Events in the year 1878 in Norway.

Events

• A law is passed that requires teachers to speak the dialect of their pupils and not the other way round.

Arts and literature

Births

• 13 January - Henrik stervold, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (d.1957)
• 17 January - Olaf Husby, sport shooter
• 1 February - Thoralf Glad, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (d.1969)
• 14 April - Karl Johan Pettersen Vad y, politician (d.1965)
• 27 April - Christian Fredrik Monsen, politician (d.1954)
• 18 July - Egill Reimers, architect, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (d.1946)
• 12 August - sten stensen, rifle shooter and Olympic silver medallist (d.1939)
• 28 November - Peder Kolstad, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (d.1932)

Full date unknown

• Per Berg Lund, politician and Minister (d.1954)
• Magnus Olsen, linguist and professor of Norse philology (d.1963)
• Anton Frederik Winter Jakhelln Prytz, politician (d.1945)
• Kristofer Uppdal, poet and author (d.1961)

Deaths

• 25 April - Nils Christian Irgens, military officer, politician and Minister (b.1811)
• 8 September - Ulrik Frederik Lange, politician (b.1808)

Full date unknown

• J rgen Wright Cappelen, bookseller and publisher (b.1805)
• Johan Widing Heiberg Landmark, jurist and politician (b.1802)
• Peter Tidemand Malling, bookseller, printer and publisher (b.1807)