1801 in Norway

Events in the year 1801 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

 * 1 February – The first complete and reliable census was held in Norway: 883,603 inhabitants in Norway.
 * 2 April – War of the Second Coalition – First Battle of Copenhagen: The British Royal Navy, under Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, forces the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy to accept an armistice. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson leads the main attack, deliberately disregarding his commander's signal to withdraw. He is created a Viscount on 19 May; Denmark-Norway is forced to withdraw from the Second League of Armed Neutrality.

Arts and literature

 * Det Dramatiske Selskab in Drammen was founded.

Births

 * 4 February – Lauritz Dorenfeldt Jenssen, businessperson (d.1859)

Full date unknown

 * Hother Erich Werner Bøttger, politician (d.1857)
 * Olea Crøger, folk music collector (d.1855)
 * Jan Henrik Nitter Hansen, businessman and politician (d.1879)
 * Johan Frederik Thorne, businessperson and politician (d.1854)

Deaths

 * 23 May - Jacob Nicolai Wilse, priest and meteorologist (born 1736)
 * 21 July - Mathia Collett, merchant and businessperson (born 1737)