List of riots
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This is a chronological list of historical riots:
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18th century and earlier
- 121 BC - Roman Election Riot of 121 BC
- 113 BC - Roman Election Riot of 113 BC
- 532 - Nika riots, (Constantinople) The deadliest riots in world history, with an estimated 30,000 killed in the Hippodome.
- 1182 - Venetians and other "Latins" are massacred during a riot in Constantinople
- 1229 - University of Paris strike of 1229 Student riot leads to closing of university for 2 years.
- 1355 - St. Scholastica riot, (Oxford, England)
- 1517 - Evil May Day, (London, England)
- 1648 - Salt Riot, (Moscow, Russia)
- 1662 - Copper Riot, (Moscow, Russia)
- 1672 - Dutch Riot, (Hague, Netherlands)
- 1713 - Boston Bread Riot, (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
- 1715 - English Political Riot, (London, England)
- 1720 - French Financial Riot, (Paris, France)
- 1721 - English Servants Riot, (London, England)
- 1725 - French Food Riots of 1725, (Caen, Normandy/Paris, France)
- 1727 - English Anti-Turnpike Riot, (Bristol, England)
- 1733 - London Anti-Tax Riot, (London, England)
- 1734 - Mast Tree Riot, (Exeter, New Hampshire, USA)
- 1735 - English Anti-Turnpike Riots, (Hereford/Worcester, England)
- 1736 - Anti-Irish Riots, (Shoreditch/Spitalfields/Whitechapel, England)
- 1736 - Porteous Riots, (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- 1737 - Boston Brothal Riot, (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
- 1738 - Wiltshire Weavers Riot, (Wiltshire, England)
- 1739 - French Food Riots of 1739, (Bordeaux/Bayeux/Caen/Angouleme/Lille, France)
- 1740 - French Bread Riot, (Paris, France)
- 1742 - Philadelphia Election Riot, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
- 1743 - Parisian Draft Riots, (Paris, France)
- 1746 - New Jersey Tennant Riots, (New Jersey, USA)
- 1746 - Anti-Catholic Riots, (Sunderland/Liverpool, England)
- 1747 - French Food Riots of 1747, (Toulouse/Guyenne, France)
- 1747 - Boston Anti-Impressment Riot, (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
- 1750 - French Child Vagrancy Riot, (Paris, France)
- 1752 - French Food Riots of 1752, (Rouen/Paris, France)
- 1752 - French Draft Riot, (Vincennes, France)
- 1753 - English Anti-Turnpike Riots, (Leeds/Wakefield/Beeston, England)
- 1756 - Knowles Riot, (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
- 1757 - English Anti-Militia Riots, (East Anglia/Lincoln/Northampton/Yorkshire East Riding, England)
- 1761 - Northumberland Miners Riot, (Yorkshire, England)
- 1763 - Anti-Irish Riots, (Covent Garden, England)
- 1763 - Weavers Riots, (England)
- 1764 - Paxton Riots, (Paxton, Pennsylvania, USA)
- 1770 - Boston Massacre (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
- 1770 - French Food Riots (Rheims, France)
- 1770 - Boston Anti-Loyalist Riot (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
- 1771 - Plague Riot (Moscow, Russia)
- 1772 - Pine Tree Riot (Weare, New Hampshire, USA)
- 1772-1773 - English Food Riots, (England)
- 1773 - English Weavers Riots (England)
- 1775 - Anti-Loyalist Riot, (East Haddam, Connecticut, USA)
- 1775 - Philidelphia Anti-Loyalist Riot, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
- 1775 - French Corn Riots, (Beaumont-Sur-Oise, France)
- 1778 - French Bread Riots (Grenoble/Toulouse, France)
- 1779 - English Spinners Riot, (Chorley, England)
- 1780 - Gordon Riots, (London, England)
- 1784 - French Bread Riot, (Bayeux, France)
- 1785 - French Bread Riot, (Rennes, France)
- 1787 - Pre-French Revolution Food Riot, (Paris, France)
- 1788 - Doctors Mob Riot (Anti-Dissection Riot) , (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1788 - French Spinners Riot, (Falaise, France)
- 1789 - Reveillon Riot, (Paris, France)
- 1790 - French Labor Riot, (Louviers, France)
- 1791 - Brussels Church and King, (Brussels, Belgium)
- 1791 - Priestley Riots, (Birmingham, England)
- 1792 - French Sugar Riots, (Paris, France)
- 1792 - February Beause Food Riots, (Beause, France)
- 1792 - November Beause Food Riots, (Beause, France)
- 1793 - Viennese Church and King Riots, (Vienna, Austria)
