1798 in Norway

Events in the year 1798 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

 * 18 July - The town of Egersund is founded.

Births

 * 10 February - Niels Nielsen Vogt, priest and politician (d.1869)
 * 17 July - Aslak Reiersen Midhassel, politician (d.1882)
 * 25 August - Christian Halvorsen Svenkerud, politician (d.1886)
 * 8 October - Hans Holmboe, educator and politician (d.1868)
 * 14 November - Peder Carl Lasson, jurist and politician (d.1873)

Full date unknown

 * Christian Peder Bianco Boeck, doctor, zoologist and mountaineer (d.1877)
 * Harald Kolbeinson Guddal, politician (d.1887)
 * Nils Isachsen Kulstad, politician
 * Ole Ingebrigtsen Soelberg, politician (d.1874)
 * Lars Bastian Ridder Stabell, politician (d.1860)