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riot A riot is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property, or people. Riots typically involve destruction of property, public or private. The property targete ...
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Seventeenth century and earlier

* 44 BC –
Assassination of Julius Caesar Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, was assassinated by a group of senators on the Ides of March (15 March) of 44 BC during a meeting of the Senate at the Curia of Pompey of the Theatre of Pompey in Rome where the senators stabbed Caesar 23 t ...
(Rome,
Roman Republic The Roman Republic ( la, Res publica Romana ) was a form of government of Rome and the era of the classical Roman civilization when it was run through public representation of the Roman people. Beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Ki ...
). During Caesar's cremation in the Forum, an incensed mob took firebrands from the pyre and attacked the houses of
Brutus Marcus Junius Brutus (; ; 85 BC – 23 October 42 BC), often referred to simply as Brutus, was a Roman politician, orator, and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar. After being adopted by a relative, he used the name Quintus Serv ...
and Cassius, as well as killing
Helvius Cinna Gaius Helvius Cinna (died 20 March 44 BC) was an influential neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic, a little older than the generation of Catullus and Calvus. He was lynched at the funeral of Julius Caesar after being mistaken for an unrelated ...
. * 38, 40 –
Riots A riot is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property, or people. Riots typically involve destruction of property, public or private. The property targeted ...
erupted in
Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandri ...
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Roman Egypt , conventional_long_name = Roman Egypt , common_name = Egypt , subdivision = Province , nation = the Roman Empire , era = Late antiquity , capital = Alexandria , title_leader = Praefectus Augustalis , image_map = Roman E ...
) between
Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
and
Greeks The Greeks or Hellenes (; el, Έλληνες, ''Éllines'' ) are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions, namely Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, and, to a lesser extent, ot ...
. * 532 – Nika riots (
Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
,
Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
). Thirty thousand killed in the
Hippodrome The hippodrome ( el, ἱππόδρομος) was an ancient Greek stadium for horse racing and chariot racing. The name is derived from the Greek words ''hippos'' (ἵππος; "horse") and ''dromos'' (δρόμος; "course"). The term is used i ...
. * 1046 –
Vata pagan uprising The Vata pagan uprising () was a Hungarian rebellion which, in 1046, brought about the overthrow of King Peter Urseolo, the martyrdom of Bishop Gerard of Csanád and the reinstatement of the Árpád dynasty on the Hungarian throne. Backgroun ...
(
Pest, Hungary Pest () is the eastern, mostly flat part of Budapest, Hungary, comprising about two-thirds of the city's territory. It is separated from Buda and Óbuda, the western parts of Budapest, by the Danube River. Among its most notable sights are the ...
) * 1066 – 1066 Granada massacre (
Granada Granada (,, DIN: ; grc, Ἐλιβύργη, Elibýrgē; la, Illiberis or . ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the c ...
,
Andalusia Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a "historical nationality". The ...
). A Muslim mob killed the Jewish vizier and massacred the Jewish population. * 1182 – (
Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
,
Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
). Venetians and other "Latins" massacred during a riot. * 1196 – Poor riot (England) * 1229 –
University of Paris strike of 1229 The University of Paris strike of 1229 was caused by the deaths of a number of students in punishing a student riot. The students protested with a "dispersion", or student strike, which lasted more than two years and led to a number of reforms of t ...
(France). Student riot leads to closing of university for two years. * 1298 – Rintfleisch massacres (Holy Roman Empire) * 1349 –
Strasbourg massacre The Strasbourg massacre occurred on February 14, 1349, when several hundred Jews were publicly burnt to death, and the rest of them expelled from the city as part of the Black Death persecutions. Starting in the spring of 1348, pogroms aga ...
, over 2000
Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
killed after widespread rioting caused by claims that they were behind the spread of the Black Death Epidemic. Most of the victims were burned to death. * 1355 –
St Scholastica Day riot The St Scholastica Day riot took place in Oxford, England, on 10 February 1355, Saint Scholastica's Day. The disturbance began when two students from the University of Oxford complained about the quality of wine served to them in the Swindlest ...
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Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...
, England) * 1381 –
Peasants' Revolt The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381. The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Blac ...
(England) * 1382 –
Harelle The Harelle (; from ''haro'') was a revolt that occurred in the French city of Rouen in 1382 and followed by the Maillotins uprising a few days later in Paris, as well as numerous other revolts across France in the subsequent week. France was in ...
(France) * 1391 – The Massacre of 1391 (Spain) * 1437–1438 –
Transylvanian peasant revolt The Transylvanian peasant revolt ( hu, erdélyi parasztfelkelés), also known as the peasant revolt of Bábolna or Bobâlna revolt ( ro, Răscoala de la Bobâlna), was a popular revolt in the eastern territories of the Kingdom of Hungary in 143 ...
(Hungary) * 1506 – Lisbon massacre of Jews. * 1517 –
Evil May Day Evil May Day or Ill May Day is the name of a xenophobic riot which took place in 1517 as a protest against foreigners (called "strangers") living in London. Apprentices attacked foreign residents ranging from "Flemish cobblers" to "French royal co ...
(London, England) * 1562 – 1562 Riots of Toulouse (Toulouse, France) * 1572 – St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Paris, France) * 1588 –
Day of the Barricades In the French Wars of Religion, the Day of the Barricades (in french: Journée des barricades), 12 May 1588, was an outwardly spontaneous public uprising in staunchly Catholic Paris against the moderate, hesitant, temporizing policies of Henry I ...
(Paris, France) * 1640 –
Corpus de Sang The Corpus de Sang (, "Corpus of Blood") was a riot which took place in Sant Andreu de Palomar and later in Barcelona on 7-10 June 1640, during Corpus Christi, which marked a turning point in the development of the Reapers' War The Reapers ...
(Barcelona, Spain) * 1648 – Salt Riot (Moscow, Russia) * 1662 – Copper Riot (Moscow, Russia) * 1668 – Bawdy House Riots (London, England) * 1692 – Mexico City


Eighteenth century

* 1706–1707 –
Treaty of Union The Treaty of Union is the name usually now given to the treaty which led to the creation of the new state of Great Britain, stating that the Kingdom of England (which already included Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland were to be "United i ...
Riots (various cities,
Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to ...
) * 1710 – Sacheverell riots (England) * 1710–1713 – Boston Bread Riot (
Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
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British America British America comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, which became the British Empire after the 1707 union of the Kingdom of England with the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, in the Americas fro ...
) * 1713 – Dublin election riot (
Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 ...
,
Kingdom of Ireland The Kingdom of Ireland ( ga, label=Classical Irish, an Ríoghacht Éireann; ga, label= Modern Irish, an Ríocht Éireann, ) was a monarchy on the island of Ireland that was a client state of England and then of Great Britain. It existed from ...
) * 1714 –
Coronation riots The coronation riots of October 1714 were a series of riots in southern and western England in protest against the coronation of the first Hanoverian king of Great Britain, George I. Background Upon the death in August 1714 of the last Stuart ...
, England * 1715 – 1715 England riots * 1726 – Riot in Dresden for two days after a Protestant clergyman was killed by a soldier who had recently converted from Catholicism. * 1736 –
Porteous Riots The Porteous Riots surrounded the activities of Captain John Porteous (c. 1695 – 1736), Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh, Scotland, who was lynched by a mob for his part in the killing of innocent civilians while ordering the me ...
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Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...
, Scotland) * 1740 – Batavia Massacre (
Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital city, capital and list of Indonesian cities by population, largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coa ...
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Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Gui ...
). Anti-Chinese race riots led by Dutch and Indonesian residents. * 1742 –
Philadelphia Election Riot The Philadelphia Election Riot in 1742 was a riot that occurred due to political disagreements among the constituents of the increasingly diverse population in the city. Politics in Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, had long been dominated by th ...
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Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since ...
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British America British America comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, which became the British Empire after the 1707 union of the Kingdom of England with the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, in the Americas fro ...
) * 1743 – London Gin Riots (London, England) * 1754 – Taunton, England * 1766 – Esquilache Riots (
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 ...
, Spain) * 1766 – Food Riots (
Black Country The Black Country is an area of the West Midlands county, England covering most of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall. Dudley and Tipton are generally considered to be the centre. It became industrialised during its ...
and elsewhere, England) * 1766 – Nottingham cheese riot * 1768 – Massacre of St George's Fields (London, England) * 1769 – Spitalfield Riots (
Spitalfields Spitalfields is a district in the East End of London and within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The area is formed around Commercial Street (on the A1202 London Inner Ring Road) and includes the locale around Brick Lane, Christ Church, ...
, London, England) * 1770 –
Boston Massacre The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street) was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing t ...
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Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
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British America British America comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, which became the British Empire after the 1707 union of the Kingdom of England with the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, in the Americas fro ...
) * 1771 – Plague Riot (Moscow, Russia) * 1772 –
Pine Tree Riot The Pine Tree Riot was an act of resistance to British royal authority undertaken by American colonists in Weare, New Hampshire on April 14, 1772, placing it among the disputes between Crown and colonists that culminated in the American Revolution. ...
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Weare, New Hampshire Weare is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 9,092 at the 2020 census. It is close to two important New Hampshire cities, Manchester and Concord. History It was granted to veterans of the Canadian ...
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British America British America comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, which became the British Empire after the 1707 union of the Kingdom of England with the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, in the Americas fro ...
) * 1773 –
Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell t ...
Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
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British America British America comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, which became the British Empire after the 1707 union of the Kingdom of England with the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, in the Americas fro ...
* 1775 –
Flour War The Flour War refers to a wave of riots from April to May 1775, in the northern, eastern, and western parts of the Kingdom of France. It followed an increase in grain prices, and subsequently bread prices; bread was an important source of food am ...
(France) * 1780 –
Gordon Riots The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. They began with a large and orderly protest against the Papists Act 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against Briti ...
(London, England) * 1788 – Doctors' Riot (
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 ...
) * 1789 – Réveillon Riots (Paris, France) * 1791 –
Priestley Riots The Priestley Riots (also known as the Birmingham Riots of 1791) took place from 14 July to 17 July 1791 in Birmingham, England; the rioters' main targets were religious dissenters, most notably the politically and theologically controversial J ...
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Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the We ...
, England) * 1793 –
Ebel Riot {{no footnotes, date=November 2015 Ebel riot ( Swedish: ''Ebelska upploppet'') was a riot taking place in Stockholm 7 January 1793. The riot took place when a group of burgher men, among them Ebel, was insulted by a royal guardsman and was given ...
(Stockholm, Sweden) * 1794 –
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 ...
(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) * 1795 –
Revolt of the housewives The 1795 food riots are known as the revolt of the housewives, a term coined by John Lawrence Hammond and Barbara Hammond for a series of food riots and disturbances in England in 1795 arising out of exceptional food scarcity, in which women played ...
(England) * 1797 –
Massacre of Tranent The Massacre of Tranent took place on 29 August 1797 in the town of Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland. Proclamation On 28 August a proclamation was drawn up by local people to object to the conscription of Scots into the British Militia, to be u ...
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East Lothian East Lothian (; sco, East Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921. In 1975, the his ...
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Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to ...
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Nineteenth century

