1798 in Norway
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Events in the year 1798 in Norway.
See also:1798 in Denmark
List of years in Norway
List of years in Norway
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Incumbents
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)
