Events in the year 1783 in Norway.

Incumbents Monarch: Christian VII.

Events Jacob Juel is put in house arrest for embezzlement of the state. It would later turn out to be 556,000 Rdlr, the largest embezzlement in Norwegian history.

Arts and literature Hegra Church was built.

Births 24 January Herman Løvenskiold Udied 1825)

23 December - Lorentz Lange, judge and politician (d.1860)

Full date unknown Christian Holm, politician (d.1855) Andreas Samuelsen Vibstad, politician (d.1854)

Deaths Simen Fougner, farmer and writer (born 1701).

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