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1791 in Norway

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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)

References

Bratberg, Terje. "Christian 7.". Norsk nettleksikon.
Skålevåg, Svein Atle. "Frederik Holst". Norsk nettleksikon.
"Gjest Baardsen". Norsk nettleksikon.

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