1798 in Norway

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See also:	1798 in Denmark List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1798 in Norway .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VII. ^[1]

Events

• 17 February - The French corvette Cérès was wrecked on the shores of Norway.
• 18 July - The town of Egersund is founded.
• The town of Sogndal is founded (lost town status in 1944).

Births

• 10 February - Niels Nielsen Vogt, priest and politician (d.1869)
• 17 July - Aslak Reiersen Midhassel, politician (d.1882)
• 25 August - Christian Halvorsen Svenkerud, politician (d.1886)
• 8 October - Hans Holmboe, educator and politician (d.1868)
• 14 November - Peder Carl Lasson, jurist and politician (d.1873)

Full date unknown

• Christian Peder Bianco Boeck, doctor, zoologist and mountaineer (d.1877)
• Harald Kolbeinson Guddal, politician (d.1887)
• Nils Isachsen Kulstad, politician
• Ole Ingebrigtsen Soelberg, politician (d.1874)
• Lars Bastian Ridder Stabell, politician (d.1860)

References

1. Bratberg, Terje. "Christian 7.". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 13 December 2023.