2012 in Norway

Events in the year 2012 in Norway.

Incumbents

[List of Norwegian people|Norwegian monarchs|Monarch] – Harald V
President of the Storting – Dag Terje Andersen
Prime Minister – Jens Stoltenberg

Events

March

15 March – Five Norwegian soldiers died in an aircraft accident in northern Sweden.
19 March – Six tourists are buried in an avalanche in Gáivuotna Municipality , Norway, leaving four dead and one missing.

April

10 April – A second psychiatric evaluation finds that Breivik's sane enough to face trial for the 2011 terrorist attacks and serve a prison sentence if convicted.
16 April – Breivik's trial of confessed perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, starts in Oslo, Norway.

May

1 May – Norwegian world swimming champion and Olympic medalist Alexander Dale Oen dies at age 26 after suffering a cardiac arrest during a training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona.
15 May – A man sets himself on fire outside the Oslo courthouse where mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for the 2011 Norway attacks.

July

22 July – Norway commemorates the first anniversary of the 2011 attacks.

August

4 August – Death of Sigrid Schjetne in Oslo

October

17 October – Netflix becomes available to Norwegian consumers.

December

14 December – The Làhku National Park was established in Gildeskål Municipality, Meløy Municipality and Beiarn Municipality in Nordland county.

Popular culture

Music

Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

Sports

27 July–12 August: at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Norway won a total of four Olympic medals including two gold medals. Eirik Verås Larsen won the gold medal in canoeing, men's K-1 1000 metres, and the Norwegian team won the women's handball tournament.
1–9 August: the 55th Aeronautical pentathlon World Championships are held in Trondheim

Literature

The novel Olavs draumar by Jon Fosse is published. In 2015, Fosse was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize, for Andvake, Olavs draumar and Kveldsvævd.
Merethe Lindstrøm is awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize, for Days in the History of Silence.

Anniversaries

1 June – 100 years since Hans Dons became the first Norwegian to fly in Norway
21 August – 125 years since the Labour Party was established
21 September – 100 years since the first flight at Kjeller Airport
October – 50 years since the first of the popular Stompa movies, Stompa & Co., premiered.
12 December – 100 years since the birth of Thorbjørn Egner
21 December – 50 years since Norway's first national park, Rondane National Park, was established
100 years since Kristine Bonnevie became the first female professor in Norway
50 years since the Goethe-Institut first established itself in Norway.
250 years since the establishment of Hadeland Glassverk.

