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See also:	1801 in Denmark List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1801 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian VII

Events

• 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.^[1] He is created a Viscount on 19 May; Denmark-Norway is forced to withdraw from the Second League of Armed Neutrality.

Arts and literature

• Det Dramatiske Selskab in Drammen was founded.

Births

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

Full date unknown

• 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)

Deaths

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