1851 in Norway

← 1850 1849 1848 1851 in Norway → 1852 1853 1854
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	1851 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Arts and literature

• 10 January - The Norwegian Booksellers Association (Den Norske Bokhandlerforening) is founded.

Births

January to June

• 2 January - Haldor Boen, teacher and politician in America (died 1912)
• 25 January - Arne Garborg, writer (died 1924)
• 28 January - Andreas Aubert, art historian (died 1913)
• 11 June - Oscar Borg, composer (died 1930)

July to December

• 23 July - Peder Severin Krøyer, painter (died 1909)
• 20 August - Abraham Berge, politician and Minister (died 1936)
• 23 September - Ola Thommessen, newspaper editor (died 1942)
• 2 October – Elias Sunde, politician and Minister (died 1910).
• 30 October - Leonhard Hess Stejneger, zoologist (died 1943)
• 10 November - Waldemar Christofer Brøgger, geologist and mineralogist (died 1940)
• 25 November - Hans Andersen Foss, author, newspaper editor and temperance leader in America (died 1929)

Full date unknown

• Gunvald Aus, engineer (died 1950)
• Peter W. K. Bøckman, Sr., bishop and theologian (died 1926)
• Nicolai A. Grevstad, diplomat, politician and newspaper editor in America (died 1940)
• Knut Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (died 1880)
• Herman Jeremiassen, ship-owner and politician (died 1943)
• Carl Sofus Lumholtz, discoverer and ethnographer (died 1922)
• Olaj Olsen, jurist and politician (died 1920)
• August Geelmuyden Spørck, politician and Minister (died 1928)
• Oscar Sigvald Julius Strugstad, politician and Minister (died 1919)
• Aasmund Halvorsen Vinje, politician and Minister (died 1917)

Deaths

• 5 July - Olaus Michael Schmidt, judge and politician (born 1784)

Full date unknown

• Palle Rømer Fleischer, politician and Minister (born 1781)
• Hilmar Meincke Krohg, politician (born 1776)