1822 in Norway

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See also:	1822 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1822 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Charles III John.^[1]

Events

• March 11 – A powerful sudden storm struck the western Norwegian coast killing about 300 men at sea.
• May 26 – 116 people die in the Grue Church fire. It's the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.

Arts and literature

Births

• 27 April – Karl Hals, businessperson and politician (d.1898)
• 29 October – Thomas Johannessen Heftye, businessperson, politician and philanthropist (d.1886)

Full date unknown

• Jacob Bøckmann Barth, forester (d.1892)
• Jess Julius Engelstad, engineer and railroad administrator (d.1896)
• Rasmus Tønder Nissen, politician (d.1882)
• Olav Paulssøn, bailiff, writer and politician (d.1896)
• Ole Peter Petersen, founder of Methodism in Norway and co-founder of Norwegian and Danish Methodism in the United States (d.1901)
• Karl Andreas Larsen Vefring, politician

Deaths

• 16 February — Claus Pavels, bishop (b.1769)

Full date unknown

• Mathias Hagerup, politician (b.1765)
• Sara Oust, revivalist lay preacher (b.1778)

See also

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