1801 in Norway

• Monarch: Christian VII.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Christian 7. |first=Terje |last=Bratberg |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Christian_7. |language=no |access-date=13 December 2023}}

• 1 February – The first complete and reliable census was held in Norway: 883,603 inhabitants in Norway.
• 2 April – War of the Second Coalition – First Battle of Copenhagen: The British Royal Navy, under Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, forces the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy to accept an armistice. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson leads the main attack, deliberately disregarding his commander's signal to withdraw.{{cite book|chapter=1801|title=The People's Chronology|editor=Everett, Jason M.|publisher=Thomson Gale|year=2006}} He is created a Viscount on 19 May; Denmark-Norway is forced to withdraw from the Second League of Armed Neutrality.

• Det Dramatiske Selskab in Drammen was founded.

• 4 February – Lauritz Dorenfeldt Jenssen, businessperson (d.1859)

• Hother Erich Werner Bøttger, politician (d.1857)
• Olea Crøger, folk music collector (d.1855)
• Jan Henrik Nitter Hansen, businessman and politician (d.1879)
• Johan Frederik Thorne, businessperson and politician (d.1854)

• 23 May - Jacob Nicolai Wilse, priest and meteorologist (born 1736)
• 21 July - Mathia Collett, merchant and businessperson (born 1737)

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