1783 in Norway

Events in the year 1783 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

• Jacob Juel is put in house arrest for embezzlement of the state. It would later turn out to be 556,000 Rdlr, the largest embezzlement in Norwegian history.

Arts and literature

• Hegra Church was built.

Births

• 24 January Herman Løvenskiold Udied 1825)

• 23 December - Lorentz Lange, judge and politician (d.1860)

Full date unknown

• Christian Holm, politician (d.1855)
• Andreas Samuelsen Vibstad, politician (d.1854)

Deaths

• Simen Fougner, farmer and writer (born 1701).

See also

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