Events
- 12 January - Princess Astrid marries Johan Martin Ferner.
- March - Ingrid Bjerkås, ordained as first female minister in the Church of Norway
- 15 April - The Socialist People's Party was founded.
- 9 August - Holtaheia disaster: A British passenger plane crashes in Strand. All 39 passengers aboard, including 34 children, are killed.
- 11 September - The 1961 Parliamentary election takes place.
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