per Hurum, sculptor
3 June – Christian Hartmann, composer
12 June – Finn Brudevold, odontologist
14 June – Erling Engan, politician
19 June – Lilli Gjerløw, archivist
21 June – Ole Martin Ystgaard, dairy leader
23 June – Arthur Mørch Hansson, diplomat
26 June – Ole Otto Paus, general and diplomat
4 July – Erling Viksjø, architect
9 July – Torrey Mosvold, entrepreneur
27 July – Per Fossum, alpine skier
27 July – Lorentz Nitter, physician
31 July - Svein Helling, sports shooter.
7 August – Ingeborg Lyche, civil servant
11 August – Sigmund Selberg, mathematician
11 August – Arne Selberg, engineer
26 August – Finn Halse, writer
13 September – Olav Mosebekk, artist
30 September – Osvald Harjo, resistance member
7 October – Halfdan Gran Olsen, rower
12 October – Ferdinand Finne, artist
13 October – Claes Gill, author, poet and actor
13 October – Magnar Isaksen, footballer
24 October – Sverre Marstrander, archaeologist
26 October – Alex Johnson, clergyman
5 November – Eigil Helland-Hansen, travel agent
7 November – Bjarne Daniel Solli, politician
9 November – Bernhard Paus, orthopedic surgeon and Freemason Grand Master.
12 November – Arvid Johansen, politician
14 November – Jens Book-Jenssen, singer, revue artist and theatre director
21 November – Erik Braadland, diplomat and politician
1 December – Per Palle Storm, sculptor
12 December – Aslaug Låstad Lygre, poet
13 December – Leif J. Wilhelmsen, philologist and politician
16 December – Ivar Johansen, bobsledder
18 December – Edvard Magnus Edvardsen, politician
21 December – Ole J. Malm, physician
26 December – Roar Hauglid, art historian
27 December – Karl Olsen, civil servant
30 December – Erling Nilsen, boxer

Full date unknown

Ole Arntzen, Businessman and Milorg leader

Notable deaths

8 January – Christian Fürst, architect
8 February – Hans Jæger, writer, philosopher and anarchist political activist.
24 February – John Anderson, Norwegian-American publisher.
7 April – Theodor Nilsen Stousland, politician.
26 April – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
20 May – Oscar Wergeland, painter.
2 July – Elias Sunde, politician and Minister.
19 July – Carl August Gulbranson, businessperson and politician
30 August – Viggo Ullmann, educator and politician.
16 September John Utheim, teacher and politician
24 October - Toini Topelius, Finnish journalist who settled in Norway
25 October – Lorentz Henrik Müller Segelcke, politician and Minister.
9 November – Hans Larsen Saakvitne, farmer, bailiff and politician
15 November – Emil Schreiner, philologist and educator.
11 December – Lars Olsen Skrefsrud, missionary and language researcher in India.
19 December – Anders Daae, prison director
19 December U. V. Koren, Norwegian-American author, theologian and church leader
24 December Gudbrand Gregersen de Saág, Norwegian-Hungarian bridge engineer, architect and member of the Hungarian nobility.
29 December – Henrik Thrap-Meyer, architect.

Full date unknown

Axel Nicolai Herlofson, fraudster
Johan Vaaler, inventor.