Events in the year 2023 in Norway.

2023
in
Norway

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See also:List of years in Norway

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Events

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  • 23 February–3 March – Protests take place in Oslo against the government over a Supreme Court ruling in 2021 that found that windmills built in Fosen, Trøndelag, violated indigenous human rights. Both energy minister Terje Aasland and prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre later went on to apologise for the violations.[2][3]
  • 31 March – Five people are killed by avalanches in Northern Norway.[4][5]
  • 17–20 April – The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions and Confederation of Vocational Unions withdraws from settlement negotiations with the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise and the state broker. The withdrawal was caused by the latter Unions' demands for a wage increase for all members and a settlement that exceeds the assumed price increase; which wasn't meant. This led to a strike in the midst of the negotiations.[6][7] The Confederation of Trade Unions and the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise reached an agreement on 20 April. Despite this, the Confederation of Vocational Unions initially stated that they would continue to strike, but later the same day seized it's strikes and accepted the agreed settlement.[8][9][10]
  • 7 August – The extreme weather Hans causes floods and landslides in parts of Southern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Lithuania.[11]
  • 9 August – Storm Hans: After several days of heavy rain in Norway, a dam breaks into the Glomma river in Braskereidfoss. Locals are evacuated.[12]
  • 10 August – After several days of heavy rains in Norway, the town of Hamar floods the speed skating rink at the Vikingskipet arena in order to relieve the flooding in other parts of the town.[13]
  • 4 September – Norway's two biggest cities, Oslo and Bergen, paid electricity customers to use power following a wet summer which filled the reservoirs used to provide hydroelectricity, causing wholesale prices to reach –€1.42 per megawatt hour.[14]
  • 11 September – 2023 Norwegian local elections
  • 15 December – Anne Borg steps down as NTNU rector, having previously criticized two of its employees and later withdrawn her criticism.[15]

Sports

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Anniversaries

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Deaths

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January

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February

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Ellen Inga O. Hætta

March

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Anita Thallaug

April

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Aase Foss Abrahamsen

June

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Yngve Hågensen

July

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August

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Edel Hætta Eriksen

September

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Geir Lundestad

October

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Wenche Blomberg

November

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December

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Ingrid Wigernæs

References

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