2012 in Norway

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Events in the year 2012 in Norway.

• Monarch – Harald V
• President of the Storting – Dag Terje Andersen (Norwegian Labour Party)
• Prime Minister – Jens Stoltenberg (Norwegian Labour Party)

• 15 March – Five Norwegian soldiers died in an aircraft accident in northern Sweden.^[1]
• 19 March – Six tourists are buried in an avalanche in Gáivuotna Municipality (Kåfjord), Norway, leaving four dead and one missing.^[2]

• 10 April – A second psychiatric evaluation finds that Breivik's sane enough to face trial for the 2011 terrorist attacks and serve a prison sentence if convicted.^[3]
• 16 April – Breivik's trial of confessed perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, starts in Oslo, Norway.^[4]

• 1 May – Norwegian world swimming champion and Olympic medalist Alexander Dale Oen dies at age 26 after suffering a cardiac arrest during a training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona.^[5]
• 15 May – A man sets himself on fire outside the Oslo courthouse where mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for the 2011 Norway attacks.^[6]

• 22 July – Norway commemorates the first anniversary of the 2011 attacks.

• 4 August – Death of Sigrid Schjetne in Oslo^[7]

• 17 October – Netflix becomes available to Norwegian consumers.

• 14 December – The Làhku National Park was established in Gildeskål Municipality, Meløy Municipality and Beiarn Municipality in Nordland county.^[8]

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• Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

• 27 July–12 August: at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Norway won a total of four Olympic medals including two gold medals.^[9] Eirik Verås Larsen won the gold medal in canoeing, men's K-1 1000 metres, and the Norwegian team won the women's handball tournament.
• 1–9 August: the 55th Aeronautical pentathlon World Championships are held in Trondheim

• The novel Olavs draumar by Jon Fosse is published.^[10] In 2015, Fosse was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize, for Andvake (2007), Olavs draumar and Kveldsvævd (2014).^[11]
• Merethe Lindstrøm is awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize, for Days in the History of Silence.^[12]

• 1 June – 100 years since Hans Dons became the first Norwegian to fly in Norway
• 21 August – 125 years since the Labour Party was established
• 21 September – 100 years since the first flight at Kjeller Airport
• October – 50 years since the first of the popular Stompa movies, Stompa & Co., premiered.
• 12 December – 100 years since the birth of Thorbjørn Egner
• 21 December – 50 years since Norway's first national park, Rondane National Park, was established
• 100 years since Kristine Bonnevie became the first female professor in Norway
• 50 years since the Goethe-Institut first established itself in Norway.^[13]
• 250 years since the establishment of Hadeland Glassverk.^[14]

• 2012 in Norwegian music