Events in the year 1757 in Norway.

Incumbents

Events

* Kongsberg School of Mines was established.

Arts and literature

Births

*20 November –

Jacob Hersleb Darre Jacob Hersleb Darre (20 November 1757 – 15 December 1841) was a Norwegian vicar. He served as a representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly. Jacob Hersleb Darre was born in Overhalla in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway where his father w ...

, priest, member of the

Norwegian Constitutional Assembly The Norwegian Constituent Assembly (in Norwegian ''Grunnlovsforsamlingen'', also known as ''Riksforsamlingen'') is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll in Norway, that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised th ...

(died

1841 Events January–March * January 20 – Charles Elliot of the United Kingdom, and Qishan of the Qing dynasty, agree to the Convention of Chuenpi. * January 26 – Britain occupies Hong Kong. Later in the year, the first census of the i ...

Full date missing

Syvert Omundsen Eeg Syvert Omundsen Eeg (21 August 1757 – 20 November 1838) was a Norwegian farmer and sea captain. He was a representative in the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly in 1814. Eeg was born in Søgne in Vest-Agder, Norway. He worked as both a farmer an ...

, farmer and politician (died

1838 Events January–March * January 10 – A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London. * January 11 – At Morristown, New Jersey, Samuel Morse, Alfred Vail and Leonard Gale give the first public demonstration o ...

Deaths

References

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