• Source: 1739 in Norway

      • Events in the year 1739 in Norway.


      Incumbents


      Monarch: Christian VI.


      Events


      6 June - Battle of Jakobshavn (Greenland). The battle led to the consolidation of Danish-Norwegian presence on Greenland.
      Public schools for all children, from the age of seven, are established by law.
      Christian Rantzau is deposed as Steward of Norway, and the position was vacant until 1750.
      The Løvenskiold family were ennobled.


      Arts and literature



      Nordlands Trompet by Petter Dass is published posthumously.


      Births


      10 August – Peder Aadnes, rural painter (died 1792).


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      Nicolai Benjamin Aall, landowner and timber merchant (died 1798).


      Deaths


      1 December – Hartvig Jentoft, merchant (born 1693).


      See also




      References

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