- 1793 - New York City Brothel Riot, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1793 - Paris Food Riots, (Paris, France)
- 1794 - Whiskey Rebellion, (Western Pennsylvania, United States)
- 1794 - English Anti-Recruitment Riots, (England)
- 1795 - English Food Riots, (England)
- 1795 - 12th Germinal Riot, (Paris, France)
- 1799 - Naples Church and King Riots, (Naples, Italy)
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19th century
- 1807 - Baltimore Doctors' Riots, (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
- 1811-1812 - English Luddite Riots, (Leicester/York, England)
- 1825 - Boston Brothel Riots, (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
- 1825 - Portland Brothel Riots, (Portland, Maine, USA)
- 1829 - Charlestown Anti-Catholic Riots, (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
- 1829 - Pennsylvania Brothel Riot, (Lenox, Pennsylvania, USA)
- 1830 - Swing Riots, (south and east of England)
- 1830 - Opera Riot (Belgium)
- 1831 - Cholera Riots, (Sevastopol/St. Petersburg, Russia)
- 1831 - Bristol Riots
- 1832 - Anti-Abolitionist Riot, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1834 - Anti-Abolitionist Riot, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1834 - Potato Riots, (Russia)
- 1835 - Five Points Riots, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1835 - Baltimore Anti-Bank Riot (Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- 1835 - Gentleman's Riot, (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
- 1837 - Flour Riots, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1841 - Whig Party Riot, (Washington, D.C., USA)
- 1844 - Beer riots in Bavaria, (Bavaria, Germany)
- 1844 - Nativist Dissection Riot, (St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- 1844 - Philadelphia Nativist Riots, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
- 1849 - Stony Monday Riot, (Bytown, Ontario, Canada)
- 1849 - Astor Place Riots, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1850 - Brothel Riot, (Troy, New York, USA)
- 1850 - Squatters' Riots, (California, USA)
- 1851 - Hoboken Anti-German Riot (Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
- 1855 - Louisville Anti-German Riots (Louisville, Kentucky, USA)
- 1855 - Portland Rum Riot, (Portland, Maine, USA)
- 1855 - Lager Beer Riot, (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- 1855 - Know-Nothing Riot of 1855, (Louisville, Kentucky, USA)
- 1856 - Kansas Slavery Riots, (Lawrence, Kansas, USA)
- 1856 - Know-Nothing Riot of 1856, (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
- 1857 - Know-Nothing Riot, (Washington D.C., USA)
- 1857 - New York Police Riots of 1857, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1857 - Baltimore Election Riot of 1857, (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
- 1858 - Baltimore Election Riot of 1858, (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
- 1859 - Baltimore Election Riot of 1859, (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
- 1860 - Lambing Flat riots, (New South Wales, Australia)
- 1861 - Baltimore Riot of 1861, (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
- 1863 - New York Draft Riot, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1866 - Memphis Race Riot, (Memphis, Tennessee), USA
- 1866 - New Orleans Riot, (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)
- 1868 - Pulaski Riot, (Pulaski, Tennessee, USA)
- 1870 - Paris Riots of 1870, (Paris, France)
- 1870 - New York City Orange Riot, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1871 - Second New York City Orange Riot, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1871 - Los Angeles Anti-Chinese Riot, (Los Angeles, California, USA)
- 1873 - Colfax Riot, (Colfax, Louisiana, USA)
- 1874 - Tompkins Square Riot, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1874 - Vicksburg Race Riot, (Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA)
- 1877 - Philadelphia Railroad Strike, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
- 1879 - Sydney Riot of 1879, (Sydney, Australia)
- 1881 - Canboulay Riots, (Trinidad and Tobago)
- 1884 - Hosay Riots, (Trinidad and Tobago)
- 1884 - Cincinnati Vigilante Riot, (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