* 1809 – Old Price Riots, 1809 (London, England) * 1811–1812 – English Luddite Riots (
Leicester Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands. The city l ...
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York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...
, England) * 1816 –
Ely and Littleport riots of 1816 The Ely and Littleport riots of 1816, also known as the Ely riots or Littleport riots, occurred between 22 and 24 May 1816 in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, Littleport, Cambridgeshire. The riots were caused by high unemployment and rising grain c ...
* 1816 –
Spa Fields riots The Spa Fields riots were incidents of public disorder arising out of the second of two mass meetings at Spa Fields, Islington, England on 15 November and 2 December 1816. The meetings had been planned by a small group of revolutionary Spenceans ...
* 1819 –
Hep-Hep riots The Hep-Hep riots from August to October 1819 were pogroms against Ashkenazi Jews, beginning in the Kingdom of Bavaria, during the period of Jewish emancipation in the German Confederation. The antisemitic communal violence began on August 2, ...
(Germany) * 1826 December – Eggnog Riot (
United States Military Academy The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known Metonymy, metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academies, United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a f ...
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West Point, New York West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States. Located on the Hudson River in New York, West Point was identified by General George Washington as the most important strategic position in America during the Ame ...
) * 1829 –
Cincinnati riots of 1829 The Cincinnati race riots of 1829 were triggered by competition for jobs between Irish immigrants and native blacks and former slaves, in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States but also were related to white fears given the rapid increases of free and f ...
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Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line w ...
, United States) * 1830 – Swing Riots (south and east of England) * 1830 – Opera Riot (Belgium) * 1831 – Cholera Riots (
Sevastopol Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...
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St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
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Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-ei ...
) * 1831 – Merthyr Rising (
Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr Tydfil (; cy, Merthyr Tudful ) is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales, administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. It is about north of Cardiff. Often called just Merthyr, it is said to be named after T ...
, South Wales) * 1831 –
1831 reform riots The 1831 reform riots occurred after the Second Reform Bill was defeated in Parliament in October 1831. There were civil disturbances in London, Leicester, Yeovil, Sherborne, Exeter, Bath and Worcester and riots at Nottingham, Derby and Bristol ...
(various places in England) * 1831 –
1831 Bristol riots The 1831 Bristol riots took place on 29–31 October 1831 and were part of the 1831 reform riots in England. The riots arose after the second Reform Bill was voted down in the House of Lords, stalling efforts at electoral reform. The arrival ...
(Bristol, England) * 1833 – Coldbath Fields riot (Calthorpe Estate near Gray's Inn Road, Coldbath Fields, Clerkenwell, Islington, London) * 1834 – Anti-abolitionist riots (
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 ...
, United States) * 1835 –
Baltimore bank riot The Baltimore bank riot of 1835 in the major port city of Maryland was a violent reaction to the failure of the Bank of Maryland in 1834. Thousands of citizens had lost millions of dollars in savings. The riot, which lasted from 6 to 9 August, at ...
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Baltimore Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was ...
, United States) * 1835 August – Snow Riot: Lynch mob and riots in Washington, D.C. over a drunken attack by slave Arthur Bowen against his mistress,
Anna Thornton Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton (1775?–1865) was a prominent Washington, D.C., socialite, diary, diarist, and the wife of architect William Thornton, who designed the first United States Capitol building. She rubbed shoulders with figures such as Geo ...
* 1836 – Cincinnati riots of 1836 (
Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line w ...
, United States) * 1836 –
Abolition Riot of 1836 The Abolition Riot of 1836 took place in Boston, Massachusetts (U.S.) in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. In August 1836, Eliza Small and Polly Ann Bates, two enslaved women from Baltimore who had run away, were arrested in Boston and b ...
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Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
, United States) * 1837 – Flour Riot (New York City, United States) * 1838 –
Rabulist riots The Rabulist riots or Crusenstolpe riots ( sv, Crusenstolpe-kravallerna) took place in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1838 following the Lèse-majesté conviction of the journalist Magnus Jacob Crusenstolpe. "Rabulist" was a derogatory term for poli ...
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Stockholm Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropo ...
, Sweden) * 1838 – Pennsylvania Hall riots (
Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since ...
, United States) * 1839 – Newport Rising (
Newport, South Wales Newport ( cy, Casnewydd; ) is a city and county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, northeast of Cardiff. With a population of 145,700 at the 2011 census, Newport is the third-largest au ...
) * 1839–1843 –
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 ...
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Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...
) * 1841 –
Cincinnati riots of 1841 The Cincinnati riots of 1841 occurred after a long drought had created widespread unemployment in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Over a period of several days in September 1841, unemployed whites attacked black residents who defended themselves. ...
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Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line w ...
, United States) * 1841–1842 – Potato Riots (
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 ...
) * 1842 –
Plug Plot Riots The 1842 general strike, also known as the Plug Plot Riots,So named because the mills "were stopped from working by the removal or 'drawing' of a few bolts or 'plugs' in the boilers so as to prevent steam from being raised": OED s.v. ''plug''. start ...
(England) * 1842 –
Lombard Street riot The Lombard Street riot was a three-day race riot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1842.Gregory, Kia. ''Philadelphia Weekly''Monumental Achievement December 7, 2005; accessed April 30, 2008.Newlin, Heather"The Calm After the Storm", phillyhistor ...
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Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since ...
, United States) * 1844 – Beer riots in Bavaria (
Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total l ...
, independent at the time, later part of Germany) * 1844 –
Philadelphia Nativist Riots The Philadelphia nativist riots (also known as the Philadelphia Prayer Riots, the Bible Riots and the Native American Riots) were a series of riots that took place on May 68 and July 67, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and the ...
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Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since ...
, United States) * 1848 – Marsoroligheterna (
Stockholm Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropo ...
, Sweden) * 1849 –
Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...
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Kingdom of Sardinia The Kingdom of Sardinia,The name of the state was originally Latin: , or when the kingdom was still considered to include Corsica. In Italian it is , in French , in Sardinian , and in Piedmontese . also referred to as the Kingdom of Savoy-S ...
– actual Italy) * 1849 –
Stony Monday Riot The Stony Monday Riot took place in Bytown (now Ottawa), Ontario on Monday September 17, 1849. In 1849 the peregrinating Canadian Parliament was located at Montreal. The Rebellion Losses Bill passed in the House of Assembly by 47 to 18; there wa ...
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Upper Canada The Province of Upper Canada (french: link=no, province du Haut-Canada) was a Province, part of The Canadas, British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North Americ ...
, Canada) * 1849 –
Montreal Riots The burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal was an important event in pre- Confederation Canadian history and occurred on the night of April 25, 1849, in Montreal, the then-capital of the Province of Canada. It is considered a crucial m ...
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Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...
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Lower Canada The Province of Lower Canada (french: province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec ...
, Canada) * 1849 –
Astor Place Riot Astor may refer to: People * Astor (surname) * Astor family, a wealthy 18th-century American family who became prominent in 20th-century British politics * Astor Bennett, a character in the Showtime television series ''Dexter'' * Ástor Piazzol ...
(New York City, United States) * 1850 –
Squatters' Riot The Squatters' riot was an uprising and conflict that took place between squatting settlers and the government of Sacramento, California (then an unorganized territory annexed after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo) in August 1850 concerning the ...
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California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
, United States) * 1851 –
Christiana Riot The Christiana Riot, also known as Christiana Resistance, Christiana Tragedy, or Christiana incident, was the successful armed resistance by free Blacks and escaped slaves to a raid led by a federal marshal to recover four escaped slaves owned b ...
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Christiana, Pennsylvania Christiana is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,100 at the 2020 census. In 1851. it was the site of the Battle of Christiana, also called the Christiana riot. Geography Christiana is located in eas ...
) * 1851 – Anti-Catholic Riots,
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* 1853 –
Cincinnati riot of 1853 The Cincinnati riot of 1853 was triggered by the visit of then-Archbishop (later, Cardinal) Gaetano Bedini, the emissary of Pope Pius IX, to Cincinnati, Ohio, on 21 December 1853. The German Liberal population of the city, many of whom had come ...
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), United States * 1854 – Hokkien–Teochew Riots,
Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...
* 1855 –
Bloody Monday Bloody Monday was a series of riots on August 6, 1855, in Louisville, Kentucky, an election day, when Protestant mobs attacked Irish and German Catholic neighborhoods. These riots grew out of the bitter rivalry between the Democrats and the Nat ...
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, United States) * 1855 – Portland Rum Riot (
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, United States) * 1855 –
Lager Beer Riot The Lager Beer Riot occurred on April 21, 1855 in Chicago, Illinois, and was the first major civil disturbance in the city. Mayor Levi Boone, a Nativist politician, renewed enforcement of an old local ordinance mandating that taverns be clos ...
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, United States) * 1856 – Know-Nothing Riot of 1856 (
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, United States) * 1857 – Know-Nothing Riot (Washington, D.C., United States) * 1857 – New York City Police Riot (New York, United States) * 1860 –
Lambing Flat riots The Lambing Flat riots were a series of violent anti- Chinese demonstrations that took place in the Burrangong region, in New South Wales, Australia. They occurred on the goldfields at Spring Creek, Stoney Creek, Back Creek, Wombat, Blackgu ...
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, now in Australia) * 1861 – Election Riots (
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) * 1862 – Buffalo riot of 1862 (
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, United States) * 1863 – Richmond Bread Riot (
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) * 1863 –
New York City 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-cla ...
(New York City, United States) * 1864 – Leicester balloon riot (Leicester, United Kingdom) * 1866 –
Memphis Riots of 1866 The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866 in Memphis, Tennessee. The racial violence was ignited by political and social racism following the American Civil War, in the early stages of Reco ...
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), United States * 1866 – New Orleans Riot (
New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
, United States) * 1868 – Pulaski Riot (
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, United States) * 1868 – Camilla riot (
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), United States * 1870 –
New York City Orange Riot The Orange Riots took place in Manhattan, New York City, in 1870 and 1871, and they involved violent conflict between Irish Protestants who were members of the Orange Order and hence called "Orangemen", and Irish Catholics, along with the New ...
(New York City, United States) * 1871 – Second New York City Orange Riot (New York City, United States) * 1871 –
Meridian race riot of 1871 The Meridian race riot of 1871 was a race riot in Meridian, Mississippi in March 1871. It followed the arrest of freedmen accused of inciting riot in a downtown fire, and blacks' organizing for self-defense. Although the local Ku Klux Klan ( ...
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Meridian, Mississippi Meridian is the seventh largest city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, with a population of 41,148 at the 2010 census and an estimated population in 2018 of 36,347. It is the county seat of Lauderdale County and the principal city of the Merid ...
) * 1871 – Los Angeles anti-Chinese riot (
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, United States) * 1873 – Colfax Riot (
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, United States) * 1874 – Election Riot of 1874 (
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, United States) * 1874 – Tompkins Square Riot (New York City, United States) * 1874 –
Battle of Liberty Place The Battle of Liberty Place, or Battle of Canal Street, was an attempted insurrection and coup d'etat by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Era Louisiana Republican state government on September 14, 1874, in New Orleans ...
New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
, United States * 1876 – Hamburg Massacre (Hamburg, South Carolina), United States * 1879 – Sydney Riot of 1879 (Sydney,
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, now in Australia) * 1881 – Canboulay Riots (Trinidad, later part of Trinidad and Tobago) * 1884 – Hosay massacre, Hosay Riots (Trinidad, later part of Trinidad and Tobago) * 1884 – Cincinnati riots of 1884 (Cincinnati, Ohio, United States) * 1885 – Rock Springs massacre (Rock Springs, Wyoming, United States) * 1885 – Tacoma riot of 1885 (Tacoma, Washington, United States) * 1885 – Issaquah riot of 1885 (Issaquah, Washington, United States) * 1886 – Haymarket affair (
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, United States) * 1886 – Seattle riot of 1886 (Seattle, United States) * 1886 – 1886 Belfast riots, Belfast Home Rule Riots (Belfast, Northern Ireland) * 1886 – Bay View Labor Riot (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States) * 1896 – Newlyn riots (Cornwall, United Kingdom) * 1898 – Wilmington race riot (Wilmington, North Carolina, United States)


20th century

* 1900 – Robert Charles riots (
New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
, United States) * 1903 – Chișinău pogrom (1903), Kishinev pogrom (Chişinău, Kishinev, Russia, now in Moldova) * 1904 – Vaccine Revolt (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) * 1905 – Hibiya Incendiary Incident (Japan) * 1905 – Broome riots (Australia) * 1905 – Bloody Sunday (1905), Bloody Sunday (
St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
, Russia) * 1905 – Pagoda riots Cantonese versus Hakka clans (Mauritius) * 1906 – Atlanta race riot (Atlanta, United States) * 1907 – Bellingham riots (Bellingham, Washington, United States) * 1907 – Brown Dog affair#Riots, Brown Dog riots, (London, UK) * 1908 – Springfield Race Riot (Springfield, Illinois, United States) * 1909 – Tragic Week (Spain), Tragic Week (Catalonia, Spain)


1910s

* 1910 – Black Friday (1910), Black Friday Riot (London) * 1910 – Tonypandy Riot (South Wales, UK) * 1911 – Champagne Riots (France) * 1911 – 1911 Curepipe riots (Mauritius) * 1915 – The 1st and 2nd Battle of the Wazzir * 1915 – Anti-German riots across Britain in retaliation for the sinking of the RMS Lusitania * 1916 – Everett massacre (Everett, Washington, United States) * 1916 – Liverpool riot of 1916 (Sydney, Australia) * 1917 – 1917 Bath riots (El Paso, Texas, El Paso, United States) * 1917 – East St. Louis Riot (St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois, United States) * 1917 – Conscription Crisis of 1917, Quebec Easter riots (Quebec, Canada) * 1917 – Houston riot of 1917 (Houston, United States) * 1918 – Rice Riots of 1918 (Japan) * 1918 – 1918 Kudus riot an anti-Chinese pogrom in Semarang Regency, Dutch East Indies * 1918 – Anti-Greek riots, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, involved 5,000 veterans destroying and looting over 20 Greek businesses causing $100,000 damage, 16 police and 150 rioting veterans and civilians were hurt * 1918/19 – Red Flag Riots, Queensland, Australia, largely undertaken by members of the First Australian Imperial Force * 1919 – Battle of Bow Street (Bow Street, Bow Street, London) * 1919 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre

* 1919 – Luton Town Hall#Destruction in the Peace Day Riots, Luton Peace Day Riots, (Luton, UK) * 1919 – Red Summer (United States) * 1919 – Annapolis riot of 1919 (United States) * 1919 – May Day Riots of 1919, May Day Riots (Cleveland, United States) * 1919 – Jenkins County, Georgia, riot of 1919, Jenkins County, Georgia (United States) * 1919 – Charleston riot of 1919, Charleston, South Carolina (United States) * 1919 – Bisbee Riot, Bisbee, Arizona (United States) * 1919 – Longview race riot, Longview, Texas (United States) * 1919 – Knoxville riot of 1919, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States) * 1919 – Omaha race riot of 1919, Omaha, Nebraska (United States) * 1919 – Chicago race riot of 1919, Chicago race riot (
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, United States) * 1919 – Washington race riot of 1919, Washington, D.C. (United States){{cite book, last=Johnson, first=Nicholas, title=Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms, year=2014, publisher=Prometheus, location=Amherst, New York, isbn=978-1-61614-839-3, pages=175–177 * 1919 – Boston Police Strike (
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, United States) * 1919 – Elaine Race Riot (Elaine, Arkansas, United States) * 1919 – Winnipeg General Strike, Bloody Saturday (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)


1920s

* 1920 – Nebi Musa riots (Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate of Palestine, later Israel) * 1921 – Black Wall Street Massacre * 1921 – March Action (Mansfeld Land, Germany) * 1921 – Jaffa riots (Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate of Palestine, later Israel, May 1–7, 1921) * 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot (Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States){{cite book, last=Johnson, first=Nicholas, title=Negroes and The Gun: the black tradition of arms, year=2014, publisher=Prometheus, location=Amherst, New York, isbn=978-1-61614-839-3, pages=163, 187–190 * 1921 – Bloody Sunday (1921), Belfast's Bloody Sunday (10 July 1921 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) * 1921 – Bloody Night (Lisbon, 1921), Bloody Night (19 October 1921, in Lisbon, Portugal) * 1921 – Prince of Wales Riots (19-22 November in Bombay, British India) * 1921–1922 – Malabar Rebellion, Moplah Riots (Southern Malabar, British India, later India) * 1922 – Harry Thuku Riot, Nairobi, Kenya, March 15–16. The violence and its suppression lasted a minute or two at the most. * 1922 – Herrin Massacre (Herrin, Illinois, United States) * 1923 – Hamburg Uprising (Hamburg, Germany, on October 23, 1923) * 1923 – Rosewood massacre (Rosewood, Florida){{cite book, last=Johnson, first=Nicholas, title=Negroes and The Gun: the black tradition of arms, year=2014, publisher=Prometheus, location=Amherst, New York, isbn=978-1-61614-839-3, pages=190–192 * 1927 – 1927 Nagpur riots, Nagpur riots of 1927 (Nagpur, India) * 1929 – Blutmai (Berlin, Germany) * 1929 – 1929 Palestine riots, Hebron–Safed riots (Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate of Palestine, later Israel)


