Modern Oslo · event 1 of 12

1925

Oslo again. Twenty years after independence, Christiania resumes the name it lost in 1624. The same year, a Lillehammer man patents the ostehøvel — the cheese slicer — which is not unrelated to how Norwegians think about themselves.

The Modern Oslo era

  1. 1925
  2. 1940
  3. 1945
  4. 1950
  5. 1952
  6. 1969
  7. 1972
  8. 1990
  9. 2008
  10. 2011
  11. 2021
  12. 2022

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