1604 in Norway

Events in the year 1604 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Christian IV.

Events

 * 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.

Births

 * Niels Hanssøn Meng, timber trader and Mayor (died 1676).

Deaths



 * 17 April – Rasmus Hjort, priest, humanist, educator (born c.1525).