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1. Gavazzi Riots: The Gavazzi Riots were disturbances created in Quebec and Montreal in June 1853 by mobs which attacked halls in which ex-Catholic monk Alessandro Gavazzi was lecturing. During the spring of 1853 Alessandro Gavazzi, an Italian patriot, visited North America. (19th C. riots in Quebec, Canada) [100%] 2023-11-14 [1853 riots] [Riots and civil disorder in Canada]...
2. Esquilache Riots: The Esquilache Riots (Motín de Esquilache) occurred in March 1766 during the rule of Charles III of Spain. Caused mostly by the growing discontent in Madrid about the rising costs of bread and other staples, they were sparked off by ... (Finance) [100%] 2023-12-03 [Price controls]
3. Peekskill Riots: The Peekskill Riots were a series of anti-communist riots fought near the town of Peekskill, New York in 1949. They were instigated near communistic black singer Paul Robeson's concert. [100%] 2023-02-15 [Communism] [New Deal]...
4. Deccan Riots: In May and June 1875, peasants of Maharashtra in some parts of Pune and Ahmednagar districts revolted against increasing agrarian distress. The Deccan Riots of 1875 targeted conditions of debt peonage (kamiuti) to moneylenders. [100%] 2023-12-30 [History of Maharashtra] [Politics of Maharashtra]...
5. Swing Riots: The Swing Riots were a widespread uprising in 1830 by agricultural workers in southern and eastern England in protest of agricultural mechanisation and harsh working conditions. It began with the destruction of threshing machines in the Elham Valley area of ... (1830 uprisings by English agricultural workers) [100%] 2023-10-31 [1830 riots] [1830 in England]...
6. Cholera Riots: Cholera Riots are civil disturbances associated with an outbreak or epidemic of cholera. The Cholera Riots (Холерные бунты in Russian) were the riots of the urban population, peasants and soldiers in 1830–1831 when the second cholera pandemic reached Russia. (Medicine) [100%] 2024-01-03 [Cholera]
7. Rebecca Riots: Rebecca Riots, the name given to some disturbances which occurred in 1843 in the counties of Pembroke, Carmarthen,. Glamorgan, Cardigan and Radnor, after a slight outbreak of the same nature four years previously. During a period of exceptional distress the ... [100%] 2022-09-02
8. Stonewall Riots: The Stonewall Riots were a series of riots perpetrated by homosexuals in 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. This Inn was a secret homosexual bar which operated outside the law and bribed police officers to look the ... [100%] 2023-02-15 [Homosexuality] [New York City]...
9. Priestley Riots: Die Priestley Riots (deutsch: „Priestley-Unruhen“), auch als die Birmingham Riots of 1791 bezeichnet, waren politisch und religiös motivierte Unruhen in der englischen Stadt Birmingham. Sie begannen am Abend des 14. [100%] 2024-09-29
10. Porteous Riots: The Porteous Riots surrounded the activities of Captain John Porteous (c. 1695–1736), Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh, Scotland, who was lynched by a mob for his part in the killing of innocent civilians while ordering the men ... (Riot in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1736) [100%] 2024-08-15 [1730s in Edinburgh] [1736 in Scotland]...
11. Gordon Riots: The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days' rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. They began with a large and orderly protest against the Papists Act 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics enacted ... (Event in London in 1780) [100%] 2025-01-08 [1780 in England] [1780 riots]...
12. 1996 Otokoto Riots: The 1996 Otokoto Riots were a series of spontaneous protests and looting in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria over two days in September. The immediate trigger for the civil unrest was the revelation of the kidnapping and brutal murder of 11 ... (Riots event occurring in Imo state in 1996) [81%] 2022-08-20 [1996 riots] [September 1996 events in Africa]...
13. Zoot Suit Riots: The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place from June 3–8, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents. It was ... (1943 race riot by U.S. Armed Forces servicemen against Latino Americans in Los Angeles) [81%] 2023-06-04 [1943 riots] [1943 in the United States]...
14. 1842 Pottery Riots: Predominantly centred on Hanley and Burslem, in what became the federation of Stoke-on-Trent, the 1842 Pottery Riots took place in the midst of the 1842 General Strike, and both are credited with helping to forge trade unionism and ... (1842 riots in Staffordshire, England) [81%] 2024-05-12 [History of Stoke-on-Trent] [1842 in England]...
