2009 in Norway

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2009
in
Norway

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See also:List of years in Norway

Events in the year 2009 in Norway.

Incumbents

Events

Melinda Gates (right) at the visit to the Oslo Opera House
, on 3 June 2009.
Full City oil spill in August 2009.
Jens Stoltenberg continue as Prime Minister of Norway following the 2009 Parliamentary election.
Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjørn Jagland presents to U.S. President Barack Obama with the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Rådhuset Main Hall at Oslo City Hall, in December 2009.

January

  • 1 January:
  • Same-sex marriage became legal in Norway when a gender neutral marriage bill was enacted after being passed by the Norwegian legislature in June 2008.[1][2] Norway became the first Scandinavian country and the sixth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
  • A new Norwegian prostitution law (Sexkjøpsloven) bans the buying of sexual favours rather than selling (the client commits a crime, but not the prostitute).

February

March

  • 10 March – Varg Vikernes is released on parole having served almost 16 years of a 21 years (life) sentence for murder.[3]

April

May

June

July

August

September

  • 14 September – The
    Red-Green Coalition obtained more seats in parliament. This allowed Jens Stoltenberg to continue as prime minister.[5]

October

November

December

Full date unknown

  • InFiber, a Norwegian telecommunication company is founded.[7]

Popular culture

Music

Sports

Film

Literature

Television

Anniversaries

  • 150 years since the birth of author Knut Hamsun on 4 August 1859
  • 100 years since the founding of the
    Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted
    (Norges Blindeforbund) on 22 October 1909
  • 100 years since the establishment of the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts (Statens kunstakademi) on 29 November 1909
  • 75 years since the Tafjorden tsunami killed 41 people in Tafjord in Møre og Romsdal on 7 April 1934. The tsunami was triggered by landslide.

Notable deaths

January

February

March

April

May

Haakon Lie

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Full date unknown

See also

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