The list of riots in Singapore is a list of riots which happened in Singapore.

Singapore in Straits Settlements

Singapore in

Straits Settlements The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia. Headquartered in Singapore for more than a century, it was originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Comp ...

(1826-1946) * 15 – 20 February 1851 - Anti-Catholic riots (1851) Anti-Teochew Catholic riots (500 dead (Teochews)) *5 – 17 May 1854 - Hokkien-Teochew riots (200-480 dead, 222 injured) *15 December 1876 - Chinese Post Office Riots *12 March 1927 -

Colony of Singapore

Colony of Singapore Singapore was a British colony for 144 years, apart from a period of occupation under the Japanese Empire from 1942 to 1945 during the Pacific War. When the Empire of Japan surrendered to the Allies in 1945, at the end of World War II, S ...

(1946-1963) *11 December 1950 -

Maria Hertogh riots Maria Hertogh (born ''Huberdina Maria Hertogh''; 24 March 1937 – 8 July 2009), also known as Bertha Hertogh, Nadra binte Ma'arof, Nadra Adabi and simply as Natrah, was a Dutch woman of Eurasian extraction and Malay upbringing, notable for bei ...

(18 dead, 173 injured) *13 May 1954 -

1954 National Service riots In December 1953, the British colonial government in Singapore passed the National Service Ordinance, requiring all male British subjects and Federal citizens between the ages of 18–20 to register for part-time National Service. The deadli ...

(26 injured) *12 May 1955 -

Hock Lee bus riots The Hock Lee bus riots took place on 24 April 1955 in Singapore. The riots started as a result of confrontation between the police, bus workers of the Hock Lee Amalgamated Bus Company and students who supported the bus workers. On 24 April 1 ...

(4 dead, 31 injured) *26 October 1956 -

Chinese middle schools riots The Chinese middle schools riots were a series of riots that broke out in the Chinese Singaporean community in 1956, resulting in 13 people killed and more than 120 injured. Overview In 1956, after Lim Yew Hock replaced David Marshall as Chi ...

(13 dead, more than 100 injured) *22 April 1963 - City Hall riot

Singapore in Malaysia

Singapore in Malaysia Singapore ( ms, Singapura), officially the State of Singapore ( ms, Negeri Singapura), was one of the 14 states of Malaysia from 1963 to 1965. Malaysia was formed on 16 September 1963 by the merger of the Federation of Malaya with the former Br ...

(1963-1965) *12 July 1963 -

Pulau Senang prison riot Pulau Senang is an coral-formed island in the Republic of Singapore, located about off the southern coast of the Singapore Island, main island of Singapore. Along with Pulau Pawai to the northwest and Pulau Sudong further behind Pulau Pawai, it i ...

(4 dead, 5 injured) *21 July 1964 -

1964 race riots The 1964 race riots in Singapore involved a series of communal race-based civil disturbances between the Malays and Chinese in Singapore following its merger with Malaysia in 1963, and were considered to be the "worst and most prolonged i ...

(36 dead, 560 injured)

Singapore

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, borde ...

(1965-present) *31 May – 6 June 1969 - 1969 race riots (4 dead, 80 injured) *8 December 2013 - 2013 Little India riot (62 injured)

References

{{reflist Riots and civil disorder in Singapore

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 ...