1848 in Norway

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	1848 in Sweden; List of years in Norway

Events

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Ålesund received city rights.
10-12 March – March riots: after the newspaper Morgenbladet publishes news of the French Revolution of 1848, some 100 youths gather to make catcalls outside the house of the newspaper's editor, Adolf Bredo Stabell, in Christiania. Counter-demonstrations, in support of the French revolution and against a local ban on trade on Sundays, involved up to 3-4,000 people and led to clashes with the police and the military. Some 70 people were arrested.^[1]

3 February - Jørgen Løvland, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (d.1922)
2 May - Hans Gabriel Nissen Buck, physician and politician (d.1924)
17 May - Erik Jørgensen, master gunsmith (d.1896)
27 May - Johan Bøgh, museum director and art historian (d.1933)
12 June - Nordahl Rolfsen, writer, educationalist and teacher, journalist, translator and speaker (d.1928)
20 June - Jens Carl Peter Brandt, businessperson and politician (d.1912)
19 September - Gunnar Knudsen, politician and twice Prime Minister of Norway (d.1928)
22 November - Lars Holst, journalist, newspaper editor and politician (d.1915)
16 December - Georg Sverdrup, theologian and educator (d.1907)
21 December - Viggo Ullmann, educator and politician (d.1910)