1791 in Norway

Events in the year 1791 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

 * Jens Holmboe starts organized settling to the uninhabited Målselvdalen, from the Gudbrand Valley and Østerdalen.

Births

 * 11 July - Jonas Schanche Kielland, consul and politician (d.1848)
 * 24 July - Knud Spødervold, author and lay preacher and leader of the Strong Believers (d.1852)
 * 14 August - Frederik Holst, medical doctor (d.1871).
 * 15 November - Peder Jensen Fauchald, politician (d.1856)
 * 16 November - Olaf Rye, military officer (d.1849)

Full date unknown

 * Gjest Baardsen, outlaw, jail-breaker, non-fiction writer, songwriter and memoirist (died 1849).
 * Hans Glad Bloch, politician (d.1865)
 * Mikkel Johannesen Borge, politician
 * Martin Halvorsen Vee, politician
 * Arnt Arntsen Wang, politician

Deaths

 * 25 December – Claus Fasting, playwright, literary critic, editor and civil servant (born 1746)