Events in the year 1768 in Norway.

Incumbents Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

1 December — The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya.Porter, Darwin & Danforth Prince. Frommer's Norway, 3rd Edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007. 218.

Arts and literature January - Gunnerus Library, the oldest scientific library in Norway is opened in Trondheim.

Births

Full date unknown Johan Ernst Berg, politician (died 1828)

Deaths 12 January – Joen Jacobsen, master builder (born 1714).

24 January – Morten Leuch, timber merchant and landowner (born 1732).

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