1803 in Norway

Events in the year 1803 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

• 1 January – Denmark–Norway abolishes transatlantic slave trade.
• June – Anders Olson Lysne is executed for lèse-majesté. He is the last person executed for lèse-majesté in Norway.

Arts and literature

• The construction of Ledaal is finished.
• Sokndal Church was built.

Births

• 27 September – Hans Jørgen Darre, clergyman (died 1874)

Full date unknown

• 1 September – Georg Pettersen, politician (died 1879)
• Per Ivarson Undi, early homesteader in Wisconsin Territory (died 1860)

Deaths

• 15 March – Johann Friedrich von und zu Mansbach, military officer (born 1744)
• 14 April – Johan Christian Schønheyder, bishop (born 1742)
• 22 May – Frederik Otto Scheel, military officer and civil servant (born 1748).
• June – Anders Olson Lysne, leader of a farmer rebellion (born 1764)
• 15 October – Ole Irgens, bishop (born 1724)
• 18 November – Ditlevine Feddersen, culture personality (born 1727)
• 24 November – Reier Gjellebøl, priest and writer (born 1737).

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