1739 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VI.

Events

• 6 June - Battle of Jakobshavn (Greenland). The battle led to the consolidation of Danish-Norwegian presence on Greenland.
• Public schools for all children, from the age of seven, are established by law.
• Christian Rantzau is deposed as Steward of Norway, and the position was vacant until 1750.
• The Løvenskiold family were ennobled.

Arts and literature

• The poem Nordlands Trompet by Petter Dass is published posthumously.

Births

• 10 August – Peder Aadnes, rural painter (died 1792).

Full date missing

• Nicolai Benjamin Aall, landowner and timber merchant (died 1798).

Deaths

• 1 December – Hartvig Jentoft, merchant (born 1693).

References

References

1. Johannessen, Finn Erhard. "Christian 6.". Norsk nettleksikon.
2. "allmueskole". Norsk nettleksikon.
3. Mardal, Magnus A.. "Christian Rantzau". Norsk nettleksikon.
4. "Stattholdere og visestattholdere i Norge 1572–1873". Norsk nettleksikon.
5. "Nordlands Trompet". Norsk nettleksikon.
6. "Peder Aadnes". Norsk nettleksikon.
7. Solberg, Marianne. "Nicolai Benjamin Aall". Norsk nettleksikon.
8. Nagel, Anne-Hilde. "Hartvig Jentoft". Kunnskapsforlaget.