1680 in Norway

Events in the year 1680 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian V.

Events

• May - Peder Griffenfeld was imprisoned at Munkholmen, outside of Trondheim.
• A giant squid beached at the coast of Helgeland.
• Brevik is given town status as a ladested.

Births

• 20 December - Anders Daae, priest and landowner (died 1763)

Around 1680

• Lorentz Reichwein, military officer (died 1735)

Deaths

• 29 December - Arent Berntsen, topographical-statistical author, businessman, banker, estate owner and councillor (born 1610)

See also

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