1821 in Norway

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See also:	1821 in Sweden List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1821 in Norway.

Events

Meltzer's 1821 design for the flag of Norway

• Fredrik Meltzer designs the modern flag of Norway to replace the modified Danish and Swedish flags then in use.

Births

• 2 May - Jens Andreas Friis, linguist and author (d.1896)
• 14 July - Jens Holmboe, politician and Minister (d.1891)
• 17 August - Jacob Andreas Michelsen, businessperson and politician (d.1902)
• 23 August - Christian Collett Kjerschow, politician (d.1889)
• 18 November - Johan Jørgen Lange Hanssen, politician (d.1889)

Full date unknown

• Eilev Jonsson Steintjønndalen, Hardanger fiddle maker (d.1876)

Deaths

• 14 January - Jens Zetlitz, priest and poet (b.1761)
• 5 March - Gabriel Schanche Kielland, businessman and ship owner (b.1760)
• 20 May – Abraham Pihl, clergyman, astronomer and architect (b.1756).^[1]
• 21 November - Jonas Rein, priest, poet and member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll (b.1760)

References

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