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This is a list of
revolutions
In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...
,
rebellion
Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order. It refers to the open resistance against the orders of an established authority.
A rebellion originates from a sentiment of indignation and disapproval of a situation and ...
s, insurrections, and uprisings.
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![Orenburgsky](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Orenburgsky.jpg)
* 1501–1504: The
Alvsson's rebellion
Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order. It refers to the open resistance against the orders of an established authority.
A rebellion originates from a sentiment of indignation and disapproval of a situation and ...
against King
Hans of
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
* 1514: A peasants' war led by
György Dózsa
György Dózsa (or ''György Székely'',appears as "Georgius Zekel" in old texts ro, Gheorghe Doja; 1470 – 20 July 1514) was a Székely man-at-arms (and by some accounts, a nobleman) from Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary who led a peasa ...
in the
Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...
.
* 1515: The
Slovene peasant revolt
The Slovene Peasant Revolt ( sl, slovenski kmečki upor, german: Windischer Bauernbund) took place in 1515 and was the largest peasant revolt in the Slovene Lands. It engulfed most of what is now Slovenia as well as a significant portion of the pr ...
.
* 1515–1523: The
Frisian rebellion of the
Arumer Black Heap
The Arumer Zwarte Hoop, meaning "Black Army of Arum" ( fry, Swarte Heap) was an army of peasant rebels and mercenaries in Friesland fighting against the Habsburg authorities from 1515 to 1523. For four years they were successful under the former f ...
, led by
Pier Gerlofs Donia
Pier Gerlofs Donia ( 1480 – 28 October 1520) was a Frisian rebel leader and pirate. He is best known by his West Frisian nickname ''Grutte Pier'' ("Big Pier"; in the pre-1980 West Frisian spelling written as ''Greate Pier''), or by the Dutch ...
and
Wijerd Jelckama Wijerd Jelckama (also spelled Wierd and Wijard)Eekhoff, W.(1851). ''Beknopte geschiedenis van Friesland'' (in Dutch). Leeuwarden: W. Eekhoff. 138–139. (c. 1490–1523) was a Frisian military commander, warlord and member of the ''Arumer Zwarte Ho ...
.
* 1516:
Trần Cảo Rebellion
Trần (陳) or Tran is a common Vietnamese surname. More than 10% of all Vietnamese people share this surname. It is derived from the common Chinese surname Chen.
History
The Tran ruled the Trần dynasty, a golden era in Vietnam, and succe ...
in Vietnam, against the
Lê dynasty
The Lê dynasty, also known as Later Lê dynasty ( vi, Hậu Lê triều, chữ Hán: 後黎朝 or vi, nhà Hậu Lê, link=no, chữ Nôm: 茹後黎), was the longest-ruling Vietnamese dynasty, ruling Đại Việt from 1428 to 1789. The Lê ...
.
* 1519–1523: The first
Revolt of the Brotherhoods
The Revolt of the Brotherhoods ( ca, Revolta de les Germanies, es, Rebelión de las Germanías) was a revolt by artisan guilds ('' Germanies'') against the government of King Charles V in the Kingdom of Valencia, part of the Crown of Aragon. ...
in
Valencia
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, Valencia and the Municipalities of Spain, third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is ...
, an anti-monarchist, anti-feudal, and anti-Muslim autonomist movement inspired by the Italian republics.
* 1520–1522: The
Revolt of the Comuneros
The Revolt of the Comuneros ( es, Guerra de las Comunidades de Castilla, "War of the Communities of Castile") was an uprising by citizens of Castile against the rule of Charles I and his administration between 1520 and 1521. At its height, th ...
against the rule of Spanish king and Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V Charles V may refer to:
* Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558)
* Charles V of Naples (1661–1700), better known as Charles II of Spain
* Charles V of France (1338–1380), called the Wise
* Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643–1690)
* Infan ...
.
* 1521–1522: The
Santo Domingo Revolt, the first major slave revolt of the Americas, led by Maria Olofa and Gonzalo Mandinga, Senegalese Muslims of Wolof origin, in
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...
.
* 1521–1523:
Gustav Vasa's Rebellion a rebellion in which the nobleman
Gustav Vasa
Gustav I, born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family and later known as Gustav Vasa (12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560, previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm ('' Riksföre ...
successfully deposed King
Christian II
Christian II (1 July 1481 – 25 January 1559) was a Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union who reigned as King of Denmark and Norway, from 1513 until 1523, and Sweden from 1520 until 1521. From 1513 to 1523, he was concurrently Duke ...
from the throne of Sweden.
* 1524–1525: The
German Peasants' War
The German Peasants' War, Great Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt (german: Deutscher Bauernkrieg) was a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe from 1524 to 1525. It failed because of intense oppositio ...
of in the
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire was a Polity, political entity in Western Europe, Western, Central Europe, Central, and Southern Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, dissolution i ...
.
* 1526: The slave revolt in
San Miguel de Gualdape
San Miguel de Gualdape (sometimes San Miguel de Guadalupe) is a former Spanish colony in present-day Georgetown County, South Carolina, founded in 1526 by Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón.In early 1521, Ponce de León had made a poorly documented, disast ...
, the first slave rebellion by the first documented African slaves in the Americas against Spanish colonists.
* 1531: The Straccioni Rebellion, uprising in
Lucca
Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957.
Lucca is known as one o ...
.
* 1532–1547: Sebastián Lemba's rebellion, a 15-year uprising led by maroon
Sebastián Lemba
Sebastián Lemba (fl. 1540s) was an early Dominican slave rebel leader who led a prolonged maroon rebellion in the colony of Santo Domingo, (present day Dominican Republic). Born in Africa, a member of the Lemba tribe, hence the name. When Lemba ...
in
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...
.
* 1536: The
Pilgrimage of Grace
The Pilgrimage of Grace was a popular revolt beginning in Yorkshire in October 1536, before spreading to other parts of Northern England including Cumberland, Northumberland, and north Lancashire, under the leadership of Robert Aske. The "most ...
against the Reformation of
Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disa ...
.
* 1540–42: The
Mixtón War
The Mixtón War (1540-1542) was a rebellion by the Caxcan people of northwestern Mexico against the Spanish conquerors. The war was named after Mixtón, a hill in Zacatecas which served as an Indigenous stronghold.
The Caxcanes
Although other ...
, uprising of indigenous against Spanish rule in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
* 1542: The
Dacke War
The Dacke War ( sv, Dackefejden) was a peasant uprising led by Nils Dacke in Småland, Sweden, in 1542 against the rule of Gustav Vasa. Dacke and his followers were dissatisfied with the heavy tax burden, the introduction of Lutheranism, and the ...
in Sweden.
* 1542: The failed rebellion of the
India Juliana
Juliana (), better known as the India Juliana (Spanish for "Indian Juliana" or "Juliana the Indian"), is the Christian name of a Guaraní woman who lived in the newly founded Asunción, in early-colonial Paraguay, known for killing a Spanish co ...
, an eslaved
Guaraní Guarani, Guaraní or Guarany may refer to
Ethnography
* Guaraní people, an indigenous people from South America's interior (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia)
* Guaraní language, or Paraguayan Guarani, an official language of Paraguay
* ...
woman from early-colonial
Paraguay
Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...
that killed her master (a
Spanish colonizer) and urged other indigenous women to do the same.
* 1548: The
Revolt of the Pitauds
The revolt of the pitauds (French: ''jacquerie des Pitauds'', ''révolte des Pitauds'') was a French peasants' revolt in the mid-16th century.
The revolt was sparked by the 1541 decree of Châtellerault, which extended a salt tax to Angoumois ...
was a French peasants' revolt against the
salt tax
A salt tax refers to the direct taxation of salt, usually levied proportionately to the volume of salt purchased. The taxation of salt dates as far back as 300BC, as salt has been a valuable good used for gifts and religious offerings since 6050B ...
.
* 1548–1582: The
Bayano Wars
The Bayano Wars were armed conflicts in the Isthmus of Panama that occurred between the Bayano of Panama and the Spanish crown. The First War of the Bayano took place from 1548 to 1558, while the Second War took place from 1579 and 1582. Slavery, p ...
, a series of uprisings by the enslaved
Bayano
Bayano, also known as Ballano or Vaino, was an African enslaved by Spaniards who led the biggest slave revolts of 16th century Panama. Captured from the Yoruba community in West Africa, it has been argued that his name means ''idol''. Different ...
of
Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...
against the
Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire ( es, link=no, Imperio español), also known as the Hispanic Monarchy ( es, link=no, Monarquía Hispánica) or the Catholic Monarchy ( es, link=no, Monarquía Católica) was a colonial empire governed by Spain and its prede ...
.
* 1549: The
Prayer Book Rebellion
The Prayer Book Rebellion or Western Rising was a popular revolt in Cornwall and Devon in 1549. In that year, the ''Book of Common Prayer'', presenting the theology of the English Reformation, was introduced. The change was widely unpopular, ...
in Cornwall and
Devon
Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon is ...
, England.
* 1549:
Kett's Rebellion
Kett's Rebellion was a revolt in Norfolk, England during the reign of Edward VI, largely in response to the enclosure of land. It began at Wymondham on 8 July 1549 with a group of rebels destroying fences that had been put up by wealthy landowners ...
.
* 1550–90: The
Chichimeca War
The Chichimeca War (1550–90) was a military conflict between the Spanish Empire and the Chichimeca Confederation established in the territories today known as the Central Mexican Plateau, called by the Conquistadores La Gran Chichimeca. The ...
waged by various indigenous groups in northern Mexico against Spanish expansion.
* 1566–1648: The
Dutch Revolt
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt ( nl, Nederlandse Opstand) (Historiography of the Eighty Years' War#Name and periodisation, c.1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and t ...
against
Spanish rule of the Netherlands, establishing the
Dutch Republic
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, also known as the (Seven) United Provinces, officially as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: ''Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden''), and commonly referred to in historiography ...
.
* 1567–1799 and beyond:
Philippine revolts against Spain
During the History of the Philippines (1521–1898), Spanish colonial period in the Philippines, 1521–1898, there were several revolts against the Spanish colonial government by indigenous Moro people, Moro, Lumad, Indian people, Indians, C ...
.
* 1568–1571: The
Morisco rebellions in Granada
Moriscos (, ; pt, mouriscos ; Spanish for "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Roman Catholic church and the Spanish Crown commanded to convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed the open p ...
by the remnants of the
Morisco
Moriscos (, ; pt, mouriscos ; Spanish for "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Roman Catholic church and the Spanish Crown commanded to convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed the open p ...
community (Spanish Christian converts from Islam
crypto-Muslims" in
Habsburg Spain
Habsburg Spain is a contemporary historiographical term referring to the huge extent of territories (including modern-day Spain, a piece of south-east France, eventually Portugal, and many other lands outside of the Iberian Peninsula) ruled be ...
.
* 1568–1648:
Eighty Years' War
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt ( nl, Nederlandse Opstand) ( c.1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war included the Refo ...
; revolt of the Low Countries against Spain.
* 1569–1570: The
Rising of the North
The Rising of the North of 1569, also called the Revolt of the Northern Earls or Northern Rebellion, was an unsuccessful attempt by Catholic nobles from Northern England to depose Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of ...
was an attempt by Catholic nobles in
Northern England
Northern England, also known as the North of England, the North Country, or simply the North, is the northern area of England. It broadly corresponds to the former borders of Angle Northumbria, the Anglo-Scandinavian Kingdom of Jorvik, and the ...
to depose
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen".
El ...
and replace her with
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567.
The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scot ...
.
* 1570–1618:
Gaspar Yanga
Established and achieved self-government for a maroon colony of freed Africans.
Gaspar Yanga—often simply Yanga or Nyanga (May 14, 1545 - 1618) 's revolt against
Spanish colonial rule in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
, it ended with the signing of a treaty with
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
.
* 1573: The
Croatian–Slovene peasant revolt
The Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt ( sl, hrvaško-slovenski kmečki upor, hr, seljačka buna), Gubec's Rebellion ( hr, Gupčeva buna) or Gubec's peasant uprising of 1573 was a large peasant revolt on territory forming modern-day Croatia and S ...
.
* 1590–1610: The
Celali rebellions
The Celali rebellions ( tr, Celalî ayaklanmaları), were a series of rebellions in Anatolia of irregular troops led by bandit chiefs and provincial officials known as ''celalî'', ''celâli'', or ''jelālī'', against the authority of the Ottoman ...
in
Ottoman Anatolia
Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...
.
* 1591–1594: The
Rappenkrieg was a peasant uprising in
Basel
, french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese
, neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...
over the
sales tax
A sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services. Usually laws allow the seller to collect funds for the tax from the consumer at the point of purchase. When a tax on goods or services is paid to a govern ...
on
wine
Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are m ...
and
meat
Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted, farmed, and scavenged animals for meat since prehistoric times. The establishment of settlements in the Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of animals such as chic ...
.
* 1594–1595: The
Croquant rebellion was a
revolt against taxation in
Limousin
Limousin (; oc, Lemosin ) is a former administrative region of southwest-central France. On 1 January 2016, it became part of the new administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It comprised three departments: Corrèze, Creuse, and Haute-Vienn ...
* 1594–1603: The
Nine Years' War
The Nine Years' War (1688–1697), often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg, was a conflict between France and a European coalition which mainly included the Holy Roman Empire (led by the Habsburg monarch ...
or 'Tyrone's Rebellion' in
Ulster
Ulster (; ga, Ulaidh or ''Cúige Uladh'' ; sco, label= Ulster Scots, Ulstèr or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional Irish provinces. It is made up of nine counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United King ...
, Ireland against English rule in Ireland.
* 1594: The
Banat Uprising
The Uprising in Banat was a rebellion organized and led by Serbian Orthodox bishop Teodor of Vršac and Sava Temišvarac against the Ottomans in the Eyalet of Temeşvar. The uprising broke out in 1594, in the initial stage of the Long Turkish W ...
.
* 1596: The
Club War uprising in Finland.
* 1596–97: The
Serb Uprising against the Ottomans.
* 1597: First
Guale
Guale was a historic Native American chiefdom of Mississippian culture peoples located along the coast of present-day Georgia and the Sea Islands. Spanish Florida established its Roman Catholic missionary system in the chiefdom in the late 16th ...
revolt developed in Florida against the Spanish missions and led by
Juanillo
Juanillo (died May 1598) was a chief of the Native American Tolomato people in the Guale chiefdom, in what is now Georgia. In September 1597, Juanillo led the so-called Gualean Revolt, or Juanillo's Revolt, against the cultural oppression of th ...
(the Juanillo's revolt).
* 1598: The
First Tarnovo uprising
The First Tarnovo uprising ( bg, Първо търновско въстание, ''Parvo tarnovsko vastanie'') was a Bulgarian uprising against Ottoman rule based in the former Bulgarian capital, Tarnovo, that broke out in 1598 and was severely ...
was a
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
n uprising against
Ottoman rule
Ottoman is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic masculine given name Uthman ( ar, عُثْمان, ‘uthmān). It may refer to:
Governments and dynasties
* Ottoman Caliphate, an Islamic caliphate from 1517 to 1924
* Ottoman Empire, in existence fro ...
based in the former Bulgarian capital,
Tarnovo
Veliko Tarnovo ( bg, Велико Търново, Veliko Tărnovo, ; "Great Tarnovo") is a town in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province.
Often referred as the "''City of the Tsars''", Veliko Tarnovo ...
.
* 1600:
Thessaly Rebellion.
* 1601:
Acaxee Rebellion
The Acaxee Rebellion was an insurrection against Spanish rule in Mexico by Acaxee Indians, in 1601. The Acaxee attempt to expel the Spanish from their lands, regain their independence, and retain their traditional culture which was threatened by ...
an insurrection against Spanish rule in Mexico perpetrated by Acaxee Native Americans.
* 1606–1607: The
Bolotnikov rebellion
Ivan Isayevich Bolotnikov (russian: Ива́н Иса́евич Боло́тников; 1565–1608) headed a popular uprising in Russia in 1606–1607 known as the Bolotnikov Rebellion (Восстание Ивана Болотникова). The up ...
for the abolition of
serfdom
Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery, which develop ...
, which was part of the
Time of Troubles
The Time of Troubles (russian: Смутное время, ), or Smuta (russian: Смута), was a period of political crisis during the Tsardom of Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Fyodor I (Fyodor Ivanovich, the last of the Rurik dy ...
in Russia.
* 1616–1620: The
Tepehuán Revolt
The Tepehuán Revolt broke out in Mexico in 1616 when the Tepehuán Indians attempted to break free from Spanish rule. The revolt was crushed by 1620 after a large loss of life on both sides.
The Tepehuán people
The Tepehuán people lived on th ...
was when the
Tepehuán
The Tepehuán are an indigenous people of Mexico. They live in Northwestern, Western, and some parts of North-Central Mexico. The indigenous Tepehuán language has three branches: Northern Tepehuan, Southeastern Tepehuan, Southwestern Tepehua ...
es of
Durango
Durango (), officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: ''Korian''; Nahuatl: ''Tepēhuahcān''), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in ...
revolted against the
Spaniards
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a Romance peoples, Romance ethnic group native to Spain. Within Spain, there are a number of National and regional identity in Spain, national and regional ethnic identities that reflect the country's complex Hist ...
.
* 1618–1625: The
Bohemian Revolt
The Bohemian Revolt (german: Böhmischer Aufstand; cs, České stavovské povstání; 1618–1620) was an uprising of the Bohemian estates against the rule of the Habsburg dynasty that began the Thirty Years' War. It was caused by both religi ...
against the
Habsburgs
The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...
. Rebellion was part of
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (80 ...
.
* 1631–1634: The
Salt Tax Revolt in
Biscay
Biscay (; eu, Bizkaia ; es, Vizcaya ) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the eponymous bay. The capital and largest city is Bilbao.
B ...
.
* 1637–1638: The
Shimabara Rebellion
The , also known as the or , was an uprising that occurred in the Shimabara Domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan from 17 December 1637 to 15 April 1638.
Matsukura Katsuie, the ''daimyō'' of the Shimabara Domain, enforced unpopular polic ...
of
Japanese Christians
Christianity in Japan is among the nation's minority religions in terms of individuals who state an explicit affiliation or faith. Between less than 1 percent and 1.5% of the population claims Christian belief or affiliation. Although formally b ...
.
* 1639: The
Revolt of the va-nu-pieds against the
salt tax
A salt tax refers to the direct taxation of salt, usually levied proportionately to the volume of salt purchased. The taxation of salt dates as far back as 300BC, as salt has been a valuable good used for gifts and religious offerings since 6050B ...
in
Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...
.
* 1640: The
Portuguese Revolt against
Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire ( es, link=no, Imperio español), also known as the Hispanic Monarchy ( es, link=no, Monarquía Hispánica) or the Catholic Monarchy ( es, link=no, Monarquía Católica) was a colonial empire governed by Spain and its prede ...
.
* 1640–1652: The
Catalan Revolt.
* 1640–1644: The
Vlach
"Vlach" ( or ), also "Wallachian" (and many other variants), is a historical term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate mainly Romanians but also Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians and other Eastern ...
uprising against
Habsburg
The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...
rule in
Moravia
Moravia ( , also , ; cs, Morava ; german: link=yes, Mähren ; pl, Morawy ; szl, Morawa; la, Moravia) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
The me ...
.
* 1641: The
Irish Rebellion of 1641
The Irish Rebellion of 1641 ( ga, Éirí Amach 1641) was an uprising by Irish Catholics in the Kingdom of Ireland, who wanted an end to anti-Catholic discrimination, greater Irish self-governance, and to partially or fully reverse the plantatio ...
.
*1641: The
Acclamation of Amador Bueno in the
Captaincy of São Vicente
The Captaincy of São Vicente (1534–1709) was a land grant and colonial administration in the far southern part of the colonial Portuguese Empire in Colonial Brazil.
History
In 1534 King John III of Portugal granted the Captaincy to Martim A ...
,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
* 1642–1660: The
English Revolution
The English Revolution is a term that describes two separate events in English history. Prior to the 20th century, it was generally applied to the 1688 Glorious Revolution, when James II was deposed and a constitutional monarchy established unde ...
, commencing as a civil war between Parliament and the King, and culminating in the execution of Charles I and the establishment of a republican Commonwealth, which was succeeded several years later by
the Protectorate
The Protectorate, officially the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, refers to the period from 16 December 1653 to 25 May 1659 during which England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and associated territories were joined together in the Com ...
of
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three Ki ...
.
* 1644: The
Li Zicheng
Li Zicheng (22 September 1606 – 1645), born Li Hongji, also known by the nickname, Dashing King, was a Chinese peasant rebel leader who overthrew the Ming dynasty in 1644 and ruled over northern China briefly as the emperor of the short-li ...
Uprising overthrew the
Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last ort ...
.
* 1645: Second Guale revolt against the Spanish missions in Florida, nearly shaking off the missions.
* 1647: The
Naples Revolt.
![Pic I V Ivasiuk Mykola Bohdan Khmelnytskys Entry to Kyiv](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Pic_I_V_Ivasiuk_Mykola_Bohdan_Khmelnytskys_Entry_to_Kyiv.jpg)
* 1648: The
Khmelnytsky uprising
The Khmelnytsky Uprising,; in Ukraine known as Khmelʹnychchyna or uk, повстання Богдана Хмельницького; lt, Chmelnickio sukilimas; Belarusian language, Belarusian: Паўстанне Багдана Хмяльніц ...
of Cossacks in Ukraine against Polish nobility in the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Crown of the Kingdom of ...
