1807 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VII.

Events

• 12 August - Start of the Gunboat War between Denmark-Norway and the United Kingdom.
• 1 September - The Norwegian Government commission was formed.
• 18 September - British forces blows up Fredriksholm Fortress, four Englishmen was killed in the blast.
• 9 October - Overkriminalretten is established. It was Norway's highest court until 1815, when the Supreme Court of Norway was established.
• Porsgrunn is granted limited city status. Full city status is granted in 1842.

Arts and literature

• The oldest monument in Norway; is erected.

Births

January to June

• 19 January – Peter Hersleb Graah Birkeland, bishop
• 27 January – Ulrik Anton Motzfeldt, jurist and politician
• 14 March – Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Swedish and Norwegian queen

July to December

• 29 November – Peter Severin Steenstrup, naval officer and businessperson
• 22 December – Johan Sebastian Welhaven, poet and critic

Full date unknown

• Nils Fredrik Julius Aars, priest and politician
• Halvor Olsen Folkestad, councillor of state
• Peter Tidemand Malling, bookseller, printer and publisher
• Hans Wille, priest and politician

Deaths

• 16 September – Jochum Brinch Lund, merchant.