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History of Norway

Journey back in time to Norway

Visit Norway. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• During the 1300s Denmark gained more and more influence over Norway and, in 1397, Norway was absorbed into a formal union with Denmark and Sweden.
  The union was ruled by a common king. Sweden gradually seceded from the union, but Denmark and Norway remained united until 1814.
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• 1800 - Population of Norway - 883,000
  
  
  
• 1814 - May 17 - Norway drafts its own constitution
  
  
  
• 1895 - Norway
  Norway, nor wā, a country forming the N.W., extremity of Europe, and occupying the N.W. and W. part of the Scandinavian peninsula. It extends from...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1900 - Population of Norway - 2,218,000
  
  
  
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• 1927 - The aerosol can is invented (Erik Rotheim, Norway)
  "On November 23, 1927, Norwegian engineer Erik Rotheim (also spelled Eric Rotheim) patented the first aerosol can and valve that could hold and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Norway
  The Land of the Midnight Sun
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  Norway
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