Events in the year 1849 in Norway.

• Monarch: Oscar I.^[1]

• 21 March – Hamar was refounded as a city (lost its city status in 1587).
• 26 July – The official inauguration of the Norwegian Royal Palace (Norwegian: Slottet or formally Det kongelige slott), which occurred during the reign of Oscar I.
• Ryvarden Lighthouse was established.^[2]

• 18 February – Alexander Kielland, novelist (died 1906)
• 8 March – Eduard Boeckmann, Norwegian American ophthalmologist, physician and inventor. (died 1927)
• 9 March – Nils P. Haugen, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin (died 1931)
• 5 June – Vilhelm Andreas Wexelsen, bishop and politician (died 1909)
• 15 December – Amund B. Larsen, linguist (died 1928)
• 19 December – Joachim Grieg, ship broker and politician (died 1932).^[3]

• Marcus Olaus Bockman, priest and theologian (died 1942)
• Hans Dahl, painter (died 1937)
• Johan Leonard Hagen, politician
• Jon Eriksson Helland II, Hardanger fiddle maker (died 1869)
• Birger Kildal, politician and Minister (died 1913)
• Christian Fredrik Sissenèr, property owner and politician (died 1903)

• 13 May – Gjest Baardsen, outlaw, jail-breaker, non-fiction writer, songwriter and memoirist (born 1791).^[4]
• 6 July – Olaf Rye, military officer (born 1791)
• 10 October – Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie, a Norwegian constitutional father, known for being the constitutional assembly's writer (born 1778)
• 6 December – Peder Olivarius Bugge, bishop (born 1764)