1805 in Norway

Events in the year 1805 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

• The long horse-powered Damtjern-StorflÃ¥tan railway in Krokskogen, was opened. It is believed to have been Norway's first railway.
• Burial inside churches was outlawed.

Births

• 8 January – Halvor Heyerdahl Rasch, zoologist (d.1883)

Full date unknown

• Jørgen Wright Cappelen, bookseller and publisher (d.1878)
• Bernt Sverdrup Maschmann, priest and politician (d.1869)
• Ole Hersted Schjøtt, clergyman and politician (d.1848)
• Jacob Staalesen Velde, politician

Deaths

• 21 April – Bernt Anker, merchant, chamberlain and playwright (born 1746).
• Eistein Kjørn, woodcarver (born 1727).

See also

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