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.
-
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.
-
Both the new and the old Svinesund Bridges in the autumn of 2004
-
The University of Stavanger is established.
Read more about this topic: 2005 In Norway
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)