.
* 1648: The
Moscow salt riot.
* 1648–1653: The
Fronde
The Fronde () was a series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635. King Louis XIV confronted the combined opposition of the princes, the nobility, the law cour ...
, a series of civil wars between the French monarchy and the nobility, princes,
parlement
A ''parlement'' (), under the French Ancien Régime, was a provincial appellate court of the Kingdom of France. In 1789, France had 13 parlements, the oldest and most important of which was the Parlement of Paris. While both the modern Fre ...
s and common people of France.
* 1658: The revolt of
Abaza Hasan Pasha in the Ottoman Empire.
* 1659: The
Bakhtrioni uprising in
Kingdom of Kakheti
The Second Kingdom of Kakheti ( ka, კახეთის სამეფო, tr; also spelled Kaxet'i or Kakhetia) was a late medieval/ early modern monarchy in eastern Georgia, centered at the province of Kakheti, with its capital first at Grem ...
against the political domination of
Safavid Persia
Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...
.
* 1664–1670:
Magnate conspiracy
The Magnate conspiracy, also known as the Zrinski-Frankopan Conspiracy ( hr, Zrinsko-frankopanska urota) in Croatia, and Wesselényi conspiracy ( hu, Wesselényi-összeesküvés) in Hungary, was a 17th-century attempt to throw off Habsburg mon ...
: The
Zrinski
Zrinski () was a Croatian- Hungarian noble family, a cadet branch of the Croatian noble tribe of Šubić, influential during the period in history marked by the Ottoman wars in Europe in the Kingdom of Croatia's union with the Kingdom of Hungar ...
, Wesselényi and
Frankopan
The House of Frankopan ( hr, Frankopani, Frankapani, it, Frangipani, hu, Frangepán, la, Frangepanus, Francopanus), was a Croatian noble family, whose members were among the great landowner magnates and high officers of the Kingdom of Croati ...
uprising against the
Habsburgs
The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...
.
* 1665–1709: The
Kongo Civil War
The Kongo Civil War (1665–1709) was a war of succession between rival houses of the Kingdom of Kongo. The war waged throughout the middle of the 17th and 18th centuries pitting partisans of the House of Kinlaza against the House of Kimpanzu. ...
under the Kingdom of the Congo.
* 1667–1668: The
First Revolt of the Angelets against the
salt tax
A salt tax refers to the direct taxation of salt, usually levied proportionately to the volume of salt purchased. The taxation of salt dates as far back as 300BC, as salt has been a valuable good used for gifts and religious offerings since 6050B ...
in
Vallespir
Vallespir (; ) is a historical Catalan comarca in Northern Catalonia, part of the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
The capital of the comarca is Ceret, and it borders Conflent, Rosselló, Alt Empordà, Garrotxa and Ripollès. It l ...
.
* 1668: The
Sikhs
Sikhs ( or ; pa, ਸਿੱਖ, ' ) are people who adhere to Sikhism (Sikhi), a monotheistic religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak. The term ...
in the
Anandpur revolted against the
Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the d ...
.
* 1668–1676: The
Solovetsky Monastery uprising.
* 1669: The Jat uprising under
Gokula
Gokula Singh (also known as Veer Gokula, or Gokal or Gokul Singh Jat; died on 1 January 1670 AD) was a Jat zamindar of Tilpat, belonging to Haga(Agre/Agha) gotra, in what is now the state of Haryana, India. The second of four sons born to Madu, ...
. The Hindu
Jat
The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and su ...
s in the
Agra district
Agra district is one of the 75 Districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. The district headquarters is the historical city of Agra. Agra district is a part of Agra division.
Geography
The district lies in the cultural region of Braj. Agra district is ...
revolted against the
Mughal Emperor
Aurangzeb
Muhi al-Din Muhammad (; – 3 March 1707), commonly known as ( fa, , lit=Ornament of the Throne) and by his regnal title Alamgir ( fa, , translit=ʿĀlamgīr, lit=Conqueror of the World), was the sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire, ruling ...
.
* 1670–74: The
Second Revolt of the Angelets against the
salt tax
A salt tax refers to the direct taxation of salt, usually levied proportionately to the volume of salt purchased. The taxation of salt dates as far back as 300BC, as salt has been a valuable good used for gifts and religious offerings since 6050B ...
in
Conflent
Conflent () is a historical Catalan comarca of Northern Catalonia, now part of the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales. In the Middle Ages it comprised the County of Conflent.
The capital of this ''pays'' is Prades ( ca, Prada de Conf ...
.
* 1672: The
Pasthun rebellion against the
Mughals
The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the d ...
.
* 1672–1674: The
Lipka rebellion
The Lipka rebellion was a 1672 mutiny of several cavalry '' chorągwie'' (regiments) of Lipka Tatars, who had been serving in the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth since the 14th century. The immediate cause of the rebellion was over ...
, an uprising of
Polish Tatars
The Lipka Tatars (Lipka – refers to '' Lithuania'', also known as Lithuanian Tatars; later also – Polish Tatars, Polish-Lithuanian Tatars, ''Lipkowie'', ''Lipcani'', ''Muślimi'', ''Lietuvos totoriai'') are a Turkic ethnic group who origi ...
against the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Crown of the Kingdom of ...
.
* 1672–1678: The
Messina
Messina (, also , ) is a harbour city and the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of more than 219,000 inhabitants in ...
Revolt. The Sicilian revolt against Spanish rule took place during the
Franco-Dutch War
The Franco-Dutch War, also known as the Dutch War (french: Guerre de Hollande; nl, Hollandse Oorlog), was fought between France and the Dutch Republic, supported by its allies the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Brandenburg-Prussia and Denmark-Nor ...
of
Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Vers ...
; the rebels were supported by France.
* 1674–1680: The
Trunajaya rebellion
The Trunajaya rebellion (also spelled Trunojoyo; id, Pemberontakan Trunajaya) or Trunajaya War was the ultimately unsuccessful rebellion waged by the Madurese prince Trunajaya and fighters from Makassar against the Mataram Sultanate and its ...
. Followers of the
Madurese prince
Trunajaya
Trunajaya (Madurese) or Tronajâyâ, also known as Panembahan Maduretno (1649 – 2 January 1680), was a prince and warlord from Arosbaya, Bangkalan, Madura, known for leading the Trunajaya rebellion (1674–1681) against the rulers of the Mat ...
rebelled against the
Mataram Sultanate
The Sultanate of Mataram () was the last major independent Javanese kingdom on the island of Java before it was colonised by the Dutch. It was the dominant political force radiating from the interior of Central Java from the late 16th centu ...
. They were ultimately defeated by Mataram with help from the
Dutch East India Company
The United East India Company ( nl, Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock ...
.
* 1675: The
Revolt of the papier timbré
The Revolt of the papier timbré was an anti-fiscal revolt in the west of Ancien Régime France, during the reign of Louis XIV from April to September 1675. It was fiercest in Lower Brittany, where it took on an anti-lordly tone and became know ...
was an
anti-tax revolt in
Brittany
Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, Historical region, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known ...
.
* 1675–1676:
King Philip's War
King Philip's War (sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between indigenous inhabitants of New England and New England coloni ...
between Indians and English settlers, sometimes called Metacom's Rebellion.
* 1676: The
Bashkir Rebellion against Russian rule.
* 1676:
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Colony of Virginia, Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia colonist), Nathaniel Bacon against List of colonial governors of Virginia, Colon ...
in Virginia.
* 1680–1692: The
Pueblo Revolt
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, also known as Popé's Rebellion or Popay's Rebellion, was an uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish empire, Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, larger than prese ...
against Spanish settlers in
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...
.
* 1682: The
Moscow Uprising of the Moscow
Streltsy
, image = 01 106 Book illustrations of Historical description of the clothes and weapons of Russian troops.jpg
, image_size =
, alt =
, caption =
, dates = 1550–1720
, disbanded =
, country = Tsardom of Russia
, allegiance = Streltsy D ...
regiments.
*1684: The
Beckman's Revolt in
Maranhão e Grão-Pará,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
* 1685: The
Monmouth Rebellion
The Monmouth Rebellion, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, the Revolt of the West or the West Country rebellion, was an attempt to depose James II, who in February 1685 succeeded his brother Charles II as king of England, Scotland and Ir ...
and
Argyll Rebellion, coordinated attempts to overthrow
King James II
James VII and II (14 October 1633 16 September 1701) was King of England and King of Ireland as James II, and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Re ...
in England and Scotland respectively.
* 1686: The
Second Tarnovo uprising is a
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
n uprising against
Ottoman rule
Ottoman is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic masculine given name Uthman ( ar, عُثْمان, ‘uthmān). It may refer to:
Governments and dynasties
* Ottoman Caliphate, an Islamic caliphate from 1517 to 1924
* Ottoman Empire, in existence fro ...
based in the former
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
n capital,
Tarnovo
Veliko Tarnovo ( bg, Велико Търново, Veliko Tărnovo, ; "Great Tarnovo") is a town in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province.
Often referred as the "''City of the Tsars''", Veliko Tarnovo ...
, that was severely crushed by the Ottoman authorities.
* 1688:
Chiprovtsi uprising was an uprising against
Ottoman rule
Ottoman is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic masculine given name Uthman ( ar, عُثْمان, ‘uthmān). It may refer to:
Governments and dynasties
* Ottoman Caliphate, an Islamic caliphate from 1517 to 1924
* Ottoman Empire, in existence fro ...
organized in northwestern
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
by
Roman Catholic Bulgarians, but also involving many
Eastern Orthodox
Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or "canonical") ...
Christians.
* 1688: The
Siamese revolution of 1688
The Siamese revolution of 1688 was a major popular uprising in the Siamese Ayutthaya Kingdom (modern Thailand) which led to the overthrow of the pro-French Siamese king Narai. Phetracha, previously one of Narai's trusted military advisors, took a ...
, the overthrow of pro-foreign Siamese king
Narai
King Narai the Great ( th, สมเด็จพระนารายณ์มหาราช, , ) or Ramathibodi III ( th, รามาธิบดีที่ ๓ ) was the 27th monarch of Ayutthaya Kingdom, the 4th and last monarch of the Pr ...
by Mandarin
Phetracha
Phetracha (alternative spellings: ''Bedraja'', ''P'etraja'', ''Petraja'', ''Petratcha''; also called ''Phra Phetracha''; th, เพทราชา, ; 1632– 5 February 1703) was a king of the Ayutthaya kingdom in Thailand, usurping the throne fr ...
.
* 1688: The
Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution; gd, Rèabhlaid Ghlòrmhor; cy, Chwyldro Gogoneddus , also known as the ''Glorieuze Overtocht'' or ''Glorious Crossing'' in the Netherlands, is the sequence of events leading to the deposition of King James II and ...
in England overthrew King James II and established a Whig-dominated Protestant constitutional monarchy.
* 1688–1746: The
Jacobite risings
, war =
, image = Prince James Francis Edward Stuart by Louis Gabriel Blanchet.jpg
, image_size = 150px
, caption = James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite claimant between 1701 and 1766
, active ...
were a series of uprisings, rebellions, and wars in the
British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles, ...
occurring between 1688 and 1746.
* 1687–1689: The
Revolt of the Barretinas in Catalonia, prompted by the quartering & upkeep of Spanish soldiers, and intensified by French agents.
* 1689:
Karposh’s Rebellion was a
Bulgarian
Bulgarian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria
* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
* Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
* Bulgarian alphabet
* A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria
* Bul ...
anti-Ottoman uprising in the Central
Balkans
The Balkans ( ), also known as the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throughout the who ...
that took place in October 1689.
* 1689: The
Boston revolt
The 1689 Boston revolt was a popular uprising on April 18, 1689, against the rule of Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of the Dominion of New England. A well-organized "mob" of provincial militia and citizens formed in the town of Boston, the cap ...
led to the dissolution of the
Dominion of New England
The Dominion of New England in America (1686–1689) was an administrative union of English colonies covering New England and the Mid-Atlantic Colonies (except for Delaware Colony and the Province of Pennsylvania). Its political structure represe ...
and the ouster of several colonial officials appointed by King James II.
* 1693: The
Second Brotherhood in
Valencia
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, Valencia and the Municipalities of Spain, third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is ...
, prompted by feudal taxation.
* 1698: The
Streltsy uprising in Russia.
1700–1799
![Haitian revolution](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Haitian_Revolution.jpg)
* 1702–1715: The
War of the Camisards
The War of the Camisards (french: guerre des Camisards) or the Cévennes War (french: guerre des Cévennes) was an uprising of Protestant peasants known as Camisards in the Cévennes and Languedoc during the reign of Louis XIV. The uprising was ...
in France.
* 1703–1711: The
Rákóczi Uprising
The House of Rákóczi (older spelling Rákóczy) was a Hungarian noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary between the 13th century and 18th century. Their name is also spelled ''Rákoci'' (in Slovakia), ''Rakoczi'' and ''Rakoczy'' in some forei ...
against the
Habsburgs
The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...
.
* 1707–1709: The
Bulavin Rebellion
The Bulavin Rebellion or Astrakhan Revolt (; Восстание Булавина, ''Vosstaniye Bulavina'') was a war which took place in the years 1707 and 1708 between the Don Cossacks and the Tsardom of Russia. Kondraty Bulavin, a democraticall ...
in
Imperial Russia
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the List of Russian monarchs, Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended th ...
.
*1707–1709: The
Newcomers' War (''Guerra dos Emboabas'') in the
Captaincy of São Vicente
The Captaincy of São Vicente (1534–1709) was a land grant and colonial administration in the far southern part of the colonial Portuguese Empire in Colonial Brazil.
History
In 1534 King John III of Portugal granted the Captaincy to Martim A ...
,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
* 1709:
Mirwais Hotak
Mir Ways ibn Shah 'Alam, also known as Mirwais Khan Hotak (Pashto/Dari: ) (1673–1715) was an Afghan ruler from the Ghilji tribe of Kandahar, Afghanistan, and the founder of the Hotak dynasty.
In 1709, after overthrowing and assassinating Geor ...
, an
Afghan
Afghan may refer to:
*Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia
*Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, typically of any ethnicity
** Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pas ...
tribal leader, led a successful rebellion against
Gurgin Khan
George XI ( ka, გიორგი XI, ''Giorgi XI''; 1651 – 21 April 1709), known as Gurgin Khan in Iran, was a Georgians, Georgian monarch who ruled the Kingdom of Kartli as a Safavid, Safavid Persian subject from 1676 to 1688 and again from 1 ...
, the Persian governor of
Kandahar
Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a List of cities in Afghanistan, city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population ...
.
* 1709-1710:
Pablo Presbere's insurrection against Spanish colonial power
*1710-1711:
Peddlers' War (''Guerra dos Mascates'') in
Pernambuco
Pernambuco () is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it seventh-most populous state of Brazil and with around 98,148 km², being the 19 ...
,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
* 1711:
Cary's Rebellion, an uprising against the government in North Carolina.
* 1712: The
Tzeltal Rebellion, multiethnic indigenous rebellion in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
against Spanish rule.
* 1712: The unsuccessful
New York Slave Revolt of 1712
The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 was an uprising in New York City, in the Province of New York, of 23 Black slaves. They killed nine whites and injured another six before they were stopped. More than 70 black people were arrested and jailed. O ...
.
* 1715: The
First Jacobite rising in the north of England and in
Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...
, advocating the claims of
James Stuart, the Old Pretender against the newly installed
House of Hanover
The House of Hanover (german: Haus Hannover), whose members are known as Hanoverians, is a European royal house of German origin that ruled Hanover, Great Britain, and Ireland at various times during the 17th to 20th centuries. The house orig ...
.
*1720: The
Vila Rica Revolt
The Vila Rica Revolt ( pt, Revolta de Vila Rica), also known as Vila Rica Sedition, was a colonial revolt against the Portuguese crown. It took place between June 28 and July 19, 1720, in Vila Rica, a city in the Royal Captaincy of Minas de Ouro ...
in
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literally ...
,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
* 1722: Afghan rebels defeated Shah
Sultan Husayn
Soltan Hoseyn ( fa, شاه سلطان حسین, Soltān-Hoseyn; 1668 – 9 September 1727) was the Safavid shah of Iran from 1694 to 1722. He was the son and successor of Shah Solayman ().
Born and raised in the royal harem, Soltan Hoseyn ascen ...
and ended the
Safavid dynasty
The Safavid dynasty (; fa, دودمان صفوی, Dudmâne Safavi, ) was one of Iran's most significant ruling dynasties reigning from 1501 to 1736. Their rule is often considered the beginning of modern Iranian history, as well as one of th ...
.
* 1728–1740: The
First Maroon War
The First Maroon War was a conflict between the Jamaican Maroons and the colonial British authorities that started around 1728 and continued until the peace treaties of 1739 and 1740. It was led by self-liberated Africans who set up communities in ...
, an uprising of
Jamaican Maroons
Jamaican Maroons descend from Africans who freed themselves from slavery on the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in the island's mountainous interior, primarily in the eastern parishes. Africans who were ensla ...
against the
British Empire
The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts esta ...
.
* 1729:
Natchez revolt
The Natchez revolt, or the Natchez massacre, was an attack by the Natchez Native American people on French colonists near present-day Natchez, Mississippi, on November 29, 1729. The Natchez and French had lived alongside each other in the ...
– Attack by
the Natchez on
French colonists.
* 1731:
Samba rebellion – Plot by African slaves in
French Louisiana
The term French Louisiana refers to two distinct regions:
* first, to Louisiana (New France), colonial French Louisiana, comprising the massive, middle section of North America claimed by Early Modern France, France during the 17th and 18th centu ...
to rebel.
* 1733–1734: The
slave insurrection on St. John against the
Danish Empire, one of the earliest and longest slave revolts in the Americas. The slaves intended to resume crop production under their own free control, but the revolt was crushed by the
French.
* 1739: The
Stono Rebellion
The Stono Rebellion (also known as Cato's Conspiracy or Cato's Rebellion) was a slave revolt that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave rebellion in the Southern Colonies, with 25 colonists and 35 t ...
in the
colony of South Carolina
Province of South Carolina, originally known as Clarendon Province, was a province of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies. The monar ...
, the largest slave uprising in the British-American colonies.
* 1741: The
New York Conspiracy of 1741
The Conspiracy of 1741, also known as the Slave Insurrection of 1741, was a purported plot by slaves and poor whites in the British colony of New York in 1741 to revolt and level New York City with a series of fires. Historians disagree as ...
, a purported plot by slaves and poor whites in the British
colony of New York
The Province of New York (1664–1776) was a British proprietary colony and later royal colony on the northeast coast of North America. As one of the Middle Colonies, New York achieved independence and worked with the others to found the Unit ...
to revolt and level
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
with a series of fires.
* 1743: The
Fourth Dalecarlian rebellion in Sweden.
* 1744–1829: The
Dagohoy rebellion
The Dagohoy rebellion, also known as the Dagohoy revolution and the Dagohoy revolt, is considered as the longest rebellion in Philippine history. Led by Francisco Dagohoy, or Francisco Sendrijas, the rebellion took place on the island of Bohol fro ...
in the Philippines that lasted for 85 years.
* 1745–1746: The
Jacobite rising
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, active ...
in Scotland.
* 1748: Uprising led by Juan Francisco de León in Panaquire, Venezuela, against monopoly interests and the dominance of the Royal Company Guipuzcoana in terms of trade cocoa.
* 1749: The
Conspiracy of the Slaves
The Conspiracy of the Slaves ( mt, il-konġura tal-ilsiera or ) was a failed plot by Muslim slaves in Hospitaller-ruled Malta to rebel, assassinate Grand Master Manuel Pinto da Fonseca and take over the island. The revolt was to have taken pla ...
, a
slave rebellion
A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by enslaved people, as a way of fighting for their freedom. Rebellions of enslaved people have occurred in nearly all societies that practice slavery or have practiced slavery in the past. A desire for freedo ...
in Malta.
* 1751–1752:
Pima Revolt
The Pima Revolt, also known as the O'odham Uprising or the Pima Outbreak, was a revolt of Pima native Americans in 1751 against colonial forces in Spanish Arizona and one of the major northern frontier conflicts in early New Spain.
Background ...
* 1753:
The Lunenburg Rebellion, a brief and unsuccessful immigrant rebellion during
Father Le Loutre's War
Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755), also known as the Indian War, the Mi'kmaq War and the Anglo-Mi'kmaq War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia. On one side of the conflict, the Briti ...
in
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland".
Most of the population are native Eng ...
.
* 1755–1769: The revolution that ended
Genoese rule and established a
Corsican Republic
In November 1755, Pasquale Paoli proclaimed Corsica a sovereign nation, the Corsican Republic ( it, Repubblica Corsa), independent from the Republic of Genoa. He created the Corsican Constitution, which was the first constitution written in Itali ...
under
Enlightenment principles. The revolution was brought to an end by the
French conquest of Corsica
The French conquest of Corsica was a successful expedition by French forces of the Kingdom of France under Comte de Vaux, against Corsican forces under Pasquale Paoli of the Corsican Republic. The expedition was launched in May 1768, in the a ...
* 1760:
Tacky's War
Tacky's War, Tacky's Revolt, or Tacky's Rebellion, was a widespread slave rebellion in the British Colony of Jamaica in the 1760s. Led by Akan people (then referred to as Coromantee but originally from around Kromantsie in the Central Region of ...
