1719 in Norway

Events in the year 1719 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Frederick IV.

Events

• January – The Carolean Death March.
• Postvesenet became state owned.

Births

• 31 December Severin Leopoldus Løvenskiold, landowner (died 1776 in Denmark).

Deaths

• 23 May – Gerhard Treschow, merchant and industrial pioneer (born c. 1659).
• 31 July – Thormodus Torfæus, historian (born 1636 in Iceland).
• Nils Engelhart, priest, pietist pioneer (born c.1668).

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