1738 in Norway

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{{Year in Norway|1738}}

Events in the year 1738 in Norway.

Incumbents

Monarch: Christian VI.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Christian 6. |first=Finn Erhard |last=Johannessen |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Christian_6. |language=no |access-date=13 December 2023}}

Events

Theater was banned in Norway.Anne Margrete Fiskvik, [https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/1700/article/viewFile/3874/3881 Where highbrow taste met itinerant dance in eighteenth century Scandinavia: The dance entrepreneur Martin Nürenbach ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707034800/https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/1700/article/viewFile/3874/3881|date=2018-07-07 }}

Arts and literature

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Births

10 March – Peter Hersleb Classen, statesman (died 1825)

Deaths

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17 March – Peder Colbjørnsen, timber merchant and war hero (born 1683).{{cite encyclopedia|title=Peder Colbjørnsen|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Frank Kiel|last=Jacobsen|editor=Helle, Knut|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=https://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Peder_Colbjørnsen/utdypning|language=no|access-date=24 November 2012}}

See also

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References

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{{Year in Europe|1738}}