1802 in Norway

Events in the year 1802 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

 * 9 July - The Lærdal Rebellion ends.
 * Lærdalske lette infanterikompani was formed.

Arts and literature

 * Det Dramatiske Selskab in Trondheim was founded.

Births

 * 28 July – Hans Conrad Thoresen, priest and politician (d.1858)
 * 5 August – Niels Henrik Abel, mathematician (d.1829).
 * 7 October – Magnus Brostrup Landstad, minister, psalmist and poet (d.1880)
 * 10 October – Leonhard Christian Borchgrevink Holmboe, priest and politician (d.1887)
 * 10 November – Karelius August Arntzen, politician (d.1876)

Full date unknown

 * Søren Jørgensen Aandahl, politician (d.1886)
 * Christian Ludvig Diriks, politician and Minister (d.1873)
 * Johan Widing Heiberg Landmark, jurist and politician (d.1878)

Deaths

 * 1 January - Peder Harboe Hertzberg, potato priest (b.1728)
 * 13 February - Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice (b.1744)