1604 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch: Christian IV

  Events

• Christian IV’s Norwegian Law of 1604 is issued, essentially as a translation into Danish of the older Norwegian law of Magnus law-mender established and recorded in Norwegian in 1274 and 1276.
• Hiring anyone who had attended Jesuit schools in positions in schools and churches was made illegal.

  Arts and literature

Births

• Niels Hanssøn Meng, timber trader and Mayor.

  Deaths

• 17 April - Rasmus Hjort, priest, humanist, educator.