1930s

* 1931 – Hawaii Riot (Hawaii, United States) * 1931 – Greek nationalist riots{{citation needed, date=August 2021 (Nicosia, Cyprus) * 1932 – 1932 Colonial Building riot (St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Dominion of Newfoundland, later Newfoundland and Labrador) * 1932 – Altona Bloody Sunday (Hamburg, Germany) * 1932 – Ford Hunger March (Dearborn, Michigan, Dearborn, United States) * 1932 – Bonus Army March, Spring/Summer, Washington, D.C., United States * 1933 – Christie Pits Race Riots (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) * 1933 – 1933 Palestine riots, Palestine riots (Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate of Palestine, later Israel) * 1934 – U.S. Nazi Riot{{failed verification, date=August 2021 (New York City, New York, United States) * 1934 – Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 Minneapolis * 1935 – Harlem Race Riot (New York City, United States) * 1935 – Regina Riot (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) * 1935 – Battle of Ballantyne Pier (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) * 1936 – Battle of Cable Street (London, England) * 1936 – Bhagalpur#Bhagalpur riots, Bhagalpur riots of 1936 (Bhagalpur, India) * 1936–1939 – 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Arab Revolt (Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate of Palestine, later Israel) * 1937 – Memorial Day massacre of 1937 (
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, United States) * 1937 – Uba riots of 1937 August 1937 Mauritian sugar cane growers versus sugar mill owners at Union Flacq Sugar Estate, Mauritius * 1938 – Bloody Sunday (1938) (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)


1940s

* 1941 – Ossewabrandwag attacks on South African Union Defence Force February 1 (Johannesburg, South Africa)Bunting, Brian. ''The Rise Of The South African Reich'', Chapter 6
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* 1942 – Battle of Manners Street (Wellington, New Zealand) * 1943 – Easter Riots (Uppsala, Sweden) * 1943 – Belle Vue Harel Massacre Anjalay (Mauritius) * 1943 – Zoot Suit Riots (Los Angeles, California, United States) * 1943 – Detroit Race Riot (1943) (Detroit, United States) * 1943 – Beaumont Race Riot of 1943 (Beaumont, Texas, United States) * 1943 – Harlem Riot of 1943, Harlem Riot (New York, United States) * 1944 – Fort Lawton Riot (Washington (state), Washington, United States) * 1944 – The Montreal and Verdun Zoot-Suit disturbances of June 1944 (
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, Quebec, Canada) * 1944 – Agana race riot (Hagåtña, Guam, Agana, Guam) * 1945 – Hanaoka mine riot by Chinese workers, Ōdate, Akita, Japan * 1945 – Halifax Riot (Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) * 1945 – Helwan Riots (1945), Helwan Riots, Egypt * 1946 – Direct Action Day, India * 1946 – Nylon riots US * 1946 – Bhagalpur#Bhagalpur riots, Bhagalpur riots of 1946 (Bhagalpur, India) * 1947 – Jerusalem Riots of 1947, Jerusalem Riots (Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate of Palestine, later Israel) * 1947 – Partition of India, Partition riots, India and modern-day Pakistan and Bangladesh, the hardest hit region was the densely populated state of Punjab (today divided between India and Pakistan), death toll estimates between 500,000 and 2,000,000, the deadliest riots known to humankind.{{cite web , url=https://listverse.com/2014/02/07/10-deadliest-riots-in-history/ , title=10 of the Deadliest Riots in History, date=February 7, 2014 * 1948 – Accra Riots (Gold Coast (region), Gold Coast, now renamed Ghana) * 1948 – Bogota riots, named Bogotazo (Bogota, Colombia) * 1949 – Durban Riot, South Africa * 1949 – Peekskill Riot (Peekskill, New York, United States) * 1949 anti-NATO riot in Iceland, 1949 – Icelandic NATO Riot of the thirtieth of March (Austurvöllur, Reykjavík, Iceland)


1950s

* 1950 – Maria Hertogh riots December 11–13,
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* 1950 – Royal Question, Belgian anti-royalism riots Spring–August 1950 (Belgium) * 1952 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday riots and fire (January 26, Cairo, Egypt) * East German uprising of 1953, 1953 – East German Uprising, June 16–17, 1953 (Berlin and Eastern Germany) * 1953 Lahore riots, Anti-Ahmadiyya riots in Lahore, West Pakistan, around 2000 Ahmadis killed. * 1955 – The Richard Riot March 17,
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, Quebec, Canada * 1955 – Hock Lee bus riots 12 May (
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) * 1955 – Istanbul Pogrom, Istanbul Riots September 6–7, Istanbul, Turkey * 1956 – Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (October 23 – November 10, 1956, Hungary). * 1956 – Chinese Middle School riots October 24–28 (
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) * 1956 – Hong Kong 1956 riots (Hong Kong) * 1956 – Gal Oya riots (Sri Lanka). * 1957 – Little Rock Nine, Little Rock Integration Crisis (autumn 1957 Little Rock, Arkansas) * 1958 – Notting Hill race riots (Notting Hill, London, England) * 1958 – Sri Lankan riots of 1958 (Sri Lanka) * 1958 – 1958 Grozny riots, Grozny, Soviet Union * 1959 – 1959 Congolese Riots, January 4–6, 1959 Kinshasa, Leopoldville, Belgian Congo * 1959 – 1959 Tibetan uprising, Tibetan riots against Chinese government, in Lhasa, Tibet Area, China, between March 10 to 21, this is the deadliest riot to take place in a single month and also the second deadliest riot to take place in a single year (after the 1947 Indian partition riots), a confirmed death toll of around 87,000 people.


1960s

* 1962 – Bettors Riot at Yonkers Raceway, May 30, Yonkers, New York * 1962 – Novocherkassk riots, June (Novocherkassk, Soviet Union) * 1962 – Ole Miss riot of 1962, September 30, University of Mississippi * 1963 – Cambridge riot 1963, June 14, Cambridge, Maryland * 1963 – Roosevelt Raceway Riot, November 8, Westbury, New York * 1964 – 1964 East Pakistan riots * 1964 – National Stadium Tragedy Riot, May 24, Estadio Nacional (Lima), Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru * 1964 – Harlem Riot of 1964, Harlem race riot, July 18–23 (New York City, United States) * 1964 – 1964 Race Riots, July 21 – August 2 and September 3 (
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) * 1964 – Rochester 1964 race riot, July 24–25 (Rochester, New York, United States) * 1964 – Jersey City 1964 race riot,{{cite magazine, url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,830558-1,00.html, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114112509/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,830558-1,00.html, url-status=dead, archive-date=January 14, 2009, title=The North: Doing No Good, date=September 4, 1964, magazine=Time, access-date=November 16, 2014 August 2–4 (Jersey City, New Jersey, United States) * 1964 – Elizabeth 1964 race riot, August 11–13 (Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States) * 1964 – Dixmoor 1964 race riot August 16–17 (
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, United States) * 1964 – Philadelphia 1964 race riot August 28–30 *1965 – Mangalmé riots September 2 – October (Guéra Prefecture, Chad) * 1965 – 1964 Mauritius race riots, 1965 Mauritius race riots May 10, 1965 Trois Boutiques (Souillac) followed by Mahébourg; Creoles versus Hindus. State of Emergency. * 1965 – Watts riots, August 1965 (
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, United States) * 1965 – Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, Anti-Chinese riots in
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. * 1966 – Hong Kong 1966 riots (aka Kowloon riots), April 1966 (Hong Kong) * 1966 – Division Street riots, June 12–14 (Humboldt Park, Chicago, United States) * 1966 – Hough Riots, July 1966 (Cleveland, United States) * 1966 – Compton's Cafeteria Riot, August 1966 (San Francisco, United States) * 1966 – Benton Harbor Riots, Benton Harbor Riot, August–September 1966 (Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States) * 1966 – Sunset Strip curfew riots (
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, United States) * 1966 – Mauritius race riots (prior to August 1967 general elections) * 1967 – Bhagalpur#Bhagalpur riots, Bhagalpur riots of 1967 (Bhagalpur, India) * 1967 – Tampa riots of 1967, June 1967 (Tampa, Florida, United States) * 1967 – Buffalo riot of 1967, June 27 (
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, United States) * 1967 – 1967 Newark riots, July 12–18, 1967 (Newark, New Jersey, United States) * 1967 – 1967 Plainfield riots, July 14–20, 1967 (Plainfield, New Jersey, United States) * 1967 – 1967 Detroit riot, 12th Street Riot, July 23–27, 1967 (Detroit, United States) * 1967 – Cambridge riot of 1967, July 24, 1967 Cambridge, Maryland * 1967 – Racial unrest in Cairo, Illinois, Cairo riot, July 17 (Cairo, Illinois, United States) * 1967 – Winston-Salem 1967 race riot, November 2–4, 1967 (Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States) * 1967 – Hong Kong 1967 riots (Hong Kong) * 1968 – 1968 Mauritian riots Pre-Independence Mauritius racial riots January 1968 started at Plaine Verte, Port Louis; Creoles versus Hindus and Muslims * 1968 – Battle of Valle Giulia, March 1, 1968 (Rome, Italy) * 1968 – 1968 Washington, D.C. riots, April 1968 (Washington, D.C., United States) * 1968 – Baltimore riot of 1968, April 6–12 (
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, United States) * 1968 – 1968 Chicago riots, Chicago riots of 1968 April 7–14 (
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, United States) * 1968 – 1968 Kansas City riot, Kansas City riot of 1968, April 1968 (Kansas City, Missouri, United States) * 1968 – May 1968 in France, May 1968 popular uprising (France) * 1968 – Shinjuku riot (Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan) * 1968 – JCH Riot in outrage over Hartwick College's schism from the Lutheran Church{{full citation needed, date=November 2012 * 1968 – Louisville riots of 1968, May 27 (
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, United States) * 1968 – Glenville Shootout (Cleveland, Ohio, United States) * 1968 - :pt:Sexta-feira sangrenta, Bloody Friday, june 1968 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * 1968 – Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day riot (
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, Quebec, Canada) * 1968 – Wooster Ave. riot of July 1968 (Akron, Ohio, United States) * 1968 – 1968 Democratic National Convention riot, August 1968 (Chicago, Illinois, United States) * 1968 - Batalha da Maria Antônia, Battle of Maria Antonia, October 1968 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil * 1968 – Rodney Riots (Kingston, Jamaica) * 1969 – Burntollet Bridge incident (near Derry, Northern Ireland on January 4, 1969) * 1969 – 1969 Race Riots of Singapore * 1969 – Czechoslovak Hockey Riots (1969) * 1969 – Sir George Williams Computer Riot (
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, Quebec, Canada) * 1969 – Stonewall Riots, June 1969 (New York City, United States) * 1969 – May 13 race riots, May 13 – July 31, 1969 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) * 1969 – Battle of the Bogside (Derry, Northern Ireland, on August 12–14, 1969) * 1969 – 1969 Northern Ireland Riots (throughout Northern Ireland on August 14–17, 1969) * 1969 – Days of Rage, October 1969 (
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, United States) * 1969 – Murray-Hill riot (
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, Québec, Canada) * 1969 – 1969 Gujarat riots (September 1969), India * 1960s – 1960s Berkeley protests, Berkeley riots, a series of riots in (Berkeley, California)


1970s

* 1970 – Kent State shootings, May 1970 (Kent, Ohio, United States) * 1970 – Jackson State killings, May 1970 (Jackson, Mississippi, United States) * 1970 – Hard Hat Riot, Wall Street, May 8, 1970 (New York City, United States) * 1970 – Battle of St Matthew's (27–28 June 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) * 1970 – Falls Curfew (3–5 July 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) * 1970 – 1970 Memorial Park riot, August 24–27, 1970 (Royal Oak, Michigan, Royal Oak and Birmingham, Michigan, United States) * 1970 – 1970 Polish protests, December 1970 protests over food prices leading to riots and police killings in Northern Poland * 1970 – Koza riot, December 20 (Ryukyu Islands, United States, later Okinawa Prefecture, Japan) * 1971 – Gastown Riots, August 1971, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada * 1971 – Camden Riots, August 1971 (Camden, New Jersey, United States) * 1971 – Attica Prison riots, Attica Prison uprising (Attica (town), New York, Attica, New York, United States) * 1972 – Bloody Sunday (1972), Bloody Sunday (Derry, Northern Ireland on January 30, 1972) * 1972 – Operation Motorman (Northern Ireland on July 31, 1972) * 1973 – 1973 shooting in South Jamaica, Queens, South Jamaica Riots, April 28, 1973 * 1973 and 1974 – Athens Polytechnic uprising, Greek student riots and revolution at National Technical University of Athens, military military dictatorship, junta overthrown (Greece) * 1974 – Malari Incident (January 15–16 in
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, Indonesia) * 1974 – Ulster Workers' Council strike (Northern Ireland, May 1974) * 1974 – Boston busing crisis, Boston Busing Race Riots, anti-busing riots throughout Boston * 1975 – 1975 Chapeltown race riot, Chapeltown riot Leeds, West Yorkshire, England * 1975 – Livernois–Fenkell riot (Detroit, United States) * 1975 – May 1975 Students protest riots Mauritius, Indian Ocean * 1976 – Land Day#The protest of 1976, Land Day protest, Massive strike by Israeli Arabs in protest at a government plan to expropriate lands in the Galilee (Israel) * 1976 – Notting Hill Carnival#History, Notting Hill Carnival Riot (London, England) * 1976 – Soweto Riots (Soweto, South Africa) * 1977 – 1977 Egyptian Bread Riots, January 1977 (Egypt) * 1977 – Sri Lankan riots of 1977 (Sri Lanka) * 1977 – Tampa Led Zeppelin riots of 1977, {Tampa, Florida} * 1978 – Haredi riot, Brooklyn * 1978 – Murder of Joe Campos Torres#Moody Park Riot, Moody Park riots, May 1978 (Houston) * 1978 – Ali Must Go riots, April 1978 (Nigeria) * 1979 – Disco Demolition Night (
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, United States) * 1979 – White Night Riots, White Night gay riots, May 1979 (San Francisco) * 1979 – Southall riots (Southall, West London) * 1979 – Star Hotel riot (Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia)


