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).
Full date missing
- Nicolai Benjamin Aall, landowner and timber merchant (died 1798).
Deaths
- 1 December – Hartvig Jentoft, merchant (born 1693).
See also
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