Union & Independence · event 4 of 10

1866

A parliament building. The Storting opens its yellow-brick semicircular house on Karl Johans gate. Parliamentary government — the principle that ministers answer to parliament rather than the king — is established after a constitutional battle in 1884.

The Union & Independence era

  1. 1814
  2. 1825
  3. 1854
  4. 1866
  5. 1888
  6. 1893
  7. 1899
  8. 1905
  9. 1911
  10. 1913

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