1980s

* 1980 – Geen Woning Geen Kroning (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) * 1980 – New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot: conditions in the penitentiary were terrible and overcrowding of the prison. 33 Dead and 200+ injured. * 1980 – Arthur McDuffie, Arthur McDuffie riots, May 1980 (Miami, United States) * 1980 – Racial riot in Central Java,
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* 1980 – St Pauls riot, April 1980 (St Pauls, Bristol, England) * 1980 – Vondelstraat Riots (Amsterdam, Netherlands) * 1980 – Amsterdam coronation riots (Amsterdam, Netherlands) * 1981 – 1981 Toronto bathhouse riots, February 1981 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) * 1981 – 1981 Irish hunger strike riots (Northern Ireland) * 1981 – 1981 Brixton riot, Brixton riot of 1981 (London, England) * 1981 – Toxteth riots (Liverpool, England) * 1981 – Moss Side riots (Manchester, England) * 1981 – 1981 Chapeltown race riot, Chapeltown riot Leeds, England * 1981 – 1981 Handsworth riots, Handsworth Riots (
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, England) * 1982 – Washington Anti-Klan protest 1982, November 1982 (Washington, D.C., United States) * 1982 – Miami Riot, Overtown Riot, December 1982 (Miami, United States) * 1983 – Nellie massacre, Assam Riot * 1983 – Polish Pro-Solidarity Riots, May. 1 (Poland) * 1983 – Black July, Anti-Tamil Riots (Western and Southern Provinces, Sri Lanka){{citation needed, date=May 2020 * 1984 – Tunisian bread riots (Tunisia) * 1984 – Anti-Sikh riots (mainly Delhi but also other parts of India) unofficially 40,000 Sikhs singled out and targeted by Hindu mobs. * 1984 – Aggieville Riot (Manhattan, Kansas) * 1984 – Queens Street Riot, December 7, 1984. (Auckland, New Zealand) * 1985 – Drumcree conflict, Drumcree riots (Portadown, Northern Ireland, July 1985) * 1985 – Durban Riots, August 8 (Durban, South Africa) * 1985 – Brixton riot (1985), Brixton riot of 1985, September 28 (London) * 1985 – 1985 Handsworth riots, Second Handsworth riots, September 11 (
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, England) * 1985 – Broadwater Farm Riot, October 6 (London) * 1986 – Egyptian Conscription Riot, February 25 (Egypt) * 1986 – 1986 Sabah riots, March 12 (Sabah, Malaysia) * 1985 – Drumcree conflict, Drumcree riots (Portadown, Northern Ireland, July 1986) * 1986 – Clontibret invasion (7 August 1986 in Clontibret, Ireland) * 1986 – U.S. Open of Surfing#History, U.S. Open of Surfing, August 31 (Huntington Beach, California, United States) * 1986 – Battle of Ryesgade, October 14–22 (Copenhagen, Denmark) * 1987 – 1987 Chapeltown race riot, Chapeltown riot Leeds, England * 1987 – Tampa riot of 1987, February 1987 (Tampa, Florida, United States){{citation needed, date=May 2020 * 1987 – Anti-Sikh Riots of Delhi * 1987 – Iranian pilgrim riot (Mecca, Saudi Arabia) * 1987–1989 – Tibetan unrest, Tibetan Anti-China Riots, September 27, 1987 (Lhasa (prefecture-level city), Lhasa, Tibet) * 1987 – Atlanta prison riots (Atlanta, United States) * 1987 – First Intifada, Israel * 1988 – Fremantle prison riot * 1988 – 8888 Uprising in Myanmar. Nationwide riots against military dictatorship in the country to restore democracy, as many as 10,000 protesters killed when the Myanmar Army brutally suppressed the movement. * 1988 – Latino riot, Perth Amboy, New Jersey * 1988 – Tompkins Square Park Police Riot (1988), Tompkins Square Park Police Riot, August 1988 (East Village, Manhattan, New York City) * 1988 – Hot Biscuit Riot, Shreveport, Louisiana * 1988–1989 – Nanjing Anti-African protests (Nanjing, China) * 1988 – Anti Sikh Riots of Bidar, Karnataka * 1989 – 1989 riots in Argentina * 1989 – 1989 Sukhumi riots * 1989 – Dewsbury riot * 1989 – Tampa riot of 1989, February 1989 (Tampa, Florida, United States){{citation needed, date=May 2020 * 1989 – El Caracazo, February 1989 (Caracas, Venezuela) * 1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Aftermath of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (Beijing China) * 1989 – Romanian Revolution of 1989 (Romania) * 1989 – 1989 Bhagalpur violence, 1989 Bhagalpur riots in India * 1989 – Purple Rain Protest, Purple Rain Riot (South Africa) * 1989 – Anti-Sikh Riots of Jammu


1990–2000

* 1990 – Poll Tax Riots (London) * 1990 – 1990 Strangeways Prison riot, Strangeways Prison Riot (Manchester, UK), April 1–25 * 1990 – Dinamo Zagreb–Red Star Belgrade riot (Zagreb, Croatia, at the time part of Yugoslavia) * 1990 – Golaniada (Bucharest, Romania), demonstrations against communism * 1990 – Ordsall, Greater Manchester, Salford (Greater Manchester, UK), July{{citation needed, date=May 2020 * 1990 – Hyderabad Riots – Over 150 people killed. Communal riots occurred due to the killing of Sardar and Majid Khan. * 1990 – 1990 Mass Uprising in Bangladesh against military dictator Hussain Mohammed Ershad, Lt. Gen. Ershad, who is forced to resign on December 6, and restore democracy in the country. December 6 has since been celebrated as democracy victory day in Bangladesh. * 1990 – 1990 Airin Riots (Osaka, Japan), October 2–5 * 1991 – 1991 Washington, D.C. riot in D.C.'s Mount Pleasant, Washington, D.C., Mount Pleasant neighborhood, May 1991 (Washington, D.C., United States) * 1991 – Riverport Riot, at Riverport Amphitheater during a Guns N' Roses concert, July 2 * 1991 – Crown Heights Riot, August 1991 (Brooklyn, New York, United States) * 1991 – 1991 Moscow August Putsch, ''GKChP ({{Lang-ru, ГКЧП) riot'', or ''"August Coup Attempt"'', August 19–21, 1991 (Moscow, Soviet Union) * 1991 – Ely Petrol Riots, 2–6 September, (Cardiff, Wales) * 1991 – Meadow Well riots, 9–12 September, (North Shields, England) one of the most severe riots in British history * 1991 – Hoyerswerda riots, 17–23 September, (Hoyerswerda, Germany) * 1992 – 1992 Los Angeles riots, Los Angeles riots, April 29 – May 4 (
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, United States) * 1992 – Washington Heights, Manhattan, Washington Heights Riot, July 1992 (
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, New York) * 1992 – Chicago Bulls victory riots, June (
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, United States) * 1992 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – Riot after Guns N' Roses show during the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour.{{citation needed, date=May 2020 * 1992 – Demolition of the Babri Masjid, Ayodhya, India. Over 2000 (mostly Muslims) killed in violence. * 1992 – Riot of Rostock-Lichtenhagen, 22–24 August, Rostock, Germany – most serious xenophobic riots in Germany after World War II * 1992 – Bombay riots and other inter-communal riots – Riots in the Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) after the Demolition of Babri Masjid, demolition of Babri Mosque in Ayodhya. 6 December 1992 – 26 January 1993. * 1992 – Riots in 1992 Bangladesh violence, Bangladesh and Pakistan in protest of the demolition of Babri Masjid. * 1993 – Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 riots, Moscow, Russia * 1993 – 18 May Riot, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 18, 1993 * 1993 – 1993 Stanley Cup Finals#Riot, Stanley Cup Riot, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 9, 1993 * 1993 – 1993 Welling riots, Welling Riots, London, England, October 16, 1993. * 1994 – Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi#1994 Malakand Division Revolt, 1994 Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi Malakand Revolt * 1994 – 1994 Stanley Cup riot, Stanley Cup Riot, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 14, 1994. * 1994 – Riots against tolls 25 April Bridge, June 24, 1994 Lisbon, Portugal * 1994 – Green Day Riot, Boston, Massachusetts, September 9, 1994.{{citation needed, date=May 2020 * 1994 – 1990s uprising in Bahrain, 35 killed, 1994–1999. * 1995 – 1995 Gazi Quarter riots, 23 killed, March 1995, Istanbul, Turkey * 1995 – Brixton riot (1995), Brixton riot of 1995 (London, England) * 1995 – Manningham riot, June 1995 (Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK) * 1995 – Lansdowne Road football riot, English Neo-Nazi Hooliganism (Lansdowne Road,
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, Ireland) * 1995 – Drumcree conflict, Drumcree riots, July 1995 (Portadown, Northern Ireland) * 1996 – Yatala Prison Riot, May 6, 1996 (Yatala Labour Prison, Adelaide, South Australia) * 1996 – 1996 Trafalgar Square riots, Riots in Trafalgar Square during UEFA Euro 96, June 26, 1996 (London, England) * 1996 – Drumcree conflict, Drumcree riots, July 1996 (throughout Northern Ireland) ** 1996 Derry riots, Derry riots * 1996 – 1996 Parliament House Riot, Parliament House Riot, August 19, 1996 (Canberra, Australia) * 1996 – Western Wall Tunnel#Northern exit, Western Wall Tunnel riots, September 1996 (Jerusalem) * 1996 – St. Petersburg, Florida Riot 1996, October 1996 (St. Petersburg, Florida, United States) * 1997 – Naples, Idaho, January 1997 – Five persons were injured in a riot at Northwest Academy, a troubled teen facility associated with CEDU. * 1997 – 1997 nationalist riots in Northern Ireland, Drumcree riots of July 1997 (throughout Northern Ireland) * 1998 – Pullman (WSU) Riot, May 1998 (Pullman, Washington) * 1998 – Jakarta Riots of May 1998 (
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,
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) * 1998 – Drumcree conflict, Drumcree riots, July 1998 (throughout Northern Ireland) * 1998 – Reformasi (Malaysia) * 1998 – Poso riots (December 1998 – 2001) in Poso, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. * 1999 – Maluku sectarian conflict, January 1999 – February 2002 in Maluku Islands, Maluku, Indonesia * 1999 – 1999 Mauritian riots, February 21–25 started in Roche Bois. Spread throughout Mauritius after death in custody of singer Topize "Kaya". Linked to cannabis legalisation. * 1999 – L'Amicale and Anjalay riots May 23, 1999 Port Louis, Mauritius. Muslim protesters murdered family of Chinese owners of gambling den. * 1999 – Khaitan Riot (Kuwait) * 1999 – Michigan State University student riot, April 1999 (East Lansing, Michigan, United States) * 1999 – Iran student riots, July 1999, July 1999, Iran * 1999 – WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity, WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, November 1999 (Seattle, United States) * 2000 – Cochabamba protests of 2000 (Cochabamba, Bolivia) * 2000 – Lakers fans riot after the team was crowned the 2000 NBA Finals, NBA Champions. It became known as The Laker Riot (
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, California){{citation needed, date=May 2020 * 2000 – October 2000 riots (Israel), October Riots (Israel) * 2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada, Israel * 2000 – 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots, Riots between English and Turkish football fans break out in Copenhagen, Denmark after the final of the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup, * 2000 – Chinese anti-corruption riot,{{cite web, url=http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/chineseriots.html , title=Riots highlight plight of Chinese workers , publisher=Pipeline.com , date=June 28, 2002 , url-status=dead , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927214204/http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/chineseriots.html , archive-date=September 27, 2007 (Yangjiazhangzi, China) * 2000 – Spanish anti-immigrant riots, (Almeria, Spain) * 2000 – May Day Riots, May 1, 2000 (London).


