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1822 in Norway

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Events in the year 1822 in Norway.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: Charles III John.
  • First Minister: Jonas Collett

Events

  • March 11 – A powerful sudden storm struck the western Norwegian coast killing about 300 men at sea.
  • May 26 – 116 people die in the Grue Church fire. It's the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.

Births

  • 27 April – Karl Hals, businessperson and politician (d.1898)
  • 29 October – Thomas Johannessen Heftye, businessperson, politician and philanthropist (d.1886)

Full date unknown

  • Jacob Bøckmann Barth, forester (d.1892)
  • Jess Julius Engelstad, engineer and railroad administrator (d.1896)
  • Rasmus Tønder Nissen, politician (d.1882)
  • Olav Paulssøn, bailiff, writer and politician (d.1896)
  • Ole Peter Petersen, founder of Methodism in Norway and co-founder of Norwegian and Danish Methodism in the United States (d.1901)
  • Karl Andreas Larsen Vefring, politician

Deaths

  • 16 February — Claus Pavels, bishop (b.1769)

Full date unknown

  • Mathias Hagerup, politician (b.1765)
  • Sara Oust, revivalist lay preacher (b.1778)

References

References

  1. Mardal, Magnus A.. "Karl Johan". Norsk nettleksikon.
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