1802 in Norway

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See also:	1802 in Denmark List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1802 in Norway .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VII. ^[1]

Events

• 9 July - The Lærdal Rebellion ends. ^[2]
• Lærdalske lette infanterikompani was formed.

Arts and literature

• Det Dramatiske Selskab in Trondheim was founded.
• The dictionary Norsk Ordsamling (Norwegian Vocabulary). ^[3] by Laurents Hallager, is published for the first time. Today, this is considered the first Norwegian dialect dictionary.

Births

Niels Henrik Abel

• 28 July – Hans Conrad Thoresen, priest and politician (d.1858)
• 5 August – Niels Henrik Abel, mathematician (d.1829). ^[4]
• 7 October – Magnus Brostrup Landstad, minister, psalmist and poet (d.1880)
• 10 October – Leonhard Christian Borchgrevink Holmboe, priest and politician (d.1887)
• 10 November – Karelius August Arntzen, politician (d.1876)
• 27 December – Thomas Fearnley, painter (died 1842). ^[5]

Full date unknown

• Søren Jørgensen Aandahl, politician (d.1886)
• Christian Ludvig Diriks, politician and Minister (d.1873)
• Johan Widing Heiberg Landmark, jurist and politician (d.1878)

Deaths

• 1 January - Peder Harboe Hertzberg, potato priest (b.1728)
• 13 February - Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice (b.1744)

References

1. Bratberg, Terje. "Christian 7.". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
2. Daae, Ludvig (1870). Norske Bygdesagn. Cappelen. p. 90.
3. Hem, Erlend. 2004. Laurents Hallager – lege og språkmann. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening 124(15): 1962. Archived 2015-06-13 at the Wayback Machine (in Norwegian)
4. Stubhaug, Arild. "Niels Henrik Abel". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
5. Østby, Leif; Ernst, Frode. "Thomas Fearnley". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 8 February 2025.