1756 in Norway

Events in the year 1756 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Frederick V.

Events

18 June – 6 July – The Cattle War, in present-day India.

Arts and literature

Births

• 4 September – Christen Pram, economist, civil servant, poet, novelist, playwright (died 1821).
• 3 October – Abraham Pihl, clergyman, astronomer and architect (died 1821).

Full date unknown

• Anders Lysgaard, farmer and politician (died 1827).
• Peter Andreas Heuch, merchant (died 1825).
• Hilchen Sommerschild, first female teacher in Norway (died 1831).

Deaths

• 26 September – Joachim Andreas Stukenbrock, at the Kongsberg Silver Mines (born 1699).

See also

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