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1792 in Norway

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1792 in Norway

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Events in the year 1792 in Norway.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

  • Denmark-Norway declares transatlantic slave trade will be illegal after 1803 (though slavery continues to 1848 in Denmark)
  • The trading and shipping company Salve Kallevig & Søn was founded in Arendal.

Arts and literature

Sør-Fron Church
  • Sør-Fron Church was built.
  • Sandar Church was built.

Births

  • 1 January – Henrik Anker Bjerregaard, poet, dramatist and judge (died 1842)
  • 18 November – Even Hammer Holmboe, politician (died 1859)
  • 13 December – Christian Schou, brewer and merchant (died 1874).

Full date unknown

  • Diderik Bøgvad, politician (died 1857)
  • Jørgen Flood, merchant and politician (died 1867)
  • Nils Christensen Ringnæs, politician
  • Erike Kirstine Kolstad, the first professional native stage actress in Norway (d.1830)

Deaths

  • 14 December - Ole Nilsen Weierholt, wood carver (born 1718)

References

References

  1. Bratberg, Terje. "Christian 7.". Norsk nettleksikon.
  2. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ATq5_6h2AT0C&dq=abolish+slavery+iceland&pg=PA8 The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery, Volume 1 By Junius P. Rodriguez]
  3. Arntzen, Jon Gunnar. "Christian Schou". Norsk nettleksikon.
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