, an uprising of enslaved
Akan people
The Akan () people live primarily in present-day Ghana and Ivory Coast in West Africa. The Akan language (also known as ''Twi/Fante'') are a group of dialects within the Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano subfamily of the Niger–Congo ...
against white planters in
Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...
.
* 1763: The
Berbice slave uprising
The Berbice slave uprising was a slave revolt in Guyana that began on 23 February 1763Cleve McD. Scott"Berbice Slave Revolt (1763)" in Junius P. Rodriguez, ''Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion'', Vol. 1, Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 2 ...
, a slave revolt in
Guyana
Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...
.
* 1763–1766:
Pontiac's War
Pontiac's War (also known as Pontiac's Conspiracy or Pontiac's Rebellion) was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of Native Americans dissatisfied with British rule in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War (1754–176 ...
by numerous
North American Indian
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples.
Many Indigenous peoples of the Ame ...
tribes who joined the uprising in an effort to drive British soldiers and settlers out of the
Great Lakes region
The Great Lakes region of North America is a binational Canadian–American region that includes portions of the eight U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin along with the Canadian p ...
.
* 1765–1783: The
American Revolution
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolut ...
in eastern
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
.
* 1765:
Quito Revolt of 1765, an uprising against the
Viceroyalty of New Granada
The Viceroyalty of New Granada ( es, Virreinato de Nueva Granada, links=no ) also called Viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada or Viceroyalty of Santafé was the name given on 27 May 1717, to the jurisdiction of the Spanish Empire in norther ...
.
* 1765:
Strilekrigen
Strilekrigen was a farmer's rebellion that took place in Bergen in Norway (at the time in a union with Denmark) on 18 April 1765, when about 2,000 common people from Nordhordland poured into Bergen to protest against the harsh action of the ex ...
, a farmer's rebellion, that took place in
Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
in
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
.
* 1768: The
Louisiana Rebellion of 1768
The Rebellion of 1768, also known as the Revolt of 1768 or the Creole Revolt, was an unsuccessful attempt by the Creole elite of New Orleans, along with nearby German settlers, to reverse the transfer of the French Louisiana Territory to Spain, ...
by Creole and German settlers objecting to the turnover of the
Louisiana Territory
The Territory of Louisiana or Louisiana Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805, until June 4, 1812, when it was renamed the Missouri Territory. The territory was formed out of the ...
from
New France
New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spai ...
to
New Spain
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( es, Virreinato de Nueva España, ), or Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain during the Spanish colonization of the Am ...
.
*1769–1773:
First Carib War
The First Carib War (1769 – 1773) was a military conflict between the Carib inhabitants of Saint Vincent and British military forces supporting British efforts at colonial expansion on the island.
Led primarily by Black Carib chieftain Jo ...
, military conflict between the
Carib inhabitants of
Saint Vincent and
British
British may refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
military forces supporting British efforts at colonial expansion on the island.
* 1770: The
Orlov revolt in
Peloponnese
The Peloponnese (), Peloponnesus (; el, Πελοπόννησος, Pelopónnēsos,(), or Morea is a peninsula and geographic regions of Greece, geographic region in southern Greece. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmu ...
.
* 1770: The
Abdzakh revolution. The
Circassians
The Circassians (also referred to as Cherkess or Adyghe; Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: ''Adıgəxər'') are an indigenous Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation native to the historical country-region of Circassia in ...
of the
Abdzakh
The Abzakh ( Circassian: Абдзэх, ''Abdzekh''; Russian: абадзехи; also known as Abdzakhs or Abadzekhs) are one of the twelve major Circassian tribes, representing one of the twelve stars on the green-and-gold Circassian flag. Histori ...
region started a great revolution in Circassian territory in 1770. Classes such as slaves, nobles and princes were completely abolished. The Abdzakh Revolution coincides with the French Revolution. While many French nobles took refuge in Russia, some of the Circassian nobles took the same path and took refuge in Russia.
* 1771–1785: The
Tây Sơn wars
The Tây Sơn Rebellion was a massive peasant rebellion and an interregnum in the late eighteenth century Dai Viet (present-day Vietnam) against the ruling Vietnamese elites and monarchs, during the context of a 250-year-long disintegration pe ...
, annihilation of the ruling
Trịnh
Trịnh is a Vietnamese family name, which is also common in some countries such as Korea (Jung, Jeong). A considerable portion of families that bear the surname Trinh are ethnically Vietnamese.
Notable people
*Trịnh Như Khuê, First Cardina ...
and
Nguyễn
Nguyễn () is the most common Vietnamese name, Vietnamese surname. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. wiktionary:nguyên, Nguyên (元)is a different word and surname.
By some estimates 39 perc ...
clans as well as the
Lê dynasty
The Lê dynasty, also known as Later Lê dynasty ( vi, Hậu Lê triều, chữ Hán: 後黎朝 or vi, nhà Hậu Lê, link=no, chữ Nôm: 茹後黎), was the longest-ruling Vietnamese dynasty, ruling Đại Việt from 1428 to 1789. The Lê ...
in
Đại Việt
Đại Việt (, ; literally Great Việt), often known as Annam ( vi, An Nam, Chữ Hán: 安南), was a monarchy in eastern Mainland Southeast Asia from the 10th century AD to the early 19th century, centered around the region of present-day ...
.
* 1773–1775:
Pugachev's Rebellion
Pugachev's Rebellion (, ''Vosstaniye Pugachyova''; also called the Peasants' War 1773–1775 or Cossack Rebellion) of 1773–1775 was the principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in the Russian Empire after Catherine ...
was the largest peasant revolt in Russia's history. Between the end of the Pugachev rebellion and the beginning of the 19th century, there were hundreds of outbreaks across Russia.
* 1775: The
Rising of the Priests in Malta.
* 1775–1783: The
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...
establishes independence of the thirteen North American colonies from Great Britain, creating the republic of the United States of America.
* 1780–1782: José Gabriel Condorcanqui, known as
Túpac Amaru II
José Gabriel Condorcanqui ( – May 18, 1781)known as Túpac Amaru II was an indigenous Cacique who led a large Andean rebellion against the Spanish in Peru. He later became a mythical figure in the Peruvian struggle for independence and in ...
, raises an indigenous peasant army in revolt against Spanish control of
Peru
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, image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg
, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
, other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal
, national_motto = "Fi ...
. Julián Apasa, known as
Túpac Katari
Túpac Katari or Catari (also Túpaj Katari) (c. 1750 – November 13, 1781), born Julián Apasa Nina, was the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous Aymara people, Aymara leader of a major insurrection in colonial-era Upper Peru (now Boli ...
allied with Túpac Amaru and lead an indigenous revolt in Alto Peru (present-day
Bolivia
, image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg
, flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center
, flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...
) nearly destroying the city of
La Paz
La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities ...
in a siege.
* 1780–1787:
The Patriot Revolt against
Orangist rule in the
Dutch Republic
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, also known as the (Seven) United Provinces, officially as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: ''Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden''), and commonly referred to in historiography ...
.
* 1781: The
Revolt in Bihar was an uprising by certain chieftains in the Indian state of
Bihar
Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...
against the
British East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
.
* 1781: The
Revolt of the Comuneros
The Revolt of the Comuneros ( es, Guerra de las Comunidades de Castilla, "War of the Communities of Castile") was an uprising by citizens of Castile against the rule of Charles I and his administration between 1520 and 1521. At its height, th ...
against the
Viceroyalty of New Granada
The Viceroyalty of New Granada ( es, Virreinato de Nueva Granada, links=no ) also called Viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada or Viceroyalty of Santafé was the name given on 27 May 1717, to the jurisdiction of the Spanish Empire in norther ...
.
* 1782: The
Sylhet uprising was a religiously motivated revolt in the Sylhet region against the British East India Company.
* 1782: The
Geneva Revolution, a short-lived revolt by the
third estate
The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the Middle Ages to early modern Europe. Different systems for dividing society members into estates developed and ...
against the oligarchic
Republic of Geneva
The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva (french: link=no, République et canton de Genève; frp, Rèpublica et canton de Geneva; german: Republik und Kanton Genf; it, Repubblica e Cantone di Ginevra; rm, Republica e ...
.
* 1786–1787:
Shays' Rebellion
Shays Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades. The ...
in Massachusetts against court proceedings collecting taxes and debts
* 1786–1787:
Lofthusreisingen, a large farmer's rebellion in
Agder
Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("south ...
in Norway.
* 1787: The
Abaco Slave Revolt was the first slave revolt in the
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to ...
.
* 1788:
Kočina Krajina Serb rebellion, against the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
* 1789–1799: The
French Revolution
The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...
is regarded as one of the most influential of all modern socio-political revolutions and is associated with the rise of the bourgeoisie and the downfall of the aristocracy.
* 1789–1790:
Brabant Revolution
The Brabant Revolution or Brabantine Revolution (french: Révolution brabançonne, nl, Brabantse Omwenteling), sometimes referred to as the Belgian Revolution of 1789–1790 in older writing, was an armed insurrection that occurred in the Austr ...
in the Austrian Netherlands (modern Belgium) crushed in 1790.
* 1789–1791:
Liège Revolution
The Liège Revolution, sometimes known as the Happy Revolution (french: Heureuse Révolution; wa, Binamêye revolucion), against the reigning prince-bishop of Liège, started on 18 August 1789 and lasted until the destruction of the Republic ...
, the price-bishops of Liège were overthrown by a popular uprising
* 1790:
Saxon Peasants' Revolt sparked by noble gamekeeping rights and exacerbated by a harsh winter and summer drought. Raged during summer 1790, but crushed militarily by September.
* 1790: The first
slave revolt
A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by enslaved people, as a way of fighting for their freedom. Rebellions of enslaved people have occurred in nearly all societies that practice slavery or have practiced slavery in the past. A desire for freed ...
in the
British Virgin Islands
)
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, song_type = Territorial song
, song = "Oh, Beautiful Virgin Islands"
, image_map = File:British Virgin Islands on the globe (Americas centered).svg
, map_caption =
, mapsize = 290px
, image_map2 = Brit ...
.
* 1791:
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax impo ...
in western
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
, United States.
* 1791: The
Mina conspiracy
Mina may refer to:
Places Iran
* Minaq, East Azerbaijan
* Mina, Fars
* Mineh, Lorestan Province
* Mina, Razavi Khorasan
* Mehneh, Razavi Khorasan Province
United States
* Mina, California
* Mina, Nevada
* Mina, New York
* Mina, Ohio
* M ...
, a slave revolt in the self-organized
African-American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American ...
Mina community.
* 1791–1804: The
Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution (french: révolution haïtienne ; ht, revolisyon ayisyen) was a successful insurrection by slave revolt, self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolt ...
: A successful slave rebellion, led by
Toussaint Louverture
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (; also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda; 20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803) was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. During his life, Louverture ...
, establishes
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
as the first free, black republic in modern history.
* 1792: The Polish
War in Defence of the Constitution
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular ...
against the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
.
* 1793: Slave rebellion produced in the
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (; ; gcf, label=Antillean Creole, Gwadloup, ) is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the ...
island following the outbreak of the
French Revolution
The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...
.
* 1793:
Jumla rebellion, a revolt in Jumla against the
Gorkhali conquest
* 1793–1796: The
War in the Vendée
The war in the Vendée (french: link=no, Guerre de Vendée) was a counter-revolution from 1793 to 1796 in the Vendée region of France during the French Revolution. The Vendée is a coastal region, located immediately south of the river Loir ...
was popular uprising against the Republican government during the French Revolution.
* 1794: The
Kościuszko Uprising
The Kościuszko Uprising, also known as the Polish Uprising of 1794 and the Second Polish War, was an uprising against the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Pr ...
, also known as the Polish Revolt, led by
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko ( be, Andréj Tadévuš Banavientúra Kasciúška, en, Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko; 4 or 12 February 174615 October 1817) was a Polish Military engineering, military engineer, statesman, an ...
in a failed attempt to liberate the Commonwealth of Poland from Imperial Russia and Kingdom of Prussia.
* 1794: Protests over taxes leads to the
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax impo ...
in
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
and the
Monongahela Valley
The Monongahela River ( , )—often referred to locally as the Mon ()—is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 river on the Allegheny Plateau in north-cen ...
. President
George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of th ...
invokes
martial law
Martial law is the imposition of direct military control of normal civil functions or suspension of civil law by a government, especially in response to an emergency where civil forces are overwhelmed, or in an occupied territory.
Use
Marti ...
and crushes insurrection with 13,000 troops.
* 1794–1795: The Stäfner Handel uprising in the
Republic of Zürich.
* 1795: The
Batavian Revolution overthrows
Orangist rule of the
Dutch Republic
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, also known as the (Seven) United Provinces, officially as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: ''Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden''), and commonly referred to in historiography ...
and establishes the
Batavian Republic
The Batavian Republic ( nl, Bataafse Republiek; french: République Batave) was the successor state to the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. It was proclaimed on 19 January 1795 and ended on 5 June 1806, with the accession of Louis Bona ...
, with
French backing.
* 1795: The
Curaçao Slave Revolt against the
Dutch Colonial Empire
* 1795–1796: In those years broke out several slave rebellions in the entire Caribbean, influenced by the
Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution (french: révolution haïtienne ; ht, revolisyon ayisyen) was a successful insurrection by slave revolt, self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolt ...
: in Cuba,
Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...
(
Second Maroon War
The Second Maroon War of 1795–1796 was an eight-month conflict between the Maroons of Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town), a Maroon settlement later re-named after Governor Edward Trelawny at the end of First Maroon War, located near Trelawny Par ...
),
Dominica
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(Colihault Uprising),
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
(
Pointe Coupée conspiracy),
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...
(Bush War, so-called "Guerre des Bois"),
Saint Vincent (
Second Carib War
The Second Carib War (1795–1797) took place on the island of Saint Vincent between 1795 and 1797. The conflict pitted large numbers of British military forces against a coalition of Black Carib, runaway slaves, and French forces for control o ...
),
Grenada
Grenada ( ; Grenadian Creole French: ) is an island country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself, two smaller islands, Carriacou and Pe ...
(
Fédon's rebellion
Fédon's rebellion (also known as the Brigands' War, or Fédon's Revolution, 2 March 1795 – 19 June 1796) was an uprising against British rule in Grenada. Although a significant number of slaves were involved, they fought on both sides (the majo ...
),
Curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...
(led by
Tula
Tula may refer to:
Geography
Antarctica
*Tula Mountains
*Tula Point
India
*Tulā, a solar month in the traditional Indian calendar
Iran
* Tula, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province
Italy
* Tula, Sardinia, municipality (''comune'') in the pr ...
),
Guyana
Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...
(
Demerara
Demerara ( nl, Demerary, ) is a historical region in the Guianas, on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. It was a colony of the Dutch West India Company between 1745 and 1792 and a colony of the Dutch state fro ...
Rebellion) and in
Coro, Venezuela
Coro, historically known as Neu-Augsburg, is the capital of Falcón State and the second oldest city of Venezuela (after Cumaná). It was founded on July 26, 1527, by Juan de Ampíes as Santa Ana de Coro. It is established at the south of the Para ...
(led by
José Leonardo Chirino
José Leonardo Chirino (April 25, 1754 – December 10, 1796) was a free zambo who helped lead a 1795 uprising in Santa Ana de Coro, Venezuela. José Leonardo Chirino Airport is named after him.
1795 rebellion
1795 was perhaps the most revolut ...
).
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* 1796: The
Conspiracy of Equals
The Conspiracy of the Equals (french: Conjuration des Égaux) of May 1796 was a failed coup d'Etat during the French Revolution. It was led by François-Noël Babeuf, who wanted to overthrow the French Directory, Directory and replace it with an ...
, a failed attempt to remove the
French Directory
The Directory (also called Directorate, ) was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 2 November 1795 until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and r ...
, and replace its rule with an egalitarian and proto-socialist republic.
* 1796: Boca de Nigua Revolt, a major slave uprising in
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...
led by Francisco Sopo.
* 1796–1804: The
White Lotus Rebellion
The White Lotus Rebellion (, 1794–1804) was a rebellion initiated by followers of the White Lotus movement during the Qing dynasty of China. Motivated by Millenarianism, millenarian Buddhists who promised the immediate return of the Buddha, it e ...
against the
Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...
of China.
* 1797: The
Spithead and Nore mutinies
The Spithead and Nore mutinies were two major mutinies by sailors of the Royal Navy in 1797. They were the first in an increasing series of outbreaks of maritime radicalism in the Atlantic World. Despite their temporal proximity, the mutinies d ...
were two major mutinies by sailors of the
British Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
.
* 1797:
1797 Rugby School Rebellion.
* 1797: The failed
Scottish Rebellion against the
Kingdom of Great Britain
The Kingdom of Great Britain (officially Great Britain) was a Sovereign state, sovereign country in Western Europe from 1 May 1707 to the end of 31 December 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and ratified by the Acts of ...
.
* 1798: The
Irish Rebellion of 1798
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 ( ga, Éirí Amach 1798; Ulster-Scots: ''The Hurries'') was a major uprising against British rule in Ireland. The main organising force was the Society of United Irishmen, a republican revolutionary group influence ...
failed to overthrow
British rule in Ireland
British rule in Ireland spanned several centuries and involved British control of parts, or entirety, of the island of Ireland. British involvement in Ireland began with the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169. Most of Ireland gained indepen ...
.
* 1798: The Maltese Revolt in September 1798 against French administration in Malta. The French capitulated in September 1800 after they were blockaded inside the islands' harbour fortifications for two years.
* 1799–1800:
Fries's Rebellion
Fries's Rebellion (), also called House Tax Rebellion, the Home Tax Rebellion and, in Pennsylvania German, the Heesses-Wasser Uffschtand, was an armed tax revolt among Pennsylvania Dutch farmers between 1799 and 1800. It was the third of three t ...
was a
tax revolt
Tax resistance is the refusal to pay tax because of opposition to the government that is imposing the tax, or to government policy, or as opposition to taxation in itself. Tax resistance is a form of direct action and, if in violation of the tax ...
among
Pennsylvania Dutch
The Pennsylvania Dutch ( Pennsylvania Dutch: ), also known as Pennsylvania Germans, are a cultural group formed by German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. They emigrated primarily from German-spe ...
farmers, led by
John Fries
John Fries (; 1750February 1818) was a Pennsylvania auctioneer. He organized Fries's Rebellion, an early episode of tax resistance in the United States.
Biography
Early life
He was born in Hatfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Hat ...
.
1800–1849
![Bataille de Sterzing](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Bataille_de_Sterzing.jpg)
* pre-1800–1872:
Philippines revolts against Spain (See also 1896 and 1898 in this list).
* 1800:
Gabriel Prosser
Gabriel ( – October 10, 1800), referred to by some as Gabriel Prosser, the surname of his slaveholder, was a man of African descent born in Virginia, and a blacksmith enslaved by the Prosser family who planned a large slave rebellion in the Ri ...
's suppressed slave rebellion in
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...
.
* 1800–1802: A
farmer rebellion in
Lærdal
Lærdal is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the south side of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Lærdalsøyri. The old Filefjell Kong ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
against military conscription.
* 1803: The rebellion of
Robert Emmet
Robert Emmet (4 March 177820 September 1803) was an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. Following the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise a renewed attempt to overthrow the British Crown and Protes ...
in Dublin, Ireland against British rule.
![Battle of VinegarHill](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Battle_of_VinegarHill.jpg)
* 1803: The
Igbo Landing, a slave ship revolt off the coast of
St. Simons, Georgia
St. Simons Island (or simply St. Simons) is a barrier island and census-designated place (CDP) located on St. Simons Island in Glynn County, Georgia, United States. The names of the community and the island are interchangeable, known simply as ...
, in which the enslaved
Igbo people
The Igbo people ( , ; also spelled Ibo" and formerly also ''Iboe'', ''Ebo'', ''Eboe'',
*
*
* ''Eboans'', ''Heebo'';
natively ) are an ethnic group in Nigeria. They are primarily found in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States. A ...
committed mass suicide rather than submit to
slavery in the United States
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South. Sl ...
.
* 1804:
Castle Hill convict rebellion
The Castle Hill convict rebellion was an 1804 convict rebellion in the Castle Hill area of Sydney, against the colonial authorities of the British colony of New South Wales. The rebellion culminated in a battle fought between convicts and the ...
.
* 1804–1817: The
Serbian Revolution
The Serbian Revolution ( sr, Српска револуција / ''Srpska revolucija'') was a national uprising and constitutional change in Serbia that took place between 1804 and 1835, during which this territory evolved from an Ottoman prov ...
against
Ottoman rule erupts.
* 1804–1813: The
First Serbian uprising
The First Serbian Uprising ( sr, Prvi srpski ustanak, italics=yes, sr-Cyrl, Први српски устанак; tr, Birinci Sırp Ayaklanması) was an uprising of Serbs in the Sanjak of Smederevo against the Ottoman Empire from 14 February 18 ...
against Ottomans.
* 1805: An unsuccessful slave rebellion at
Chatham Manor
* 1807:
Tican's Rebellion in Serbia against
Austrian
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* Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent
** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law
* Austrian German dialect
* Something associated with the country Austria, for example: ...
rule.
