1802 in Norway

Events in the year 1802 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

• 9 July - The Lærdal Rebellion ends.
• Lærdalske lette infanterikompani was formed.

Arts and literature

• Det Dramatiske Selskab in Trondheim was founded.
• The dictionary Norsk Ordsamling (Norwegian Vocabulary). by Laurents Hallager, is published for the first time. Today, this is considered the first Norwegian dialect dictionary.

Births

• 28 July – Hans Conrad Thoresen, priest and politician (d.1858)
• 5 August – Niels Henrik Abel, mathematician (d.1829).
• 7 October – Magnus Brostrup Landstad, minister, psalmist and poet (d.1880)
• 10 October – Leonhard Christian Borchgrevink Holmboe, priest and politician (d.1887)
• 10 November – Karelius August Arntzen, politician (d.1876)
• 27 December – Thomas Fearnley, painter (died 1842).

Full date unknown

• Søren Jørgensen Aandahl, politician (d.1886)
• Christian Ludvig Diriks, politician and Minister (d.1873)
• Johan Widing Heiberg Landmark, jurist and politician (d.1878)

Deaths

• 1 January - Peder Harboe Hertzberg, potato priest (b.1728)
• 13 February - Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice (b.1744)

References

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