Events in the year 1802 in Norway.
Incumbents Monarch: Christian VII.
Events 9 July - The Lærdal Rebellion ends. Lærdalske lette infanterikompani was formed. Kongsberg received city rights.
Arts and literature Det Dramatiske Selskab in Trondheim was founded. The dictionary Norsk Ordsamling (Norwegian Vocabulary).Hem, Erlend. 2004. Laurents Hallager – lege og språkmann. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening 124(15): 1962. by Laurents Hallager, is published for the first time. Today, this is considered the first Norwegian dialect dictionary.
Births
28 July – Hans Conrad Thoresen, priest and politician (d.1858) 5 August – Niels Henrik Abel, mathematician (d.1829). 7 October – Magnus Brostrup Landstad, minister, psalmist and poet (d.1880) 10 October – Leonhard Christian Borchgrevink Holmboe, priest and politician (d.1887) 10 November – Karelius August Arntzen, politician (d.1876) 27 December – Thomas Fearnley, painter (died 1842).
Full date unknown Søren Jørgensen Aandahl, politician (d.1886) Christian Ludvig Diriks, politician and Minister (d.1873) Johan Widing Heiberg Landmark, jurist and politician (d.1878)
Deaths 1 January - Peder Harboe Hertzberg, potato priest (b.1728) 13 February - Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice (b.1744)
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