* 1808:
Rum Rebellion
The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was a ''coup d'état'' in the then-British penal colony of New South Wales, staged by the New South Wales Corps in order to depose Governor William Bligh. Australia's first and only military coup, the name derives from ...
.
* 1808:
Kruščica Rebellion in Serbia against Austrian rule.
* 1808: The
Dos de Mayo Uprising
On the 2 and 3 May 1808 the Dos de Mayo or Second of May Uprising of 1808 took place in Madrid, Spain. It was a rebellion by civilians alongside some military against the occupation of the city by French troops, provoking a heavy-hand repress ...
against the occupation of
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
by French troops.
![Assault on San Engracia monastery by Baron Lejeune](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Assault_on_San_Engracia_monastery_by_Baron_Lejeune.JPG)
* 1808–1814: The
Peninsular War
The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain ...
.
* 1808–1833:
Spanish American Wars of independence
The Spanish American wars of independence (25 September 1808 – 29 September 1833; es, Guerras de independencia hispanoamericanas) were numerous wars in Spanish America with the aim of political independence from Spanish rule during the early ...
, successful war in which
Simón Bolivar
Simon may refer to:
People
* Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon
* Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon
* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genu ...
had an important role and, saw the creation of
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
,
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
,
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
and many other countries
* 1809–1810: The rebellion of
Velu Thampi Dalawa
Velayudhan Chempakaraman Thampi of Thalakulam (1765–1809) was the Dalawa or Prime Minister of the Indian kingdom of Travancore between 1802 and 1809 during the reign of Bala Rama Varma Kulasekhara Perumal. He is best known for being one ...
of
Travancore
The Kingdom of Travancore ( /ˈtrævənkɔːr/), also known as the Kingdom of Thiruvithamkoor, was an Indian kingdom from c. 1729 until 1949. It was ruled by the Travancore Royal Family from Padmanabhapuram, and later Thiruvananthapuram. At ...
.
* 1809: The city of Chuquisaca, modern
Sucre
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, starts the
Chuquisaca Revolution
The Chuquisaca Revolution was a popular uprising on 25 May 1809 against the governor and intendant of Chuquisaca (today Sucre, Bolivia), Ramón García León de Pizarro. The Real Audiencia of Charcas, with support from the faculty of University o ...
.
* 1809: The city of
La Paz
La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities ...
starts the
La Paz revolution
The city of La Paz, in the region of Upper Peru (now Bolivia, then part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata), experienced a revolution in 1809 that deposed Spanish authorities and declared independence. It is considered one of the early s ...
, headed by
Pedro Murillo
Pedro Domingo Murillo (September 17, 1757– January 29, 1810) was a patriot of Upper Peru who played a key role in Bolivian War of Independence, Bolivia's independence.
Biography
On 17 September 1757, Pedro Domingo Murillo was born in the city ...
.
* 1809:
Tyrolean Rebellion
The Tyrolean Rebellion (german: Tiroler Volksaufstand) is a name given to the resistance of militiamen, peasants, craftsmen and other civilians of the County of Tyrol led by Andreas Hofer supported by his wife Anna and a strategic council cons ...
against French occupation forces, crushed after two months with the execution of its main leader
Andreas Hofer
Andreas Hofer (22 November 1767 – 20 February 1810) was a Tyrolean innkeeper and drover, who in 1809 became the leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion against the Napoleonic and Bavarian invasion during the War of the Fifth Coalition. He was subse ...
* 1810: The
House Tax Hartal was an occasion of
nonviolent resistance
Nonviolent resistance (NVR), or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, cons ...
to protest a tax in parts of
British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...
, with a particularly noteworthy example of
hartal
Hartal () is a term in many Indian languages for a strike action that was first used during the Indian independence movement (also known as the nationalist movement) of the early 20th century. A hartal is a mass protest, often involving a total sh ...
(a form of
general strike
A general strike refers to a strike action in which participants cease all economic activity, such as working, to strengthen the bargaining position of a trade union or achieve a common social or political goal. They are organised by large co ...
) in the vicinity of
Varanasi
Varanasi (; ; also Banaras or Benares (; ), and Kashi.) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
*
*
*
* The city has a syncretic t ...
.
* 1810: The
West Florida
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rebellion against Spain, eventually becomes a short-lived republic.
* 1810–1821: The
Mexican War of Independence
The Mexican War of Independence ( es, Guerra de Independencia de México, links=no, 16 September 1810 – 27 September 1821) was an armed conflict and political process resulting in Mexico's independence from Spain. It was not a single, co ...
, a revolution against Spanish colonialism.
* 1810: The
Viceroy of the Río de la Plata Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros
Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros y de la Torre (6 January 1756 – 9 June 1829) was a Spanish naval officer born in Cartagena. He took part in the Battle of Cape St Vincent and the Battle of Trafalgar, and in the Spanish resistance against Napole ...
is deposed during the
May Revolution
The May Revolution ( es, Revolución de Mayo) was a week-long series of events that took place from May 18 to 25, 1810, in Buenos Aires, capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. This Spanish colony included roughly the terri ...
.
* 1811:
Paraguayan Revolt; Successful bloodless overthrow of the Spanish government in
Paraguay
Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...
by
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco () (6 January 1766 – 20 September 1840) was a Paraguayan lawyer and politician, and the first dictator (1814–1840) of Paraguay following its 1811 independence from the Spanish Viceroyalty of ...
,
Fulgencio Yegros
Fulgencio Yegros y Franco de Torres (born 1780 in Quyquyhó, died 1821) was Paraguayan soldier and first head of state of independent Paraguay. The town of Yegros is named in his honor.
Life
Yegros was born to a family of military traditio ...
,
Pedro Caballero
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter.
The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...
and other military members.
* 1811: The
German Coast uprising, a revolt of slaves in parts of the
Territory of Orleans
The Territory of Orleans or Orleans Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from October 1, 1804, until April 30, 1812, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Louisiana.
History
In 1804, ...
, the uprising was the largest slave insurrection in US history.
*
![Proclama de libertad (indep](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Proclama_de_libertad_%28indep._Centroam%C3%A9rica%29.jpg)
1811: The
1811 Independence Movement
The 1811 Independence Movement ( es, Movimiento de Independencia de 1811), known in El Salvador as the First Shout of Independence (), was the first of a series of revolts in Central America in modern day El Salvador against Spanish rule and ...
, an unsuccessful revolt against
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
rule in colonial
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
led by
José Matías Delgado
José Matías Delgado y de León (24 February 1767 – 12 November 1832) was a Salvadoran priest and doctor known as ''El Padre de la Patria Salvadoreña'' (The Father of the Salvadoran Fatherland).
He was a prominent leader in the independen ...
,
Manuel José Arce
Manuel José Arce y Fagoaga (1 January 1787 – 14 December 1847) was a decorated salvadoran General and president of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1825 to 1829, followed by Francisco Morazán.
Background
Manuel José Arce was ...
,
Juan Manuel Rodríguez
Juan Manuel Rodríguez (31 December 1771 – 1847) was a Salvadoran revolutionary against Spain and later president of the State of El Salvador within the Federal Republic of Central America (briefly in 1824).
He was born in San Salvador to ...
and
Santiago José Celis.
* 1812: The peasant rebellion of
Hong Gyeong-nae
Hong Gyeong-Rae (1780–1812) was a rebel leader in the Joseon province of Pyeongan, in present-day Democratic People's Republic of Korea, during the early 19th century. He was born in Yonggang to a family of the Namyang Hong lineage. His back ...
against the
Joseon dynasty
Joseon (; ; Middle Korean: 됴ᇢ〯션〮 Dyǒw syéon or 됴ᇢ〯션〯 Dyǒw syěon), officially the Great Joseon (; ), was the last dynastic kingdom of Korea, lasting just over 500 years. It was founded by Yi Seong-gye in July 1392 and re ...
of
Korea
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.
* 1812: The
Aponte conspiracy, a large-scale slave rebellion in
Cuba
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.
* 1812: The rebellion in protest against slavery led by José Leocadio, Pedro de Seda, and Pedro Henríquez in
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...
.
*
![Eidsvoll riksraad 1814](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Eidsvoll_riksraad_1814.jpeg)
1814:
Norwegian War of Independence
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*Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway
*Demographics of Norway
*The Norwegian language, including the ...
.
* 1814:
Hadži Prodan's Revolt Hagi, Hadži, or Hadzhi (Хаджи) is a name derived from hajji, an honorific title given to a Muslim person who has successfully completed the Hajj to Mecca, which was later adopted by Christian peoples as a word for ''pilgrim''.
People Surname ...
in Serbia against Ottoman rule.
* 1815:
George Boxley
George Boxley (1780–1865) was a white abolitionist and former slaveholder who allegedly tried to coordinate a local slave rebellion on March 6, 1815, while living in Spotsylvania, Virginia. His plan was based on "heaven-sent" orders to free th ...
's slave rebellion in
Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Spotsylvania County is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the July 2021 estimate, the population was 143,676. Its county seat is Spotsylvania Courthouse.
History
At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area that bec ...
.
* 1815–1817: The
Second Serbian uprising
The Second Serbian Uprising ( sr, Други српски устанак / ''Drugi srpski ustanak'', tr, İkinci Sırp Ayaklanması) was the second phase of the Serbian Revolution against the Ottoman Empire, which erupted shortly after the re ...
against Ottomans.
* 1816:
Bussa's rebellion
Bussa's rebellion (14–16 April 1816) was the largest slave revolt in Barbadian history. The rebellion takes its name from the African-born slave, Bussa, who led the rebellion. The rebellion, which was eventually defeated by the colonial mil ...
, the largest slave revolt in
Barbadian history.
* 1816–1858: The
Seminole Wars
The Seminole Wars (also known as the Florida Wars) were three related military conflicts in Geography of Florida, Florida between the United States and the Seminole, citizens of a Native Americans in the United States, Native American nation whi ...
, a series of uprisings by the
Seminoles
The Seminole are a Native American people who developed in Florida in the 18th century. Today, they live in Oklahoma and Florida, and comprise three federally recognized tribes: the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and ...
against the intensification of
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
colonialism
Colonialism is a practice or policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their relig ...
in
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
.
* 1817: The
Pernambucan Revolt, a republican separatist movement which resulted in the creation of the short-lived Republic of Pernambuco (7 March 1817 – 20 May 1817).
* 1817: The
Pentrich rising
The Pentrich Revolution (also known as the Pentrich Rising) was an armed uprising in 1817 that began around the village of Pentrich, Derbyshire, in the United Kingdom. It occurred on the night of 9–10 June 1817. While much of the planning took p ...
,
Derbyshire
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; an ill-fated attempt to overthrow the Government, unknowingly it was instigated by William Oliver, aka Oliver the Spy. Three men were executed in November 1817, and fourteen men were transported to NSW. The event is known as 'England's Last Revolution' (9–10 June 1817).
* 1817: The
Paika Rebellion
The Paika Rebellion, also called the Paika Bidroha. It was an armed rebellion against Company rule in India in 1817. The Paikas rose in rebellion under their leader Bakshi Jagabandhu and projecting Lord Jagannath as the symbol of Odia unit ...
was a failed uprising against the
British East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
in the Indian state of
Odisha
Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...
.
* 1817–1818: The
Uva-Wellassa Rebellion against the British conquest of Kandy, followed by their colonial rule in Ceylon
* 1820: The
Revolutions of 1820
Revolutions during the 1820s included revolutions in Russia (Decembrist revolt), Spain, Portugal, and Italy for constitutional monarchies, and for independence from Ottoman rule in Greece. Unlike the revolutionary wave in the 1830s, these tende ...
were a wave of revolutions attempting to establish
liberal
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* Sexually liberal feminism
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Arts, entertainment and m ...
constitutional monarchies
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in
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...
,
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
and
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
.
* 1820:
Radical War
The Radical War, also known as the Scottish Insurrection of 1820, was a week of strikes and unrest in Scotland, a culmination of Radical demands for reform in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which had become prominent in the earl ...
or "Scottish Insurrection".
* 1820–1822:
Ecuadorian War of Independence
The Ecuadorian War of Independence was fought from 1820 to 1822 between several South American armies and Spain over control of the lands of the Royal Audience of Quito, a Spanish colonial administrative jurisdiction from which would eventually ...
, fight between several South American armies and Spain over control of the lands of the
Royal Audience of Quito
The of Quito (sometimes referred to as or ) was an administrative unit in the Spanish Empire which had political, military, and religious jurisdiction over territories that today include Ecuador, parts of northern Peru, parts of southern Colo ...
.
* 1820–1824: The revolutionary war of independence in
Peru
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, image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg
, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
, other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal
, national_motto = "Fi ...
led by
José de San Martín
José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (25 February 177817 August 1850), known simply as José de San Martín () or '' the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru'', was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and cent ...
.
* 1821:
Marcos Xiorro
Marcos Xiorro was the slave name of an enslaved African in Spanish Puerto Rico who, in 1821, planned and conspired to lead a slave revolt against the sugarcane plantation owners and the Spanish Colonial government. Although his rebellion was ...
's conspiracy to incite a slave revolt in
Spanish Puerto Rico.
* 1821: The
Wallachian uprising
The uprising of 1821 was a social and political rebellion in Wallachia, which was at the time a tributary state of the Ottoman Empire. It originated as a movement against the Phanariote administration, with backing from the more conservative bo ...
against the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
.
* 1821–1829: The
Greek War of Independence
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. The Greeks were later assisted by ...
.
* 1822:
Denmark Vesey
Denmark Vesey (also Telemaque) ( July 2, 1822) was an early 19th century free Black and community leader in Charleston, South Carolina, who was accused and convicted of planning a major slave revolt in 1822. Although the alleged plot was dis ...
's suppressed slave uprising in
South Carolina
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, anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
, LargestCity = Charleston
, LargestMetro = ...
.
* 1822–1823: The republican revolution in Mexico overthrows Emperor
Agustín de Iturbide
Agustín de Iturbide (; 27 September 178319 July 1824), full name Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu and also known as Agustín of Mexico, was a Mexican army general and politician. During the Mexican War of Independence, he built a ...
.
![Batalla de Ayacucho by Martín Tovar y Tovar (1827 - 1902)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Batalla_de_Ayacucho_by_Mart%C3%ADn_Tovar_y_Tovar_%281827_-_1902%29.jpg)
* 1822–1825: The
Brazilian War of Independence.
* 1823: The
Demerara rebellion of 1823, a non-violent uprising of over 10,000 slaves in
Guyana
Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...
against the
British colonial government
* 1824: The
Chumash revolt of 1824, uprising of indigenous people of the Central Coast of California against the
Mexican government
The Federal government of Mexico (alternately known as the Government of the Republic or ' or ') is the national government of the United Mexican States, the central government established by its constitution to share sovereignty over the republi ...
* 1825: The
Decembrist revolt
The Decembrist Revolt ( ru , Восстание декабристов, translit = Vosstaniye dekabristov , translation = Uprising of the Decembrists) took place in Russia on , during the interregnum following the sudden death of Emperor Al ...
in
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
.
* 1825–1830: The
Java War
The Java War ( jv, ꦥꦼꦫꦁꦗꦮ) or Diponegoro War () was fought in central Java from 1825 to 1830, between the colonial Dutch Empire and native Javanese rebels. The war started as a rebellion led by Prince Diponegoro, a leading member ...
or Dipanegara Revolution, when the prince of Mataram Islam against the tax and land rent domination from
Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
.
* 1826: The
Janissary revolts
A Janissary ( ota, یڭیچری, yeŋiçeri, , ) was a member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops and the first modern standing army in Europe. The corps was most likely established under sultan Orhan ( ...
in
Ottoman Empire
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.
* 1826-1827: The
Fredonian Rebellion
The Fredonian Rebellion (December 21, 1826 – January 31, 1827) was the first attempt by Anglo settlers in Texas to secede from Mexico. The settlers, led by Empresario Haden Edwards, declared independence from Mexican Texas and created the R ...
in Texas, a failed local attempt to secede from Mexico
* 1826–1828: The
Lao rebellion an attempted but suppressed rebellion to restore the former kingdom of
Lan Xang
existed as a unified kingdom from 1353 to 1707.
For three and a half centuries, Lan Xang was one of the largest kingdoms in Southeast Asia. The meaning of the kingdom's name alludes to the power of the kingship and formidable war machine of the ea ...
.
* 1827–1828: The failed conservative rebellion in Mexico led by
Nicolás Bravo
Nicolás Bravo (10 September 1786 – 22 April 1854) was a Mexican soldier and politician who first distinguished himself during the Mexican War of Independence. He was Mexico's first vice-president though while holding this office Bravo ...
.
* 1828–1834: The
Liberal Wars
The Liberal Wars (), also known as the Portuguese Civil War (), the War of the Two Brothers () or Miguelite War (), was a war between liberal constitutionalists and conservative absolutists in Portugal over royal succession that lasted from 18 ...
against
conservative
Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization i ...
absolutists restore a liberal constitutional monarchy to Portugal.
* 1829: The
Bathurst War in
New South Wales
)
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, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, es ...
in Australia between
Australian Aboriginals
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the T ...
and
European colonists.
* 1829–1832: The
War of the Maidens in Ariège, France. Countrymen dressed as women resisted the new forestry law, which restricted their use of the forest.
* 1830: The
Revolutions of 1830
The Revolutions of 1830 were a revolutionary wave in Europe which took place in 1830. It included two "Romantic nationalism, romantic nationalist" revolutions, the Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the July Revolution ...
were a wave of
Romantic nationalist
Romantic nationalism (also national romanticism, organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state claims its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs. This includes ...
revolutions in Europe.
** The
Belgian Revolution
The Belgian Revolution (, ) was the conflict which led to the secession of the southern provinces (mainly the former Southern Netherlands) from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium.
T ...
was a conflict in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands that began with a riot in Brussels in August 1830 and eventually led to the establishment of an independent, Catholic and neutral Belgium.
** The
July Revolution
The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution (french: révolution de Juillet), Second French Revolution, or ("Three Glorious ays), was a second French Revolution after the first in 1789. It led to the overthrow of King ...
was a revolt by the middle class against Bourbon King Charles X which forced him out of office and replaced him with the Orleanist King Louis-Philippe (the "July Monarchy").
** The
November uprising
The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution,
was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in W ...
in Poland against the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
.
** The
Ustertag revolution occurred in the Canton of
Zurich.
![Eugène Delacroix - La liberté guidant le peuple](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg)
* 1830: The
Bathurst Rebellion
The Bathurst rebellion of 1830 was an outbreak of bushranging near Bathurst in the British penal colony (now the Australian state) of New South Wales.
The rebellion involved a group of escaped convicts who ransacked villages and engaged in shoot ...
, a convict uprising near
Bathurst, New South Wales
Bathurst () is a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. Bathurst is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) west-northwest of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council. Bathurst is the oldest inland settlement in ...
, Australia.
* 1830–1833:
Yagan
Yagan (; – 11 July 1833) was an Aboriginal Australian warrior from the Noongar people. Yagan was pursued by the local authorities after he killed Erin Entwhistle, a servant of farmer Archibald Butler. It was an act of retaliation after ...
's War, a revolt by the Noongar people against British rule.
* 1830–1836: The
Tithe War
The Tithe War ( ga, Cogadh na nDeachúna) was a campaign of mainly nonviolent civil disobedience, punctuated by sporadic violent episodes, in Ireland between 1830 and 1836 in reaction to the enforcement of tithes on the Roman Catholic majority f ...
was a campaign of
civil disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority). By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called "civil". Hen ...
in
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
, in reaction to the enforcement of tithes on the
Catholic
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
majority for the upkeep of the established state church – the
Church of Ireland
The Church of Ireland ( ga, Eaglais na hÉireann, ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Kirk o Airlann, ) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the second ...
.
* 1831:
Nat Turner's slave rebellion, an uprising in
Southampton County, Virginia
Southampton County is a county located on the southern border of the Commonwealth of Virginia. North Carolina is to the south. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,996. Its county seat is Courtland.
History
In the early 17th century ...
that was suppressed by the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
.
* 1831: The
Merthyr Rising
The Merthyr Rising, also referred to as the Merthyr Riots, of 1831 was the violent climax to many years of simmering unrest among the large working class population of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales and the surrounding area. The Rising marked the fi ...
in South Wales.
![Revolte des Canuts - Lyon 1831 - 1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Revolte_des_Canuts_-_Lyon_1831_-_1.jpg)
* 1831, 1834, 1848: The
Canut revolts
The Canut revolts (french: Révolte des canuts) is the collective name for the major revolts by Lyonnais silk workers (french: canuts) which occurred in 1831, 1834 and 1848. They were among the first well-defined worker uprisings of the period kn ...
by Lyonnais silk workers (French: ''canuts'')
* 1831–1832: The
Bosnian uprising
Bosnian may refer to:
*Anything related to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina or its inhabitants
*Anything related to Bosnia (region) or its inhabitants
* Bosniaks, an ethnic group mainly inhabiting Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of three const ...
in Ottoman Empire.
* 1831–1832: The
Baptist War
The Baptist War, also known as the Sam Sharp Rebellion, the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started on 25 December 1831 and involved up to 60,000 of th ...
, an eleven-day slave rebellion in the colony of
Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...
.
* 1832: The
June Rebellion
The June Rebellion, or the Paris Uprising of 1832 (french: Insurrection républicaine à Paris en juin 1832), was an anti-monarchist insurrection of Parisian republicans on 5 and 6 June 1832.
