1816 in Norway

Events in the year 1816 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Charles II.

Events

• 26 May - The Norwegian Bible Society, the oldest interchurch organization in Norway is founded.
• 14 June - Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway is founded.

Full date unknown

• Bodø was granted township status.
• Grimstad received city rights.
• Carl Carlsson Mörner is appointed Governor-general of Norway.

Arts and literature

• The oldest theatre building in Scandinavia; Trøndelag Teater was built.

Births

• 5 January – Jens Zetlitz Kielland, consul and artist (d.1881)
• 16 March – Vilhelmine Ullmann, proponent for women's rights (d. 1915).
• 30 May – Jacob Smith Jarmann, firearms designer (d.1894)
• 6 June – August Thomle, jurist and politician (d.1889)
• 30 July – Johan Sverdrup, politician and first Prime Minister of Norway (d.1892)
• 16 October – Christian Torber Hegge Geelmuyden, navy officer and politician (d.1885)
• 16 December – Adam Hiorth, merchant and industrial pioneer (died 1871).

Full date unknown

• Paul Peter Vilhelm Breder, politician (d.1890)
• Erik Jonsson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (d.1868)
• Wilhelm Nielsen, politician

Deaths

• 26 March – Johan Ernst Mowinckel, merchant and consul (b. 1759).
• 26 July – Johan Nordahl Brun, poet, dramatist, bishop and politician (b.1745)

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