1785 in Norway

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See also:	1785 in Denmark List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1785 in Norway .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VII. ^[1]

Arts and literature

Frelseren Church (1900)

• 12 January - The first public library in Norway is opened. ^[2]
• Frelseren Church was built.
• In an anonymous work, Christian Kølle introduced the written feminine grammatical gender in Norway. ^[3]

Births

• 1 August - Georg Jacob Bull, jurist and politician (d.1854)

Full date unknown

• Gustav Peter Blom, politician (d.1869)
• Michel Nielsen Grendahl, politician (d.1849)
• Knut Mevasstaul, rose painter (d.1862)

Deaths

• 29 December - Johan Herman Wessel, poet (b.1742)

References

1. Bratberg, Terje. "Christian 7.". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
2. John Ansteinsson, "The Library History of Norway", The Library Journal 45 (1920) 19-24, 57-62, p. 22.
3. Borgen, Per Otto (2006). "Kølle, Christian". Asker og Bærum leksikon (in Norwegian). Drammen: Forlaget for by- og bygdehistorie. pp. 298–299. ISBN   82-91649-10-3.