- 1885 - Rock Springs Massacre, (Rock Springs, Wyoming, USA)
- 1885 - Pierce City Vigilante Riot, (Pierce City, Idaho, USA)
- 1886 - Haymarket Riot, (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- 1887 - Louisianna Sugar Strike, (Louisianna, USA)
- 1891 - Anti-Missionary Riots, (China)
- 1891 - Valparaiso Anti-American Riot, (Valparaiso, Chile)
- 1891 - New Orleans Anti-Italian Riot, (New Orleans, Louisianna, USA)
- 1892 - Homestead Steel Riot, (Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA)
- 1892 - Coeur d'Alene Miners Strike of 1892, (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA)
- 1892 - March on Washington, (Washington, D.C., USA)
- 1894 - Pullman Strike participants burn World's Columbian Exposition buildings, (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- 1898 - Wilmington Race Riot, (Wilmington, North Carolina, USA)
- 1899 - Coeur d'Alene Miners Strike of 1899, (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA)
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20th century
- 1901 - Denver Riots, (Denver, Colorado, USA)
- 1901 - New York Race Riots, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1901 - Pierce City Riots, (Pierce City, Montana, USA)
- 1902 - French School Riots, (Brittany/Savoy, France)
- 1902 - Liverpool Riots, (Denver, Colorado, USA)
- 1903 - Russian Anti-Jewish Riots, (Kishinef, Russia)
- 1903 - Bloomington Race Riot, (Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
- 1903 - Motormen's Riot, ([Richmond, Virginia]], USA)
- 1904 - Brazil Smallpox Riots, (Brazil)
- 1905 - French Anti-Clerical Riots, (France)
- 1905 - Bloody Sunday Massacre, (St. Petersburg, Russia)
- 1906 - Atlanta Riots, (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
- 1907 - Bellingham riots, (Bellingham, Washington, USA)
- 1908 - Springfield Race Riot, (Springfield, Illinois, USA)
- 1910 - Tonypandy Riot (South Wales, UK)
- 1911 - Champagne Riots, (France)
- 1917 - East St. Louis Riot, (St. Louis, Missouri & East St. Louis, Illinois, USA)
- 1917 - Conscription Crisis of 1917, (Quebec, Canada)
- 1918 - Rice Riots, (Japan)
- 1919 - May Day Riots, (Cleveland, Ohio, USA)
- 1919 - Red Summer, (USA)
- 1919 - Chicago Race Riot, (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- 1919 - Luton Riots, Luton U.K
- 1919 - Elaine Race Riot, (Elaine, Arkansas, USA)
- 1919 - Longview Race Riot, (Longview, Texas, USA)
- 1919 - Washington, DC Riot 1919, (Washington, D.C., USA)
- 1921 - Tulsa Race Riot, (Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA)
- 1936 - Battle of Cable Street, (London, England)
- 1937 - Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage, (USA)
- 1943 - Zoot Suit Riots, (Los Angeles, California, USA)
- 1943 - Detroit Race Riot, (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
- 1946 - Direct Action Day, India
- 1946 - Euclid Beach Park Riot August 23, Cleveland, OH
- 1946 - Nylon Riots
- 1947 - Jerusalem Riots of 1947, (Jerusalem)
- 1948 - Accra Riots, (Ghana)
- 1949 - Peekskill Riot (Peekskill, New York, USA)
- 1950 - Maria Hertogh riots 11 December-13 December, Singapore
- 1955 - Maurice Richard#The Richard Riot March 13, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 1955 - Hock Lee bus riots 12 May, (Singapore)
- 1956 - Chinese Middle School riots 24 October-28 October, (Singapore)
- 1956 - Hong Kong 1956 riots, (Hong Kong)
- 1959 - Tibetan riots against Chinese government, (Tibet, China)
- 1964 - New York City 1964 race riot July 18-23
- 1964 - Rochester 1964 race riot July 24-25, Rochester, New York
- 1964 - Jersey City 1964 race riot August 2-4
- 1964 - Paterson 1964 race riot August 11-13
- 1964 - Elizabeth 1964 race riot August 11-13
- 1964 - Chicago (Dixmoor) 1964 race riot August 16-17
- 1964 - Philadelphia 1964 race riot August 28-30
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- 1965 - Watts Riot, Aug. 1965, (Los Angeles, California, USA)
- 1966 - Hough Riots, July 1966, Cleveland, OH
- 1966 - Hunter's Point Riot, (San Francisco, California, USA)
- 1967 - 1967 Newark riots, July 1967, (Newark, New Jersey, USA)
- 1967 - 1967 Plainfield riots, July 1967,(Plainfield, New Jersey, USA)
