1850 in Norway

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

Events in the year 1850 in Norway.

Incumbents

May - The Labour Union delivered a petition to King Oscar I and the Norwegian Storting (parliament), which was signed by 13,000 members. The union asked for universal voting, the extension of mandatory military service to those with property, equality before the law, better schools, low or no border taxes on necessary goods, such as grains, and special support for poor farmers in the form of arable land on reasonable terms.
June 19 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.

Henrik Ibsen's first play Catilina is written (but not performed until 1881)
26 September – Henrik Ibsen's second play, The Burial Mound, is performed at Christiania Theater

1 January – Oscar Jacobsen, engineer and politician (died 1902)
9 February – Hjalmar August Schiøtz, ophthalmologist (died 1927)
18 March – Olefine Moe, opera singer (died 1933)
4 July – Ole Olsen, organist, composer, conductor and military musician (died 1927)
8 October – Sven Aarrestad, writer, politician and leader in the Norwegian temperance movement (died 1942 in Norway)
17 October – Johannes Christiansen, politician (died 1913)
25 December – Elizabeth Fedde, Lutheran Deaconess who established the Norwegian Relief Society (died 1921)

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