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| 1810 |
| | | A French marshal, Jean Bernadotte, is offered the position of crown prince and heir to the Swedish throne | |
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| 1814 |
| | | Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden, in the Treaty of Kiel, following Bernadotte's successful Danish campaign | |
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| 1832 |
| | | The Göta canal is completed, enabling ships to cross Scandinavia from the North Sea to the Baltic | |
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| c. 1845 |
| | | With his emphasis on the subjective experience of human Existenz, the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard plants the seed of existentialism | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite, making the volatile explosive nitroglycerine safer by combining it with kieselguhr | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt has its premiere in Oslo, with incidental music by Edvard Grieg | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House signals a new direction in drama in its frank treatment of tensions within a marriage | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen publishes his play Hedda Gabler, with its powerfully manipulative central character, a year before it is first produced (in Germany) | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen sails into the Arctic in the purpose-built Fram, beginning a three-year expedition to reach the North Pole | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Jean Sibelius's 'symphonic legend' The Swan of Tuonela has its premiere in Helsinki | |
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