1838 in Norway

Events in the year 1838 in Norway.

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Centuries:
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Decades:
  • 1810s
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
See also:1838 in Sweden
List of years in Norway

Incumbents
  • Monarch: Charles III John.[1]

Events
  • 1 January – Fulfilling a law from 1837 all parishes form the bases for the establishment of altogether 396 formannskapsdistrikts, the precursor of municipalities.

Arts and literature

Births
Jacob Aall Bonnevie
  • 10 January – Johan Christopher Brun, pharmacist and politician (d.1914)
  • 12 March – Johan Gerhard Theodor Ameln, politician (d.1917)
  • 23 March – Johan Christian Heuch, bishop and politician (d.1904)
  • 28 December – Albert Marius Jacobsen, military officer and politician (d.1909)
  • 31 December – Jacob Aall Bonnevie, politician and Minister (d.1904)

Full date unknown
  • Ludvig Aubert, politician and Minister (d.1896)
  • Edvard Hans Hoff, politician and Minister (d.1933)
  • Christian Johansen Ihlen, politician
  • Ole C. Johnson, soldier in the American Civil War (d.1886)
  • Anders Nicolai Kiær, statistician (d.1919)
  • Christian Homann Schweigaard, politician and Prime Minister (d.1899)

Deaths
Søren Christian Sommerfelt
  • 10 March – Jonas Greger Walnum, politician (b.1771)
  • 27 June - Nils Christian Frederik Hals, military officer (b.1758)
  • 20 November - Syvert Amundsen Eeg, farmer and politician (b.1757)
  • 29 December – Søren Christian Sommerfelt, priest and botanist (b. 1794).[2]

See also

References
  1. Mardal, Magnus A. "Karl Johan". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  2. Sunding, Per. "Søren Christian Sommerfelt - 1". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
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