Events in the year 1798 in Norway.
Incumbents Monarch: Christian VII.
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) See also
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