2013 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch – Harald V
• Prime Minister – Jens Stoltenberg, then Erna Solberg

  Events

January

• 16–19 January – Five Norwegians died in the In Amenas hostage crisis.
• 17 January – A lorry full of highly-flammable goat-whey cheese caught fire in a road tunnel near Narvik. The high fat and sugar content of the brunost kept the raging conflagration burning for four days and the tunnel was impassable and badly damaged.

  February

• 19 February – The Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs unanimously criticised Stoltenberg's Cabinet for lack of security arrangement before the 2011 Norway attacks.

  March

April

May

• 6 May – Gerd Kristiansen was elected leader of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions
• 28 May – Oslo city council decided to build a new Munch Museum in Bjørvika.

  June

July

• 1 July – It was announced that the Södra Cell Tofte pulp mill will close.
• 17 July – Marte Dalelv was convicted for extramarital sex and perjury after having reported a man to the police in Dubai for rape. She was later pardoned.

  August

• 5 August – A female employee at the Labour and Welfare Service in Oslo was stabbed at work and died five days later.
• 17 August – The Hardanger Bridge was opened.

  September

• 9 September – In the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election the non-socialist parties won a plurality. The Green Party gained a representative in parliament for the first time.
• 9 September – Fifty-five percent of voters in Oslo voted in favour of the Oslo bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
• 30 September – After negotiations, the Conservative Party and the Progress Party agreed to form a new cabinet while the Liberal Party and Christian Democratic Party agreed to support the cabinet in Parliament.

  October

• 7 October – The Conservative and Progress parties presented a political platform for Solberg's Cabinet.
• 16 October – Erna Solberg became as prime minister at her cabinet; the Progress party were represented in government for the first time following the 2013 parliamentary elections and Stoltenberg's lost the election.
• 23 October – The Supreme Court ruled that a time limit of 25 years for individual fishing quotas does not violate the Constitution of Norway.

  November

• 4 November – Three people died in the 2013 Valdresekspressen hijacking.
• 16 November – Cyclone Hilde struck Trøndelag and Helgeland.

  December

• 3 December – PISA 2012 showed Norwegian pupils scoring below average in mathematics, and generally worse than in 2009.
• 5 December – Seven pioneer divers in the North sea won a case against Norway in the European Court of Human Rights for financial compensation for injuries.
• 10 December – The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
• 10 December – Joshua French was indicted for the murder of Tjostolv Moland.
• 12 December – Hurricane Ivar struck Central Norway; 53,000 households lost electricity.
• 24 December – A storm struck many areas of the country on Christmas Eve.

  Sports and Popular culture

Chess

• 1 April: Magnus Carlsen won the 2013 Candidate tournament in Chess and became the challenger to Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship in November 2013.
• 11 August – 2 September – The Chess World Cup 2013 was hosted in Tromsø.
• 9–22 November – Carlsen won the 2013 World Chess Championship match 6½–3½ against Anand, thus becoming the new world chess champion.

  Music

• Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013
• "The Fox ", an electronic dance song and viral video by the comedy duo Ylvis, was the top trending video of 2013 on YouTube.
• 9 October – Ylvis performs their viral hit "The Fox " on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

  Television

Anniversaries

• 23 January – 200 years since the birth of Camilla Collett
• 11 June – 100 years since general suffrage for women in Norway
• 5 August – 200 years since the birth of Ivar Aasen