15. Love Not Riots: Love Not Riots was a campaign aimed at reducing riots and violence that have become commonplace at festivals in the UK. It targeted the Reading and Leeds Festivals and Download festivals. [81%] 2024-07-31 [Festivals in the United Kingdom] [Riots and civil disorder in the United Kingdom]...
16. 1988 October Riots: The 1988 October Riots were a series of street-level disturbances and riotous demonstrations by Algerian youth, which started on 5 October 1988 and ended on the 11th. The riots were "the most serious" since Algeria's independence", and involved ... (Anti Government Riots in Algeria) [81%] 2024-11-03 [1988 murders in Algeria] [1988 riots]...
17. Luton Peace Day Riots: The Luton Peace Day Riots occurred over three days from 19 to 21 July 1919. Servicemen angry at the lavish spending for London's peace parade, held on the same day, following the end of the First World War, protested ... [70%] 2023-01-02 [1919 crimes in the United Kingdom] [1919 in England]...
18. Riots at Fremantle Prison: There have been various riots at Fremantle Prison, and other disturbances, over the years that it was operational. Fremantle Prison was built using convict labour during the 1850s, based on the design of Pentonville Gaol, and was used as the ... (Disturbances at Fremantle Prison in Western Australia) [70%] 2023-11-07 [Fremantle Prison] [Prison uprisings in Australia]...
19. The God Who Riots: The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus is a book written by Damon Garcia and published by Broadleaf Books. The book is 194 pages and 10 chapters long. (2022 book by Damon Garcia) [70%] 2022-11-27 [Books about Christianity] [Books about economic inequality]...
20. Bawdy House Riots of 1668: The 1668 Bawdy House Riots (also called the Messenger Riots after rioter Peter Messenger) took place in 17th-century London over several days in March during Easter Week, 1668. They were sparked by Dissenters who resented the King's proclamation ... (1668 anti-brothel riots in London) [63%] 2023-07-15 [Riots in London] [17th century in London]...
21. Handsworth Riots – Twenty Summers On: Handsworth Riots – Twenty Summers On is the name of an exhibition of photographs taken by Birmingham film maker and photographer Pogus Caesar during and in the wake of the Handsworth Riots, 9–11 September 1985. In September 1985 the days ... [57%] 2023-12-02 [Photography exhibitions]
22. Preventing Persons from Concealing Their Identity during Riots and Unlawful Assemblies Act: The Preventing Persons from Concealing Their Identity during Riots and Unlawful Assemblies Act (Bill C-309) is a private member's bill, criminalising the actions of protesters who cover their faces during tumultuous demonstrations and introducing a five-year prison ... [40%] 2023-03-26 [Protests in Canada] [2013 in Canadian law]...
23. Kenosha riots: Sources including Fox News referred to the Kenosha riots as "protests" over an officer-involved shooting of a black man wanted for various crimes. The small town police department of Kenosha, unprepared and untrained in riot control, was quickly overwhelmed. [100%] 2023-02-19
24. Tonypandy riots: The Miners Strike of 1910-11 was an attempt by miners and their families to improve wages and living conditions in severely deprived parts of South Wales, where wages had been kept deliberately low for many years by a cartel ... (Riot in 1910/11 in the Rhondda, Wales) [100%] 2023-08-11 [1910 in Wales] [1911 in Wales]...
25. Nika riots: Emperor Justinian held chariot races in Constantinople, similar to the chariot races held in Rome. But rioting occurred often at these races, followed by hangings of those responsible. [100%] 2023-03-03 [Roman History]
26. Cossack riots: The Cossack riots were pogroms carried out against the Jews of modern Ukraine during the 1648 uprising of the Cossacks and serfs led by Bogdan Khmelnytsky (or the "Hamil of Evil" as he was called by the Jews) against the ... (Social) [100%] 2023-10-23 [Riots]
27. Shelburne riots: The Shelburne riots were attacks in July 1784 by landless Loyalist veterans of the American War of Independence against Black Loyalists and government officials in the town of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and the nearby village of Birchtown. They have been ... (Social) [100%] 2023-12-21 [Human rights abuses]
28. Gospel riots: The Gospel riots (Greek: Ευαγγελικά, Evangelika), which took place on the streets of Athens in November 1901, were primarily a protest against the publication in the newspaper Akropolis of a translation into modern spoken Greek of the Gospel of Matthew, although ... (Social) [100%] 2023-09-26 [Linguistic controversies]
29. DFL riots: The DFL riots were triggered by the death of a Black man who was pinned to the ground in an allegedly "non-lethal" choke hold approved by the city's Democratic administration. The neck hold used by the Minneapolis cop ... [100%] 2023-03-01 [United States Presidential Election, 2020] [Terrorism]...
