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Protests

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Protest.

Historical examples

Protestant Reformation in Northern Europe in the early 16th century
North America in the 1770s (American Revolution)
Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, an anti-government protest by several hundred soldiers of the Continental Army
1789 French Revolution
1803 Haitian Revolution, the first successful black revolution against slavery
1866 Haymarket affair, a labor protest in Chicago led by the Anarchist Movement violently dispersed by the explosion of a bomb
New York shirtwaist strike of 1909
Mohandas Gandhi's 1930 Salt March to protest the colonial salt tax in India
1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade, part of the civil rights movement.
1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a key moment in the Civil rights movement
Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965, part of the Civil Rights Movement
Protests against the Vietnam War
Mexico 68
1968 Takeover of Vanha in Helsinki, Finland
1969 Stonewall riots, protesting police mass arrest of homosexuals in New York City
The People Power Revolution in the Philippines
1976 Thai military personnel, police and right wing nationalistic milita shooting at peaceful protesters the Thammasat University of Thailand.
The Solidarity (Polish trade union) Movement's protests against Soviet Communism in Poland from 1980 to 1989
June Democratic Struggle, South Korean pro-democracy movement in 1987
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
The Alexanderplatz demonstrations on 4–9 November 1989, which culminated in the Fall of the Berlin Wall
The many ACT-UP AIDS protests of the late 1980s and early 1990s
The protests in Jakarta (Includes:Reformasi) against the Dictatorship of Suharto in 1998
Japanese Canadians Protest of their Dispossession
The Seattle WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity against the World Trade Organization
Anti-globalization protests in Prague in 2000
S11- Anti World Economic Forum protests in Melbourne, 2000
Anti-globalization protests in Genoa from 18 to 22 July 2001
15 February 2003 Iraq War Protest
Anti-nuclear protests
2007 Bersih rally
2010 Thai political protests
2011 Iranian protests
Arab Spring protests
Impact of the Arab Spring
Occupy Wall Street protests
Bersih Malaysia protests
Gezi Park protests in 2013 in Turkey
June 2013 Egyptian protests
Euromaidan protests in Ukraine, November 2013 – February 2014
Black Lives Matter-led protests on 13 July 2013
Sunflower Student Movement
Add the Words gay and transgender rights protests in Idaho in 2014
2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
2016 South Korean protests
2017 Jallikattu protests
2017–2019 Romanian protests
Dakota Access Pipeline protests
2018 Tommy Robinson protests
2018 Sadiq Khan protests
March for Our Lives protests
2018 Armenian Velvet Revolution
2018–2019 Sudanese protests
2018–2020 Serbian protests
2019 Venezuelan protests
2019 Indonesian protests
2019 Bolivian protests
2019–20 Hong Kong protests
Citizenship Amendment Act protests
2019–20 Lebanese protests
2019–2021 Iraqi protests
George Floyd protests
2020–21 Belarusian protests
Protests over responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 protests and riots in Serbia
2020 Thai protests
2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest
2020–2021 United States election protests
Mahsa Amini protests
Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Peruvian protests (2022–2023)
Gaza war protests
2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupation
July Uprising
2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests
Protests against Donald Trump
Protests against the second Trump administration
2025–2026 Iranian protests

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