• Source: 1721 in Norway
    • Events in the year 1721 in Norway.


      Incumbents


      Monarch: Frederick IV.


      Events


      The Bergen Greenland Company was founded.
      2 May – Hans Egede departed with three ships from Bergen to Greenland, starting the Danish-Norwegian colonization of Greenland.
      1 August – The King orders a large sale of church property in Norway.
      10 September – Great Northern War ends.
      21 December – Niels Tygesen Knag was ennobled, and given the noble family name Knagenhjelm.


      Deaths


      15 February – Tørres Christensen, merchant, ship owner, land owner (born 1664).


      See also




      References

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