21st century

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2001–2009

* 2001 – Seattle Mardi Gras riot, February (Seattle, United States) * 2001 – University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland student riots following team's loss in the 2001 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, 2001 NCAA tournament (College Park, Maryland, United States) * 2001 – 2001 Cincinnati Riots, April (
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, United States) * 2001 – Quebec City Summit of the Americas, April (Quebec, Canada) * 2001 – May Day Riots, May 1, 2001 (London, England). * 2001 – Oldham Riots, May (Oldham, Greater Manchester, England) * 2001 – Gothenburg Riots, June (Gothenburg, Sweden) * 2001 – Harehills riot Leeds, June, (West Yorkshire, England) * 2001 – Canada Day Riot, July, Edmonton, (Alberta, Canada) * 2001 – Bradford Riot, July (Bradford, England) * 2001 – Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest, July (
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, Italy) * 2001 – July 2001 Belfast riots, (Belfast, Northern Ireland) * 2001 – Holy Cross dispute, Summer (Belfast, Northern Ireland) * 2001 – November 2001 Belfast riots, (Belfast, Northern Ireland) * 2001 – December 2001 riots in Argentina, December 2001 Riots (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 2001 – Ohio State University, First Chittfest block party riot, April (Columbus, Ohio, United States){{cite web, url=http://www.thelantern.com/2.1345/unhappy-anniversary-1.96260 , title=Unhappy anniversary, Riots spring up at 'Chittfest' , work=The Lantern , date=April 22, 2002 , access-date=May 17, 2011 , url-status=dead , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615233713/http://www.thelantern.com/2.1345/unhappy-anniversary-1.96260 , archive-date=June 15, 2013 * 2002 – San Salvador Atenco Airport Riot (San Salvador Atenco, Mexico) * 2002 – Godhra Riots, Post- Godhra Riots after the Godhra train burning, February (Gujarat, India) * 2002 – Naroda Patiya massacre, happened on February 28, resulted in the death of 97 Muslims by approximately a mob of 5000 people. * 2002 – University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland students following their team's victory in the 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, 2002 NCAA tournament (College Park, Maryland, United States) * 2002 – Former military spies riot over their government pension (Seoul, South Korea) * 2002 – Ohio State University, Second Chittfest block party riot, April 21 (Columbus, Ohio, United States) * 2002 – 2002 Urso Branco prison riot,{{cite web, url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-04/23/content_325666.htm , title=Brazil prison riot ends, nine killed , work=China Daily , date=April 23, 2004 , access-date=December 28, 2011 (Rondônia, Brazil) * 2002 – May 2002 Belfast riots, (Belfast, Northern Ireland) * 2002 – 2002 Short Strand clashes, Short Strand Clashes, (Belfast, Northern Ireland) * 2002 – Chinese textile worker riot, (Shuikou, Guangdong, China) * 2002 – Soccer hooligans light flares and clash with riot police at a game in Kyiv, Ukraine. * 2002 – Ohio State University post University of Michigan Michigan-Ohio State rivalry, football game riot, November (Columbus, Ohio, United States) * 2002 – Riot at Pavoncito Prison (Guatemala City, Guatemala) * 2003 – Riot in Neos Marmaras (Porto Carras, Sithonia) against the European Union, EU-Summit, June 20, (Chalkidiki, Greece) * 2003 – Benton Harbor Riots, Benton Harbor Riot, June (Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States) * 2003 – Wrocław football riot 2003, March 30 * 2003 – 2003 Maldives civil unrest, Maldives civil unrest, September (Malé, Maldives) * 2003 – Riot over bad policy during a SARS outbreak, (Xiandie, China) * 2003 – The Exploited Montreal riot,
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, Quebec, Canada October 14 * 2004 – Han Chinese, Han–Hui people, Hui riot, (Henan province, China). * 2004 – Boston, Lincolnshire, Croydon, and other UK towns. Fans rioted after England lost to France in their first game of the UEFA Euro 2004 group stage. * 2004 – 2004 Dublin May Day riot * 2004 – 2004 unrest in Kosovo, Kosovo Riot. * 2004 – Chinese riot in response to a beating, (Guangdong, China) * 2004 – Citizens in Benghu riot in response to rising prices and poor healthcare, (Anhui, China) * 2004 – Chinese soccer fans riot when a Japanese team wins the final, (Beijing, China) * 2004 – Rioters attack police station December 30 (Athens, Greece) * 2005 – Dongzhou protest, (Guangdong, China) * 2005 – 2005 Macquarie Fields riots, February, (southwestern suburb of Sydney, Australia) * 2005 – Cedar Revolution, February, Lebanon * 2005 – 2005 anti-Japanese demonstrations, Anti-Japanese riots, April (Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, China){{Citation needed, date=December 2010 * 2005 – Riots in response to land taken for a power plant, (Shenyou, China) * 2005 – Riots over excessive pollution, (Zhejiang, China) * 2005 – Perpignan ethnic violence, May, France * 2005 – Riots during the Orange Order parade, July (Belfast, Northern Ireland) * 2005 – 2005 Maldives civil unrest, Maldives civil unrest, August (Malé, Maldives){{Citation needed, date=December 2010 * 2005 – Chinese worker riot, July (Xizhou, China). In 2005, the government admitted to 87,000 riots and demonstrations across China. * 2005 – 2005 Belfast riots, (Belfast, Northern Ireland) * 2005 – Street clashes in central Athens, September (Athens, Greece), * 2005 – 2005 civil unrest in France, October{{Citation needed, date=December 2010 * 2005 – 2005 Toledo Riot, October (Toledo, Ohio, United States) * 2005 – Anti-Muslim Riots of Mau, October (Mau, Uttar Pradesh, Mau, Uttar Pradesh, India) * 2005 – Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas, November (Mar del Plata, Argentina){{Citation needed, date=December 2010 * 2005 – 2005 Cronulla riots, December (Sydney, Australia) * 2005 – 2005 Birmingham race riots in Lozells, (
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, United Kingdom) * 2006 – 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs#Western Conference, Stanley Cup Western Conference Finals (Edmonton Oilers victory), May 2006, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada * 2006 – Cartoon riots * 2006 – 2006 Nuku'alofa riots, November 16 (Nuku'alofa, Tonga) * 2006 – 2006 Dublin riots, February 25 (
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, Ireland) * 2006 – San Bernardino punk riot, March 4 San Bernardino, California * 2006 – 2006 labor protests in France, March–April, (Paris, France){{Citation needed, date=December 2010 * 2006 – Burj Khalifa#Labor Controversy, Burj Khalifa riot (Dubai, UAE) * 2006 – 2006 Aligarh Riots, Hindu/Muslim Aligarh Riots, April (Aligarh, India) * 2006 – April 2006 Venezuela prison riot, April (Venezuela) * 2006 – 2006 civil unrest in San Salvador Atenco (San Salvador Atenco, Mexico) * 2006 – Riot after a hospital doesn't treat a patient{{full citation needed, date=November 2012 (Sichuan, China) * 2006 – Riot over government response to a whistleblower, (Shandong, China) * 2006 – Riot follows after a traffic accident incites violence, (Chizhou, China) * 2006 – Riot over a land dispute, (Sanzhou, China) * 2006 – 2006 protests in Hungary * 2006 – The October 2006 Mangalore riots were a set of riots in Mangalore, India triggered after Hindu extremist group Bajrang Dal attacked a Van which was transporting cows. Government imposed a curfew for a week. Two people were killed and up to 50 people were injured. * 2006 – November 2006 Political Riots in Bangladesh. Violent clashes between the two major parties Bangladesh Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party including vandalism and arson attacks leave 40+ dead. * 2006 – Copenhagen December Riot (Nørrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark) * 2007 – Anti-immigrant riots, (
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, Spain) * 2007 – Guinea-Bissau riot, 2007, 2007 – Guinea-Bissau riot * 2007 – Han Chinese, Chinese immigrants clash with riot police, (Milan, Italy) * 2007 – Riot starts when a company takes over the bus routes and doubles the fares, (Zhushan, China) * 2007 – 2007 Karachi riots (Karachi, Pakistan) * 2007 – 33rd G8 summit#Protests and demonstrations, G8 Summit Riots, June 2007 in Rostock, Germany * 2007 – Bronze soldier riot (Tallinn, Estonia) * 2007 – Muslim-Tibetan riot, (Qinghai, China) * 2007 – Hui people, Muslim–Han Chinese, Han riot (Shandong, China) * 2007 – Romani people, Romani riots{{Unreliable source?, date=December 2010 (Sofia, Bulgaria) * 2007 Georgian demonstrations, 2007 – Georgian anti-government protests, September – December * 2007 Burmese anti-government protests, 2007 – Burmese anti-government protests * 2007 – 2007 Villiers-le-Bel riots, Riots in Villiers-le-Bel, France, November 25–30{{Citation needed, date=July 2010 * 2007 – 2007 food riots in West Bengal, Food riots in West Bengal * 2007–2008 – 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis, Kenyan Presidential Election Riots * 2008 – Striking dock workers clash with riot police at state-controlled Piraeus (OLP) and Thessaloniki (OLTH) ports Greece, Jan 11+15 * 2008 protests in Serbia, 2008 – Protests in Serbia – Riots in Belgrade on embassies of countries recognizing the independence of Kosovo by Serbian nationalists. * 2008 conflict in Lebanon, 2008 – Political crisis in Lebanon – Riots and engagements between Islamists and progressives. * 2008 unrest in Tibet, 2008 – Tibetan unrest, March 10 – June (Tibet) * 2007–2008 – 2007–2008 world food price crisis, Food riots in India, Peru, Morocco, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Uzbekistan,
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, Yemen, Guinea, 2008 Cameroonian anti-government protests, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Senegal. * 2008 UEFA Cup Final riots, 2008 – UEFA Cup Final riots in Manchester, United Kingdom * 2008 South Africa riots, 2008 – South Africa riots – Attacks on foreign nationals * 2008 – Fishermen riots in Paris – French fishermen clashed with police as they protested over Oil price increases since 2003, rising fuel costs * 2008 – Fishermen riots in Brussels * 2008 – Kamagasaki G8 Riots Osaka, June 200
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* 2008 – 2008 Guizhou riot in Guizhou, China * 2008 – Kanmen riot in the coastal province of Zhejiang. According to the Ministry of Public Security, there were 87,000 riots and protests reported in 2005 and this number increases every year. * 2008 – 2008 riot in Mongolia, following the 2008 Mongolian legislative election, legislative election * 2008 – Montréal-Nord#Riot, August 2008 Montreal North Riot (
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, Quebec, Canada) * 2008 – 2008 Greece Riots, Riots throughout Greece after police shot dead a teenager. * 2008 – 2008 attacks on Christians in southern Karnataka: Riot erupted after Hindu extremist groups Bajrang Dal and Sri Ram Sena attacked and damaged churches in Mangalore and injured people including nuns. * 2009 – 2009 Oslo riots, Riots in Oslo, Copenhagen, Denmark, Copenhagen, London, United Kingdom, London, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Belfast, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other cities following the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict. * 2009 – 2009 Riga riot, Riot on January 13 in Riga, Latvia, after a peaceful demonstration of people, demanding Saeima, parliament (Saeima) dissolution. * 2009 – Ubudiah Mosque riots in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaysia. * 2009 – Rioting in Belfast, Northern Ireland after St Patrick's Day on March 18. * 2009 – April 2009 Thai political unrest, Anti-government Riots, (Bangkok, Thailand). Protesters are demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. hundreds of protesters injured. Thai Army were deployed on the streets of Bangkok and the State of Emergency was declared. * 2009 – 2009 Iranian election protests * 2009 – July 2009 Ürümqi riots in Ürümqi, China, July 5–? * 2009 – Riots in Pakistan's central Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab, 8 dead. * 2009 – Riots in
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, United Kingdom when far-right activists clash with anti-racism protesters and local members of the Muslim and Afro-Caribbean community on August 8, 2009. * 2009 – Riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland on August 30. * 2009 – Arab protesters clashed with Israeli security forces during riots near Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel. * 2009 – Football riots Široki Brijeg-Sarajevo, Football riot in Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1 dead.


2010s


2010

*2010 – Times Square riots, New York City, NY, United States, 4 rioters shot, 54 arrested. *2010 – Prison riot in Venezuela, 8 dead. *2010 – Immigrants riots in Rosarno, Italy, 37 injured. *2010 – 2010 Jos riots, Riots in Nigeria between Muslim and Christian gangs, 992 dead. *2010 – Riots in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada during the 2010 Winter Olympics *2010 – 2010 Kyrgyzstani uprising, 85 dead. *2010 – 2010 Thai political protests, Political protests in Thailand, 91 dead. *2010 – April 10 – Springfest Riot, Harrisonburg, Virginia, dozens injured; 30–35 arrested. *2010 – Riots in
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, 3 dead. *2010 – Riots in Kyrgyzstan, 5 dead *2010 – 2010 Santa Cruz riots, Riots in Santa Cruz, California. *2010 – May 2010 Greek protests, Riots in Greece, 3 people killed. *2010 – Prison riot in Venezuela, 8 dead. *2010 – Riots in northeast India, 3 dead, 70 injured. *2010 – Riots in Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, 2 dead. *2010 – 2010 Kingston unrest, Riots in Jamaica, 73 dead. *2010 – Ethnic Violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan (2010), Riots in Kyrgyzstan, at least 2000 dead. *2010 – Prison riot in Mexico, 28 dead. *2010 – Riots in Bariloche, Argentina, 2 dead, 12 injured. *2010 – 2010 G-20 Toronto summit protests, Riots in Toronto, Ontario, Canada during the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit, 1105 arrests *2010 – Prison riot in Venezuela, 6 dead. *2010 – Riots in Indian Kashmir, at least 10 dead. *2010 – Riots in Yemen, 2 dead. *2010 – Riots in Panama, 1 dead, dozens injured. *2010 – Riots in Oakland, California after not-guilty verdict returned in Oscar Grant case. *2010 – 2010 Northern Ireland riots, Riots in Northern Ireland. Police estimate that million in damages were caused, and over 80 police officers injured by nationalist rioters. *2010 – Riots in Nigeria, at least 4 killed *2010 – Prison riot in Quebec, Canada, 2 killed. *2010 – Riots in Indian Kashmir, 50 people killed in seven weeks of clashes with Indian forces. *2010 – Riots in Karachi, Pakistan, 90 dead. *2010 – Prison riot in Mexico, 14 dead. *2010 – Prison riot in Kazakhstan, at least 2 killed, 80 injured. *2010 – Farmers riot in Uttar Pradesh, India, at least 2 killed. *2010 – Riots in Punjab (Pakistani province), Punjab province, Pakistan, 2 dead. *2010 – Riots in Mozambique, 13 killed. *2010 – Riots in
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, 6 killed, 22 injured. *2010 – Riots in Afghanistan, 2 killed. *2010 – Riots in Karachi, Pakistan, 17 dead. *2010 – Riots in Ecuador, 3 killed, 50 injured. *2010 – Riots in East Kalimantan,
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, 5 dead. *2010 – Prison Riots in Venezuela, 16 killed. *2010 – Belgrade anti-gay riot, 78 police officers and 17 civilians injured. *2010 – Riots in Karachi, Pakistan, at least 33 killed. *2010 – Prison riot in Haiti, 3 killed. *2010 – Riots in Cross River State, Nigeria, at least 30 killed. *2010 – Riots in Western Sahara, 11 dead. *2010 – Riot in Maranhão, Brazil, 18 dead. *2010 – 2010 student protest in London, Student riots in London, 14 injured, 35 arrested, Conservative Party (UK), Conservative head office damaged by protestors. Goldsmiths, University of London, Goldsmiths College's UCU (lecturers union) issue statement in support of all demonstrators: "The real violence in this situation relates not to a smashed window but to the destructive impact of the cuts." *2010 – Riots in Haiti, 2 dead. *2010 – Riots in Cairo, Egypt, 2 dead. *2010 – Riots in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at least 25 people have been killed. *2010 – Riots in Ivory Coast, at least 3 killed. *2010 – More student riots in London. Twelve police officers were injured with six requiring hospital treatment. 43 protesters injured, and 26 arrests made. Several buildings were attacked, including the Treasury, the Supreme Court and Topshop. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall car came under attack, smashing the window of the car and covered in paint. *2010 – Riots in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at least 3 killed. *2010 – Riots in Bangladesh, at least 3 killed and dozens more have been injured. *2010 – Egor Sviridov#December 11, Ethnic riots in Moscow, Russia, 29 injured. *2010 – Riots in Ivory Coast, at least 20 people have been killed. *2010 – Riots in the ''Constitución'' neighborhood, Buenos Aires, Argentina. *2010 – 2010–2011 Tunisian uprising, Riots in Tunisia, 1 dead and several people injured. *2010 – New park riots – pupils riot in a newly built park, several injured in Glasgow, Scotland