The rebellion originated in an attempt by republ ...
in France.
* 1832-1833:
Anastasio Aquino's Rebellion
* 1832–1843:
Abdelkader's rebellion in French-occupied
Algeria
)
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, largest_city = capital
, relig ...
.
* 1833–1835:
Lê Văn Khôi revolt
The Lê Văn Khôi revolt ( vi, Cuộc nổi dậy Lê Văn Khôi, 1833–1835) was an important revolt in 19th-century Vietnam, in which southern Vietnamese, Vietnamese Catholics, French Catholic missionaries and Chinese settlers under the ...
in Vietnam, against
Nguyễn dynasty
The Nguyễn dynasty (chữ Nôm: 茹阮, vi, Nhà Nguyễn; chữ Hán: 阮朝, vi, Nguyễn triều) was the last Vietnamese dynasty, which ruled the unified Vietnamese state largely independently from 1802 to 1883. During its existence, ...
* 1834:
Flores' Rebellion, an anti-constitutionalist rebellion in
Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the cou ...
.
* 1834–1859:
Imam Shamil
Imam Shamil ( av, Шейх Шамил, Şeyx Şamil; ar, الشيخ شامل; russian: Имам Шамиль; 26 June 1797 – 4 February 1871) was the political, military, and spiritual leader of North Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in ...
's rebellion in Russian-occupied
Caucasus
The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have historically ...
.
* 1835–1836: Texas secedes from Mexico in the
Texas Revolution.
* 1835: The
Malê revolt
Male, in biology, is the half of a sex system that produces sperm cells.
* Male plant, a plant that gives rise to male gametophytes
Male may also refer to:
Gender
* Male, the gender of men and boys
** Man, a male adult
** Boy, a young male person ...
, a rebellion of the enslaved
Yoruba people
The Yoruba people (, , ) are a West African ethnic group that mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. The areas of these countries primarily inhabited by Yoruba are often collectively referred to as Yorubaland. The Yoruba constitute ...
against the
Empire of Brazil
The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and (until 1828) Uruguay. Its government was a representative parliamentary constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperors Dom Pe ...
.
* 1835-1840: The
Cabanagem
The Cabanagem (; 1835–1840) was a popular revolution and pro-separatist movement that occurred in the then province of Grão-Pará, Empire of Brazil.
Among the causes for this revolt were the extreme poverty of the Paraense people, oppressio ...
was a popular
revolution
In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...
and pro-
separatist
Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group. As with secession, separatism conventionally refers to full political separation. Groups simply seeking greate ...
movement that occurred in the then province of
Grão-Pará,
Empire of Brazil
The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and (until 1828) Uruguay. Its government was a representative parliamentary constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperors Dom Pe ...
.
* 1835–1845: The
Ragamuffin War
The Ragamuffin War (Portuguese: ''Guerra dos Farrapos'' or ''Revolução Farroupilha'') was a Republican uprising that began in southern Brazil, in the province (current state) of Rio Grande do Sul in 1835. The rebels were led by generals Bento ...
, Separatists
gauchos
A gaucho () or gaúcho () is a skilled horseman, reputed to be brave and unruly. The figure of the gaucho is a folk symbol of Argentina, Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, and the south of Chilean Patagonia. Gauchos became greatly admired and ...
revolutionaries declared the independence of the
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...
from Brazil.
* 1837:
Revolt of 1837 (New Mexico)
The Revolt of 1837, also known as the Chimayó Rebellion, was a popular insurrection in New Mexico against Albino Pérez, the Mexico, Mexican governor at the time.
Background
Albino Pérez, Governor Pérez had arrived from central Mexico in 1835. ...
, also known as the Chimayó Rebellion, against the Mexican governor of New Mexico
* 1837–1838: The
Rebellions of 1837
Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order. It refers to the open resistance against the orders of an established authority.
A rebellion originates from a sentiment of indignation and disapproval of a situation and ...
and the
Upper Canada Rebellion
The Upper Canada Rebellion was an insurrection against the oligarchic government of the British colony of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) in December 1837. While public grievances had existed for years, it was the rebellion in Lower Canada (p ...
: failed republican revolutions against British rule in Canada.
* 1837-1838: The
Sabinada
The Sabinada (1837–1838) was a revolt by military officer Francisco Sabino that occurred in Brazil's Bahia province between 6 November 1837 and 16 March 1838. Calling for the abolition of slavery and the redistribution of land, the rebel " Bahi ...
was a revolt by military officer
Francisco Sabino
Francisco Sabino Álvares da Rocha Vieira Barroso (died 1846) was a revolutionary political leader of 19th-century Brazil. He was the leader of the Sabinada rebellion of 1837–38, in which he called for the abolition of slavery and the redistribu ...
that occurred in Brazil's
Bahia province.
*1838-1841: The
Balaiada
The Balaiada was a social revolt between 1838 and 1841 in the interior of the Province of Maranhão, Brazil.
Background
During the imperial period, the Maranhão region, which exported cotton, suffered a severe economic crisis because of comp ...
was a social revolt between 1838 and 1841 in the interior of the
Province of Maranhão,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
* 1839: The
Amistad Rebellion, a slave ship revolt that was initially successful but ended with the eventual capture of the slaves by the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
.
* 1839–1843: The
Rebecca Riots
The Rebecca Riots (Welsh: ''Terfysgoedd Beca'') took place between 1839 and 1843 in West and Mid Wales. They were a series of protests undertaken by local farmers and agricultural workers in response to levels of taxation. The rioters, often me ...
were a series of protests undertaken by farmers and agricultural workers in
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...
, in response to perceived unfair taxation
* 1841:
Creole revolt, a successful slave revolt aboard the ''Creole'', ending with their arrival at Nassau, where slavery was abolished.
* 1841-1842:
Dorr Rebellion
The Dorr Rebellion (1841–1842) (also referred to as Dorr's Rebellion, Dorr's War or Dorr War) was an attempt by disenfranchised residents to force broader democracy in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, where a small rural elite was in control of ...
in Rhode Island
* 1841–1842: The
Afghan uprising. Hostile Afghan tribes massacred
Elphinstone's British army including some 12,000 civilian dependents and camp followers.
* 1842: The
Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation, an attempted escape of slaves from the
Cherokee
The Cherokee (; chr, ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ, translit=Aniyvwiyaʔi or Anigiduwagi, or chr, ᏣᎳᎩ, links=no, translit=Tsalagi) are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, t ...
, that ended with their capture.
* 1845 - 1872 The
New Zealand Wars
The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other. They were previously commonly referred to as the Land Wars or the M ...
.
* 1846: The
Greater Poland uprising against
Austrian
Austrian may refer to:
* Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent
** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law
* Austrian German dialect
* Something associated with the country Austria, for example: ...
rule.
** The failed
Kraków uprising
The Kraków uprising (Polish: ''powstanie krakowskie'', ''rewolucja krakowska''; German: ''Krakauer Aufstand''; Russian: ''краковское восстание'') of 1846 was an attempt, led by Polish insurgents such as Jan Tyssowski and Edw ...
ends in
slaughter.
* 1846:
Bear Flag Rebellion in
Alta California
Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as ('New California') among other names, was a province of New Spain, formally established in 1804. Along with the Baja California peninsula, it had previously comprised the province of , but ...
, quickly subsumed in the U.S. military takeover of the territory
* 1847: The
Caste War of Yucatán
The Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1915) began with the revolt of Native Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula against Hispanic populations, called ''Yucatecos''. The latter had long held political and economic control of the region. A lengthy w ...
, revolt of Maya against the Mexican state.
* 1847: The
Taos Revolt
The Taos Revolt was a populist insurrection in January 1847 by Hispano and Pueblo allies against the United States' occupation of present-day northern New Mexico during the Mexican–American War. Provisional governor Charles Bent and several ...
in New Mexico against the United States.
* 1847: The
Sonderbund War
The Sonderbund War (german: Sonderbundskrieg, fr , Guerre du Sonderbund, it , Guerra del Sonderbund) of November 1847 was a civil war in Switzerland, then still a relatively loose confederacy of cantons. It ensued after seven Catholic cantons ...
, a revolt by the
Swiss Confederation
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
against the centralization of power by Catholic cantons, resulting in the rise of
Switzerland as a federal state
The rise of Switzerland as a federal state began on 12 September 1848, with the creation of a federal constitution in response to a 27-day civil war, the ''Sonderbundskrieg''. The constitution, which was heavily influenced by the United Stat ...
.
![Maerz1848 berlin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Ereignisblatt_aus_den_revolution%C3%A4ren_M%C3%A4rztagen_18.-19._M%C3%A4rz_1848_mit_einer_Barrikadenszene_aus_der_Breiten_Strasse%2C_Berlin_01.jpg)
* 1848: The
Revolutions of 1848
The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Springtime of Nations, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe starting in 1848. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in Europea ...
were a wave of failed liberal and republican revolutions that swept through Europe.
** The
French Revolution of 1848
The French Revolution of 1848 (french: Révolution française de 1848), also known as the February Revolution (), was a brief period of civil unrest in France, in February 1848, that led to the collapse of the July Monarchy and the foundation ...
led to the creation of the
French Second Republic
The French Second Republic (french: Deuxième République Française or ), officially the French Republic (), was the republican government of France that existed between 1848 and 1852. It was established in February 1848, with the February Revo ...
.
** The
Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states
The 1848 Revolutions in the Italian states, part of the wider Revolutions of 1848 in Europe, were organized revolts in the states of the Italian peninsula and Sicily, led by intellectuals and agitators who desired a liberal government. As Italia ...
.
** The
Revolutions of 1848 in the German states
In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...
.
** The
Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
The Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire were a set of revolutions that took place in the Austrian Empire from March 1848 to November 1849. Much of the revolutionary activity had a nationalist character: the Empire, ruled from Vienna, incl ...
*** The
Hungarian Revolution of 1848
The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 or fully Hungarian Civic Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849 () was one of many European Revolutions of 1848 and was closely linked to other revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas. Although th ...
grew into a war for independence from
Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire (german: link=no, Kaiserthum Oesterreich, modern spelling , ) was a Central-Eastern European multinational great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs. During its existence, ...
.
*** The
Slovak Uprising of 1848–49
The Slovak Uprising (of 1848/49) ( sk, Slovenské povstanie), Slovak Volunteer Campaigns ( sk, Slovenské dobrovoľnícke výpravy) or Slovak Revolt was an uprising of Slovaks in Western parts of Upper Hungary (today mostly Western Slovakia) ...
.
** The
Revolutions of 1848 in the Danish States started in the German speaking cities of Altona and Kiel. It spilled into a peaceful revolution in Copenhagen, which abolished absolutism in favor of parliamentary constitutional monarchy, and a counter-revolutionary war against the German speaking minority.
** The
March Unrest
The March Unrest ( sv, Marsoroligheterna ) was a brief series of riots which occurred in the Swedish capital Stockholm during the Revolutions of 1848.
On 2 March 1848, news of the French Revolution of 1848 reached Stockholm. On the morning of 1 ...
.
** The Czech Revolution of 1848.
** The
Greater Poland uprising.
** The
Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848
The Young Irelander Rebellion was a failed Irish nationalist uprising led by the Young Ireland movement, part of the wider Revolutions of 1848 that affected most of Europe. It took place on 29 July 1848 at Farranrory, a small settlement about 4 ...
took place during the
Great Famine.
**
Serbian Revolution of 1848.
**
Wallachian Revolution of 1848
The Wallachian Revolution of 1848 was a Romanian liberal and nationalist uprising in the Principality of Wallachia. Part of the Revolutions of 1848, and closely connected with the unsuccessful revolt in the Principality of Moldavia, it sought t ...
.
**
Moldavian Revolution of 1848
The Moldavian Revolution of 1848 is the name used for the unsuccessful Romanian liberal and Romantic nationalist movement inspired by the Revolutions of 1848 in the principality of Moldavia. Initially seeking accommodation within the political fra ...
.
* 1848:
Matale Rebellion A rebellion in
Ceylon
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against British colonial rule.
*1848-1849:
Beach Rebellion (''Revolução Praieira'') in
Pernambuco
Pernambuco () is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it seventh-most populous state of Brazil and with around 98,148 km², being the 19 ...
,
Brazil
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.
1850–1899
![Intentona de Yauco](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Intentona_de_Yauco.jpg)
* 1851–64: The
Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a massive rebellion and civil war that was waged in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Han, Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It lasted fr ...
by the
God Worshippers
The God Worshipping Society, in its literal translation Emperor Worshipping Society (), was a religious movement founded and led by Hong Xiuquan which drew on his own unique interpretation of Protestant Christianity and combined it with Chinese ...
against the
Qing dynasty
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of China. In total between 20 and 30 million lives had been lost, making it the second deadliest war in
human history
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.
* 1852: The
Kautokeino rebellion
The Sami revolt in Guovdageaidnu, also known as the Kautokeino uprising, was a revolt in the town of Kautokeino in northern Norway in 1852 by a group of Sami who attacked representatives of the Norwegian authorities. The rebels killed the local ...
in Kautokeino, Norway.
* 1852–62: The
Herzegovina Uprising (1852–62) Herzegovina uprising or Herzegovinian uprising may refer to:
* Herzegovina uprising (1596–97), fought by Serbs in Herzegovina against the Ottoman Empire, 1596–1597
* Herzegovina uprising (1852–62), fought by Serbs in Herzegovina against the ...
in Ottoman Herzegovina.
* 1853–55: The
Small Knife Society rebellion in Shanghai, China.
* 1854: A revolution in Spain against the
Moderate Party
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Government.
* 1854: The
Eureka Rebellion
The Eureka Rebellion was a series of events involving gold miners who revolted against the British administration of the colony of Victoria, Australia during the Victorian gold rush. It culminated in the Battle of the Eureka Stockade, which ...
(Eureka Stockade) in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Miners battled British Colonial forces against taxation policies of the Government.
* 1854–56: Peasant Rebel in Vietnam, led by
Cao Ba Quat, against the
Nguyễn dynasty
The Nguyễn dynasty (chữ Nôm: 茹阮, vi, Nhà Nguyễn; chữ Hán: 阮朝, vi, Nguyễn triều) was the last Vietnamese dynasty, which ruled the unified Vietnamese state largely independently from 1802 to 1883. During its existence, ...
.
* 1854–56: The
Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856)
The Red Turban Rebellion of 1854–1856 was a rebellion by members of the Tiandihui ( zh, c=天地會, Heaven and Earth Society) in the Guangdong province of South China.
The initial core of the rebels were Tiandihui secret societies that we ...
in Guangdong (Canton), China.
* 1854–73: The
Miao Miao may refer to:
* Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China
* Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages
* Miao (Unicode ...
Rebellion in China.
* 1854–55: The
Revolution of Ayutla
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in Mexico.
* 1855–73: The
Panthay Rebellion
The Panthay Rebellion (1856–1873), also known as the Du Wenxiu Rebellion (Tu Wen-hsiu Rebellion), was a rebellion of the Muslim Hui people and other (Muslim as well as non-Muslim) ethnic groups against the Manchu-led Qing dynasty in southwe ...
by Chinese
Muslim
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s against the
Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...
.
* 1857: The Indian rebellion against
British East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
, marking the end of
Mughal rule in India. Also known as the 1857 War of Independence and, particularly in the West, the
Sepoy Mutiny
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the for ...
.
* 1858: The
Mahtra War
Mahtra War ( et, Mahtra sõda) was a peasant insurgency at the Mahtra estate (now in Rapla County, 60 km from Tallinn) in Estonia, in the then Russian Empire in May–July 1858.
The revolt was suppressed using the regular army, 14 peasants w ...
in Estonia.
* 1858:
Pecija's First Revolt
Pecija's First Revolt ( sr-cyr, прва Пецијина буна) or Doljani Revolt (Дољанска буна) was an uprising in Knešpolje led by Serb hayduk leader Pecija, Petar Popović–Pecija (1826–1875) against the Ottoman government, ...
, in Ottoman Bosnia.
* 1858–61: The
War of the Reform
The Reform War, or War of Reform ( es, Guerra de Reforma), also known as the Three Years' War ( es, Guerra de los Tres Años), was a civil war in Mexico lasting from January 11, 1858 to January 11, 1861, fought between liberals and conservativ ...
in Mexico.
* 1859:
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
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* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
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, an effort by
abolitionist
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The British ...
John Brown John Brown most often refers to:
*John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), American who led an anti-slavery raid in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859
John Brown or Johnny Brown may also refer to:
Academia
* John Brown (educator) (1763–1842), Ir ...
to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over
Harpers Ferry Armory
The Harpers Ferry Armory, more formally known as the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, was the second federal armory created by the United States government. (The first was the Springfield Armory.) It was located in Harpers Ferry ...
in
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...
.
* 1859: The
Second Italian War of Independence
The Second Italian War of Independence, also called the Franco-Austrian War, the Austro-Sardinian War or Italian War of 1859 ( it, Seconda guerra d'indipendenza italiana; french: Campagne d'Italie), was fought by the Second French Empire and t ...
.
* 1861–65: The
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...
in the United States, between the United States and the
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. The Confeder ...
, which was formed out of eleven
southern states.
** 1863–65: A counter-rebellion occurred in the self-declared
Free State of Jones
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Jones County is part of the Laurel micropolitan area.
History
Less t ...
in Mississippi.
* 1861–66:
Quantrill's Raiders
Quantrill's Raiders were the best-known of the pro-Confederate partisan guerrillas (also known as "bushwhackers") who fought in the American Civil War. Their leader was William Quantrill and they included Jesse James and his brother Frank.
Ea ...
in
Missouri
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.
* 1862: The
Sioux Uprising
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in
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...
.
* 1862–77: The
Muslim Rebellion
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by Chinese Muslims against the
Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...
.
* 1862: The
23 October 1862 Revolution was a popular insurrection which led to the overthrow of King
Otto of Greece
Otto (, ; 1 June 181526 July 1867) was a Bavarian prince who ruled as King of Greece from the establishment of the monarchy on 27 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed on 23 October 1862.
The second son of King Ludw ...
.
* 1863: The
New York Draft riots
The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of white working-cl ...
.
* 1863–65: The
January Uprising
The January Uprising ( pl, powstanie styczniowe; lt, 1863 metų sukilimas; ua, Січневе повстання; russian: Польское восстание; ) was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at ...
was the
Polish uprising
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This list does not include peacekeeping operation ...
against the
Russian Empire
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.
* 1864–65: The
Mejba Revolt was a rebellion in
Tunisia
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against the doubling of an unpopular
poll tax
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Head taxes were important sources of revenue for many governments fr ...
imposed by
Sadok Bey.
* 1865: The
Morant Bay rebellion
The Morant Bay Rebellion (11 October 1865) began with a protest march to the courthouse by hundreds of people led by preacher Paul Bogle in Morant Bay, Jamaica. Some were armed with sticks and stones. After seven men were shot and killed by th ...
.
* 1866: The
Uprising of Polish political exiles in Siberia
The Baikal Insurrection ( pl, Powstanie zabajkalskie or ''Powstanie nad Bajkałem'', russian: Кругобайкальское восстание), also known as the Siberian Uprising, was a short-lived uprising of about 700 Polish political priso ...
.
* 1866–68: The
Meiji Restoration
The , referred to at the time as the , and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. Although there were ...
and modernization revolution in Japan.
Samurai
were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They h ...
uprising leads to overthrow of shogunate and establishment of "modern" parliamentary, Western-style system.
* 1867: The
Fenian Rising
The Fenian Rising of 1867 ( ga, Éirí Amach na bhFíníní, 1867, ) was a rebellion against British rule in Ireland, organised by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB).
After the suppression of the ''Irish People'' newspaper in September 1865 ...
: an attempt at a nationwide rebellion by the
Irish Republican Brotherhood
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against British rule.
* 1868: The
Glorious Revolution
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in Spain deposes Queen
Isabella II
Isabella II ( es, Isabel II; 10 October 1830 – 9 April 1904), was Queen of Spain from 29 September 1833 until 30 September 1868.
Shortly before her birth, the King Ferdinand VII of Spain issued a Pragmatic Sanction to ensure the successio ...
.
* 1868: The
Grito de Lares
''El Grito de Lares'' (''The Cry of Lares''), also referred to as the Lares uprising, the Lares revolt, the Lares rebellion, or the Lares revolution, was the first major revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico. The revolt was planned by Ra ...
was the first major revolt against
Spanish rule in
Puerto Rico
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. The rebels proclaimed the independence of
Puerto Rico
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from Spain.
*
Ten Years' War
The Ten Years' War ( es, Guerra de los Diez Años; 1868–1878), also known as the Great War () and the War of '68, was part of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain. The uprising was led by Cuban-born planters and other wealthy natives. O ...
(1868–1878), also known as the Great War (Guerra Grande) and the War of '68, was part of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, led by Cuban-born planters (especially by
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo (18 April 1819, Bayamo, Spanish Cuba – 27 February 1874, San Lorenzo, Spanish Cuba) was a Cuban revolutionary hero and First President of Cuba in Arms in 1868. Cespedes, who was a plantation owner ...
) and other wealthy natives.
* 1869–70: The
Red River Rebellion
The Red River Rebellion (french: Rébellion de la rivière Rouge), also known as the Red River Resistance, Red River uprising, or First Riel Rebellion, was the sequence of events that led up to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by ...
, the events surrounding the actions of a
provisional government
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established by
Métis
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leader Louis Riel at the Red River Colony, Manitoba, Canada.