- 1967 - Cambridge, MD Riot 1967, July 1967,(Cambridge, Maryland, USA)
- 1967 - 12th Street Riot, July 1967, (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
- 1967 - Hong Kong 1967 riots, (Hong Kong )
- 1968 - 1968 Washington, DC riots, April 1968, (Washington, D.C., USA)
- 1968 - Baltimore Riot 1968, (April 1968, Baltimore, MD, USA)
- 1968 - May 1968 popular uprising (France)
- 1968 - Glenville Shootout, Cleveland, OH
- 1968 - 1968 Democratic National Convention riot, Aug. 1968, (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- 1968 - Rodney Riots, (Kingston, Jamaica)
- 1969 - Sir George Williams Computer Riot, (Montreal, Canada)
- 1969 - Stonewall Riots, June 1969, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1969 - York Race Riot, July 1969, (York, Pennsylvania, USA)
- 1969 - May 13th race riots, (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
- 1969 - Days of Rage, Oct. 1969, (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- 1969 - Murray-Hill riot, (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
- 1970 - Kent State Riots/Shootings, May 1970, (Kent, Ohio, USA)
- 1970 - Hard Hat riot, Wall Street, May 8, 1970, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1971 - May Day Protests 1971, May 1971, (Washington, D.C., USA)
- 1971 - Camden Riots, August 1971, (Camden, New Jersey, USA)
- 1971 - Attica Prison uprising, (Attica, New York, USA)
- 1971 - Kingston Penitentiary riots, (Kingston, Ontario)
- 1973 and 1974 - Athens Polytechnic uprising, Greek student riots and revolution at National Technical University of Athens, military junta overthrown, (Greece)
- 1975 - Livernois-Fenkell riot (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
- 1976 - Notting Hill Carnival Riot (London, England)
- 1977 - New York City Blackout Riot, July 1977, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1979 - Disco Demolition Night, (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- 1979 - White Night gay riots, May 1979 (San Francisco, California)
- 1979 - Greensboro Riot/Shootings, Nov. 1979, (Greensboro, North Carolina, USA)
- 1980 - New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot, (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)
- 1980 - Chattanooga Riot of 1980, (Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA)
- 1980 - Miami Riot 1980, May 1980, (Miami, Florida, USA)
- 1980 - St Pauls Riot 1980, April 1980, (St Pauls, Bristol, England)
- 1981 - 1981 Springbok Tour protests and riots, (New Zealand)
- 1981 - Brixton riot of 1981, (London, England)
- 1981 - Toxteth riots (Liverpool, England)
- 1981 - First Handsworth Riot, (Birmingham, England)
- 1982 - Washington Anti-Klan protest 1982, Nov. 1982, (Washington, D.C., USA)
- 1982 - Miami Riot 1982, Overtown Riot, Dec. 1982, (Miami, Florida, USA)
- 1984 - Anti-Sikh riots, (Delhi, Kanpur, India)
- 1985 - Broadwater Farm Riot, (London, England)
- 1985 - Brixton riot of 1985, (London, England)
- 1985 - Second Handsworth Riot, (Birmingham, England)
- 1987 - Tampa Riot 1987, Feb. 1987, (Tampa, Florida, USA)
- 1987 - Iranian pilgrim riot, (Mecca, Saudi Arabia)
- 1988 - Tompkins Square Park riot, August 1988 (East Village, Manhattan, New York City)
- 1988-1989 - Nanjing Anti-African protests, (Nanjing, China)
- 1989 - Miami Riot 1989, Jan. 1989, (Miami, Florida, USA)
- 1989 - Tampa Riot 1989, Feb. 1989, (Tampa, Florida, USA)
- 1989 - Caracas Riots of February 1989, Feb. 1989, (Caracas, Venezuela)
- 1989 - Aftermath of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, (Beijing China)
- 1989 - Romanian Revolution of 1989, (Romania)
- 1990 - Poll Tax Riots, (London)
- 1990 - Dinamo Zagreb-Red Star Belgrade riot, (Zagreb, Yugoslavia)
- 1991 - 1991 Washington, DC riot in D.C.'s Mount Pleasant neighborhood, May 1991, (Washington, D.C., USA)
- 1991 - 1991 Moscow August Putsch , GKChP (ГКЧП) riot, or August Coup Attempt, or August Putsch, 19-21 August 1991, (Moscow, Russia)
- 1991 - Crown Heights Riot, Aug. 1991, (Brooklyn, New York, USA)
- 1992 - L.A. riot/Rodney King riot, April-May (Los Angeles, California, USA)
- 1992 - Bombay Riots - Riots in the Indian City of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) after the demolition of Babri Masjid, Ayodhya.
