Events in the year 1778 in Norway.
Incumbents Monarch: Christian VII.
Events 14 January - The Anker family were ennobled.
Arts and literature
The construction of Stiftsgården was finished. Claus Fasting starts publishing the literary magazine Provinzialblade, in Bergen.
Births 30 May - Jens Rynning, priest (died 1857) 11 November - Nils Astrup, politician (died 1835) 7 December - Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie, a Norwegian constitutional father, known for being the constitutional assembly's writer (died 1849) 23 December - Johan Reinhardt, professor in zoology (died 1845) Full date unknown Sara Oust, revivalist lay preacher (died 1822) See also
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