Events in the year 1604 in Norway. Incumbents Monarch: Christian IV.
Events 24 July - Anders Lauritsson Green becomes Chancellor of Norway. 4 December: Christian IV’s Norwegian Law of 1604 is issued, essentially as a translation into Danish of the older Norwegian law of Magnus law-mender established and recorded in Norwegian in 1274 and 1276. Hiring anyone who had attended Jesuit schools in positions in schools and churches was made illegal. The town of Son is founded (lost town status in 1963). Births Niels Hanssøn Meng, timber trader and Mayor (died 1676).
Deaths
17 April – Rasmus Hjort, priest, humanist, educator (born c.1525).
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