Events in the year
1656
Events
January–March
* January 5 – The First War of Villmergen, a civil war in the Confederation of Switzerland pitting its Protestant and Roman Catholic cantons against each other, breaks out but is resolved by March 7. The ...
in
Norway.
Incumbents
*
Monarch:
Frederick III.
Events
*27 February - The first
Lindesnes Lighthouse was established, it was the first lighthouse in Norway.
*
Niels Trolle
Niels Trolle til Trollesholm og Gavnø (20 December 1599 – 20 September 1667) was a Danish nobleman who served as vice admiral under Christian IV and later as Steward of Norway from 1656 to 1661. He played a central administrative role d ...
is appointed
Steward of Norway.
Arts and literature
*''Halsnøy Kloster'', a prospect of
Halsnøy Abbey
Halsnøy Abbey (''Halsnøy kloster'') was a house of Augustinian Canons located on the island of Halsnøy on the Hardangerfjord at Kvinnherad in Vestland, Norway.
History
Halsnøy Abbey was one of the richest monasteries in medieval era Norway. ...
was painted by
Elias Fiigenschoug, it is regarded as the first Norwegian landscape painting.
* The construction of
Austrått Manor is finished..
Births
Full date unknown
*
Hans Paus
Sir Hans Paus (born 1656 in Hjartdal – 18 March 1715) was a Norwegian priest and poet. He was parish priest in Kviteseid from 1683 until his death. A popular man in his parish who learned the local dialect (at a time when most church officials a ...
, priest and poet (d.
1715
Events
For dates within Great Britain and the British Empire, as well as in the Russian Empire, the "old style" Julian calendar was used in 1715, and can be converted to the "new style" Gregorian calendar (adopted in the British Empire i ...
).
Deaths
Full date unknown
*Kristoffer Nieslen Tønder, Baliff of
Austråt. (b.1587).
See also
References
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