Events in the year 1715 in Norway.

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 IV.

Events

* 10 March -

Birgitte Haldorsdatter {{Expand Swedish, topic=bio, date=September 2022 Birgitte Haldorsdatter or Birgit Haldorsdaater (''fl.'' 1715) was the last person confirmed to have been sentenced guilty of witchcraft in Norway. She was prosecuted charged with having performed a ...

was judged guilty of

witchcraft Witchcraft traditionally means the use of magic or supernatural powers to harm others. A practitioner is a witch. In medieval and early modern Europe, where the term originated, accused witches were usually women who were believed to have us ...

Sørum Sørum was a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Sørumsand. Sørum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see ...

and sentenced to life imprisonment. She is the last person confirmed to have been sentenced guilty of witchcraft in Norway. * 19 April - Start of the Sami mission by the College of Missions.

Arts and literature

Births

* Peder Hjort, businessperson (died 1789)

Deaths

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 (born

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 ...

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