9 to 25 February – Norway participated at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, with 109 competitors in 11 sports. By winning a total of 39 medals (14 gold, 14 silver and 11 bronze), the country set a new record for the most medals won at a single Winter Olympics.
30 January – 100 years since the birth of André Bjerke.[19]Posten Norge marked the anniversary by issuing a stamp featuring Bjerke. The stamp, with a value of 21 NOK, is part of a series of two stamps, the other featuring Hans Børli.[20]
25 March – 200 years since the death of mathematician and cartographer Caspar Wessel.[21]
6 April – 200 years since the birth of poet, journalist and language pioneer Aasmund Olavsson Vinje.[22]
23 October – 150 years since the birth of Katti Anker Møller, feminist, children's rights advocate, and a pioneer of reproductive rights.[24][25]
8 December – 100 years since the birth of Hans Børli.[26]Posten Norge marked the anniversary by issuing a stamp featuring Børli. The stamp, with a value of 38 NOK, is part of a series of two stamps, the other featuring André Bjerke.[20]
Deaths
1 January – Jahn Otto Johansen, journalist, newspaper editor, foreign correspondent and non-fiction writer (b. 1934).[27]