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See also:	1786 in Denmark List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1786 in Norway.

• Monarch: Christian VII.^[1]

• The trade with Iceland is opened to all Danish and Norwegian traders.
• 2 October - Lofthusreisingen begins, a large peasant revolt in South Norway.

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• 15 May - Johan Bülow Wamberg, politician, (d.1852)
• 26 May - Engebret Soot, canal engineer (d.1859)
• 29 June - Peder Christian Hersleb Kjerschow, bishop (d.1866)

• Samuel Mathiassen Føyn, ship-owner and politician (d.1854)

• 18 February – Ludvig Daae, priest and landowner (born 1723).

• Anders Olsen, trader, explorer and colonial administrator (born 1718)