1314 King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.
1903 Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
1945 King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
2004 A version of ''The Scream'' and ''Madonna'', two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.