Events in the year 1874 in Norway.
Incumbents
Monarch: Oscar II
Events
Arts and literature
Births
12 April – Kristian Edland, farmer and politician. 8 May – Endre Johannes Cleven, settler in Canada (died 1916) 2 July – Oluf Wesmann-Kjær, rifle shooter (died 1945) 14 July – Torleiv Hannaas, philologist (died 1929) 24 August – Einar Hanssen, judge. 3 September – Carl Størmer, mathematician and physicist (died 1957) 8 September – Torgrim Castberg, violinist (died 1928) 26 September – Simon Johnson, Norwegian-American author (died 1970) 2 December – Johannes Hanssen, bandmaster, composer and teacher (died 1967) 19 December – Axel Theodor Næss, judge (d. 1945).
Full date unknown
Aagot Didriksen, actress (died 1968) Knut Olai Thornæs, newspaper editor and politician (died 1935)
Deaths
20 February – Dominicus Nagell Lemvig Brun, military officer and politician (b.1790) 1 March – Hans Jørgen Darre, clergyman (b.1803) 15 September – Christian Schou, brewer and merchant (born 1792). 6 October – Thomas Tellefsen, pianist and composer (b.1823)
Full date unknown
Jens Lauritz Arup, politician (b.1793) Ole Ingebrigtsen Soelberg, politician (b.1798) Carl Johan Severin Steen, politician (b.1825)