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See also:	1861 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1861 in Norway.

• Monarch: Charles IV.^[1]

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• Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860 (A remembrance of a journey in the summer 1860) was written by Aasmund Olavsson Vinje.

• 9 March – Monthei Eriksen Haug, politician
• 18 April – Christian Emil Stoud Platou, railroad director and politician (died 1923)
• 23 July – Hans Bergersen Wergeland, politician
• 10 October – Fridtjof Nansen, explorer, scientist and diplomat, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 (died 1930)
• 21 December – Valentin Valentinsen, engineer and politician

• Pauline Fjelde, Norwegian-American painter, needlework artist and weaver. (died 1923)
• Ludvig Meyer, barrister, newspaper editor and politician (died 1938)
• Olaf Norli, bookseller and publisher (died 1959)
• Anton Thorkildsen Omholt, politician and Minister (died 1925)
• Edvard Sverdrup, theologian (died 1923)

• 22 January – Peder Klykken, politician (born 1772)
• 6 June – David Vogt, politician (born 1793)
• 16 October – Broder Lysholm Krohg, military officer and civil servant (born 1777)^[2]