1778 in Norway

Events in the year 1778 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

• 14 January - The Anker family were ennobled.

Arts and literature

• The construction of StiftsgÃ¥rden was finished.
• Claus Fasting starts publishing the literary magazine Provinzialblade, in Bergen.

Births

• 30 May - Jens Rynning, priest (died 1857)
• 11 November - Nils Astrup, politician (died 1835)
• 7 December - Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie, a Norwegian constitutional father, known for being the constitutional assembly's writer (died 1849)
• 23 December - Johan Reinhardt, professor in zoology (died 1845)

Full date unknown

• Sara Oust, revivalist lay preacher (died 1822)

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