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Decades: 1800s • 1810s • 1820s Centuries: 17th • 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 1807 in Denmark Other events of 1807 List of years in Norway

Events

• Porsgrunn is granted limited city status. Full city status is granted in 1842.
• Start of the Gunboat War bewteen Denmark-Norway and the United Kingdom.

Arts and literature

Births

January to June

• 14 March – Josephine of Leuchtenberg (queen)

July to December

• 29 November – Peter Severin Steenstrup (naval officer and businessperson)
• 22 December – Johan Sebastian Welhaven (poet and critic)

Full date unknown

• Hans Wille (pries and politican)
• Halvor Olsen Folkestad (councillor of state)

Deaths

Full date unknown