Events in the year

1651 Events January–March * January 1 – Charles II is crowned King of Scots at Scone ( his first crowning). * January 24 – Parliament of Boroa in Chile: Spanish and Mapuche authorities meet at Boroa, renewing the fragile ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

: Frederick III.

Events

*29 July -

Gregers Krabbe Gregers Krabbe (12 January 1594 – 20 December 1655) was a Danish nobleman who served as Governor-general of Norway. Biography He was born in on the Vesløsgård estate at Hannæs in northwestern Jutland, Denmark. He was a son of Niels K ...

was appointed Governor-General of Norway. *1 December - The

Vardø witch trials ( fi, Vuoreija, fkv, Vuorea, se, Várggát) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms og Finnmark Counties of Norway, county in the extreme northeastern part of Norway. Vardø is the easternmost town in Norway, more to the ...

starts.

Arts and literature

Oppdal Church Oppdal Church ( no, Oppdal kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Oppdal municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at the Vang farm, near Norwegian National Road 70, just west of the village of Oppdal. It is the main ...

was built.

Births

Deaths

*9 February -

Herman Krefting Herman Krefting (25 September 1592 – 9 February 1651) was a German born, Norwegian ironworks pioneer. Krefting was born in Bremen; the son of Wolter Krefting and his wife Anna Winckel. He co-founded Det Norske Jernkompani in Copenhagen in 16 ...

, ironworks pioneer (born

1592 Events January–June * January 30 – Pope Clement VIII (born Ippolito Aldobrandini) succeeds Pope Innocent IX, who died one month earlier, as the 231st pope. He immediately recalls the Sixtine Vulgate. * February 7 – G ...

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