1845 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Oscar I

  Events

• Skutterudite, a mineral containing nickel and iron, was discovered. The discovery was made in Skuterud Mines, Modum, Buskerud.
• The twelfth Storting convened, following the 1844 election.

  Notable births

• 17 January – Erika Nissen, pianist
• 27 March – Jakob Sverdrup, bishop and politician
• 15 July – Christian Holtermann Knudsen, typographer, newspaper editor, publisher, trade unionist and politician
• 17 July – Ragna Vilhelmine Nielsen, pedagogue and feminist
• 6 August – Edvard Liljedahl, politician and Minister
• 5 September – Hans Hein Theodor Nysom, politician
• 9 September – Christen Christensen, shipyard owner, ship-owner and whaling manager
• 28 September – Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck, dermatologist
• 10 October – Anton Jörgen Andersen, composer
• 7 December – Tinius Olsen, Norwegian American engineer and inventor

  Full date unknown

• Sofus Arctander, politician and Minister
• Hans Jensen Haga, politician
• Ludwig Andreas Olsen, United States Navy sailor awarded two Medals of Honor
• Ole Andres Olsen, Seventh-day Adventist minister and administrator
• Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou, jurist and professor
• Jon Eilevsson Steintjønndalen, Hardanger fiddle maker

  Notable deaths

• 13 February – Henrik Steffens, philosopher, scientist, and poet
• 12 July – Henrik Wergeland, poet
• 22 October – Fredrik Riis, civil servant
• 31 October – Johan Reinhardt, professor in zoology

  Full date unknown

• Erich Haagensen Jaabech, farmer and politician
• Christian Sørenssen, bishop and politician