2011

*2011 – Riots in Assam, Meghalaya, Northeast India, 4 dead. *2011 – Riots in Arusha, Tanzania, 2 dead and nine people injured. *2011 – 2010–2011 Algerian protests, Riots in Algeria, 2 dead and four hundred people injured in riots linked to food price increases and unemployment. *2011 – 2010–2011 Tunisian uprising, Riots in Tunisia, at least 219 killed. *2011 – Riots in Jos, Nigeria, more than 30 people dead. *2011 – Riots in Tirana, Albania, 3 killed, 17 policemen and soldiers were injured, including three seriously, along with 22 civilians. *2011 – Riots in Lebanon, following the fall of Saad Hariri's government. *2011 – 2011 Egyptian protests, Riots in Egypt, at least 846 killed. *2011 – Riots in Tafawa Balewa, Nigeria, 4 killed. *2011 – Prison riot in Sao Luis, Brazil, 6 dead. *2011 – Religious riot in Banten,
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, at least 6 killed. *2011 – 2011 Bahraini protests, Riots in Manama, Bahrain, at least 70 killed, 92 civilians, 2 security forces injured. *2011 – Riots in Sulaimaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan, two killed. *2011 – Riots in Al Hoceima, Morocco, 5 killed. *2011 – Riots in Libya, at least 24 people killed. *2011 – Riots in Iraq, at least 13 killed. *2011 – Riots in Yemen, 24 killed. *2011 – Riots in Tunis, Tunisia, 3 killed. *2011 – Miners riot in Peru, at least 2 killed. *2011 – Riots in Cairo, Egypt, between Muslims and Christians, at least 13 people died and 140 were injured. *2011 – Riot in Kissidougou, Guinea, at least 3 dead. *2011 – Prison riot in Tikrit, Iraq, 2 dead, 14 wounded. *2011 – Riots in Syria, at least 60 killed. *2011 – Riots in Sana'a, Yemen, 42 people had died and at least 300 were injured according to doctors. *2011 – Prison Riot in Hyderabad, Sindh, Hyderabad, Pakistan, 7 dead. *2011 – 2011 London anti-cuts protest, Riot in London, around 250 thousand people, initially a small protest. *2011 – Riots in Nigeria, at least 70 people have been killed. *2011 – Riots in Mazar-e Sharif and Kandahar, Afghanistan, at least 13 people have been killed. *2011 – Riots in Jessore (city), Jessore, Bangladesh, 1 dead and at least 30 others injured. *2011 – Riots in Cairo, Egypt, 2 killed and at least 15 wounded. *2011 – Prison riot in Rumieh prison, Lebanon, 2 dead. *2011 – Riot in Parwan province, Afghanistan, 1 killed. *2011 – Riots in Uganda, at least 3 killed. *2011 – Riots in Yemen, more than 100 people have died in two months of protests. *2011 – Riots in Jaitapur, Maharashtra, India, 1 killed, more than 50 injured. *2011 – Riots in Diyarbakir, Turkey, 1 killed. *2011 – Riots in Dakar, Senegal. *2011 – Riots in Tyre, Lebanon, 2 killed. *2011 – Riots in Mansa, Zambia, Mansa, Luapula Province, Zambia, 3 people were burned to death. *2011 – Riots in Nigeria, at least 500 killed in post-election rioting. *2011 – Riots in Kampala, Uganda, at least 5 dead and 100 injured. *2011 – Riots in Cairo, Egypt, between Muslims and Christians, 12 dead. *2011 – Riots in Hesarak District, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, 1 killed, 3 wounded. *2011 – 2011 Nakba Day, Riots on Israel's borders, at least 12 killed and dozens injured. *2011 – Riots in West Bengal, India, at least 8 people killed in post-election violence. *2011 – Riots in Taloqan, Takhar province, Afghanistan, at least 12 killed and 80 injured. *2011 – 2011 Georgian protests, Riots in Tbilisi, Georgia (country), Georgia, 2 killed, 20 injured. *2011 – Riots in Choucha refugee camp, Tunisia, at least 2 killed. *2011 – Riots in Sri Lanka, 1 killed, at least 200 wounded. *2011 – 2011 land acquisition protests in Uttar Pradesh, Riots in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, 4 killed. *2011 – Riots in Metlaoui, Tunisia, 3 dead and 90 wounded. *2011 – Riots in Mogadishu, Somalia, 2 killed. *2011 – Riots in El Rodeo I prison, Caracas, Venezuela, 19 killed. *2011 – 2011 Stanley Cup riot, Riots in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada after the Vancouver Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup. *2011 – Riots in Tripoli, Lebanon, at least 4 killed and at least 48 people wounded. *2011 – 2011 Northern Ireland riots, Riots, three separate outbreaks in June and July, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, over 300 injured. *2011 – Riots in Huancavelica, Peru, 3 killed and more than 30 injured. *2011 – Riots in Guwahati, Assam, India, 2 killed and at least 30 injured. *2011 – Riots in Juliaca, Puno Region, Peru, at least 5 killed and 30 wounded. *2011 – Riots in Dadaab, Kenya, 2 killed and 13 injured. *2011 – Riots in Karachi, Pakistan, at least 114 killed, including violence a week prior. *2011 – Riots in Ganjam, Odisha, India, at least 2 killed. *2011 – Riot in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, at least 7 killed in a prison riot. *2011 – Riot in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, 7 killed in a prison riot. *2011 – Riot in Hotan, PRC, China, 4 killed. *2011 – Riots in Homs, Syria, at least 30 killed in sectarian violence. *2011 – Riots in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, 1 killed. *2011 – Riots in Malawi, at least 18 killed. *2011 – Riots in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 17 people killed in a prison riot. *2011 – Riots in Papua (province), Papua,
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, 18 killed in rioting between rival clans. *2011 – Riots in Qalad District, Zabul province, Afghanistan, at least 4 killed. *2011 – Riots in Pimpri-Chinchwad, India, 3 killed. *2011 – 2011 England riots, Riots in London which spread to other cities in England, over a hundred injured and 5 killed. *2011 – Riots in Mogadishu, Somalia, at least 10 killed. *2011 – Riots in Chile, scores of demonstrators and police injured, 1 killed. *2011 – Riots in Hakkari province, Turkey, 1 killed. *2011 – Riots in Jos, Nigeria, at least 22 killed. *2011 – Riots in Sbeitla, Tunisia, 4 injured, 1 teenage girl killed. *2011 – 2011 Cairo Israeli embassy attack, Riots in Cairo, Egypt, 3 killed and more than 1000 injured in anti-Israel protests. *2011 – Riots in Ambon, Maluku, Ambon,
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, 5 dead and 80 injured in clashes between Christians and Muslims. *2011 – Riots in Paramakudi, Tamil Nadu, India, 7 killed. *2011 – Riots in Ujjain, India, 2 killed and 16 injured in a religious riot. *2011 – Riots in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India, at least 9 killed, over a dozen injured. *2011 – Riots in Katunitsa, Bulgaria, 2 dead, at least 6 injured in ethnic clashes. *2011 – Riots in Dakhla, Western Sahara, Morocco, 7 killed, at least 20 injured. *2011 – Riots in Conakry, Guinea, at least 4 killed. *2011 – Riots in Cairo, Egypt, at least 24 killed. *2011 – Riots in Darrang district, Assam, India, 4 killed. *2011 – Riots in Papua (province), Papua,
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, 1 killed, 5 injured. *2011 – Riots in Athens, Greece, 1 died of heart attack, 16 injured. *2011 – Riots in Monrovia, Liberia, at least 1 killed and several others wounded. *2011 – Riots in Nicaragua, at least 4 people killed in post-election violence and 46 officers have been injured. *2011 – Riots in Damietta, Egypt, 1 killed and at least 11 injured. *2011 – Riots in Cairo, Egypt, 33 killed. *2011 – Riots in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, at least 1 dead. *2011 – Riots in Karachi, Pakistan, at least 2 killed and 8 injured. *2011 – 2011 Dohuk riots, Riots in Zakho, Iraq, at least 30 injured. *2011 – Riots in Cañete Province, Canete, Peru, at least 1 killed and 20 injured. *2011 – Riot in Jagatsinghpur district, Odisha, India, at least 1 killed and 2 injured. *2011 – Riots in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 6 killed. *2011 – Riots in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan, at least 11 people killed and 86 injured. *2011 – Riots in Cairo, Egypt, at least 13 people killed and hundreds injured. *2011 – Riots in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara,
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, at least 2 people were killed and 8 wounded. *2011 – Riots in Rome, at least 100 injured.


2012

*2012 – Riots in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, Uri, Indian Kashmir, India, 1 killed and 4 injured. *2012 – Riots in Ebonyi State, Nigeria, at least 50 killed. *2012 – Riots in Qatif, Saudi Arabia, several killed and 3 injured. *2012 – Riots in Bahrain, at least 100 killed and dozens injured within 2011–2012. *2012 – Riots in Dakar and Podor, Senegal, 3 killed. *2012 – Riots in Bangladesh, 4 killed. *2012 – Port Said Stadium riot, Riots in Port Said, Egypt, at least 74 killed and at least 1000 people injured. *2012 – Riots in Cairo and Suez, Egypt, 7 dead. *2012 – Riots in Qatif, Saudi Arabia, 1 killed and at least 6 injured. *2012 – Riots in Chilaw, Sri Lanka, 1 killed and 4 injured. *2012 – Riots in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico, 44 killed in a prison riot. *2012 – Riots in Rustenburg, South Africa, 2 killed. *2012 – 2012 Afghanistan Quran burning protests, Riots in Afghanistan, 23 killed. *2012 – Riots in Songea, Tanzania, 2 killed. *2012 – Riots in Aysén Province, Aysén, Chile, 1 killed and several injured. *2012 – Riots in Republic of Macedonia, Macedonia, 2 killed and dozens wounded. *2012 – Riots in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, 3 killed and more than 30 injured. *2012 – Riots in Turkey, 1 killed. *2012 – Riots in Port Said, Egypt, 1 killed and 65 injured. *2012 – Riots in Israel, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Gaza, 1 killed and scores injured. *2012 – Riots in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, at least 18 killed. *2012 – Riots in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, at least 17 killed and nearly 50 injured. *2012 – Riot in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25000 protesters fired upon by police using water cannons and tear gas. *2012 – Riots in Cairo, Egypt, at least 20 killed. *2012 – Riots in Tunis, Tunisia, 1 killed. *2012 – Riots in Papua Province,
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, 1 killed and 4 injured. *2012 – 2012 Rakhine State riots, Riots in Rakhine State, Myanmar, 50 killed. *2012 – Riots in Kaduna, Nigeria, more than 90 killed. *2012 – Riots in Celendín, Peru, at least 3 killed. *2012 – Riots in Potosí, Potosi, Bolivia, 1 killed. *2012 – Riots in Qatif, Saudi Arabia, 2 killed. *2012 – 2012 North Belfast riots, Riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland. *2012 – Riots in Delhi, India, 1 killed and more than 85 injured. *2012 – Riots in Linden, Guyana, at least 3 killed. *2012 – Riots in Mérida state, Venezuela, at least 22 killed. *2012 – Riots in Assam, India, at least 36 killed. *2012 – Anaheim police shooting and protests, Riots in Anaheim, California, several injuries and 24 arrested. *2012 – Riots in Nyala, Sudan, 6 killed. *2012 – Riots in Zogota, Guinea, 5 killed. *2012 – Riots in Mumbai, India, 2 killed and at least 55 injured. *2012 – Riots in North West Province, South Africa, 9 killed. *2012 – Riots in North West Province, South Africa, 34 killed, 78 wounded. *2012 – Riots in Santa Fe Province, Buenos Aires Province, Tucumán Province. Argentina, 6 killed and 200 injured. *2012 – 2012 North Belfast riots, Riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland. *2012 – Project X Haren in Haren, Groningen, the Netherlands. Over 30 injured. *2012 – Riots in Mexico City caused by the 2012 Mexican general election *2012 – Rioting during the Belfast City Hall flag protests in Northern Ireland. *2012 – Chinese 2012 China anti-Japanese demonstrations, demonstration and riots during escalation of Senkaku Islands dispute *2012 – A long-running series of protests and Western Cape 2012 Farm Workers' strike, riots by farm workers in the Western Cape region of South Africa. *2012 – Wildcats supporters in Lexington, Kentucky


2013

*2013 – Belfast City Hall flag protests, Riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the flag protests. 29 police officers were hurt. *2013 – 2013 Bulgarian anti-monopoly protests, 2013 Bulgarian protests *2013 – 2013 Stockholm riots (disambiguation), Riots in Stockholm, Sweden *2013 – Riots in Bangladesh *2013 – Riots in Turkey (Istanbul) (see Gezi Park protests) *2013 – 2013 Anti–Sri Lanka protests, 2013 Anti–Sri Lanka riots in Tamil Nadu, India. *2013 – 2013 protests in Brazil, Riots in Brazil (São Paulo, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Bahia, Salvador, Recife, Curitiba, Porto Alegre and Vitória, Espírito Santo, Vitória) *2013 – 2013 Belfast riots, Riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland following July 12 parade and over several days. Dozens injured mainly Police Officers. *2013 – Riots in Shanshan County (Xinjiang, China) 27 people were killed in riots. *2013 – Riots in Huntington Beach, California, 1 injured. *2013 – Riots in Cape Town, South Africa *2013 – 2013 Belfast riots, Riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland on August 9. *2013 – 2013 Little India Riots, Riots in Singapore, 18 injured. *2013 – Riots in Trappes, France. After a Law enforcement in France, police patrol French ban on face covering, stopped a woman for wearing an Islamic face-covering veil (Niqāb, niqab), her husband tried to strangle a police officer and he was arrested. His arrest was followed by three days of rioting by about 200 participants. In the aftermath, three people were convicted to jail sentences from six to ten months.


