Norway1

19th Century Europe & Norway

  • Romantic literature introduced into Denmark Adam Oehenschläger - "The Golden Horns"

  • Norway's independence from Denmark.

    Political Union with Sweden
  • Political Union with Sweden

  • Norway's first liberal constitution signed at Eidsvoll

  • Henrik Ibsen born in Skien.

  • Asbjørnsen and Moe - Norske Folkeeventyr (Norwegian Folk Tales)

    Asbjørnsen and Moe - Norske Folkeeventyr (Norwegian Folk Tales)
  • Søren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855) - Either - Or

  • Karl Marx (1818-1883) - The Communist Manifesto

  • Marcus Thrane radical unionist movement in Norway

  • Revolutions in Europe

  • Ivar Aasen (1813 - 1896) Det norske folkesprogs grammatik

  • First Norwegian national theater established in Bergen by Ole Bull

  • Period: to

    P. A. Munch (1810 - 1863) Det norske folks historie (History of the Norwegian People)

  • Auguste Comte (1789 - 1857) - The Catechism of Positive Religion

  • Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) - On the Origin of the Species

  • Denmark looses Schleswig Holstein to Germany

  • John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) - The Subjection of Women

  • The Modern Breakthrough in Scandinavia

  • Georg Brandes (1842 - 1927) lectures at University of Copenhagen

  • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) The Birth of Tragedy

  • Full parliamentarianism under Liberal administration

  • Establishment of Norsk kvinnesaksforening (The Norwegian Women s Liberation Organisation)

  • Period: to

    Jamnstillingsvedtaket - Both Nynorsk and Bokmål are declared official languages of Norway by Parliament

  • Period: to

    The great Scandinavian debate on Sexual Morality

  • Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) - Analysis of Dreams

  • Norway cedes from union with Sweden.

  • Ibsen dies