* 1870–72: The Revolution of the Lances, the National Party (Uruguay), National Party revolts against the Colorado Party (Uruguay), Colorado Government in Uruguay.
* 1871: The Paris Commune.
* 1871–72: Porfirio Díaz rebels against President Benito Juárez of Mexico.
* 1871: The liberal revolution in Guatemala.
* 1873: The Petroleum Revolution in the First Spanish Republic.
* 1873–74: The Cantonal rebellion in the First Spanish Republic.
* 1875: The Deccan Riots.
* 1875: The Stara Zagora Uprising, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against
Ottoman rule.
* 1875–76: The Svaneti uprising of 1875–1876
* 1875–78: The Great Eastern Crisis:
** 1875–77: The Herzegovina Uprising (1875–1878), Herzegovinian rebellion, the most famous of the rebellions against the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
in Herzegovina; unrest soon spread to other areas of Vilayet of Bosnia, Ottoman Bosnia.
** 1876: The April uprising, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against
Ottoman rule.
*** 1876: The Razlovtsi insurrection, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against
Ottoman rule, part of the April Uprising.
** 1876–78: Serbian-Turkish Wars (1876–1878)
** 1876–78: Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1876–78)
** 1877–78: Romanian War of Independence
** 1878: Kumanovo Uprising
** 1878: Kresna–Razlog uprising, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against
Ottoman rule.
** 1878 Greek Macedonian rebellion
** Epirus Revolt of 1878
** Cretan Revolt (1878)
* 1876: The second rebellion by Porfirio Díaz against President Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada of Mexico.
* 1877: The Satsuma Rebellion of Satsuma han, Satsuma ex-samurai against the Meiji government.
* 1879: Little War (Cuba) or Small War, second of three conflicts between Cuban rebels and Spain. It started on 26 August 1879 and ended in rebel defeat in September 1880.
* 1879–1882: The Urabi Revolt: an uprising in Egypt on 11 June 1882 against the Khedive and European influence in the country. It was led by and named after Colonel Ahmed Urabi.
* 1880–1881: The Brsjak revolt.
* 1883: The Timok Rebellion was a popular uprising that began in eastern Serbia.
* 1885: A peasant revolt in the Ancash region of Peru led by Pedro Pablo Atusparía succeeds in occupying the Callejón de Huaylas for several months.
* 1885–96: Cần Vương movement of Vietnam, led by emperor Hàm Nghi, against French colonialism
* 1885: The North-West Rebellion of
Métis
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in Saskatchewan.
* 1885: Bulgarian unification - accomplished after revolts in Eastern Rumelian towns, followed by a coup.
* 1888: The Peasant Rebellion in Banten, Indonesia.
* 1890–1914: The Saminism Movement in Indonesia.
* 1890: Revolution of the Park, Argentina.
* 1893: Revolution of 1893, Argentina
* 1893: A liberal revolt brings José Santos Zelaya to power in
Nicaragua
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.
* 1894–95: The Donghak Peasant Revolution: Korean peasants led by Jeon Bong-jun revolted against the
Joseon dynasty
Joseon (; ; Middle Korean: 됴ᇢ〯션〮 Dyǒw syéon or 됴ᇢ〯션〯 Dyǒw syěon), officially the Great Joseon (; ), was the last dynastic kingdom of Korea, lasting just over 500 years. It was founded by Yi Seong-gye in July 1392 and re ...
; the revolt was crushed by Empire of Japan, Japanese and Qing dynasty, Chinese intervention, leading to First Sino-Japanese War.
* 1895: The revolution against President Andrés Avelino Cáceres in Peru ushers in a period of stable constitutional rule.
* 1895-1896: The War of Canudos was a conflict between the First Brazilian Republic and the residents of Canudos in the northeastern brazil, northeastern Bahia, state of Bahia.
* 1895–1896: The First Italo-Ethiopian War in which Ethiopians fought against Italians colonizers.
* Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898), the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, being this initiated by José Martí.
* 1896: Yaqui Uprising in Sonora and Arizona
* 1896–98: The Philippine Revolution, a war of independence against Spanish rule directed by the Katipunan society.
* 1897: The Intentona de Yauco (Attempted Coup of Yauco), was the second and last major revolt against Spanish colonial rule in Puerto Rico, staged by Puerto Rico's pro-independence movement.
* 1898: The Dukchi Ishan (Andican Uprising): Kirgiz, Uzbek, and Kipcak peoples rebelled against Tsarist Russia in Turkestan (Fargana Valley).
* 1898: The Hut Tax War of 1898, Hut Tax War was a resistance in the newly annexed Protectorate of Sierra Leone to a new, severe tax imposed by the colonial military governor.
* 1898: The Dog Tax War was a confrontation between the Colony of New Zealand and a group of Northern Māori, led by Hone Riiwi Toia, opposed to the enforcement of a 'dog tax'.
* 1898: The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, A mob of white supremacists forced out the city government of Wilmington, North Carolina.
* 1899: The tancament de caixes, a tax revolt in Barcelona.
* 1899–1902: The Philippine–American War, an insurgency against the imposition of colonial rule by the United States following the transfer of the Philippines from Spain to the U.S. in the Treaty of Paris (1898), Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish–American War.
* 1899–1901: The Boxer Rebellion against foreign influence in areas such as trade, politics, religion and technology that occurred in China during the final years of the
Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...
, which was defeated by the Eight-Nation Alliance.
* 1899–1962: The Mau movement, Mau was a non-violent movement for Samoan independence from colonial rule (by German Samoa, Germany and then Western Samoa Trust Territory, New Zealand) during the first half of the 20th century.
1900s
![Ottoman-Empire-Public-Demo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Ottoman-Empire-Public-Demo.png)
* 1901–1936: Holy Man's Rebellion.
* 1903: The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising breaks out in the
Ottoman Empire
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.
* 1904: Revolution of 1904
* 1904: A liberal revolution in
Paraguay
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.
* 1904–1908: Macedonian Struggle.
* 1904–1908: Herero Wars.
* 1905: Argentine Revolution of 1905.
* 1905–1906: The Persian Constitutional Revolution, Persian/Iranian constitutional revolution.
* 1905–1906: The Maji Maji Rebellion in German East Africa.
* 1905: Shoubak Revolt.
* 1905: Łódź insurrection.
* 1905–1907: Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland (1905–07).
* 1905–1906: 1905 Tibetan Rebellion.
* 1905–1907: 1905 Russian Revolution, which was abortive and ultimately crushed, though forming the critical precedent for the 1917 Russian Revolution.
* 1906: Bambatha Rebellion.
* 1906–1908: Theriso revolt.
* 1907: The 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt, Romanian Peasants' Revolt.
* 1908: The Young Turk Revolution: Young Turks force the autocratic ruler Abdul Hamid II to restore parliament and constitution in the Ottoman Empire.
* 1909: HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (1909).
* 1909: Hauran Druze Rebellion.
1910s
![Toma de Juarez](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Toma_de_Juarez.jpg)
* 1910–1920: The Mexican Revolution overthrows the dictator Porfirio Díaz; seizure of power by the National Revolutionary Party (later called Institutional Revolutionary Party).
* 1910: The 5 October 1910 revolution, republican revolution in Portugal.
* 1910: The Albanian Revolt of 1910 against Ottoman centralization policies in Albania.
* 1910–1911: The Sokehs Rebellion erupts in German-ruled Micronesia. Its primary leader, Somatau, is executed soon after being captured.
* 1911–1912: The Xinhai Revolution overthrows the ruling Qing dynasty and establishment of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China.
* 1911–1912: The East Timorese rebellion of 1911–12, East Timorese rebellion against Portuguese Empire, colonial Portugal.
* 1912: The Albanian Revolt of 1912 against Ottoman Empire rule in Albania.
* 1912-1916: The Contestado War was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners in South Region, Brazil, South Brazil.
* 1913: The Second Revolution (China), Second Revolution against President Yuan Shikai of China.
* 1914: The Ten Days War was a shooting war involving irregular forces of coal miners using dynamite and rifles on one side, opposed to the Colorado National Guard, Baldwin Felts detectives, and mine guards deploying machine guns, cannon and aircraft on the other, occurring in the aftermath of the Ludlow massacre. The Ten Days War ended when federal troops intervened.
* 1914–1915: The Boer Revolt against the British in South Africa.
* 1914: The Albanian Peasant's Revolt, revolt of Peasants of Central Albania overthrows Prince William of Wied.
* 1915: The Armenian genocide, Armenian revolt in city of Van, Turkey, Van against the Ottomans in Turkey.
* 1915–1916: The National Protection War against the Empire of China (1915–1916), Empire of China headed by Emperor Yuan Shikai. The Republic of China was restored.
* 1915–1916: The Tapani incident is the last major Chinese uprising in Taiwan under Japanese rule, Taiwan during the Territorial conquests of the Empire of Japan, Japanese colonial era.
* 1916: The Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland during which the Irish Republic was proclaimed.
* 1916: An anti-French uprising in
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* 1916: The Central Asian revolt of 1916, Central Asian Revolt started when the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
government ended its exemption of Muslims from military service.
* 1916: 1916 Cochinchina uprising, Cochinchina uprising of Vietnam against French colonialism
* 1916–1917: The Kaocen Revolt, Tuareg rebellion against French colonial empires, French colonial rule of the area around the Aïr Mountains of northern Niger.
* 1916–1918: The Arab Revolt with the aim of securing independence from the
Ottoman Empire
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.
* 1916–1923: The Irish War of Independence, the period of nationalist rebellion, guerrilla warfare, political change and civil war which brought about the establishment of the independent nation, the Irish Free State. Sparking the Irish Civil War between pro-treaty forces and pro-republic forces
* 1916–1947: The Indian subcontinent, Indian people's struggle against the British India, British for Indian independence movement, Indian Independence.
* 1917: The French Army Mutinies (1917), French Army Mutinies.
* 1917: Thái Nguyên uprising of Vietnam, led by Trinh Van Can, against French colonialism
* 1917: The February Revolution made Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Nicholas II abdicate and abolishes the Russian Empire, Russian monarchy
* 1917: The Green Corn Rebellion takes place in rural Oklahoma.
* 1917: The October Revolution in Russia: Bolsheviks take over the provisional government of the Russian Republic, instituting the first socialist society in the world. The chaos leads to the final collapse of the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
as many peripheral territories declare independence and anti-Bolshevik forces rose in revolt against the new Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russian order, sparking the Russian Civil War, eventually leading to the establishment of the Soviet Union.
* 1917–1921: The Ukrainian War of Independence, Ukrainian Revolution: Ukrainian People's Republic, Nationalists and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet allies both declare separate republics in Ukraine, fighting Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, anarchists under Nestor Makhno as well as White forces loyal to the Ukrainian State, a German puppet state.
* 1918: The Finnish Civil War: Finnish Red Guards sympathetic to the Bolsheviks in Russia rise in revolt against the newly independent Finnish Whites, supported by the German Empire.
* 1918: The Wilhelmshaven mutiny.
* 1918: The German Revolution of 1918–19, German Revolution overthrows the Kaiser; establishment of the Weimar Republic after a brief socialist uprising by the Spartacus League, Spartacists.
* 1918–1919: A wave of strikes and student unrest shakes Peru. These events influence two of the dominant figures of Peruvian politics in the 20th century: Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre and José Carlos Mariátegui.
* 1918–1919: The Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19), Greater Poland Uprising, Polish uprising against German authorities.
* 1918–1919: The 1919 Egyptian revolution against the History of Egypt under the British, British occupation of Egypt.
* 1918–1920: The Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–20), Georgian–Ossetian conflict, the southern Ossetians revolted against Georgia (country), Georgian rule.
* 1918–1922: The Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks, Third Russian Revolution, a failed anarchist revolution against Bolshevism.
* 1918–1931: The Basmachi Revolt against Russian SFSR, Soviet Russia rule in Central Asia.
* 1919: The Christmas uprising in Montenegro: Montenegrins (Zelenaši) rebelled against unification of the Kingdom of Montenegro with the Kingdom of Serbia.
*1919: The Sette Giugno (Malta).
* 1919-1920: The Biennio Rosso in Italy.
* 1919–1920: Iraqi revolt against the British and British-Indian troops, attempting to create a Muslim regime or the restoration of Ottoman rule.
* 1919–1921: The Tambov Rebellion, one of the largest peasant rebellions against the Bolshevik regime during the Russian Civil War.
* 1919–1921: The Silesian uprisings of the ethnic Poles against Weimar Republic, Weimar rule.
* 1919–1922: The Turkish War of Independence commanded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
* 1919: Simko Shikak revolt in Persia.
* 1919: A revolution in Hungary, resulting in the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic.
* 1919: March 1st movement In Korea against the Japanese occupation (1910). Ultimately fails
1920s
![Riffian rebels during the Rif War 1922](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Riffian_rebels_during_the_Rif_War_1922.jpg)
* 1920: The Pitchfork uprising was a peasant uprising against the Soviet policy of the war communism in what is today Tatarstan.
* 1920–1922: Patagonia Rebelde, the uprising and violent suppression of a rural workers' strike in the Argentine province of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz in Patagonia between 1920 and 1922.
* 1920–1922: Gandhi led Non-cooperation movement.
* 1920: The Husino uprising in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
* 1921: The Battle of Blair Mountain ten to fifteen thousand coal miners rebel in West Virginia, assaulting mountain-top lines of trenches established by the coal companies and local sheriff's forces in the largest armed, organized uprising in American labor history.
* 1921: The Kronstadt rebellion of Soviet sailors against the government of the early Russian SFSR.
* 1921: The Poplar Rates Rebellion.
* 1921: The rebellion of Mirdita led by Markagjoni declares the independence of Republic of Mirdita from Albania.
* 1921–1922: The Karelian Uprising
* 1921–1923: The Yakut Revolt.
* 1921–1924: Mongolian Revolution of 1921, A revolution in (Outer) Mongolia re-establishes the country's independence and sets out to construct a Soviet-style socialist state.
* 1921: The Moplah rebellion, uprising against the colonial British authority and Hindu landlords in the Malabar in South India by Mappila Muslims, aftermath of a series of peasant uprising in the past centuries.
* 1921: March Action in Germany
* 1922: The March on Rome, organized mass demonstration which resulted in Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party acceding to power in the Kingdom of Italy.
* 1922: The Bondelswarts Rebellion by Khoikhoi people against the apartheid regime of South West Africa.
* 1922–1923: The Irish Civil War, between supporters of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the government of the Irish Free State and more radical members of the original Irish Republican Army who opposed the treaty and the new government.
* 1923: Bajram Curri attacks gendarmerie of Kruma, Albania.
* 1923: The founding of the Republic of Turkey by overthrow of the
Ottoman Empire
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and introduction of Atatürk's Reforms.
* 1923: The Klaipėda Revolt in the Memel territory that had been detached from Germany after World War I.
* 1923: The Adwan Rebellion in Jordan.
*1924–1925: The Khost rebellion (1924–1925), Khost rebellion in Afghanistan.
* 1924: The August Uprising in Georgia against Soviet Union, Soviet rule.
* 1925: The Sheikh Said Rebellion.
* 1925: The July Revolution in
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
.
* 1925–1927: The Great Syrian Revolt, a revolt initiated by the Druze and led by Sultan al-Atrash against French Mandate of Syria, French Mandate.
* 1926: Angry catholic peasants of Dukagjin, Shkodër fight against army and gendarmerie.
* 1926: The 28th May 1926 coup d'état, National Revolution in Portugal initiated a period known as the Ditadura Nacional, National Dictatorship.
* 1926–1929: The Cristero War in Mexico, an uprising against anti-clerical government policy.
* 1926–1927: The first Communist Party of Indonesia, Communist rebellion in Indonesia against
colonialism
Colonialism is a practice or policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their relig ...
and imperialism of Dutch East Indies, Dutch colonial government.
* 1927: KMT Military forces in Nanchang uprising under the leadership of He Long and Zhou Enlai, attempting to seize control of the city after the end of the first Kuomintang-Communist alliance, marking the Nanchang uprising and the establishment of the People's Liberation Army.
* 1927: Sheikh Abdurrahman rebellion by Kurdish Zazas against Turkey.
* 1927–1930: The Ikhwan Revolt, Wahhabi Rebellion of Ikhwan against Ibn Saud in Arabia.
* 1927–1931: The Ararat rebellion, Ağrı Rebellion by Kurds against Turkey.
* 1927–1933: A rebellion led by Augusto César Sandino against the United States presence in
Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the cou ...
.
* 1928–1931: A rebellion led by Bhagat Singh against the British Rule in India.
* 1929: The Women's War broke out when thousands of Igbo people, Igbo women traveled to the town of Oloko to protest against the Warrant Chiefs, whom they accused of restricting the role of women in the government.
1930s
* 1930: The Brazilian Revolution of 1930 led by Getúlio Vargas.
* 1930–1931: Nghe-Tinh Revolt in Vietnam, led by the Communist Party of Indochina, against French colonialism.
* 1930–1934: The Saya San Rebellion in British Burma, led by Saya San, against British rule in Burma.
* 1930: Yên Bái mutiny of Vietnam, led by Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, Vietnamese Nationalist Party, against French Occupation.
* 1930: The Salt Satyagraha, a campaign of non-violent protest against History of the British salt tax in India, the salt tax in British India.
* 1930: The Musha Incident led by the Seediq people, Seediq Taiwanese indigenous peoples, Indigenous group is the last major uprising in Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese-controlled Taiwan.
* 1932: The Constitutionalist Revolution against provisional president Getúlio Vargas led Brazil to a short civil war.
* 1932: The Aprista revolt in Trujillo, Peru.
* 1932: The 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising, known as ''La matanza'' ("The Slaughter"), Pipil people, Pipil and peasant rebellion led by Farabundo Martí
* 1932: The Siamese coup d'état of 1932, sometimes called the "Promoters Revolution", ends absolute monarchy in Thailand.
* 1933: The popular revolution against Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado.
* 1933: Dutch sailors on the cruiser mutiny.
* 1933: Boworadet Rebellion in Thailand
*1934: 1934 Latvian coup d'état, Latvian coup d’état by Latvian prime minister Kārlis Ulmanis against the parliamentary system in Latvia. Lasted until 1940.
* 1934: The Austrian Civil War between paramilitary forces of socialist ''Republikanischer Schutzbund, Schutzbund'' and Austrofascism, fascist ''Heimwehr''
* 1934: The Spanish Revolution of 1934, Revolutionary General Strike of October took place during the Background of the Spanish Civil War#The "black biennium", black biennium of the Second Spanish Republic.
* 1935: Muharrem Bajraktari, former Aide-de-camp of King Zog, led a revolt against government in North Albania.
* 1935: A secret anti-Zogist organization led an uprising against the Albanian government and King Zog in Fier and Lushnje.
*1935: The Communist uprising of 1935, Communist Uprising in Rio Grande do Norte,
Pernambuco
Pernambuco () is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it seventh-most populous state of Brazil and with around 98,148 km², being the 19 ...
and Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro; Brazil.
* 1935–1936: 1935–36 Iraqi Shia revolts, Iraqi Shia revolts against Hashemite central rule.
* 1935: Imam Reza shrine rebellion in Iran of Shi'ite radicals against Reza Shah.
* 1935–1936: Second Italo-Ethiopian War in which Ethiopians resisted Italian occupation.
* 1936: The Febrerista Revolution, led by Rafael Franco, ended oligarchic Liberal Party rule in Paraguay.
* 1936: The Spanish Revolution of 1936, Spanish Revolution, a workers' social revolution that began during the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
* 1936: The 1936 Naval Revolt, Portuguese Naval revolt against the Estado Novo (Portugal), Estado Novo regime.
* 1936–1939: 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, Arab revolt in Palestine against the British Mandate.
* 1936–1939: Spanish Civil War.
* 1936–1939: David Toro seizes power in
Bolivia
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, initiating a period of so-called "military socialism", including nationalization of Standard Oil and passage of progressive labor laws, and establishing a corporative state in 1938.
* 1937–1938: The Dersim Rebellion, the most important Kurdish people, Kurdish rebellion in modern Turkey.
* 1937: The ''Fets de Maig'' or "May Days", a major strike in Catalonia, Spain.
* 1937: The Revolt of Delvina, a revolt of gendarmerie and local peasants against King Zog.
* 1938: Sudeten German uprising orchestrated by Sudeten German Party against Czechoslovakia.
*1938: The Brazilian Integralist Action, Integralist Uprising in Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
* 1939–1965: Spanish Maquis insurgency
* 1939–1940: The Irish Republican Army attempt a Irish Republican Army – Abwehr collaboration in World War II, sabotage campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland
* 1939–1945: Resistance during World War II
1940s
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* 1940–1944: The 1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya, Insurgency in Chechnya.
* 1940: 1940 Cochinchina uprising, Cochinchina Uprising of Vietnam, led by Viet Minh, against French and Japanese Occupation
* 1940-1944: French Resistance
* 1940: Bac Son Uprising of Vietnam, led by Viet Minh, against French and Japanese Occupation
* 1940–1947: Mohammad Ali Jinnah's struggle for a separate state for the Muslims of India.
* 1941: The Lithuanian 1941 independence, June Uprising against the Soviet Union in Lithuania.
* 1941: Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom, Romania
* 1941–1945: Yugoslav People's Liberation War against the Axis Powers in World War II.
