1744 in Norway

Events in the year 1744 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VI.

Events

• 48 members of the free church of flees from Norway to Altona in Holstein.
• 31 December - The town of Holmestrand was founded.
• The first Chief of police is hired in Christiania.

Births

• 15 September - Erik Must Angell, jurist and politician (died 1814)
• 19 November - Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice (died 1802)

Full date unknown

• Catharina Lysholm, businesswoman and ship-owner (died 1815)
• Jacob Juel, timber trader and civil servant (died 1800)

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