* 1577 – Christian IV of Denmark and Norway ( d. 1648 )

* 1031 – Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.

* 1872 – Haakon VII of Norway ( d. 1957 )

* 1693 – Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway ( d. 1743 )

* 1973 – Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

# Margaret ( 28 February 1261 – 9 April 1283 ), who married King Eirik II of Norway

* Olav V of Norway ( 1903 – 1991 )

* 1314 – King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.

* 1940 – World War II: Operation Weserübung – Germany invades Denmark and Norway.

* 1940 – Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.

* 1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.

* 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.

* 1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.

* 1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.

Coleman graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School, Fairfax, Virginia, in 1978 ; in 1978 – 1979 she was an exchange student at Røyken upper secondary school in Norway with the AFS Intercultural Programs.

Kontinenten – the Continent – is a vernacular Swedish expression excluding Sweden, Norway and Finland, but including Denmark ( even the Danish archipelago ) and the rest of continental Europe.

* The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research ( BCCR – Norway )

* 1263 – King Haakon IV of Norway ( b. 1204 )

* 1860 – Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway ( b. 1777 )

* 1768 – The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.

* 2009 – The Norwegian spiral anomaly appears in the sky over Norway.

According to Flateyjarbók Grímr Kamban settled in Faroe when Harald Hårfagre was king of Norway ( 872 – 930 ).

Norwegian supremacy continued until 1380, when the islands became part of the dual monarchy Denmark – Norway.

There are no specific laws regulating franchising in Norway.

It is not common to believe in the detailed accuracy of the historical narrative and historians tend to see little to no historical truth behind the first few sagas, however, they are still seen by many as a valuable source of knowledge about the society and politics of medieval Norway.

Aasen's famous Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects appeared in its original form in 1850, and from this publication dates all the wide cultivation of the popular language in Norwegian, since Aasen really did no less than construct, out of the different materials at his disposal, a popular language or definite folke-maal ( people's language ) for Norway.

At the time, the union between Sweden and Norway under one monarch, together with the fact that King Frederick VII of Denmark had no male heir, gave rise to the idea of reuniting the countries of the Kalmar Union, except for Finland.

A similar type of song dance may have existed in Norway in the Middle Ages as well, but no historical accounts have been found.

As a result there is much more material from the Viking Age concerning Norway than for instance Sweden, which, apart from Runic inscriptions, has almost no written sources from the early Middle Ages.

* http :// heim. ifi. uio. no /~ toresbe / dec PDP-7 restoration project located in Oslo, Norway.

* January 6 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden dies with no designated heir, leaving all three kingdoms with vacant thrones.

War was avoided by the treaty between Harthacnut and Magnus, which Harthacnut agreed to because he had no plausible candidate to rule Norway after Svein's death, and he was in any case temperamentally inclined to avoid campaigns and wars.

As a consequence of Harald's army having lost to the Germans at the Danevirke in 974, he no longer had control of Norway, and Germans settled back into the border area between Scandinavia and Germany.

* A similar fate befell jarl Hákon Sigurðarson in 10th century Norway ; according to Snorri Sturluson, after his death, " So great was the enmity of the Throndhjem people against Earl Hakon, that no man could venture to call him by any other name than " the evil earl "; and he was so called long after those days.

* Sweden, Norway and Denmark have integrated the E-road numbers into their networks, meaning that the roads usually have no other national number.

Being chased by men loyal to king Christian and failing at creating an army to challenge the king, Gustav Eriksson had no other alternative but to flee to Norway.

The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg determined that no Allied invasion had been imminent, and therefore rejected the German argument that Germany was entitled to attack Norway.

However, the latter made no recorded effort to entrench his grand-nephew's position as heir to a throne which was being eyed by a range of powerful potential contenders including England's leading aristocrat Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex and the foreign rulers William, Duke of Normandy, Sweyn II Estrithson, King of Denmark and Harald Hardrada, King of Norway.

When things settled down, the Privy Council of Denmark had lost some of its influence, and that of Norway no longer existed.

Berkenhout gave the brown rat the binomial name Rattus norvegicus, believing it had migrated to England from Norwegian ships in 1728, although no brown rat had entered Norway at that time.

Pytheas description of Thule as a land six days sailing north of Britain, where there is no nightfall in summer, might be the first written reference to what we today know as Norway.

Norway took no part in the events which led to Swedish independence from Denmark in the 1520s.

The period of common Old Norse literature continued up through the 13th century with Norwegian contributions such as Thidreks saga and Konungs skuggsjá but by the 14th century saga writing was no longer cultivated in Norway and Icelandic literature became increasingly isolated.

For example, the rulers of several of the petty kingdoms of Norway had in fact the title of jarl and in many cases of no lesser power than their neighbours who had the title of king.

There was usually no more than one jarl in mainland Norway at any one time, sometimes none.

This was the first time this title had been used in Norway, and meant that the title jarl was no longer the highest rank below the king.

It is also unfortunate that no contemporary or even near contemporary record survives for Eric ’ s short-lived rule in Norway, if it is historical at all.