1777 in Norway

Events in the year 1777 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

 * Danish India is turned over to the government by the Danish Asiatic Company and becomes a Danish-Norwegian crown colony.

Arts and literature

 * Old Nordre Osen Church was built.

Births

 * 7 February - Severin Løvenskiold, nobleman and politician (died 1856)
 * 18 February - Andreas Arntzen, politician (died 1837)
 * 12 April - Caspar Peter Hagerup, civil servant (died 1840)
 * 20 April - Hans Jørgen Reutz Synnestvedt, military officer and politician (died 1841)
 * 5 June - Oluf Borch de Schouboe, politician and Minister (died 1844)
 * 3 August - Peter Motzfeldt, politician and Minister (died 1854)
 * 12 September - Hans Jacob Arnold Jensen, military officer and politician (died 1853)

Full date unknown

 * Christian Krohg, politician and Minister (died 1828)
 * Peder Tollefsen Ilsaas, politician
 * Nicolai Niels Nielsen, priest and politician (died 1854)
 * Jacob Andreas Wille, priest and politician (died 1850)

Deaths

 * 22 May – Nicolaus Christian Friis, priest and writer (born 1714).