- 1994 - Stanley Cup Riot, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 13, 1994.
- 1995 - Water Riots The Landsdowne Road Riots of Feb. 1995, (Dublin, Ireland). Occurred during a soccer game
- 1995 - Brixton riot of 1995, (London, England)
- 1996 - St. Petersburg, FL Riot 1996, Oct. 1996, (St. Petersburg, Florida, USA)
- 1998 - Jakarta Riots of May 1998, (Jakarta, Indonesia)
- 1999 - Khaitan Riot, (Kuwait)
- 1999 - Michigan State University student riot, April 1999, (East Lansing, Michigan, USA)
- 1999 - Woodstock 1999 concert rioting, July 1999, near Rome, New York
- 1999 - WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, November, 1999 (Seattle, Washington, USA)
- 2000 - Cochabamba protests of 2000, (Cochabamba, Bolivia)
- 2000 - October Riots, (Israel)
- 2000 - Chinese anti-corruption riot, [[2] (Yangjiazhangzi, China)
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21st century
- 2001 - Bradford Muslim/BNP riot, July 2001, (Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK)
- 2001 - Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest, July 2001, (Genoa, Italy)
- 2001 - Gothenburg Riots, June 2001, (Gothenburg, Sweden)
- 2001 - 2001 Cincinnati Riots, April 2001, (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
- 2001 - Banja Luka Riots, May 2001, (Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 2001 - Oldham Riots, May 2001, (Oldham, Greater Manchester, England)
- 2001 - December 2001 Riots, (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- 2001 - Seattle Mardi Gras Riots, Feb. 2001, (Seattle, WA, USA)
- 2001 - Quebec City Summit of the Americas, April 2001(Quebec, Canada)
- 2002 - Gujarat Communal Riots, Feb 2002 (Gujarat, India)
- 2002 - 2002 Urso Branco prison riot,[3] (Rondonia, Brazil)
- 2002 - Chinese textile worker riot, [4] (Shuikou, Guangdong, China)
- 2003 - Benton Harbor, Mich. Riot, June 2003, (Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA)
- 2003 - Maldives civil unrest, September 2003, (Malé, Maldives)
- 2004 - 2004 Kosovo riots
- 2004 - Palm Island riot, (Palm Island, Queensland, Australia)
- 2004 - Redfern riots, (Sydney, Australia)
- 2004 - 2004 Urso Branco prison riot,[5] (Rondonia, Brazil)
- 2005 - Belize unrest, January 2005, (Belmopan, Belize)
- 2005 - Macquarie Fields riots, February 2005, southeastern suburb of Sydney, Australia
- 2005 - Anti-Japanese riots, April 2005, Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, China
- 2005 - Chinese worker riot, [6] July 2005, ([Xizhou]], China)
- 2005 - Maldives civil unrest, August 2005, (Malé, Maldives)
- 2005 - 2005 Toledo Riot, October 2005, (Toledo, Ohio, USA)
- 2005 - 2005 Birmingham riots, October 2005, (Birmingham, England)
- 2005 - 2005 French urban violence, October-November 2005, outer banlieues of major French cities, and copy-cat disturbances in some other Western European countries, like Belgium and Germany
- 2005 - Riots by Muslims in Dashehara [7], October 2005, (Mau, UttarPradesh),India
- 2005 - Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas, November 2005, (Mar del Plata, Argentina)
- 2005 - 2005 Sydney race riots, December 2005, (Sydney, Australia)
- 2006 - Cartoon riots
- 2006 - 2006 Dublin riots, Feb. 25, Dublin, Ireland
- 2006 - San Bernardino punk riot, March 4, San Bernardino, California
- 2006 - 2006 labor protests in France, March-April, Paris, France
- 2006 - Burj Dubai riot, (Dubai, UAE)
- 2006 - Hindu/Muslim Aligarh Riots, April 2006, (Aligarh,India)
- 2006 - Rajkumar death riots, April, (India)
- 2006 - April 2006 Venezuela prison riot,[8] April, (Venezuela)
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