Events in the year 2002 in Norway.

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority and power i ...

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Harald V Harald V ( no, Harald den femte, ; born 21 February 1937) is King of Norway. He acceded to the throne on 17 January 1991. Harald was the third child and only son of King Olav V of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden. He was second in the li ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

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Kjell Magne Bondevik Kjell Magne Bondevik (; born 3 September 1947) is a Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician. As leader of the Christian Democratic Party, he served as the 33rd prime minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005, making him, af ...

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Christian Democratic Party __NOTOC__ Christian democratic parties are political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social tea ...

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Events

February

* 27 February – Metropol TV ceases broadcasting because of financial difficulties.

March

April

May

* 24 May –

Ari Behn Ari Mikael Behn (; , or ; 30 September 1972 – 25 December 2019) was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist. Known as Mikael Bjørshol until 1996, Behn achieved early literary success with his 1999 short story collection ''Trist so ...

marries

Princess Märtha Louise of Norway Princess Märtha Louise of Norway (born 22 September 1971) is a member of the Norwegian royal family, a businesswoman and a self-described clairvoyant. The only daughter of King Harald V and Queen Sonja, she is fourth in the line of success ...

in Nidaros Cathedral in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

June

* June – World Bank Oslo 2002 Protests

July

August

September

October

November

December

Popular culture

Sports

Music

Film

Literature

* Lars Saabye Christensen is awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize, for ''

The Half Brother ''The Half Brother'' ( no, Halvbroren) is a 2001 novel by the Norwegian writer Lars Saabye Christensen. The story follows a man who grows up in Oslo after World War II, with his mother, grandmother, great grandmother and half brother. The novel ...

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Television

Notable births

*21 February – Marcus & Martinus Gunnarsen, two identical brothers singers *12 May – Birgitta Elisa Oftestad, cellist

Notable deaths

*1 January – Arne Røgden, bobsledder (born 1917) *24 January – Ragnar Horn, politician (born 1913) *31 January – Jens P. Flå, politician (born 1923) *1 February – Sigurd Berge, composer (born 1928) *18 April –

Thor Heyerdahl Thor Heyerdahl KStJ (; 6 October 1914 – 18 April 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany and geography. Heyerdahl is notable for his ''Kon-Tiki'' expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000& ...

, ethnographer and adventurer (born 1914) *29 April – Sverre Bratland, military leader (born 1917) *1 May – Birger Tvedt, physician (born 1910). *28 May – Kai Paulsen, journalist, photographer and computer collector (born 1947) *29 June –

Ole-Johan Dahl Ole-Johan Dahl (12 October 1931 – 29 June 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist. Dahl was a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along w ...

, computer scientist (born 1931) *10 August –

Kristen Nygaard Kristen Nygaard (27 August 1926 – 10 August 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician. Internationally, Nygaard is acknowledged as the co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the programming ...

, mathematician, computer programming language pioneer and politician (born 1926) *26 September –

Eleonore Bjartveit Eleonore Bjartveit (11 July 1924 – 26 September 2002) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. Born in Alta, she worked as a medical doctor for several years, before entering politics. Bjartveit was elected to the Norw ...

, politician and Minister (born 1924) *10 October – Sverre L. Mo, politician (born 1915) *15 November – Hans Jørgen Toming, visual artist and designer (b. 1933). *24 November – Odd Lien, newspaper editor and politician (born 1915) *5 December – Magnar Sætre, politician (born 1940) *20 December –

Tore Tønne Tore Tønne (5 March 1948 – 20 December 2002) was the Norwegian Minister of Health and Social Affairs (responsible for social affairs) from 2000 to 2001 in Jens Stoltenberg's first cabinet. Tønne committed suicide Suicide is the act ...

, politician and Minister (born 1948) *21 December – Harald U. Lied, politician (born 1927) *24 December –

Kjell Aukrust Kjell Aukrust (19 March 1920 – 24 December 2002) was a Norwegian author, poet, artist and humorist. Aukrust is principally known for his Flåklypa stories and Flåklypa drawings. Personal life Aukrust was born in Alvdal in Hedmark, Norway as ...

, author, poet and artist (born 1920).

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* Odd Chr. Gøthe, civil servant and politician (born 1919) * Johan Berthin Holte, businessperson (born 1915) * Nils Peder Langvand, judge (born 1929) *

Oddrunn Pettersen Oddrunn Kristine Helene Pettersen (5 March 1937 – 30 November 2002) was a Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an et ...

, politician and Minister (born 1937) * Fritz Røed, sculptor (born 1928) * Einar Skinnarland, resistance fighter (born 1918) * Knut Tjønneland, politician (born 1907)

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Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...