2014

*2014 – Euromaidan in Ukraine, from November 21, 2013 – February 23, 2014. Protests and riots in Kyiv, Ukraine (106 dead, 1,880 injured, around 1,340 hospitalized, 320 arrested for mass rioting and 125+ police officers injured). *2014 – 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, Hrushevskoho Street riots, from January 19, 2014 – February 23, 2014. Kyiv, Ukraine *2014 – January 20 Haredi rioted Brooklyn{{citation needed, date=June 2016 *2014 – February–May 2014: 2014 Venezuelan protests, 43 killed, 5000+ injured, 3,689 arrested. *2014 – Riots in Mombasa, Kenya after a raid on a mosque conducted by the police. *2014 – 2014 Jerusalem unrest. *2014 – 2014 unrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina The 2014 unrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a series of demonstrations and riots that began in the northern town of Tuzla on February 4, 2014, but quickly spread to multiple cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including Sarajevo, Zenica, Mostar. *2014 – Zhengzhou Airport riot, February 5–6 in China.{{cite news, last=Feng, first=Bree, title=Stranded Travelers Start 'Riot' at Airport, url=https://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/stranded-travelers-start-riot-at-airport/, newspaper=The New York Times, date=February 7, 2014, access-date=January 27, 2018 *2014 – Riots in Tampa, Florida After Cigar City Brewing Company prematurely ran out of beer at their annual release of their highly acclaimed Hunahpu's Imperial Stout, angry attendees began a small riot. Police were called to the scene and dispersed the angry crowd. The riot prompted the brewery's owners to cancel the event in the future. There were no deaths, but some injuries were reported. *2014 – Riots in Mexico caused by the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping *2014 – Riots in Ferguson, Missouri caused by the shooting of Michael Brown and charges against the accused officer being dropped.


2015

*2015 – April 11: 2015 South African xenophobic riots breakout first in Durban then spreading to Johannesburg, South Africa targeting foreign immigrants, 7 dead. *2015 – April 26: 2015 Baltimore riots erupted in
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, Maryland, United States in response to the Killing of Freddie Gray, death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody. *2015 – July: Three days of riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland following the July 12 parade. *2015 – September 25: 100 Syrians and Afghans were fighting in a refugee station located in Leipzig, Germany during the Islamic Eid al-Adha festivities. 40 police vehicles were sent to calm the situation. *2015 – December: 2015 Corsican protests follow the rise of Corsican nationalism and resulted in the burning of a mosque in Ajaccio and continuing protests.


2016

*2016 – February: 2016 Mong Kok civil unrest (Mong Kok, Hong Kong) *2016 – February 27: Riots after the Shooting of Abdullahi Omar Mohamed, shooting of Abdi Mohamed in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. *2016 – March 13: Riot in Melbourne, Australia central business district: largely gang-related gunshots were reported in the night. *2016 – May–June: A series of violent riots Melbourne, Australia between pro and anti-Islam protesters results in numerous acts of vandalism, injuries and arrests. *2016 – June 2: San Jose, California, Trump rally turns violent when protesters attacked supporters and one Police Officer was assaulted *2016 – June 10–19: UEFA Euro 2016 riots throughout France. *2016 – June 20–23: 2016 Tshwane riots, Riots in Tshwane, South Africa preceding national municipal elections. 5 dead and 54 arrested. *2016 – August: 2016 Milwaukee riots *2016 – August 30: Riots break out in Kalgoorlie, Australia after the Death of Elijah Doughty. 12 police officers injured and buildings and cars damaged. *2016 – September: Kaveri River water dispute#2016, Kaveri River water dispute, India *2016 – September: Riots in Charlotte, North Carolina caused by the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by a police officer.{{citation needed, date=October 2016 *2016 Portland, Oregon riots and 2016 Oakland riots against 2016 United States presidential election, the election of Donald Trump.


2017

*2017 – January 1–2: Ełk riots, Riots in Ełk, Poland after the murder of 21-year-old Polish man by a Tunisian cook.Tunisian charged over Poland stabbing that sparked riot
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*2017 – January 20: Sporadic rioting by anarchists in Washington D.C. during the Inauguration of Donald Trump, leading to 234 arrests for rioting, and 6 officers needing medical attention. *2017 – January 1–24: 2017 Brazil prison riots. *2017 – February 20: 2017 Rinkeby riots, Rinkeby riots in Sweden. *2017 – February 27 – March 2: Dhaka, Bangladesh Transport Workers Riots. Transport workers paralyze the city in protest against a court verdict of a fellow worker, clashing with police, causing arson attack, torching of vehicles and other violence. Most violence were reported at the Gabtoli Intersection. One worker was killed after police forced to open fire. *2017 – February 4–15 and March 27–28: 2017 French riots *2017 – March 31, 2017 – August 12, 2017: 2017 Venezuelan protests, 165 killed, 15000+ injured, 4848 arrested. *2017– July 7–8: 2017 G20 Hamburg summit#Protests and riots, G20 Hamburg summit riots, Germany *2017 – August 7: Rioting in Belfast, Northern Ireland.{{citation needed, date=February 2021 *2017 – August 11–12: Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, following the various movements and actions to Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials, remove Confederate monuments. Participants included White supremacy, white supremacists, Neo-fascism, neo-fascists (including Neo-Nazism, Neo-Nazis), right-wing militias, and figures associated with the Ku Klux Klan. 3 deaths, 33 injuries, 11 arrests. *2017 – August 25–26: 2017 Northern India riots, following the rape conviction of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the leader of the cult Dera Sacha Sauda. 40+ people killed in violence by his followers. *2017 – November 19: 50 people were fighting outside a discothèque in Cologne, Germany. 18 police vehicles came to stop the fighting. Several people were lightly wounded among whom were a police officer and one person was seriously wounded. *2017 – {{ILL, Émeutes du 11 novembre 2017 à Bruxelles, lt=11 November 2017 riots in Brussels, fr, , WD=: After the Morocco national football team, team of Morocco qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup with a 2–0 victory over Ivory Coast, the celebrations by the Moroccans in Belgium, Moroccan community in Brussels turned into a riot with cars burnt and shops looted by some 300 rioters and 20 police officers injured.{{Cite news, url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-worldcup-civ-mar-brussels-riot/cars-burned-police-hurt-in-brussels-after-morocco-world-cup-success-idUSKBN1DC0EO, title=Cars burnt, police hurt in Brussels after Morocco World Cup success, date=November 12, 2017, work=Reuters, access-date=November 20, 2017 Firefighters sent to put out the fires were also attacked by the rioters. *2017 – November 29 – December 10: Tegucigalpa, Honduras After a close election between Salvador Nasralla and Juan Orlando Hernandez the electoral body in Honduras still had no results days after the election, so protests against the government occurred, because the government was having reelection even though it is unconstitutional, at the beginning the opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla was winning by 5% but the system fell and 3 days after the reelecting president Juan Orlando Hernandez started to win, this led to protests all over the country which were repressed by the police that up to today are still occurring, until now there has been 34 deaths, between the riots the government declared curfew between 6 PM and 6 AM.


2018

*2018 – February 1: 2018 Calais migrant violence, Calais Migrant Riot: Violence between two groups of migrants, 100 Eritreans and 30 Afghans in Calais, France. *2018 – April 2: Rioting in Derry, Northern Ireland, following an illegal republican march. *2018 – May 1: Riots broke out in Paris, France when black bloc rioters damaged local businesses, a McDonald's and set fire to cars and a bulldozer. *2018 – May 8–10: Prison riot in Depok,
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. *2018 – June 25: Riots in Nigeria between Muslim herders and Christian farmers. Total 86 dead. *2018 – October 21: Violence between Christians, Christian and Muslim youths in Kaduna in Nigeria. Total 55 dead. *2018 – October 23: Garments Workers Riots in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. 5 hour clash between agitated rioting garments workers and the police force, 35 injured, 9 vehicles vandalized including a lorry set on fire. *2018 – November 26–27: A two-day riot broke out at USJ25, Subang Jaya, Malaysia, between two groups involving more than 10,000 people mostly Indian regarding the relocation of Seafield Sri Maha Mariamman Temple. Malay people were also involved by doing an ambush and a demonstration causing racial misunderstanding. A team of 700 policemen including the Federal Reserve Unit were deployed to Subang Jaya to control the situation. An evacuation of a hotel had been done. 106 people had been arrested. Some injuries were recorded. The developer premises had been vandalized by a group of rioters. Twenty-three vehicles had been set on fire, and a police MPV and a fire engine had been damaged by the rioters. A firefighter was heavily beaten by the rioters and was later warded in the intensive care unit. The victim died on December 17, 2018. *2018 – since November: Yellow vests protests, France, sometimes developing into major riots


2019

*2019 – January 1: Four asylum seekers attacked passers-by of whom 12 were injured near the train station in Amberg, Germany. Members of the public fled into a shop and the shop assistant locked the door to stop the rioters from entering. *2019 – January 14–17: Zimbabwe fuel protests erupt into national riots after a dramatic increase the price of fuel by the government, at least 12 deaths and over 600 people arrested. *2019 – February 12: Riots in Haiti, 4 killed. *2019 – February 23: A large street brawl involving 50 individuals took place in Upplands Väsby, Sweden Masked youth threw rocks at police and three were arrested for rioting (Swedish: ''våldsamt upplopp''). *2019 – March 15–October 28: Timeline of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, 2019–20 Hong Kong protests *2019 – April 8–11: Riots in Sudan. *2019 – April 20, riots in Northern Ireland *2019 – April 15, riots broke out in Nørrebro in Copenhagen, Denmark, after Criticism of Islam, Islam critic Rasmus Paludan staged a demonstration in the district. 23 people were arrested for a range of offences, from refusal to obey commands issued by police, arson and violence against police. Emergency services responded to 70 fires connected to the disturbances in Nørrebro, Nordvest, Christianshavn og Amager. About 200 people took part. *2019 – 20 May: Riots in Oldham, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; Violent clashes between anti-Islamic demonstrators and counter demonstrators. *2019 – 22 May: May 2019 Jakarta protests and riots, Riots in
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; Peaceful protest from election results turned violent overnight. *2019 – June 2, Deggendorf, Germany: asylum seekers attacked police at the refugee centre. Five police were wounded and six Nigerian nationals were arrested for disturbing the peace and causing bodily harm. *2019 – June 3–5: Khartoum massacre in Sudan. 128 dead, over 650 injured. *2019 – June 13: Riots in Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis, in the US following the fatal shooting of Brandon Webber by the police. *2019 – July 12: Paris and Marseille, France: after Algeria defeated Ivory Coast in the African football championships, riots broke out in Paris and Marseille. Supporters of the Algerian national team gathered on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The celebration in Paris turned into unrest where two shops were looted. Police used tear gas in Paris and Marseille to disperse the crowds. *2019 – July 26–30: 2019 Brazil prison riots, Prison riots in Northern Brazil, at least 112 dead. *2019 – August 23: Left-wing protests against the 45th G7 summit in the French town of Biarritz degenerated into riots when participants started throwing rocks at police. Police responded with tear gas and water cannons. The rioters yelled "everybody hates the police" and "anti anti anti capitalists". *2019 – August 19–September 23: 2019 Papua protests, Riots in Papua, Indonesia. Over 30 people dead. *2019 – August 30–September 1: Riots in Glasgow, UK. Attack on Irish unity march by opposition and subsequent clash of both parties with the riot police.{{Cite web, url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/glasgow-riots-irish-unity-march-counter-demonstrators-govan-road-a9086306.html, title=Riot police used to quell protesters in Glasgow as Irish unity march sparks 'significant disorder', date=August 31, 2019, website=The Independent *2019 – September 1–8: 2019 Johannesburg riots, Xenophobic riots in Johannesburg primarily targeting African immigrants, sparked by the death of a taxi driver. At least 12 dead and over 680 arrested.{{Cite web , url=https://news.yahoo.com/south-african-attacks-foreign-shops-132433786.html , title=South African attacks on foreign shops continue; 12 dead , website=news.yahoo.com , language=en-US , access-date=2020-03-07 *2019 – September 23–October 28: September 2019 Indonesian protests and riots, Student protest in Jakarta, Indonesia turned into riots, spread nationwide. One student dead.{{Cite news, url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/indonesia-protests-80-students-hurt-police-clashes-190925044211780.html, title=Indonesia protests: Hundreds hurt in student-police clashes, date=2019-09-25, work=Al Jazeera, access-date=2019-09-26, language=en *2019 – October 1–Ongoing: 2019–20 Iraqi protests, Anti-Government riots in Iraq, at least 93 killed, over a 1000 injured. *2019 – October 3–14: 2019 Ecuadorian protests, Riots in Ecuador, mass protests with protesters throwing bricks, causing arson attacks and clashing with riot police, the riots were said to be caused by fuel price hike. A State Of Emergency was issued. 8 people were killed during the course of the riots. *2019 – October 18–Present: 2019–20 Chilean protests, Mass protests with nationwide reach in Chile caused by public transport fares increasing. A State of Emergency was issued. *2019 – October 20–22: Riots in Borhanuddin, Bangladesh due to an allegedly offensive Facebook post sent by a hacker. 4 dead. *2019 – November 16–18: 8 killed, dozens injured in political riots in Bolivia *2019 – November 25: Brawl between hundreds of knife yielding youths turned into violent riots a movie theater in
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, United Kingdom, UK. Tasers were used to stop rioters, 4 rioters were arrested and 7 policemen were injured. *2019 – December 20–26: Prison riots in Honduras, 37 killed.


