1791 in Norway

Events in the year 1791 in Norway.

Incumbents Monarch: Christian VII.

Events Jens Holmboe starts organized settling to the uninhabited Målselvdalen, from the Gudbrand Valley and Østerdalen.

Births

11 July - Jonas Schanche Kielland, consul and politician (d.1848) 24 July - Knud Spødervold, author and lay preacher and leader of the Strong Believers (d.1852) 14 August - Frederik Holst, medical doctor (d.1871). 15 November - Peder Jensen Fauchald, politician (d.1856) 16 November - Olaf Rye, military officer (d.1849)

Full date unknown Gjest Baardsen, outlaw, jail-breaker, non-fiction writer, songwriter and memoirist (died 1849). Hans Glad Bloch, politician (d.1865) Mikkel Johannesen Borge, politician Martin Halvorsen Vee, politician Arnt Arntsen Wang, politician

Deaths 25 December – Claus Fasting, playwright, literary critic, editor and civil servant (born 1746)

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