1739 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VI.

Events

• 6 June - Battle of Jakobshavn. The battle led to the consolidation of Danish-Norwegian presence on Greenland.
• Public schools for all children, from the age of seven, are established by law.
• Christian Rantzau is deposed as Steward of Norway, and the position was vacant until 1750.
• The Løvenskiold family were ennobled.

Arts and literature

• The poem Nordlands Trompet by Petter Dass is published posthumously.

Births

• 10 August – Peder Aadnes, rural painter.

Full date missing

• Nicolai Benjamin Aall, landowner and timber merchant.

Deaths

• 1 December - Hartvig Jentoft, merchant.