2020s


2020

*2020 – January 13–present: Indonesia omnibus law protests, Riots against the ratification of the omnibus law on the Job Creation Law were still happening in various regions in
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, until Thursday (8/10/2020). Many of the actions carried out by workers and students ended in chaos. Some burned tires, damaged police cars, and knocked down government office gates. *2020 – February–Ongoing: 2020 Thai protests, Riots in Thailand demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and the right to rule King Maha Vajiralongkorn. *2020 – February 3–5: Riots in Lesbos, Greece, violent clashes between Afghans, Afghan migrants and the Greek Police. Overcrowded refugee camps have been blamed for triggering the riots. *2020 – February 23-March 1: North East Delhi riots in India, 53 killed. *2020 – March 9: In the town of Novi Sanzhary in Ukraine, people started rioting due to the fear that the COVID-19 pandemic was going to kill the population. *2020 – March 10: About 50 inmates escaped from Italy, Italian prisons as the coronavirus triggered riots and brought the country's criminal-justice system to a halt. *2020 – March 11: Ohio: Riot breaks out following a university's announcement of a temporary closure due to COVID-19. *2020 – March 13: In Italy, riots erupted in almost 50 prisons this month, leaving 13 inmates dead and 59 guards injured. Authorities said the inmates died of drug overdoses after raiding a prison infirmary. *2020 – March 18: Riots rock overcrowded Lebanon prisons over coronavirus fears. *2020 – March 21: In Israel, riots erupts after police limit entrance to Temple Mount. *2020 – March 23: Prison riots in Colombia following COVID-19 panic. 23 killed. *2020 – March 25: Prison riots break out across Argentina sparked by anger over conditions and coronavirus fears. *2020 – March 25: A migrant-detention facility in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas experienced a series of riots committed by hundreds of foreign nationals. *2020 – March 26: Prisoners Riot in Luxembourg Amid Restrictions on Visitors. Luxembourg's main prison erupted in violence overnight after about 25 inmates started rioting, forcing several police units to intervene. *2020 – April 11: Prison riot in Siberia, Russia, prison set ablaze. *2020 – April 12: Prison riot in Manado,
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. *2020 – May 24 – Ongoing: 2020–21 Belarusian protests, Riots in Belarus broke out after Lukashenko claimed a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election, the results of which were criticized amid allegations of fraud. *2020 – May 26 – Ongoing: George Floyd protests, Nationwide riots in the United States, after Murder of George Floyd, the police killing of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis, George Floyd, during arrest by a police officer placing his knee on the victim's neck. Protesters and the police clashed for several days, leaving at least 30 dead in or near riot or protest zones. Numerous incidents of property destruction and arson attacks took place during the rioting. *2020 – June 7: Black Lives Matter demonstration developed into a riot in Gothenburg. 36 people were charged with crimes included rioting, sabotage and assaulting police officers. *2020 – June 11–17: 2020 Dijon riots *2020 – June 20–21: 2020 Stuttgart riot, where hundreds of people fought police and looted shops in Stuttgart after police investigated a 17-year-old for narcotics, Germany after police investigated an incident involving drugs. A dozen police were injured. *2020 – 29 July 4: Riots in Ethiopia over the death of a musician, 81 people killed. *2020 – July 7: The crowd was annoyed by President Aleksandar Vucic's announcement to impose a weekend curfew to eradicate the COVID-19 pandemic that led to 2020 Serbian protests, riots in Serbia. *2020 – July 24: Riots in Satbayev (city), Satbayev, Kazakhstan, violent mob tried to lynch a man who was suspected of raping a 5-year-old girl resulted in homes and police cars being damaged, police injured and 4 arrests. *2020 – August 4 – September 16, 2021: Riots in Beirut, Lebanon following the 2020 Beirut explosions. *2020 – August 12: 2020 Bangalore riots, Riots in Bangalore, India, 3 rioters killed in police firing. *2020 – August 23–September 1: Kenosha unrest, Riots in Kenosha Wisconsin, Sparked by the police shooting of Shooting of Jacob Blake, Jacob Blake. *2020 – August 23–October 16: 2020 Libyan protests, Riots in Libya. *2020 – August 29: 2020 Sweden riots, Riots in Malmö, Sweden: about 300 people rioted in the Rosengård of Malmö. The unrest broke out at 1900 in the evening after activists from the Danish Hard Line (political party), Hard Line party had burned a Quran during the afternoon and posted a film of their manifestation on social media. Swedish authorities had earlier denied Hard Line party leader Rasmus Paludan a permit to hold a demonstration featuring the burning of the Quran and he was stopped at the border. The rioters set fire to property and attacked police officers and police vehicle with rocks while chanting antisemitic slogans. *2020 – September 25: DR Congo jail riots, mass rape of at least 25 women committed by rioting inmates who broke free from the jail, while around 20 people died of the initiated violence before the situation was brought under control. *2020 – October 25: Riots in Nigeria, at least 12 people killed. *2020 – October 29: Prison riots in Herat, Afghanistan, 8 inmates killed during the violence. *2020 – December 7–9: Riots in
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by followers of Islamist religious leader Rizieq Shihab. Six rioters killed in police firing.


2021

*January 6–7: Supporters of President Donald Trump 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, stormed the United States Capitol in Washington DC., Washington, D.C., in an Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 United States presidential election, 2020 presidential election. 4 rioters were killed. *January 13: On Wednesday 13 January a protest condemning the death of African 23-year-old Ibrahim B during a police arrest the preceding Saturday turned into rioting and a police station in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels was set afire. The motorcade of king Philippe of Belgium was briefly caught in the incident. *January 23–26: 2021 Dutch curfew riots. After the introduction of a curfew in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, riots broke out in several cities and towns throughout the Netherlands around the time (21:00) the curfew went into effect for multiple days in a row. Large scale protests were organized under the name "Let's have a coffee together", but turned violent after police were ordered to clear the unlicensed demonstrations. Repair costs are estimated to have run into hundreds of thousands of euros. *February 2 – Ongoing: 2021 Myanmar protests, 2021 Myanmar Anti-Coup Protests, over 700 protesters killed by the Myanmar Army as of 11 May 2021. Protests and violent crackdown on protesters are still ongoing. *February 25: Prison riots in Haiti during a jail break led by gang leader Arnel Joseph, at least 25 killed. *March 19–29: 2021 Bangladesh anti-Modi protests, 17 dead, around 500 injured. *March 21–29: Riots in Bristol, UK, at least 25 arrested. *March 31 – April 9: 2021 Northern Ireland riots, Riots in Northern Ireland are caused by tensions relating to a post-Brexit arrangement introducing a sea border. Hostilities further escalated by the refusal of the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland to prosecute a Sinn Féin member for attending an illegal funeral. *April 12: Riots in
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in Canada due to COVID-19 curfews imposed by the Quebec government, damage occurred in Old Montreal *April 13: Riots in North Portland in the US, arson attack at PPA, one arrest. *April 17: Coal power plant workers riot in Chittagong, Bangladesh, 5 workers killed, 15 injured in police firing. *April 23: Riots in Jerusalem, Israel, at least 32 injured. *April 24–25: Anti COVID-19 lockdown riots in London, 5 arrested. *May 8–10: Anti COVID-19 lockdown riots in Alberta, Canada, some of the protesters arrested. *May 21: Riots between Jews and Arabs at Temple Mount, al-Aqsa mosque in Israel following the ceasefire to the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, 15 injured. *June 4–5: Solhan and Tadaryat massacres, in Burkina Faso, at least 160 killed. *June 18–19: Rioting and violent clashes between Proud Boys and Antifa (United States), Antifa members in Oregon City, Oregon, US, over opposing views. * July 9–18: 2021 South African unrest, July 2021 South African Riots, 337 dead, over 3000 arrested. *15 July 2021 – Present: 2021 Iranian protests *July 24–25: Anti-COVID lockdown riots occur throughout Australia, most prominently in Sydney, resulting in injuries and many arrests. *August 15: Riots outside the Los Angeles City Hall, one person stabbed. *August 15–19: Riots in Meghalaya, India. Violent clashes were reported in the region. *August 21: Anti-COVID lockdown riots occur again throughout Australia, most prominently in Melbourne, but also in Sydney, Brisbane, and Perth; resulting in injuries to both rioters and police officers and many arrests. *September 29–30: Two days of prison riots in Ecuador, at least 116 prisoners killed, some reportedly beheaded. *October 3–9: Lakhimpur Kheri massacre, Lakhimpur Kheri massacre and subsequent riotings in India. Riots begun after an Ashish Mishra, the son of Union Minister of State Ajay Mishra drove a truck over protesting Farmers killing eight (8) of them, resulting in violent clashes erupting in the region for seven days.The riots ended after Ashish Mishra was arrested on October 9 late evening. *October 21–31: Ten day violent rioting in Pakistan, at least seven police officers and four demonstrators were killed and many injured on both sides during the rioting initiated by the outlawed far-right Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party, that ended after the Pakistan government reached an agreement with them on October 31. *November 19: Police fired tear gas to quell an anti-government protest against deteriorating economic conditions and rising cost of living in Malawi. Hundreds of people poured onto the streets of the southern commercial hub of Blantyre, calling on President Lazarus Chakwera's administration to take immediate steps to rein in soaring prices and unemployment. The protesters set tires on fire and blocked roads to bring traffic to a halt in parts of the city, and also torched a police post in Blantyre's central business district. *November 19–21: November 2021 riots in the Netherlands, Anti-lockdown riots in The Netherlands, most noticeably in Rotterdam, which started off as protests against the new COVID-19 restrictions. Multiple rioters and police were injured including 4 rioters shot by police. 173 have been arrested * November 24: During the 2021 Solomon Islands unrest, Police in Solomon Islands have used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of protesters, who allegedly burned down a building in the parliament precinct, a police station and a store in the nation's capital of Honiara, amid reports of looting. The protesters marched on the parliamentary precinct in the east of Honiara, where they allegedly set fire to a leaf hut next to Parliament House. The protesters were demanding the prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare step down. Many of the protesters come from Malaita province, the most populous province in the country whose provincial government has had tense relations with the central government for years. The tensions between the provincial and national government intensified in 2019 when Sogavare announced that Solomon Islands would switch its diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to China, to the chagrin of Malaita premier Daniel Suidani. *December 25–29: Riots in Kerala, India, clashes between migrant workers started during Christmas evening, who also attacked the police and set police van on fire around 160 migrant workers connected to the violence arrested. The mass arrest drive ended on the early morning of December 28, while police patrolling continued till December 29 and the situation was finally brought under control.


2022

*January 2–11: 2022 Kazakh unrest which include rioting and other acts of vandalism and numerous deaths. *March 9–November 14: 2022 Sri Lankan protests, violent protests, including rioting due to 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis, Sri Lankan Economic Collapse. *March 9–Ongoing: 2022 Corsica unrest. *April 19: Riots in New Market, Bangladesh leave 1 dead, 50 injured. *July 27–31: 2022 Iraq parliament attack, Iraq parliament protest and siege, Protesters besiege the Iraqi parliament in support of Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, over 100 injured. *August 27-28: Violent Clashes in Tripoli, Libya, Tripoli, Libya lead to at least 32 deaths. *September 16: Anti-Monarchy protests against King Charles III of UK turned into violent rioting forcing police to crackdown on the protesters and calming the situation. *September 16–Present: Mahsa Amini protests in Iran. *October 1–2: Two day rioting in
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following a football match. 129 killed. *October 19–24: Ethnic clashes lead to violent rioting in Sudan, at least 220 killed. *October 20-24: Riots in Chad lead to at least 60 deaths. *October 25: More than 30 people killed in tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea. *November 12: Southeast Maluku riot, Riots in Southeast Maluku killed two people and injured dozens more. *November 27-29: Three day rioting in Belgium, following their 2-0 2022 FIFA World Cup defeat to Morocco. On November 29 the situation calmed after the mayor of Brussels increased police presence. *December 6-7: Minor rioting across Spain, following Spain's 3-0 2022 FIFA World Cup defeat on penalties to Morocco. *December 11-12: Violent clashes between the Talibans and Pakistan Forces lead to 8 deaths. *December 13-14: The killing of a teenager by the police in Greece triggers massive rioting in Athens on December 13. After a massive arrest drive by the police on December 14 the situation was brought under control.{{Cite web, url=https://www.thesundaily.my/home/greek-police-detain-more-than-60-people-for-participating-in-riots-FE10360948, title=Greek police detain more than 60 people for participating in riots, website=www.thesundaily.my *December 14-15: Riots in French cities such as Montpellier and Paris after Morocco's 2-0 2022 FIFA World Cup defeat to France. There were also clashes between French and Moroccan fans which resulted in the death of a 14-year old boy.


See also

* Classical music riot * List of battles * List of ethnic riots * List of food riots * List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States * List of massacres * List of race riots * List of revolutions and rebellions * List of riots in London * List of riots and civil unrest in Calgary * List of riots in Singapore * List of strikes * List of timelines * List of uprisings led by women * List of wars * 2007–2008 world food price crisis * Timeline of riots and civil unrest in Omaha, Nebraska


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External links


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