* 1941–1944: Greek Resistance
* 1941: Do Luong Mutiny of Vietnam, led by Doi Cung, against French occupation
* 1942: Sri Lankan soldiers ignite the Cocos Islands Mutiny in an unsuccessful attempt to transfer the islands to Japanese control.
* 1942: The destruction of the German garrison in Lenin.
*1942–1944: The Irish Republican Army tries to start a new campaign in Northern Ireland called the Northern Campaign (Irish Republican Army), Northern Campaign and fails
* 1943: The Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
* 1943: The uprising at Treblinka extermination camp#Treblinka prisoner uprising, Treblinka extermination camp.
* 1943: The uprising at Sobibór extermination camp.
* 1943: The Woyane rebellion, Woyane Rebellion in northern Ethiopia threatens to topple the newly restored government, and is put down with British help.
* 1943–1945: Italian Resistance Movement against Nazi occupation and the Fascist Italian Social Republic, culminating in 25 April final insurrection in Northern Italy.
* 1944: The Guatemalan Revolution overthrows the dictator Federico Ponce Vaides by liberal military officers.
* 1944: The Warsaw uprising was an armed struggle during the Second World War by the Polish Armia Krajowa, Home Army (''Armia Krajowa'') to liberate Warsaw from German occupation and Nazism, Nazi rule. It started on 1 August 1944.
* 1944: The Liberation of Paris#Events timeline, Paris Uprising staged by the French Resistance against the German Paris garrison.
* 1944: The Slovak National uprising against Nazi Germany.
* 1944: The uprising at Auschwitz extermination camp.
* 1944–1947: The Jewish insurgency in Palestine.
* 1944–1947: A Communist-friendly government was installed in
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
following a 1944 Bulgarian coup d'état, coup d'état and the Soviet invasion.
* 1944: Following the liberation of Albania, the Party of Labour of Albania, Communist Party of Albania under Enver Hoxha consolidated its control and declared the People's Republic of Albania in January 1946.
* 1944–1949: The Greek Civil War.
* 1944–1965: The Forest Brothers, Forest Brothers Rebellion in Baltic states against Soviet Union.
* 1945: The first anti-communist revolt in Eastern Europe in Koplik, Albania led by bayraktars and intellectuals.
* 1945–1949: The Indonesian National Revolution against Dutch after their independence from Japan. Led by Sukarno, Mohammad Hatta, Hatta, Tan Malaka, etc. with the Dutch led by Van Mook.
* 1945: The Prague uprising against Nazi Germany, German German occupation of Czechoslovakia, occupation during World War II.
*: 1945: Ba To Uprising of Vietnam, led by Viet Minh, against French and Japanese Occupation
* 1945: The August Revolution led by Ho Chi Minh and Viet Minh declared the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from French rule.
* 1945: A democratic revolution in
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
, led by Rómulo Betancourt.
* 1946: The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny takes place in Bombay, and spreads to different parts of
British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...
, demanding Indian independence movement, Indian independence.
* 1946 — 1951: Telangana Rebellion a Communist-led Peasant rebellion in Telangana and Hyderabad, India, ("Telangana Peasants Armed Struggle") was a Peasant rebellion against the feudal lords of the Telangana region in the princely state of Hyderabad, and later the Indian government.
* 1946: Another attempt of anti-communist forces in Albania to take out the government takes place in Shkodër.
* 1946: The Battle of Athens (1946), Battle of Athens, Tennessee (aka the McMinn County War); a local revolt against officials accused of rigging local elections.
* 1947: Three months after an abortive coup, Paraguayan Civil War (1947), civil war broke out in
Paraguay
Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...
. The rebellion was crushed by the government of dictator Higinio Morínigo.
* 1947 : Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan waged and led a guerrilla war against the Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir and formed a revolutionary Government on 24 October under his Presidency. He captured a large area of Kashmir called Azad Kashmir.
* 1947–1952: In the Albanian Subversion, the intelligence services of the United States and Britain deployed exiled fascists, Nazis, and monarchists in a failed attempt to foment a counterrevolution in Communist-ruled Albania.
* 1947: Angami Zapu Phizo declared the independence of Nagaland from India only to be subdued by the Indian army.
* 1947: The 228 Massacre occurred following discontent and resentment of the native Taiwanese under the early rule of the KMT of the island.
* 1947: India wins independence from Britain.
* 1948: The Costa Rican Civil War precipitated by the vote of the Costa Rican Legislature, dominated by pro-government representatives, to annul the results of the 1948 Costa Rican general election, presidential election of 1948.
* 1948: Following the liberation of Korea, Marxist former guerrillas under Kim Il Sung work to rapidly industrialize the country and rid it of the last vestiges of "feudalism.".
* 1948–1960: The Malayan Emergency.
*1948-1989: The communist insurgency in Burma is launched.
* 1948: Al-Wathbah (the Leap) uprising in Iraq.
* 1948 : Second Communist Party of Indonesia, Communist rebellion in Indonesia. The Communists tried to establish the Madiun Affair, Indonesian Soviet Republic, but were crushed by the Indonesian National Armed Forces.
* 1949: The communists under chairman Mao Zedong expels the ruling Kuomintang, Nationalist Party in the Chinese Civil War, Civil War and establishes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China's control is reduced to Taiwan Area, Taiwan and its outlying islands.
1950s
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* 1950: The Cazin uprising in the town of Cazin, Bosnia and Herzegovina
* 1950: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s in Puerto Rico, attempt on the life of US president Harry S. Truman in the Blair House, and shooting at Congress, was a call for Puerto Rico's independence and uprising by the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party against United States Government rule of Puerto Rico.
* 1950s: The Mau Mau uprising.
* 1950: Republic of South Maluku (RMS) separatist rebellion. The rebellion was crushed by Indonesian National Armed Forces. Surviving RMS rebels founded government-in-exile in The Netherlands.
* 1951: A 1951 Nepalese revolution, Revolution in Nepal introduced democracy in Nepal.
* 1952: A popular revolution in Bolivia led by Víctor Paz Estenssoro and the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) initiates a period of multiparty democracy lasting until a 1964 military coup.
* 1952: The Rosewater Revolution in Lebanon.
* 1952: Egyptian Revolution of 1952
* 1953: The Vorkuta uprising was a major uprising of the Gulag political prisoner, inmates in Vorkuta in the summer of 1953. Like other camp uprisings it was bloodily quelled by the Red Army and the NKVD.
* 1953: Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
* 1953–1975: The Laotian Civil War in Laos.
* 1954–1962: The Algerian War of Independence: an uprising against French colonialism.
* 1954–1968: The Civil rights movement in the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
was a struggle by African Americans to end legalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation.
* 1954: The Kengir uprising in the Soviet prison labor camp Kengir.
* 1954: The Uyghur people, Uyghur uprising against Chinese rule in Hotan.
* 1955–1960: The Guerrilla war against British colonial rule of Cyprus led by the EOKA (National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters).
* 1955–1972: The First Sudanese Civil War was a conflict between the northern part of Sudan and a south that demanded more regional autonomy.
* 1955–1958: The Revolución Libertadora in Argentina.
* 1956–1959: The Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro removes the government of General Fulgencio Batista. By 1962 Cuba had been transformed into a declared socialist republic.
* 1956–1962: The Border campaign (Irish Republican Army), Border Campaign led by the Irish Republican Army against the British, along the border of the independent Republic of Ireland and British Northern Ireland.
* 1956: De-Stalinization revolution in the Eastern Bloc:
** The Khrushchev Thaw
** The 1956 Georgian demonstrations
** The Poznań 1956 protests, Poznań protests, a workers' uprising in the Polish People's Republic that was suppressed.
** The Polish October
** The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Hungarian Revolution, a failed workers' and peasants' revolution against the Soviet-supported communist state in Hungary.
** The Bucharest student movement of 1956, Bucharest student movement
* 1956: The Tibetan people, Tibetan rebellions against Chinese rule broke out in Amdo and Kham.
* 1956: Quỳnh Lưu uprising against communist government in North Vietnam
* 1958: A popular revolt in
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
against military dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez culminates in a civic-military coup d'état.
* 1958: The 14 July Revolution, Iraqi Revolution (14 July Revolution) led by nationalist soldiers abolishes the British-backed monarchy, executes many of its top officials, and begins to assert the country's independence from both Cold War power blocs.
* 1959: The failed Tibetan people, Tibetan 1959 Tibetan uprising, uprising against Chinese rule led to the flight of the Dalai Lama.
* 1959–1962: In the Rwandan Revolution, the Tutsi king of Rwanda is forced into exile by Hutu extremists; racial pogroms follow an assassination attempt on Hutu leader Grégoire Kayibanda.
1960s
![Sempreatentos](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Sempreatentos...aoperigo%21.jpg)
* 1960: A group of disaffected Ethiopian officers make an 1960 Ethiopian coup, unsuccessful attempt to depose Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Emperor Haile Selassie and replace him with a more progressive government, but are defeated by the rest of the Ethiopian military.
* 1960: April Revolution erupts in South Korea, leading to the end of the First Republic of South Korea.
*1961: The Campanha da Legalidade, Legality Campaign (''Campanha da Legalidade'') in Brazil.
*1961: El Barcelonazo in Venezuela.
* 1961–1970: First Kurdish Iraqi War erupts as a result of Barzanji clan uprising.
* 1961–1991: The Eritrean War of Independence led by Isaias Afewerki against Ethiopia.
* 1961–1975: The Angolan War of Independence began as an uprising against forced cotton harvesting, and became a multi-faction struggle for control of Portugal's Portuguese West Africa, Overseas Province of Angola.
* 1962: El Carupanazo in Venezuela.
* 1962: El Porteñazo in Venezuela.
* 1962–1974: The leftist African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) wages a revolutionary war of independence in Portuguese Guinea. In 1973, the independent Republic of Guinea-Bissau is proclaimed, and the next year the republic's independence is recognized by the reformist military junta in Lisbon.
* 1962: The military coup of 1962 in Burma, led by General Ne Win, who became the country's strongman.
* 1962–present: Papua conflict.
* 1962: A revolution in northern Yemen overthrew the imam and established the Yemen Arab Republic.
* 1962–1975: Dhofar Rebellion in Oman.
* 1963: White Revolution in Iran.
* 1963: 1963 demonstrations in Iran.
* 1963 Dutch farmers' revolt.
* 1963: 1963 Syrian coup d'état, Syrian coup d'état in Syria that brought Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region, Ba'ath Party to power.
* 1963–1970: The Bale Revolt in southern Ethiopia, was a guerrilla war by local Somali people, Somali and Oromo people, Oromo against Amhara people, Amhara settlers.
* 1964: Simba Rebellion in the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville), Congo.
* 1964: The Zanzibar Revolution overthrew the 157-year-old Arab monarchy, declared the People's Republic of Zanzibar, and began the process of unification with Julius Nyerere's Tanganyika (1961–1964), Tanganyika.
* 1964: 1964 Brazilian coup d'etat led by Field Marshal Humberto Castelo Branco against president Joao Goulart.
* 1964–1979: The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Second Chimurenga, was a guerrilla war which lasted from July 1964 to 1979 and led to universal suffrage, the end of white minority rule in Rhodesia, and the creation of the Republic of Zimbabwe.
* 1964: The October Revolution in Sudan, driven by a general strike and rioting, forced President Ibrahim Abboud to transfer executive power to a transitional civilian government, and eventually to resign.
* 1964–1975: The Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO), formed in 1962, commenced a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonialism. Independence was granted on 25 June 1975; however, the Mozambican Civil War complicated the political situation and frustrated FRELIMO's attempts at radical change. The war continued into the early 1990s after the government dropped Marxism as the state ideology.
* 1964–present: The Colombian Civil War (1964–present), Colombian Armed Conflict.
* 1965: 30 September Movement was a failed coup by the Communist Party to turn Indonesia into a Communist state.
* 1965: The March Intifada in Bahrain: a Leftist uprising demanding an end to the British presence in Bahrain.
* 1965-1983: The communist insurgency in Thailand is launched.
* 1966: Kwame Nkrumah is removed from power in Ghana by coup d'état.
* 1966–1990: A South African Police patrol clashes with militants of the South West African People's Organization in 1966, sparking the Namibian War of Independence. The conflict is part of the larger South African Border War and linked closely with South Africa's intervention in the Angolan Civil War. It largely ended with Namibia's 1989 Namibian parliamentary election, first democratic elections in 1989.
* 1966–1993: A guerrilla warfare was conducted against the government of François Tombalbaye from the Sudan-based group FROLINAT.
* 1966–1976: Mao Zedong launches the Cultural Revolution, Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China, a sociopolitical movement to purge revisionist and bourgeois elements from the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese society at large through violent class struggle.
* 1966–1998: The Ulster Volunteer Force (1966), Ulster Volunteer Force was recreated by militant Ulster Protestant Ulster loyalism, loyalists in Northern Ireland to wage war against the Irish Republican Army and the Roman Catholic community at large.
* 1966: The year it is estimated the Black Power movement began, with no exact official end date.
* 1967–1970: Biafra: The former eastern Nigeria unsuccessfully fought for a breakaway republic of Biafra, after the mainly
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* 1967: The Naxalite Movement begins in India, led by the AICCCR.
* 1967: Anguillans resentful of Kittitian domination of the island expelled the Kittitian police and declared independence from the British colony of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla. British forces retook the island in 1969 and made Anguilla a separate dependency in 1980. There was no bloodshed in the entire episode.
* 1967–1973: The Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War begins to turn violent, the violence later escalates. Incidents include the Weather High School Jailbreaks and the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
* 1967: 1967 Hong Kong riots, Pro-communist, anti-British riots in Hong Kong
* 1967: Long, hot summer of 1967 – a series of 159 Race riots in the United States, race riots which occurred in major cities across the United States in the summer of 1967
**1967 Buffalo riot (June 26 – July 1)
**Racial unrest in Cairo, Illinois, 1967 Cairo riot (July 17)
**Cambridge riot of 1967, 1967 Cambridge riot (July 24, 1967)
**1967 Detroit riot (July 23–28)
**1967 Toledo Riot, 1967 Toledo riot (July 23–25)
**1967 Milwaukee riot (July 30 – August 31)
**1967 Newark riots (July 12–17)
**1967 Plainfield riots (July 14–16)
**1967 Saginaw riot (July 26)
**Albina Riot of 1967, 1967 Albina riot (July 30)
*1968–present: Moro conflict in the Philippines.
*1968: The revolution in the Republic of Congo.
* 1968: The Protests of 1968:
** The May 1968 revolt: students' and workers' revolt against the government of Charles de Gaulle in France.
** A failed attempt by leader Alexander Dubček to liberalise Czechoslovakia in defiance of the Soviet-supported communist state culminates in the Prague Spring.
** The March of the One Hundred Thousand was a manifestation of popular protest against the military dictatorship in Brazil, which occurred in Rio de Janeiro.
** The 1968 movement in Italy
***Battle of Valle Giulia
** The 1968 student demonstrations in Yugoslavia
** The German student movement, West German student movement
** A 1968 movement in Pakistan, mass movement of workers, students, and peasants in Pakistan forced the resignation of President Ayub Khan (President of Pakistan), Mohammad Ayub Khan.
** The 1968 Polish political crisis
** The Mexican Movement of 1968
***Tlatelolco massacre
**King-assassination riots – a series of race riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
***1968 Detroit riots
***1968 New York City riot
***1968 Washington, D.C., riots, 1968 Washington D.C. riot
***1968 Chicago riots, 1968 Chicago riot
***1968 Pittsburgh riots
***Baltimore riot of 1968, 1968 Baltimore riots
***1968 Kansas City, Missouri riot, 1968 Kansas City riot
***Wilmington riot of 1968, 1968 Wilmington riot
***1968 Louisville riots, 1968 Louisville riot
**1968 Democratic National Convention protests
**Columbia University protests of 1968
* 1968: A 1968 Peruvian coup d'état, coup by Juan Velasco Alvarado in Peru, followed by radical social and economic reforms.
* 1968–1969 Iraqi communists launched an Ba'athist Iraq#Al-Bakr's rule and Saddam's rise to power (1968–1979), insurgency in southern Iraq.
* 1968–1969: The Agbekoya, Egbe Agbekoya Revolt was a successful peasant revolt in Western Nigeria.
* 1969–present: Communist rebellion in the Philippines.
* 1969–1998: The Troubles: the Provisional Irish Republican Army and other Irish Republicanism, Republican Paramilitaries waged an armed campaign against British Security forces and Ulster Loyalism, Loyalist Paramilitaries in an attempt to bring about a United Ireland.
* 1969: The Days of Rage occur, part of the Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
1970s
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* 1970: The Black Power Revolution occurs in Trinidad.
* 1970: A rebellion in Guinea by what its government identified as Portuguese agents.
* 1970–1971: Black September in Jordan
* 1971: The Bangladesh Liberation War led by the Mukti Bahini establishes the independent People's Republic of Bangladesh from the former East Pakistan.
* 1971 Dutch farmers' revolt
* 1972–present: The Maoist insurgency in Turkey is launched.
* 1972: A revolution in Benin.
* 1972: A military-led revolution against the civilian government of President Philibert Tsiranana in the Malagasy Republic; a Marxist faction takes power in 1975 under Didier Ratsiraka, modeled on the DPRK, North Korean ''juche'' theory developed by Kim Il-sung, Kim Il Sung.
* 1973: 1973 Chilean coup d'etat led by Captain General Augusto Pinochet against President Salvador Allende in Chile.
* 1973: Wounded Knee Incident. American Indian Movement activists and Oglala Lakota besiege the small town of Wounded Knee in protest of government policies towards Native Americans and the corrupt Wilson Regime. Part of the Red Power movement
* 1973: Mohammad Daud Khan overthrows the monarchy and establishes a republic in Afghanistan.
* 1973: Worker-student demonstrations in Thailand force dictator Thanom Kittikachorn and two close associates to flee the country, beginning a short period of democratic constitutional rule.
* 1974: A revolution in Ethiopia.
* 1974–1975: The Carnation Revolution overthrows the right-wing dictatorship in Portugal. Leads to the independence of Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste and recognition of Guinea-Bissau's self-proclaimed independence.
* 1975–1991: The Western Sahara War was a conflict between the Sahrawi people, Sahrawi national liberation movement named POLISARIO against the armies of their neighbours, Morocco and Mauritania, who have entered the territory when the Spanish colonizers troops fled.
* 1975: A revolution in Cambodia.
* 1975: Lebanese Civil War lasted from 1975 to 1990.
* 1975: 15 August, coup led by young military officers and the Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Bangladesh.
* 1975: Coup led by Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf and Colonel Shafaat Jamil in Bangladesh to depose President Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad. Three days later a counter-coup by Colonel Abu Taher puts Ziaur Rahman in power.
*1975: Having become disillusioned with the rule of Leonid Brezhnev, Valery Sablin leads a mutiny in hopes of starting a Leninist revolution in the Soviet Union.
* 1976-1988: The "May-Revolution" by the Kurds in North-Iraq against the government.
* 1976: Student demonstrations and election-related violence in Thailand lead police to open fire on a sit-in at Thammasat University, killing hundreds. The military seizes power the next day, ending constitutional rule.
* 1976: The Gang of Four is removed from power in China in a coup led by Chairman Hua Guofeng with the support of senior officers of the People's Liberation Army, ending the Cultural Revolution.
* 1976: 1976 Argentine coup d'etat led by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla against President Isabel Perón.
* 1977: 1977 Egyptian Bread Riots, Egyptian Bread Riots the riots were a spontaneous uprising by hundreds of thousands of lower-class people, at least 79 people were killed and 800 wounded.
* 1977: The Guinean Market Women's Revolt, Market Women's Revolt in Guinea leads to a lessening of the state's role in the economy.
* 1977: A 1977 Bangladesh Air Force mutiny, mutiny in Bangladesh Air Force occurs, with the goal of establishing a Marxist government,
resulting in the deaths of 11 air force officers. Subsequently, 1143 airmen and soldiers were executed for their alleged involvement in the uprising.
* 1978: The Saur Revolution led by the Khalq faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan deposes and kills President Mohammad Daud Khan.
* 1979: New Jewel Movement led by Maurice Bishop launch an armed revolution and overthrow the government of Eric Gairy in Grenada.
* 1979: The popular overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship in the Nicaraguan Revolution.
* 1979: Anti-Communist Rebels in Nicaragua (aka) Contras start to form.
* 1979: The Iranian Revolution overthrows Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, resulting in the formation of the History of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
* 1979: Cambodia is liberated from the Khmer Rouge regime by the Vietnam-backed Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party.
* 1979: 1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état led by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo against Francisco Macías Nguema.
* 1979–1992: Salvadoran Civil War
1980s
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* 1980: National Socialist Council of Nagaland launches its struggle against Indian administration and the establishment of the greater Nagaland.
* 1980: 25 February. Suriname Government are put aside by a group of soldiers. The leader of the revolution is Desi Delano Bouterse.
* 1980: Gwangju uprising, alternatively called the "May 18 Democratic Uprising", in South Korea
* 1980: The Santo Rebellion in the Anglo-French condominium (international law), condominium of New Hebrides
* 1980–2000: The Shining Path, Communist Party of Peru launched the internal conflict in Peru.
* 1980: 1980 Entumbane clashes, First Entumbane uprising in Zimbabwe.
* 1981: Assassination of Ziaur Rahman in Bangladesh sparks protests and riots.
