1857 in Norway

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Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	1857 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events

• 6 June - Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway

Births

Christian Michelsen

• 4 January - John N. Kildahl, Norwegian-American Lutheran church minister, author and educator (died 1920)
• 15 March - Christian Michelsen, shipping magnate, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (died 1925)
• 27 April - Theodor Kittelsen, artist (died 1914)
• 8 May - Agnes Mathilde Wergeland, Norwegian-American historian and poet (died 1914)
• 2 June - Urban Jacob Rasmus Børresen, rear admiral (died 1943)
• 28 July - Andreas Thidemand Carlsen Ruud, politician
• 21 October- Frederick William Cappelen, Norwegian American architect and civil engineer (died 1921)
• 10 November - Aad J. Vinje, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (died 1929)
• 18 November - Gunnar Heiberg, playwright (died 1929)

Full date unknown

• Waldemar Hansteen, architect (died 1921)
• Johan Peter Jacobson, politician

Deaths

• 14 October - Johan Christian Dahl, painter (born 1788)
• 28 October - Hother Erich Werner Bøttger, politician (born 1801)

Full date unknown

• Diderik Bøgvad, politician (born 1792)