1870 in Norway

← 1869 1868 1867 1870 in Norway → 1871 1872 1873
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	1870 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles IV

Births

• 23 January - Ole Sæther, Olympic rifle shooter (died 1946)
• 17 April - Haaken Hasberg Gran, botanist (died 1955)
• 19 May - Nils Nilsen Ronning, Norwegian-American author and editor (died 1962)
• 22 October - Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, three-times Prime Minister of Norway (died 1943)
• 26 November - Elise Sem, barrister (died 1950)
• 29 November - Eivind Heiberg, engineer and railway director (died 1939)
• 7 December - Worm Hirsch Darre-Jenssen, engineer and politician (died 1945)

Full date unknown

• Theodor Bull, businessperson and genealogist (died 1958)
• Helmer Hanssen, polar explorer (died 1956)
• Severin Andreas Heyerdahl, physician (died 1940)
• Ivar Lykke Falch Lind, jurist and politician
• Christian Pierre Mathiesen, politician and Minister (died 1953)
• Birger Stuevold-Hansen, politician and Minister (died 1933)
• Jens Thiis, art historian, conservator and museum director (died 1942)

Deaths

• 9 January - Ole Gabriel Gabrielsen Ueland, politician (born 1799)
• 30 July - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, poet, journalist and writer (born 1818)
• 4 November - Otto Vincent Lange, politician and Minister (born 1797)
• 5 December - Herman Severin Løvenskiold, composer (born 1815)