1737 in Norway

Events in the year 1737 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VI.

Events

• Korskirken's School for the Poor in Bergen is founded.
• The first Moravian Church congregations in Norway is established in Christiania.

Arts and literature

Births

• 21 February – Christen Heiberg, civil servant, County Governor of Finnmark (d. 1801).
• 22 April – Reier Gjellebøl, priest and writer (died 1803).
• 28 May – Mathia Collett, merchant and businessperson (died 1801).

Deaths

• 19 May – Niels Knagenhielm, civil servant, land owner and non-fiction writer (born 1661).

See also

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