1779 in Norway

Events in the year 1779 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

• 23 November - Magnus Theiste was sentenced by the Supreme Court to be removed from his office as County Governor of Nordre Bergenhus amt, because of his involvement with corruption.
• Mandal is given town status as a ladested.

Arts and literature

Births

• 12 February – Jens Jensen Gram, jurist and politician (died 1824).
• 10 August – Carl Rønneberg, merchant and ship owner (died 1858).
• 27 August – Hovel Helseth, industrial pioneer (died 1865).
• 19 September – Valentin Christian Wilhelm Sibbern, government minister (died 1853).
• 21 September (in France) – Johan Caspar Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg, politician and nobleman (died 1840).
• 29 September – Fredrik Meltzer, businessman and politician (died 1855).
• 2 November – Frederik Motzfeldt, politician (died 1848).
• 8 November – Wollert Konow, merchant and vice consul (died 1839).

Full date unknown

• Peder Paulsen Balke, farmer and politician (died 1840).
• Anders Hansen Grønneberg, farmer and politician (died 1819).

Deaths

• 5 January – Niels Thaaning, painter (born c.1732).

Full date unknown

• Gottfried Heinrich Gloger, organ builder (born 1710).

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