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History of Hamar


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ven Nilsen D�hlin. Svartb�kken was convicted for the murder and executed the year after in the neighboring rural community of L�ten in what must have been a spectacle with an audience of 3,000 locals, presumably most of Hamar�s population at the time.

Then in 1889, there were riots in Hamar over the arrest of one of their own constables, one sergeant Huse, who had been insubordinate while on a military drill at the cavalry camp at Gardermoen. In an act of poor judgment, Huse�s superior sent him to Hamar�s prison in place of military stockades. Partly led and partly tolerated by other constables, the town�s population engaged in demonstrations, marches, and other unlawful but non-violent acts that were effectively ended when a company of soldiers arrived from the camp at Terningmoen near Elverum
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