 The ceremony included music, military parades, bell ringing, and guns salute with people gathering in the Fortress Church.Pavels was also present at the first defence of a doctorate thesis in Norway, at the University 18 June 1817, when Frederik Holst defended his thesis, ""Morbus, quem Radesyge vocant, quinam sit, quanamque ratione e Scandinavia tollendus"".Pavel's diary contains a detailed report from the ceremonious event.