Events in the year 1798 in
Norway.
Incumbents
*
Monarch:
Christian VII.
Events
*18 July - The town of
Egersund is founded.
Arts and literature
Births
*10 February -
Niels Nielsen Vogt
Niels Nielsen Vogt (10 February 1798 – 6 March 1869) was a Norwegian priest and politician.
He was the son of Niels Nielsen Vogt, Sr. (1755–1809), and a brother of priest and politicians David and Jørgen Herman Vogt. He was an uncle of Volrat ...
, priest and 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 ...
)
*17 July -
Aslak Reiersen Midhassel, politician (d.
1882
Events
January–March
* January 2
** The Standard Oil Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates.
** Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in ...
)
*25 August -
Christian Halvorsen Svenkerud, politician (d.
1886
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885.
* January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...
)
*8 October -
Hans Holmboe
Hans Holmboe (8 October 1798 – 23 May 1868) was a Norwegian educator and politician.
Personal life
He was born in Trondenes as the son of bailiff Jens Holmboe (1752–1804) and his wife Anna Margrethe Irgens (1766–1851). He had several broth ...
, educator and politician (d.
1868
Events
January–March
* January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries.
* January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Jap ...
)
*14 November -
Peder Carl Lasson, jurist and politician (d.
1873
Events
January–March
* January 1
** Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar.
** The California Penal Code goes into effect.
* January 17 – American Indian Wars: Modoc War: First Battle of the Stronghold – Modoc Indians defeat ...
)
Full date unknown
*
Christian Peder Bianco Boeck
Christian Peder Bianco Boeck (September 5, 1798 – July 11, 1877) was a Norwegian doctor, zoologist, botanist and mountaineer. He is most associated with his catalog of approved drugs, ''Pharmacopoea Norvegica'' (1854) and with his studies of ...
, doctor, zoologist and mountaineer (d.
1877
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
* January 8 – Great Sio ...
)
*
Harald Kolbeinson Guddal
Harald Kolbeinson Guddal (1798–1887) was a Norwegian politician.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1842, representing the rural constituency of ''Nordre Bergenhus Amt'' (today named Sogn og Fjordane). He worked as a farmer. , politician (d.
1887
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher.
* January 20
** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Har ...
)
*
Nils Isachsen Kulstad
Nils Isachsen Kulstad (1798 - 1876) was a Norwegian politician.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1839 and 1842, representing the rural constituency of ''Nordlands Amt'' (today named Nordland
Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, ...
, politician
*
Ole Ingebrigtsen Soelberg
Ole Ingebrigtsen Soelberg (11 October 1798 – 2 January 1874) was a Norwegian politician.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1833, 1836, 1842, 1845, 1851 and 1854. He represented the rural constituency of ''Søndre Trondhjems Amt'' ...
, politician (d.
1874
Events
January–March
* January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx.
* January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time.
* January 3 – Third Carlist War &ndas ...
)
*
Lars Bastian Ridder Stabell
Lars Bastian Ridder Stabell (27 April 1798–13 January 1860) was a politician in Denmark–Norway. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1798 to M.H. Stabell and his wife. He entered the military service in 1812 as a cadet. By 1814, he was ...
, politician (d.
1860
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
* January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusett ...
)
Deaths
See also
References
{{Year in Europe, 1798