1785 in Norway

Events in the year 1785 in Norway.

Incumbents Monarch: Christian VII.

Arts and literature

12 January - The first public library in Norway is opened.John Ansteinsson, "The Library History of Norway", The Library Journal 45 (1920) 19-24, 57-62, p. 22. Frelseren Church was built. In an anonymous work, Christian Kølle introduced the written feminine grammatical gender in Norway.

Births 1 August - Georg Jacob Bull, jurist and politician (d.1854)

Full date unknown Gustav Peter Blom, politician (d.1869) Michel Nielsen Grendahl, politician (d.1849) Knut Mevasstaul, rose painter (d.1862)

Deaths 29 December - Johan Herman Wessel, poet (b.1742)

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