Events in the year 1778 in Norway.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Christian VII.
Events
- 14 January - The Anker family were ennobled.
Arts and literature
- The construction of Stiftsgården was finished.
- Claus Fasting starts publishing the literary magazine Provinzialblade, in Bergen.
Births
- 30 May - Jens Rynning, priest (died 1857)
- 11 November - Nils Astrup, politician (died 1835)
- 7 December - Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie, a Norwegian constitutional father, known for being the constitutional assembly's writer (died 1849)
- 23 December - Johan Reinhardt, professor in zoology (died 1845)
Full date unknown
- Sara Oust, revivalist lay preacher (died 1822)
Deaths
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