1739 in Norway

Events in the year 1739 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VI.

Events

• 6 June - Battle of Jakobshavn (Greenland). The battle led to the consolidation of Danish-Norwegian presence on Greenland.
• Public schools for all children, from the age of seven, are established by law.
• Christian Rantzau is deposed as Steward of Norway, and the position was vacant until 1750.
• The Løvenskiold family were ennobled.

Arts and literature

• The poem Nordlands Trompet by Petter Dass is published posthumously.

Births

• 10 August – Peder Aadnes, rural painter (died 1792).

Full date missing

• Nicolai Benjamin Aall, landowner and timber merchant (died 1798).

Deaths

• 1 December – Hartvig Jentoft, merchant (born 1693).

See also

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