30. Nika riots: The Nika riots (Greek: Στάσις τοῦ Νίκα, romanized: Stásis toû Níka), Nika revolt or Nika sedition took place against Byzantine emperor Justinian I in Constantinople over the course of a week in 532 C.E. They are often regarded as the most violent riots ... (Sports riot and revolt against Byzantine emperor Justinian I (532 AD)) [100%] 2023-11-24 [530s in the Byzantine Empire] [532 riots]...
31. Ferguson riots: The Ferguson riots were one of several Marxist-inspired uprisings during the Obama administration. Elected as America's first "post-racial" president according to mainstream fake news media, Obama exacerbated racial tensions and left a dismal legacy of a divided ... [100%] 2023-02-10 [Democrats]
32. Noakhali riots: The Noakhali riots were a series of semi-organized massacres, rapes and abductions, combined with looting and arson of Hindu properties, perpetrated by the Muslim community in the districts of Noakhali in the Chittagong Division of Bengal (now in Bangladesh ... (Anti-Hindu riots in East Bengal) [100%] 2023-11-17 [Mass murder in 1946] [Partition of India]...
33. Urban riots: Riots often occur in reaction to a perceived grievance or out of dissent. Riots may be the outcome of a sporting event, although many riots have occurred due to poor working or living conditions, government oppression, conflicts between races or ... (Social) [100%] 2022-11-25 [Riots]
34. Stonewall riots: The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of ... (1969 spontaneous uprising for gay rights in New York City) [100%] 2022-12-16 [1969 in LGBT history] [1969 in New York City]...
35. Rodney riots: The Rodney riots were riots and civil disturbances in Kingston, Jamaica in October 1968. The riots were sparked by the Jamaican government of Hugh Shearer banning Guyanese university lecturer Dr. (1968 civil unrest in Kingston, Jamaica) [100%] 2022-08-29 [Riots and civil disorder in Jamaica] [1968 riots]...
36. Vondelstraat riots: The Vondelstraat riots (Dutch: Vondelstraatrellen) were violent disturbances on Vondelstraat in Amsterdam, the Netherlands between squatters and the state in March 1980. It also involved the deployment of military tanks on the streets for the first time since World War ... [100%] 2023-08-20 [1980 in the Netherlands] [1980s in Amsterdam]...
37. Stonewall riots: The Stonewall riots were a clash between patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, and New York City police that started on June 28, 1969. The riots have had a lasting impact for the world's GLBT community. [100%] 2023-07-02
38. Jaffa riots: The Jaffa riots (commonly known in Hebrew: מאורעות תרפ"א, romanized: Me'oraot Tarpa) were a series of violent riots in Mandatory Palestine on May 1–7, 1921, which began as a confrontation between two Jewish groups but developed into an attack by ... (1921 riots in Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine) [100%] 2023-11-05 [1921 riots] [1921 in Mandatory Palestine]...
39. Durban riots: The Durban riots were an anti-Indian riot that took place between 13–15 January 1949, primarily by Black South Africans targeting South African Indians in Durban, South Africa. It was the second deadliest massacre during apartheid. [100%] 2024-03-13 [History of KwaZulu-Natal] [1949 in South Africa]...
40. Obama riots: The Obama Riots, sometimes referred to as the Obama War on Police, were a series of racially-motivated conflagrations that erupted nationwide particularly in the last half of President Barack Obama's second term. Initially elected as America's first ... [100%] 2023-03-10 [Barack Hussein Obama] [Obama Administration]...
41. Schiedam riots: The Schiedam riots (in Dutch: Turkenrellen) broke out in 6 August 1976 in Schiedam, Netherlands, when two Dutch teens were stabbed, one fatally, after an argument between two Turkish and five Dutch teens. On that night, several Dutch youth planned ... (Race riots in Schiedam) [100%] 2024-03-26 [History of Schiedam] [Ethnic riots]...
42. Bellingham riots: The Bellingham riots occurred on September 4, 1907, in Bellingham, Washington, United States. A mob of 400–500 white men, predominantly members of the Asiatic Exclusion League, with intentions to exclude Indian immigrants from the work force of the local ... (Riots against Americans of Asian descent in Bellingham) [100%] 2024-05-23 [1907 in Washington (state)] [1907 riots]...