Events in the year 1844 in Norway.

• Monarch: Charles III John (until 8 March);^[1] then Oscar I.^[2]

• 8 March – King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway
• 11–18 July – The 4th Scandinavian Scientist Conference is held in Oslo.

• 1844 Norwegian parliamentary election
• Utsira Lighthouse is established.^[3]

• 19 February – Mathilde Schjøtt, writer, literary critic, biographer and feminist (died 1926).^[4]
• 2 March – Ole Larsen Skattebøl, judge and politician (d.1929)
• 8 March – Jens Jonas Jansen, priest (d.1912)
• 22 March – Sven Oftedal, helped found the Lutheran Free Church (d.1911)
• 23 May – Klaus Hanssen, physician and politician
• 15 July – Thorbjorn N. Mohn, American Lutheran church leader and the first president of St. Olaf College (d. 1899)
• 8 August – Alf Collett, writer (d.1919)
• 11 September – N. O. Nelson, founder of the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company (d. 1922)
• 2 October – Peter Harboe Castberg, banker (d.1926)
• 29 December – Brynild Anundsen, founder of Decorah Posten (d.1913)

• Oluf Hansen Hagen, politician
• Nils Otto Hesselberg, politician (d.1929)
• Christian Wilhelm Engel Bredal Olssøn, politician and Minister (d.1915)
• Steinar Schjøtt, philologist and lexicographer (d.1920)
• Oscar Wergeland, painter (d.1910)

• 4 August – Jacob Aall, historian and statesman (b.1773)