  Notable deaths

• 2 January – Dag Lyseid, footballer and politician
• 3 January – Preben Munthe, economist
• 3 January – Lars T. Bjella, politician
• 4 January – Petter Fauchald, footballer
• 5 January – Trygve Goa, printmaker
• 7 January – Helge B. Andresen, businessperson
• 8 January – Asbjørn Aarnes, literary historian
• 14 January – Morten Mølster, guitarist
• 18 January – Borghild Niskin, alpine skier
• 18 January – Svein Magnus Håvarstein, sculptor
• 19 January – Viggo Hagstrøm, legal scholar
• 25 January – Aase Nordmo Løvberg, opera singer
• 25 January – Arne Berg, ice hockey player
• 28 January – John Tandrevold, boxer
• 1 February – Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, musicologist
• 2 February – Tarjei Rygnestad, physician
• 3 February – Kåre Syrstad, agrarian leader
• 5 February – Egil Hovland, composer
• 7 February – Nic Knudtzon, engineer
• 8 February – Knut Nesbø, musician, footballer and journalist
• 9 February – Kåre Valebrokk, media executive
• 11 February – Villy Andresen, footballer
• 16 February – Jan Dahm, resistance member
• 19 February – Eva Bergh, actress
• 20 February – Oddbjørn Hågård, politician
• 1 March – Margaret Johansen, novelist
• 2 March – Niels Hertzberg, sports official
• 2 March – Bjørn Skau, politician
• 15 March – Trond Brænne, actor
• 16 March – Georg Rajka, dermatologist
• 17 March – Svein Blindheim, military officer
• 18 March – Eivind Rølles, guitarist
• 19 March – Eyvind Fjeld Halvorsen, philologist
• 23 March – Aloysius Valente, dancer
• 24 March – Inge Lønning, theologian and politician
• 24 March – Jo Inge Bjørnebye, ski jumper
• 25 March – Ellen Einan, poet
• 27 March – Hjalmar Andersen, speed skater
• 1 April – Eskild Jensen, civil servant
• 2 April – Johnny Lunde, alpine skier
• 3 April – Jul Haganæs, poet
• 3 April – Kiki Byrne, naturalised British fashion designer
• 13 April – Hilmar Myhra, ski jumper
• 17 April – Yngve Moe, musician
• 18 April – Jon Åker, hospital director
• 21 April – Bjarne Sandemose, inventor
• 21 April – Sigurd G. Helle, topographer
• 21 April – Ludvig Johan Bakkevig, missionary
• 23 April – Tor Traheim, ship-owner
• 28 April – Carl M. Rynning-Tønnesen, police chief
• 29 April – Erling Løseth, politician
• 29 April – Ole K. Sara, politician
• 5 May – Leif Preus, photographer
• 5 May – Arne Ratchje, acquaculturist
• 5 May – Tore Magnussen, pro boxer
• 10 May – Per Maurseth, historian
• 12 May – Olaf B. Bjørnstad, ski jumper
• 12 May – Helga Syrrist, politician and activist
• 16 May – Kristen Kyrre Bremer, bishop
• 17 May – Otto Julius Rosenkrantz Kloumann, officer and physician
• 18 May – Jo Benkow, politician
• 19 May – Anders Vangen, opera singer
• 25 May – Jan Kinder, ice hockey player
• 25 May – Erling Welle-Strand, resistance member
• 1 June – Atle Kittang, literary historian
• 2 June – Sverre Magelssen, YMCA leader
• 8 June – Per Edvard Danielsen, naval officer
• 9 June – Leif Karl Lundesgaard, military officer
• 13 June – Olav Sigurd Carlsen, politician
• 20 June – Per Ung, sculptor
• 29 June – Jørgen Sønstebø, politician
• 1 July – Rolf Nordhagen, physicist
• 5 July – Tor Holtan-Hartwig, politician
• 7 July – Ingebjørg Wærstad, politician
• 9 July – Johannes Østtveit, politician
• 13 July – Mona Røkke, politician
• 15 July – Terje Mørkved, footballer and speed skater
• 16 July – Torbjørn Falkanger, ski jumper
• 18 July – Ivar P. Enge, radiologist
• 18 July – Kåre Lunden, historian
• 18 July – Mary Eide, politician
• 19 July – Niclas Gulbrandsen, artist
• 24 July – Arne Eriksen, footballer
• 29 July – Ole Henrik Moe, museum director
• 2 August – Ola Enstad, sculptor
• 6 August – Flora McDonald Hartveit, professor of medicine
• 9 August – Kristian Smidt, literary historian
• 17 August – Kjell Lund, architect
• 17 August – Alf Magne Austad, painter
• 18 August – Tjostolv Moland, soldier and death row inmate
• 18 August – Rolv Wesenlund, comedian
• 24 August – Alf Kaartvedt, historian
• 27 August – Lucy Smith, law professor
• 27 August – Magnhild Holmberg, politician
• 29 August – Are Vesterlid, architect
• 29 August – Trond Kristoffersen, businessperson
• 30 August – Oddvar Vormeland, educationalist
• 4 September – Inge Paulsen, footballer
• 8 September – Tore Sinding-Larsen, judge
• 9 September – Gunnar Høst Sjøwall, tennis player
• 14 September – Amund Venger, politician
• 17 September – Alex Naumik, rock and pop artist
• 18 September – Torleiv Anda, diplomat
• 19 September – Sven Josef Cyvin, chemist
• 19 September – Øystein Fischer, physicist
• 21 September – Albert Assev, family therapist
• 23 September – Eivinn Berg, diplomat
• 23 September – Kirsten Sørlie, theatre instructor
• 24 September – Sverre Bruland, conductor
• 24 September – Frank Stubb Micaelsen, poet and novelist.
• 25 September – Hans Guttorm, politician
• 26 September – Arnstein Johansen, accordionist
• 26 September – Helge Solvang, politician
• 1 October – Ole Danbolt Mjøs, physician and politician
• 1 October – Bjørn Randby, handballer and businessperson
• 2 October – Kaare Ørnung, pianist
• 12 October – Hans Wilhelm Longva, diplomat
• 11 October – Rolf Wembstad, footballer
• 18 October – Ola Syrstad, agriculturalist
• 19 October – Lage Fosheim, musician
• 21 October – Karen Sogn, politician
• 22 October – Jo Filseth, businessperson
• 25 October – Dan Laksov, mathematician
• 25 October – Arne Johansen, speed skater
• 28 October – Trygve Kornelius Fjetland, businessperson
• 2 November – Målfrid Grude Flekkøy, Children Ombudsman
• 2 November – Brita Borge, politician
• 4 November – Håkon Barfod, yacht racer
• 6 November – Arvid Johanson, politician
• 9 November – Helen Aareskjold, blind people's activist
• 9 November – Grethe Rytter Hasle, planktologist
• 9 November – Per Olsen, cross-country skier
• 11 November – Stein Grieg Halvorsen, actor
• 12 November – Erik Augestad, handballer
• 12 November – Tore Lindseth, footballer
• 16 November – Arne Pedersen, footballer
• 16 November – Erik Loe, editor
• 16 November – Tor Schaug-Pettersen, physicist
• 18 November – Knut Tøraasen, diplomat
• 18 November – Edgar Falch, footballer
• 21 November – Fred Kavli, entrepreneur
• 23 November – Solveig Muren Sanden, illustrator
• 15 December – Frank Meidell Falch, cultural director
• 15 December – Viking Mestad, jurist
• 22 December – David Kvebæk, family therapist
• 22 December – Frank Bjerkholt, writer
• 23 December – Bjarne Kortsen, musicologist
• 24 December – Jakob Sigurd Holmgard, politician
• 27 December – Gunn Olsen, politician