Events in the year 1777 in Norway.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Christian VII.
Events
- Danish India is turned over to the government by the Danish Asiatic Company and becomes a Danish-Norwegian crown colony.
Arts and literature
- Old Nordre Osen Church was built.
Births
- 7 February - Severin Løvenskiold, nobleman and politician (died 1856)
- 18 February - Andreas Arntzen, politician (died 1837)
- 12 April - Caspar Peter Hagerup, civil servant (died 1840)
- 20 April - Hans Jørgen Reutz Synnestvedt, military officer and politician (died 1841)
- 5 June - Oluf Borch de Schouboe, politician and Minister (died 1844)
- 3 August - Peter Motzfeldt, politician and Minister (died 1854)
- 12 September - Hans Jacob Arnold Jensen, military officer and politician (died 1853)
Full date unknown
- Christian Krohg, politician and Minister (died 1828)
- Peder Tollefsen Ilsaas, politician
- Nicolai Niels Nielsen, priest and politician (died 1854)
- Jacob Andreas Wille, priest and politician (died 1850)
Deaths
- 22 May – Nicolaus Christian Friis, priest and writer (born 1714).
See also
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