* 1982: General Hussain Muhammad Ershad seizes power through a bloodless coup, deposing president Abdus Sattar (president), Abdus Sattar in Bangladesh.
* 1983–1984: Diretas Já, a Brazilian civil unrest movement that demanded direct presidential elections.
* 1983: Overthrow of the ruling Conseil de Salut du peuple (CSP) by Marxist forces led by Thomas Sankara in Republic of Upper Volta, Upper Volta, renamed Burkina Faso in the following year.
* 1983: Prime Minister of Grenada, Maurice Bishop, overthrown and subsequently executed by high-ranking government officials.
* 1983 Beginning on 23 July 1983, there was an on-and-off insurgency against the Government of Sri Lanka by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers.
* 1983–2005: The Second Sudanese Civil War was largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War, and one of the longest lasting and deadliest wars of the later 20th century.
* 1984–1999: Kurdish–Turkish conflict, Kurdish uprising for independence from the Republic of Turkey
* 1984–1985: Pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) forces in New Caledonia revolt following an election boycott and occupy the town of Thio, New Caledonia, Thio from November 1984 to January 1985. Thio is retaken by the French after the assassination of Éloi Machoro, the security minister in the FLNKS provisional government and the primary leader of the occupation.
* 1985: Soviet and Afghanistan P.O.W.s rose against their captors at Badaber Uprising, Badaber base.
* 1986: The People Power Revolution peacefully overthrows Ferdinand Marcos after his two-decade rule in the Philippines.
* 1986–1991: Somali Rebellion as a result of military dictator Siad Barre beginning to attack clan-based dissident groups.
* 1986: Khalistan Commando Force started armed movement for the establishment of Khalistan, an independent Sikh homeland. The movement, as is the case with other Sikh nationalistic movements, was fueled in part by the Indian army's Operation Blue Star. The armed struggle resulted in thousands of mostly civilian deaths.
* 1987 : The June Struggle overthrew military dictatorship of South Korea.
* The rigged 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election created a catalyst for the Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, insurgency when it resulted in some of the state's legislative assembly members forming armed insurgent groups launches its struggle against Indian administration.
* 1987–1991: The First Intifada, or the Palestinian uprising, a series of violent incidents between Palestinians and State of Israel, Israelis.
* 1988–1991: The Pan-Armenian National Movement frees Armenia from Soviet rule.
* 1988–1991: The Singing Revolution, bloodless overthrow of communist rule in Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, Soviet-occupied Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
* 1988: The 8888 Uprising In Burma or Myanmar.
* 1989: Armed resistance breaks out in the Kashmir valley against Kashmir conflict, Indian administration.
* 1989–1990 Dutch farmers' protests against wheat price reductions and environmental legislation.
* 1989–1997: The First Liberian Civil War in Liberia
* 1989: Revolutions of 1989 – a series of revolutions against Communist states around the world, especially in the Soviet Union, Soviet satellite states of the Eastern Bloc
** Strikes by the Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity movement end in Polish Round Table Agreement, negotiations leading to the end of Martial law in Poland, martial law and the History of Poland (1945–1989)#Politics of the last years of the People's Republic and the transition period, peaceful overthrow of the Communist government in Poland
**End of communism in Hungary (1989), Demonstrations in Hungary lead to the peaceful overthrow of the Communist government and the Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria, dismantlement of the Hungarian border fence with Austria
** The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Tiananmen Square protests, a series of street demonstrations led by students, intellectuals and Labour movement, labour activists in the People's Republic of China between 15 April and 4 June 1989, ends in a violent crackdown by the People's Liberation Army.
** Peaceful Revolution, Demonstrations in East Germany led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
** End of Communism in Bulgaria (1989), Demonstrations in the People's Republic of Bulgaria lead to the fall of the communist government there.
** The bloodless Velvet Revolution removes the communist government in Czechoslovakia.
** The Romanian Revolution kills the dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife, Elena Ceauşescu, in the Socialist Republic of Romania
**Baltic Way demonstrations against the Baltic states under Soviet rule (1944–1991), Soviet occupation of the Baltic States in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia; part of the Singing Revolution against Soviet rule leading to the independence of the Baltic states, Baltic States in 1991
1990s
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* 1990: Oka Crisis
*1990: 1990 Nepalese revolution, People's Movement I was a revolution to restore democracy in Nepal and end the Panchayat (Nepal), panchayat system in Nepal.
*1990–present: United Liberation Front of Asom launch major violent activities against Indian rule in Assam. To date, the resulting clashes with the Indian army have left more than 10,000 dead.
* 1990: 1990 Mass Uprising in Bangladesh Strikes and Protests topple the Bangladeshi military government and democracy is restored for the first time in nine years.
* 1990: The Poll tax riots were a series of riots in British towns and cities during protests against the Community Charge introduced by the government of Margaret Thatcher.
* 1990–1993: Rwandan Civil War
* 1990–1992: Anticommunist forces led a National Democratic Revolution that overthrew President Ramiz Alia and ended with an 1992 Albanian parliamentary election, election victory by the Democratic Party of Albania, the biggest anticommunist party in Albania.
* 1990–1995: The Log Revolution in Croatia starts, triggering the Croatian War of Independence.
* 1990–1995: The First Tuareg Rebellion in Niger and Mali.
* 1991–2002: The Sierra Leone Civil War against the administration of president, Joseph Saidu Momoh.
* 1991: The Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdish uprising against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Iraqi Kurdistan.
* 1991: The 1991 Uprising in Karbala, Shiite Uprising in Karbala, Iraq.
* 1991: The failed 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt takes place, leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union
* 1991: The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front take control of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, after dictator Haile Mariam Mengistu flees the country, bringing an end to the Ethiopian Civil War
* 1991: Somali National Movement rebels establish the Somaliland administration in northwestern Somalia, and declare the region independent from the rest of the country.
* 1992: 1992 Los Angeles riots
* 1992: Black May (1992) Thailand popular protest in Bangkok against the government of General Suchinda Kraprayoon and the military crackdown that followed. Up to 200,000 people demonstrated in central Bangkok at the height of the protests.
* 1992–1995: Bosnian War
* 1992: Afghan uprising against the Taliban by United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan, or the Northern Alliance.
* 1993: Waco siege.
* 1994: The 1990s Uprising in Bahrain, Shiite-led rebellion for the restoration of democracy in Bahrain.
* 1994: The Zapatista Rebellion: an uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas demanding equal rights for indigenous peoples and in opposition to growing neoliberalism in North America.
* 1994–1996: The First Chechen War, First Chechen Rebellion against Russia.
* 1996–2006: Nepalese Civil War
* 1996: Islamic movement in Afghanistan led by the Taliban established Taliban rule.
* 1996–1997: The First Congo War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
* 1997: The 1997 rebellion in Albania sparked by Ponzi scheme failures.
* 1997–1999: The Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–99), Republic of the Congo Civil War
* 1998: The Indonesian Revolution of 1998 resulted the resignation of President Suharto after three decades of the New Order (Indonesia), New Order period.
* 1998–1999: The Kosovo War
* 1998–1999: The Guinea-Bissau Civil War against the administration and government of President Joao Bernardo Vieira.
* 1998–2003: The Second Congo War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
* 1999–2003: The Second Liberian Civil War against the government of Liberia.
* 1999–2009: The Second Chechen War, Second Chechen Rebellion against Russia.
* 1999: The Iran student protests, July 1999 were, at the time, the most violent protests to occur against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
* 1999–2000: The Cochabamba Water War in Bolivia.
2000s
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* 2000–2005: The Second Intifada, a continuation of the First Intifada, between Palestinian people, Palestinians and Israel.
* 2000: The bloodless Bulldozer Revolution, first of the four colour revolutions (in 2000, 2003, 2004, and 2005), overthrows Slobodan Milošević's régime in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia.
* 2001: The 2001 Macedonia conflict.
* 2001-2021: The Taliban insurgency following the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), 2001 war in Afghanistan which overthrew Taliban rule.
* 2001: The EDSA Revolution of 2001, 2001 EDSA Revolution peacefully ousts List of presidents of the Philippines, Philippine President Joseph Estrada after the collapse of his impeachment trial.
* 2001: Supporters of List of presidents of the Philippines, former Philippine President Joseph Estrada violently and unsuccessfully stage a rally, so-called the EDSA Tres, in an attempt of returning him to power.
* 2001: Cacerolazo in Argentina. Following mass riots and a period of civil unrest, popular protests oust the government and two additional interim presidents within months. December 2001 riots in Argentina
* 2003–2005: Bolivian gas conflict.
* 2003: The Rose Revolution, second of the colour revolutions, displaces the president of Georgia (country), Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze, and calls new elections.
* 2003–2011: The Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011), Iraqi insurgency refers to the armed resistance by diverse groups within Iraq to the Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011), U.S. occupation of Iraq and to the establishment of a liberal democracy therein.
* 2003–present: The Darfur rebellion led by the two major rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM/A) and the Justice and Equality Movement, recruited primarily from the land-tilling Fur people, Fur, Zaghawa people, Zaghawa, and Masalit people, Massaleit ethnic groups.
* 2003–present: Conflict in the Niger Delta
* 2004–2004: The Iraq spring fighting of 2004, Shi'ite Uprising against the Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011), US-led occupation of Iraq.
* 2004–2005: The Orange Revolution in Ukraine. After pro-Russian prime minister Viktor Yanukovych was declared the winner of the presidential elections, people took to the streets in protest against mass fraud and vote falsification. Eventually, the country's Supreme Court ordered a recount, in which pro-Western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was declared the winner. This was the third colour revolution.
* 2005: A failed attempt at popular colour-style revolution in Azerbaijan, led by the groups Yox! and Freedom (Azerbaijan), Azadlig.
* 2004: Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, War in North-West Pakistan.
* 2004–present: The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency, Naxalite insurgency in India, led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
* 2004–2013: The Kivu conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
* 2005: The Cedar Revolution, triggered by the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, asks for the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon.
* 2005: The Tulip Revolution (a.k.a. Pink/Yellow Revolution) overthrows the President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, and set new elections. This is the fourth colour revolution.
* 2005: Insurgency in Paraguay, Paraguayan People's Army insurgency.
* 2005: 2005 Ahvaz unrest, 15 April Intifada – Arab uprising in the Iranian province of Khuzestan.
* 2005: Ecuador experiences a nationwide and countrywide revolution, consisting of rallies and demonstrations, rioting and protests in March–April 2005 from indigenous tribes that started with a protest that mushroomed into a widespread uprising and popular movement that led to the overthrow of the government.
* 2006: 2006 Nepalese revolution, 2006 democracy movement in Nepal was a revolution against Undemocratic rule of Gyanendra of Nepal, King Gyanendra.
* 2006: The 2006 Oaxaca protests demanding the removal of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, the governor of Oaxaca state in Mexico.
* 2006–present: The Mexican drug war.
* 2007: The Lawyers' Movement in Pakistan emerged to restore a judge but eventually moved to rebel against the military dictatorship of General Pervez Musharraf.
* 2007–2015: The War in Ingushetia, Civil war in Ingushetia.
* 2007–2009: The Tuareg rebellion (2007–2009), Second Tuareg Rebellion in Niger.
* 2007: The Saffron Revolution, Burmese anti-government protests, including the Saffron Revolution of Burmese Buddhist monks.
* 2008: 2008 Armenian presidential election protests.
* 2008: Amarnath land transfer controversy, 2008 Kashmir Unrest.
* 2008: A Mahdi Army#March 2008 Iraqi security forces crackdown, Shiite uprising in Basra.
* 2008: Attacks in Lanao del Norte in the Philippines by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front led by Kumander Bravo and Umbrfa Kato.
* 2008: Anti-austerity movement in Ireland, Anti-austerity protests in Ireland
* 2008: 2008 Tibetan unrest.
* 2009: 2009 Iranian presidential election protests, leading to development of Iranian Green Movement
* 2009: Bangladesh Rifles revolt, 2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh killing 57 army officers.
* 2009–2011: A civil uprising popularly known as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Kitchenware Revolution brought down the Icelandic government after the collapse of the country's financial system in October 2008.
* 2009: The 2009 Malagasy political crisis in the Madagascar.
* 2009: The Dongo conflict In the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
* 2009–present: Somali Civil War (2009–present).
* 2009–2015: South Yemen insurgency.
* 2009: 2009 Boko Haram uprising.
* 2009–2017: Insurgency in the North Caucasus.
* 2009: After a 26-year military campaign, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May bringing the civil war to an end.
2010s
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* 2010 Thai political protests.
* 2010–2011: 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis.
* 2010–2012: Tajikistan insurgency.
* 2010: Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010.
* 2010: 2010 Kashmir unrest, Kashmir Unrest 2010.
* 2010–2012: Anti-austerity movement in Greece
* 2010–2012: Arab Spring:
** The Tunisian Revolution (2010–2011) forces President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to resign and flee the country, and sets free elections.
** The 2011 Egyptian revolution brings down the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
** The First Libyan Civil War, 2011 Libyan Civil War in which rebel forces gradually take control of the country, and kill leader Muammar Gaddafi.
** Factional violence in Libya (2011–2014), 2011 Post-civil war violence in Libya.
**Syrian civil war.
** 2011 Bahraini uprising, Bahraini uprising of 2011.
** Yemeni Revolution, 2011 Yemeni Revolution, the revolt that led to the eventual resignation of Ali Abdullah Saleh as President of Yemen.
* 2011–present: Sinai insurgency.
*2011: Cherán#2011 uprising and the transition away from government control, Cherán uprising.
*2011: Wukan protests in China.
* 2011–present: Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile.
* 2011–2017: Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon.
* 2011–present: Ethnic violence in South Sudan.
* Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013).
* 2011–2013 Maldives political crisis: Public protests and police mutiny lead to resignation of President Mohamed Nasheed.
* 2011–2012: Occupy movement.
* 2012–present: Rojava conflict, Rojava Revolution in Syrian Kurdistan.
* 2012–2015: Mali War, Northern Mali conflict.
** 2012–2012: Tuareg rebellion (2012), 2012 Tuareg rebellion.
* 2012–present: Central African Republic Civil War, Central African Republic conflictFrançois Bozizé, president of the Central African Republic, is overthrown by the rebel coalition Séléka, led by Michel Djotodia.
* 2012–2013: M23 rebellion.
* 2012–2015 unrest in Romania.
*2013: 2013 protests in Brazil, 2013 Protests in Brazil
* 2013 Eritrean Army mutiny.
* 2013: Islamic State-related terrorist attacks in Turkey, Gezi Park protests in Turkey.
* 2013–present: Islamic State-related terrorist attacks in Turkey, Turkey–ISIL conflict.
* South Sudanese Civil War, 2013 South Sudanese political crisis.
* 2013–2014 Tunisian political crisis, 2013–14 Tunisian protests against the Ennahda-led government.
* 2013–2020: South Sudanese Civil War.
* RENAMO insurgency (2013–2019).
* 2013–2014: Euromaidan.
**2014 Ukrainian Revolution.
* 2013–14 Thai political crisis.
* 2013–14 Cambodian protests.
* 2014–present: 2014 Protests in Venezuela.
* Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017).
* 2014–2020: Second Libyan Civil War.
* 2014: Abkhazian Revolution.
* 2014: 2014 Hong Kong protests, The Umbrella Revolution of Hong Kong
* 2014 Burkinabé uprising.
*2014: Ferguson unrest in
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* 2015–present: Yemeni Civil War (2015–present).
* Burundian unrest (2015–18).
* 2015–present: Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present).
* 2015–present: ISIL insurgency in Tunisia.
*2015: 2015 Baltimore protests
* 2016–present: 2016 Niger Delta conflict.
* 2016 Ethiopian protests.
* 2016 Mong Kok civil unrest, also known as "Fishball Revolution" in Mong Kok, Hong Kong
* 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, a failed military coup.
* 2017–present: Anglophone Crisis, also known as the Ambazonia War, or the Cameroonian Civil War.
* 2016–17 South Korean protests, or Candlelight Revolution, in South Korea.
* 2016–17 Kashmir unrest.
* 2016–17: Protests against Donald Trump#Post-election, United States election protests – protests challenging the outcome of the 2016 United States presidential election.
* 2017 Ivory Coast mutiny.
*2017: 2017 Military Police of Espírito Santo strike in Espírito Santo, Brazil.
* 2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis.
* 2017–2018 Romanian protests.
* 2017–2018 Iranian protests.
* 2018–present: 2018–19 Arab protests:
**2018 Jordanian protests.
** 2018–2019: Sudanese Revolution, which resulted in the ouster of the President.
** 2019–2020 Algerian protests, also called Revolution of Smiles or Hirak Movement.
** 2019–present: 2019 Iraqi protests, also nicknamed the October Revolution, and 2019 Iraqi Intifada.
** 2019–present: 2019–20 Lebanese protests, also referred to as the Lebanese revolt.
* 2018 Armenian Velvet Revolution, which resulted in the ouster of the Prime Minister.
* 2018–2019 Gaza border protests, also referred to by organizers as the "Great March of Return".
* 2018–2020: 2018–19 Nicaraguan protests, 2018–20 Nicaraguan protests.
* 2018–2019: 2018–2019 Haitian protests.
* 2018–2019 Ingushetia protests
* 2018–present: Yellow vests protests.
* 2019–2020: 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests
* 2019 Papua protests.
* 2019 Indonesian protests and riots.
* Telegramgate, 2019 Puerto Rico Anti-Corruption / Chat scandal Protest.
* 2019–present: Dutch farmers' protests.
* 2019 Ecuadorian protests.
* 2019–2020 Catalan protests.
* 2019–2022 Chilean protests, also called "Estallido social".
* 2019–2020 Iranian protests.
* 2019–2020: Citizenship Amendment Act protests, in India.
2020s
* Protests over responses to the COVID-19 pandemic – a series of protests around the world against National responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, various governments' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly COVID-19 lockdowns, lockdowns.
**Strikes during the COVID-19 pandemic – strikes against wages or low hazard pay, insufficient Workplace hazard controls for COVID-19, workplace hazard controls such as a lack of personal protective equipment or social distancing, high rents or evictions, and the pandemic's general Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic impact.
* 2020–2022 United States racial unrest – a series of protests against Racial inequality in the United States, racial inequality and police brutality in the United States, sometimes in favor of Police abolition movement, abolishing or Defund the police, defunding the police.
**George Floyd protests.
**Breonna Taylor protests.
**Kenosha unrest.
**2020–2022 Minneapolis–Saint Paul racial unrest.
* 2020–2021 Bulgarian protests – protests against Boyko Borisov's government.
* 2020–2021 Belarusian protests – protests against Alexander Lukashenko's government.
* 2020–2022 Thai protests – pro-democracy protests for reform to the Monarchy of Thailand, Thai monarchy and against the Constitution of Thailand, 2017 Thai Constitution and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's government.
* 2020 Malian protests, also called "Malian Spring".
* 2020 Inner Mongolia protests
* 2020–2021 women's strike protests in Poland – protests against a Constitutional Tribunal (Poland), Constitutional Tribunal ruling restricting Abortion in Poland, abortion.
* End SARS, End SARS protests – protests to abolish the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Nigeria.
* 2020 Kyrgyz protests, also called the Kyrgyz Revolution of 2020.
*Indonesia omnibus law protests – protests against the Omnibus Law on Job Creation.
* 2020 Peruvian protests – protests against the removal of Martín Vizcarra.
* 2020 Guatemalan protests
* 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest – protests against the 2020 Indian agriculture acts.
* Tigray War – the conflict started as an uprising in Ethiopia, Ethiopia's Tigray Region, Tigray region led by the TPLF, but has since developed into a state of civil war in Northern Ethiopia.
* 2020 United States election protests – protests challenging the legitimacy of the results in the 2020 United States presidential election.
**2021 storming of the United States Capitol
**Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
* 2021 Boğaziçi University protests
* 2021 Tunisian protests
* 2021 Russian protests
* 2021–2022 Myanmar protests, also called the Spring Revolution.
* 2021 Greek protests
* 2021 Bangladesh anti-Modi protests
* 2021 Northern Ireland riots
* 2021 Colombian protests
* 2021 Senegalese protests
* 2021 Eswatini anti-monarchy protests
* 2021 South African unrest
* 2021 Brazilian protests
* 2021 Cuban protests, also called the Cuba Libre movement.
* 2021–2022 Iranian protests
* 2021 Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
* 2021–2022 Afghan protests
* 2021 Solomon Islands unrest
* 2021–2022 Serbian environmental protests
* 2022 Kazakh unrest, also called Bloody January, known originally in Kazakhstan as Zhanaozen22.
* 2022 Freedom Convoy
* 2022 Sri Lankan protests
* 2022 Corsica unrest
* 2022 Azadi march
* 2022 Karakalpak protests
* 2022 Ecuadorian protests
* March–April 2022 Peruvian protests
* 2022 Iranian food protests
* Mahsa Amini protests, 2022 Iranian protests
* 2022 Brazilian election protests
* 2022 Azadi March-II
* 2022 COVID-19 protests in China
* 2022 Mongolian protests
See also
* List of civil wars
* List of cultural, intellectual, philosophical and technological revolutions
* List of guerrillas
* List of invasions
* List of peasant revolts
* List of rebellions in China
* List of riots
* List of strikes
* Uprisings led by women
* List of usurpers
* List of wars of independence (national liberation)
* List of women who led a revolt or rebellion
* Political history of the world
* Slave rebellion (including list of North American slave revolts)
References
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