1760 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Frederick V.

Events

• Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters was founded in Trondheim by the bishop of Nidaros Johan Ernst Gunnerus, headmaster at the Trondheim Cathedral School Gerhard Schøning and Councillor of State Peter Frederik Suhm under the name Det Trondhiemske Selskab.

Births

• 30 January - Jonas Rein, priest, poet and member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll
• 15 February - Lars Ingier, military officer, road manager, land owner and mill owner.
• 4 March - Gabriel Schanche Kielland, businessman and ship owner
• 30 October - Matz Jenssen, businessperson

Full date unknown

• Lars Jakobson Thingnæsset, farmer and politician