When did Norway gain independence?

Norway's path to independence was a gradual process that culminated in the early 20th century. While Norway had been in a union with Denmark for centuries, it entered a union with Sweden in 1814 following the Napoleonic Wars.12

Throughout the 19th century, Norway sought greater autonomy within this union, eventually gaining full domestic self-government. The formal dissolution of the union with Sweden occurred on June 7, 1905, when the Storting (the Norwegian parliament) declared the union dissolved after the Swedish-Norwegian king ceased to function as the Norwegian monarch. Following negotiations in Karlstad, Sweden, in September 1905, the union was legally dissolved, and Norway subsequently established its own monarchy under Haakon VII.31