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- The trade with IcelandIcelandIceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
is opened to all DanishDenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
and NorwegianNorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
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- 15 May - Johan Bülow WambergJohan Bülow WambergJohan Bülow Wamberg was a Norwegian politician.He was born in Hvideseid as the son of Nils Wamberg and his wife Sussanne Sophie Saxe. His father had migrated from Denmark to work as a district stipendiary magistrate. Johan B. Wamberg was to a large degree raised by politician and businessperson...
, politician, (d.18521852 in Norway-Births:*10 February - Svend Borchmann Hersleb Vogt, jurist and politician *13 August - Christian Krohg, painter, illustrator, author and journalist *4 September - Eilif Peterssen, painter...
) - 26 May - Engebret SootEngebret SootEngebret Soot is known as the father of the Halden Canal in Norway. He constructed locks and canals for the transport of both watercraft and timber.-Biography:...
, canal engineer (d.18591859 in Norway-Events:*8 July - Charles XV succeeds his father Oscar I of Sweden and Norway -Notable births:*29 June - Ragnvald Bødtker, engineer *4 August - Knut Hamsun, author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate...
) - 29 June - Peder Christian Hersleb KjerschowPeder Christian Hersleb KjerschowPeder Christian Hersleb Kjerschow was a Norwegian clergyman.He was a bishop in the State Church of Norway for twenty-seven years; first in the Diocese of Tromsø from 1830 to 1848 and later in the Diocese of Bjørgvin from 1848 to 1857. Before his appointment as bishop, he was vicar in Aker...
, bishop (d.18661866 in Norway-Events:* 5 March – The official inauguration of the Parliament of Norway Building .-January to June:*5 January - Johan Gjøstein, educator, newspaper editor and politician *21 January - Olaus Alvestad, educator and newspaper editor...
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- Samuel Mathiassen FøynSamuel Mathiassen FøynSamuel Mathiassen Føyn was a Norwegian ship-owner and politician.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1830, 1842 and 1848, representing the constituency of Tønsberg. He worked as a ship-owner, merchant and farmer in that city....
, ship-owner and politician (d.18541854 in Norway-Events:* 26 August - A new conscription law was sanctioned, under which all Norwegian men regardless of condition and position had an obligation to serve in the armed forces....
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