Notable deaths

2 January – Liv Godin, missionary
2 January – Ambjørg Sælthun, politician
4 January – Totti Bergh, jazz saxophonist
7 January – Dag Heyerdahl Larsen, translator
11 January – Christoffer Selbekk, ski jumper and businessman
12 January – Bjørn G. Andersen, geologist
13 January – Anton Blom, journalist
13 January – Ivar Furu, politician
14 January – Lasse Kolstad, actor
17 January – Tom Tellefsen, actor
18 January – Are Frode Søholt, poet
21 January – Julie Skjæraasen, professor of medicine
23 January – Arne Christiansen, Supreme Court justice
24 January – Arild Haaland, philosopher
25 January – Stig Sæterbakken, writer
30 January – Johannes Ulltveit-Moe, civil servant
31 January – Anders Askildsen Eikås, drummer
1 February – Ingolf Mork, ski jumper
2 February – Leif Hugo Olsson, footballer
6 February – Aage Johansen, speed skater
6 February – Knut Tveit, educationalist
11 February – Siri Bjerke, politician
13 February – Paul Otto Johnsen, politician
13 February – Nils Grinde, musicologist and theatre historian
15 February – Jan Svenneby, chess player
16 February – Ronald Rindestu, politician
16 February – Reidar T. Larsen, politician
18 February – Roald Aas, speed skater
20 February – Knut Thorbjørn Eggen, football manager
20 February – Kjell Thue, radio presenter
20 February – Christoffer Schander, biologist
21 February – Andreas Lunnan, radio and television presenter
22 February – Eivin One Pedersen, jazz pianist and accordionist
26 February – Johannes Vågsnes, politician
3 March – Per J. Husabø, politician
8 March – Kristin Bølgen Bronebakk, civil servant
11 March – Kjell Karlsen, odontologist
12 March – Johnny Myrseth, furniture industrialist
13 March – Grete Nordrå, actress
15 March – Edvard Hagerup Bull, composer
19 March – Hugo Munthe-Kaas, officer and politician
19 March – Knut Erik Tranøy, philosopher
21 March – Kåre Tveter, painter
29 March – Liv Buck, trade unionist
4 April – Helge Sverre Nesheim, television presenter
4 April – Anne Karin Elstad, novelist
8 April – Aage Grundstad, accordionist
9 April – Harald Gullichsen, translator
10 April – Odd Rikard Olsen, politician and editor
10 April – Svein Aasmundstad, civil servant
13 April – Inge Bråten, skiing coach
14 April – Per G. Stavnum, diplomat
15 April – Birger Lambertz-Nilssen, architect
18 April – Åge Storhaug, gymnast
18 April – Kristian Lund, politician
24 April – Thomas Chr. Wyller, political scientist
26 April – Astrid Dahlsveen, sculptor
28 April – Stein Johnson, athlete and coach
28 April – Harald Bergseth, soil scientist
29 April – Idar Ulstein, businessperson
29 April – Odd Henning Grønmo, politician
30 April – Finn Benestad, musicologist
1 May – Alexander Dale Oen, swimmer
1 May – Siri Myrvoll, archeologist and politician
2 May – Karsten Ekorness, Christian singer
4 May – Anne Breivik, artist
6 May – Kåre Øistein Hansen, politician
6 May – Arne Berg, architectural historian
8 May – Ingvill Elsebe Raaum, politician
9 May – Gunnar Dybwad, footballer
9 May – Ingvald M. Smith-Kielland, royal servant
10 May – Gunnar Sønsteby, resistance fighter
12 May – Tor Marius Gromstad, footballer – body found on 14 May
13 May – Trond Bråthen, black metal musician
13 May – Paul Engstad, politician and writer
17 May – Jon Istad, biathlete and sport shooter
17 May – Harald Synnes, politician
18 May – Ottar Starheim, journalist
20 May – Svenn Stray, politician
20 May – Nils Jernsletten, philologist
21 May – Andreas Arntzen, barrister
29 May – Ola O. Røssum, politician
3 June – Bengt Wilson, food photographer
4 June – Ljubiša Rajić, professor of Norwegian language
4 June – Per Sunderland, actor
8 June – Johan Kjelsberg, actor
10 June – Eivind Bolle, politician
10 June – Arnfinn Haram, monk and writer
10 June – Gunnar Rogstad, diplomat
12 June – Ervin Løffler, sculptor
15 June – Carl Julius Norstrøm, economist
20 June – Øivind Iversen, furniture designer
21 June – Viggo Johannessen, civil servant
23 June – Arne Wegner Haaland, engineer
25 June – Kjell Sørensen, sport shooter
26 June – Harry W. Kvebæk, trumpeter
27 June – Rolf Lindemann, physician
28 June – Mikal Kirkholt, cross-country skier
28 June – Gunnar Eide, impresario
1 July – Odd Todnem, engineer
2 July – Ingebjørg Vaale, politician
2 July – Lisbet Dæhlin, ceramicist
11 July – Bjørn Blakstad, diplomat
2 July – Lisbet Dæhlin, ceramist
12 July – Alf Haugland, poet
12 July – Arne Henry Jensen, politician
13 July – Rolf Nilssen, politician
20 July – Hanne Marthe Narud, political scientist
22 July – Håkon Randal, politician
26 July – Rita Drangsholt Christiansen, singer
31 July – Marie Brenden, politician
31 July – Bjørn-Eivind Siem Slettedal, businessperson
2 August – Hans Gabriel Finne, architect
3 August – Odd Isaksen, trade unionist
4 August – Sigrid Schjetne, murder victim
7 August – Hans Hammond Rossbach, politician
8 August – Sverre Halvorsen, professor of medicine
14 August – Svein Hansen, ice hockey player
16 August – Turid Kjellmann Pedersen, politician
16 August – Aase Bjerkholt, politician
18 August – Eilif Straume, television presenter
18 August – Ansten Samuelstuen, ski jumper
18 August – Ivar Svare, physicist
19 August – Arne Christiansen, theatre director
19 August – Ivar Iversen, canoer
26 August – Karsten Anker Solhaug, Salvationist
29 August – Grete Lein Lange, textile artist
30 August – Vidar Theisen, weather presenter
30 August – Anton Skulberg, veterinarian and politician
30 August – Kristian Fougner, resistance member
31 August – Enok Palm, mathematician
1 September – Rolf Bjørn Backe, footballer
1 September – Jon Tolaas, poet
5 September – Tore Rasch, handball coach
9 September – Målfrid Longva, politician
9 September – Unni Sæther, athlete
10 September – Sissel Calmeyer, textile artist
11 September – Finn Bergesen, business leader
11 September – Tomas Evjen, film producer
12 September – Alfred Henningsen, politician
13 September – Tor Gundersen, ice hockey player
14 September – Odd Roar Lofterød, yacht racer
16 September – Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen, princess
22 September – Helge Barstad, judge and politician
29 September – Knut Sydsæter, economist
2 October – Kaare Ørnung, pianist
2 October – Konrad B. Knutsen, civil servant
8 October – Hans Kristian Seip, forester
9 October – Bernt Stangholm, diplomat
12 October – Jorun Askersrud Nygaard, athlete
13 October – Rolf Auke, evangelist
17 October – Karin Stoltenberg, geneticist.
19 October – Eva Nordland, educator
20 October – Harald Eidheim, social anthropologist
21 October – Sverre Cornelius Lund, accordionist
3 November – Odd Børretzen, writer and musician
3 November – Anne-Lise Berntsen, opera singer
4 November – Marit Henie Moe, figure skater
5 November – Morten Ræder, surgeon
5 November – Bjørn Pedersen, resistance member
10 November – Birger Strømsheim, resistance member
10 November – Karl Georg Høyer, environmentalist
11 November – Kjellaug Pettersen, women's rights activist
15 November – Frode Thingnæs, jazz trombonist
15 November – Kari Blom, rector
18 November – Otto Hauglin, politician
21 November – Stein Schjærven, marketer
24 November – Arne Porsum, sports journalist
26 November – Per Tveit, musician
26 November – Ola Emil Sprakehaug, Pentecostal leader
25 November – Bjørn Winsnes, photographer
26 November – Hans Jørgen Walle-Hansen, businessman
27 November – Bjørn Østring, national socialist
2 December – Gitte Dæhlin, artist
6 December – Reginald Norby, diplomat
9 December – Håkon E. Andersen, bishop
12 December – Per Jacobsen, footballer
12 December – Else Marie Jakobsen, artist
18 December – Kari Lihus, speed skater
21 December – Harald Ohrvik, film producer
22 December – Peter Anker, art historian
23 December – Fredrik Thoresen, businessperson
25 December – Birger Tingstad, footballer
25 December – Halfdan Hegtun, politician
27 December – Ivar Ytreland, politician
30 December – Christian Hallén-Paulsen, luger