1721 in Norway

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1700s; 1710s; 1720s; 1730s; 1740s;
See also:	1721 in Denmark; List of years in Norway

Events in the year 1721 in Norway.

Incumbents

The Bergen Greenland Company was founded.
2 May – Hans Egede departed with three ships from Bergen to Greenland, starting the Danish-Norwegian colonization of Greenland.
1 August – The King orders a large sale of church property in Norway.
10 September – Great Northern War ends.^[2]
21 December – Niels Tygesen Knag was ennobled, and given the noble family name Knagenhjelm.^[3]^[4]^[5]

15 February – Tørres Christensen, merchant, ship owner, land owner (born 1664).^[6]

↑ Johannessen, Finn Erhard; Mardal, Magnus A. "Frederik 4.". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
↑ "Freden i Nystad 1721 :: Agricola ::".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ "Niels Tygesen Knagenhielm". lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
↑ "Storgarden Stedje". Allkunne. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
↑ "Losna-ætta". NRK Sogn og Fjordane. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
↑ Eliassen, Finn-Einar. "Tørres Christensen". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 25 August 2012.