Events in the year 1785 in

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 ...

: Christian VII.

Events

Arts and literature

* 12 January - The first public library in Norway is opened.John Ansteinsson, "The Library History of Norway", ''The Library Journal'' 45 (1920) 19-24, 57-62
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Frelseren Church Frelseren Church (; no, Frelserens kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Farsund Municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the town of Farsund. It is one of the three churches for the Farsund parish which is part of t ...

was built. * In an anonymous work,

Christian Kølle Christian Kølle (15 August 1736 – 30 January 1814) was a Norwegian educator and theologian known for his at-the-time innovative views on written Norwegian that preceded many of the later language reforms. Background He was born in Kristiania t ...

introduced the written feminine grammatical gender in Norway.

Births

*1 August -

Georg Jacob Bull Georg Jacob Bull (born 1 August 1785 in Christiania, died 12 December 1854) was a Norwegian jurist and politician. He was a stipendiary magistrate (''byfogd'') of Bergen from 1810 to 1821. While stationed here, he was elected to the Norwegian Par ...

, jurist and politician (d.

1854 Events January–March * January 4 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the ''Samarang''. * January 6 – The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is perhaps born. * January 9 – The Teut ...

)

Full date unknown

Gustav Peter Blom Gustav Peter Blom (4 July 1785 – 28 October 1869) was a Norwegian civil servant, politician and historian. He was a member of the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly at Eidsvoll during 1814. Blom was born at Hurum in Buskerud, Norway. Blo ...

, politician (d.

1869 Events January–March * January 3 – Abdur Rahman Khan is defeated at Tinah Khan, and exiled from Afghanistan. * January 5 – Scotland's oldest professional football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded. * January 20 – E ...

) * Michel Nielsen Grendahl, politician (d.

1849 Events January–March * January 1 – France begins issue of the Ceres series, the nation's first postage stamps. * January 5 – Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The Austrian army, led by Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, enters in th ...

) *

Knut Mevasstaul Knut Olavson Mevasstaul (1785–1862) was a Norwegian rose painter (''norsk rosemaler''). He was from Kviteseid in Telemark, Norway. He was trained in the decorative folk art of Rosemaling in the traditional style of Vest-Telemark in Upper Te ...

rose painter A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be e ...

(d.

1862 Events January–March * January 1 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos Island, in modern-day Nigeria. * January 6 – French intervention in Mexico: French, Spanish and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico. * January ...

)

Deaths

*29 December -

Johan Herman Wessel Johan Herman Wessel (6 October 1742 – 29 December 1785) was an 18th-century Danish-Norwegian poet, satirist and playwright. His written work was characterized by the use of parody and satiric wit. Biography Wessel was born and raised at Vest ...

, poet (b.

1742 Events January–March * January 9 – Robert Walpole is made Earl of Orford, and resigns as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, effectively ending his period as Prime Minister of Great Britain. On his for ...

)

References

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