Events
- 1 January - The University of Stavanger is established.
- 13 June - The new Svinesund Bridge is opened joining Norway and Sweden. The old Svinesund Bridge still stands 1 kilometre to the east.
- 14 July – The Nærøyfjord, the Geiranger Fjord and the Struve Geodetic Arc are designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites.
- 12 September – The 2005 Parliamentary election takes place. The election was won by the opposition centre-left Red-Green Coalition, which took 87 seats.
- 17 October – Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was appointed.
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King Harald and Queen Sonja, greeted by Laura and George W. Bush at the White House during the March 2005 State Visit to the U.S.
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Both the new and the old Svinesund Bridges in the autumn of 2004
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The University of Stavanger is established.
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