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.
• The dictionary Norsk Ordsamling. by Laurents Hallager, is published for the first time. Today, this is considered the first Norwegian dialect dictionary.

Births

• 28 July – Hans Conrad Thoresen, priest and politician
• 5 August – Niels Henrik Abel, mathematician.
• 7 October – Magnus Brostrup Landstad, minister, psalmist and poet
• 10 October – Leonhard Christian Borchgrevink Holmboe, priest and politician
• 10 November – Karelius August Arntzen, politician
• 27 December – Thomas Fearnley, painter.

Full date unknown

• Søren Jørgensen Aandahl, politician
• Christian Ludvig Diriks, politician and Minister
• Johan Widing Heiberg Landmark, jurist and politician

Deaths

• 1 January - Peder Harboe Hertzberg, potato priest
• 13 February - Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice