Events
- February – Former Prime Minister, then foreign affairs minister Thorbjørn Jagland makes a political scandal when he jokingly refers to Gabon's president Omar Bongo, due for a state visit to Norway, as "Bongo from Congo".
- February – Around 40,000 people in Oslo march in a rally to express their outrage and devastation over the racially motivated murder in Holmlia, Oslo of a young black Norwegian boy, Benjamin Hermansen at the hands of a group af neo-Nazis. Marches take place simultaneously all over Norway.
- 25 March – The Schengen Agreement treaty comes into force in Norway.
- August – The railway line Bratsbergbanen in Nedre Telemark closes down. It was opened in 1917.
- 10 September – The 2001 Parliamentary election takes place. The Labour Party won a plurality of votes and seats, closely followed by the Conservative Party. The Labour Party was unable to form a government, and a centre-right coalition of the Conservative Party, the Christian People's Party and Liberal Party was formed, led by Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik of the Christian Democratic Party.
- 19 October – Bondevik's Second Cabinet was appointed.
- 3 November – Population Census: 4,520,900 inhabitants in Norway.
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