Appendix
A. Popular Unrest Events
|
Year |
Event |
Country |
Ref. |
|
1173 |
Outrage over Becket
led Henry's 3 oldest sons & wife to revolt |
Britain |
30 |
|
1179 |
Rebellion against
Richard in Gascony. |
Britain |
|
|
1181 |
Richard faced revolt
over succession Angoulême |
Britain |
31 |
|
1189 |
Jews maascred at Richard I coronation |
Britain |
17 |
|
1196 |
Popular revolt of William Fitz Osbert,
"champion of the poor" |
Britain |
6 |
|
1201 |
Lusignan
uprising crushed by John, |
Britain |
21 |
|
1203 |
Brittany revolts,
Phillip conquers Normandy, Anjou and Poitou |
Britain |
21 |
|
1205 |
Baronial unrest
prevents English deployment to France |
Britain |
21 |
|
1209 |
Albigensian crusade began. |
France |
16 |
|
1212 |
Baronal
unresr prevents planned French campaign |
Britain |
21 |
|
1212 |
John extorts money
from barons; plot against John |
Britain |
19, 21 |
|
1215 |
Magna Carta & 1st Baron's war |
Britain |
18 |
|
1229 |
Student protest police
brutality at U. Paris, student strike
2 yrs |
France |
20 |
|
1233 |
Earl of Pembroke's
revolt |
Britain |
19 |
|
1251 |
Pastoureaux I |
France |
9 |
|
1255 |
100 Jews killed after Xtian boy accidently dies in Jewish village |
Britain |
17 |
|
1264 |
Simon Monfort & 2nd barons war |
Britain |
18 |
|
1265 |
Death of Montfort,
Ordinary People's Parliament called to
discuss finance |
Britain |
19 |
|
1296 |
Flaggelants |
France |
15 |
|
1297 |
Baronial opposition,
Ed I sails to France w/o noble support |
Britain |
19 |
|
1297 |
Wallace revolt against
English rule |
Britain |
19 |
|
1299 |
Barons force Ed I to
affirm only Parliament can levy taxes |
Britain |
19 |
|
1303 |
Wallace renews revolt |
Britain |
19 |
|
1306 |
Robert Bruce uprising |
Britain |
19 |
|
1310 |
Barons appear at
Parliament fully armed, alarmed Ed II agrees to a reform council: the Lords Ordainers |
Britain |
19 |
|
1320 |
The Latter Pastoureaux (Shepherd's Crusade) |
France |
1 |
|
1326 |
Edward II abandoned London as
it was opposed to him. London mob
executed king’s Treasurer, Walter de Stapledon. |
Britain |
29 |
|
1327 |
Edward II charged with a list of offenses, abdicates
in favor of his son; is executed by Mortimer later |
Britain |
29 |
|
1327 |
Great Riot at St.Albans, Bury St. Edmunds and Abingdon |
Britain |
32 |
|
1330 |
Fordwich
Attack |
Britain |
28 |
|
1338 |
Protest Poems &
Songs |
Britain |
28 |
|
1340 |
Lincolnshire Inquiry |
Britain |
28 |
|
1341 |
LePuy
Salt Tax Protest |
France |
28 |
|
1343 |
Crisis of 1343 |
France |
28 |
|
1346 |
Estates of Languedoil |
France |
28 |
|
1348 |
Black Death |
Britain |
19 |
|
1348 |
Normandy Riots |
France |
28 |
|
1349 |
Ordinance of Laborers: All < 60 work;
Cannot pay wages higher than
pre-plague levels |
Britain |
19 |
|
1351 |
Statute of Laborers
prohibited wage increases and movement of workers away from their home areas |
Britain |
19 |
|
1356 |
Navarrese
Tax Opposition |
France |
28 |
|
1357 |
Merchants revolt in
Paris |
France |
23, 28 |
|
1358 |
La Jacquerie |
France |
1 |
|
1361 |
Outbreak of Plague |
Britain |
19 |
|
1363 |
Number of Revolts in
Auvergne |
France |
1 |
|
1369 |
Outbreak of Plague |
Britain |
19 |
|
1369 |
Aquitaine Revolt |
France |
28 |
|
1375 |
70% of royal courts'
time spent enforcing the labor legislation |
Britain |
26 |
|
1377 |
Heresy trial of John
Wycliffe broke up over rioting |
Britain |
19 |
|
1378 |
Urban Riots |
France |
1 |
|
1378 |
Second trial of
Wycliffe; trial ended when the citizens entered the courtroom to save him. |
Britain |
19 |
|
1379 |
Urban Uprising |
France |
1 |
|
1380 |
Tax Revolt |
France |
1 |
|
1380 |
Peasant Revolt in Midi |
France |
1 |
|
1381 |
Urban Riots |
France |
1 |
|
1381 |
Revolts in Essex and
Kent grow into English Peasants' Revolt |
Britain |
1, 27 |
|
1382 |
Maillotin
Riots |
France |
1 |
|
1382 |
Harelle
Riots |
France |
1 |
|
1382 |
Riot at Beziers |
France |
1 |
|
1383 |
Conflicts in Paris |
France |
1 |
|
1399 |
Flaggelants |
Europe |
15 |
|
1407 |
Armagnac–Burgundian civil war begins |
France |
25 |
|
1413 |
The Caboche Riots |
France |
1 |
|
1414 |
Oldcastle leads Lollard rebellion against Henry V |
Britain |
19 |
|
1420 |
Peasant Revolt in
Lyonnais |
France |
1 |
|
1440 |
Praguerie |
France |
24 |
|
1450 |
Jack Cade's Rebellion |
Britain |
1 |
|
1455 |
War of Roses begins |
Britain |
18 |
|
1465 |
League of the Bien
Public |
France |
1 |
|
1487 |
Rebellion of Lambert Simnel |
Britain |
13 |
|
1490 |
Revolts of Plouvé and Porzay |
France |
1 |
|
1497 |
Cornwall Revolt |
Britain |
1 |
|
1514 |
Wine Tax Revolt |
France |
1 |
|
1529 |
Rebeine
Riots |
France |
1 |
|
1536 |
The Pilgrimage of
Grace |
Britain |
1 |
|
1542 |
Salt Tax Revolt |
France |
1 |
|
1548 |
Norwich Revolt |
Britain |
1 |
|
1548 |
Revolt of the Pitauds |
France |
1 |
|
1549 |
Kett's
Rebellion |
Britain |
1 |
|
1549 |
Prayer Book Rebellion |
Britain |
1 |
|
1554 |
Wyatt's Rebellion |
Britain |
1 |
|
1562 |
French Wars of
Religion |
France |
1 |
|
1569 |
The Northern Rising |
Britain |
1 |
|
1572 |
St Bartholomew's Day
Massacre |
France |
10 |
|
1575 |
Revolt of the Viverais |
France |
1 |
|
1579 |
Ligue
des Vilains |
France |
1 |
|
1580 |
Carnival in Romans |
France |
1 |
|
1589 |
Revolt of the Gautiers |
France |
1 |
|
1589 |
Breton Rising |
France |
1 |
|
1592 |
Revolt of the Tards-avisés |
France |
1 |
|
1594 |
Revolt of the Bonnets
rouges |
France |
1 |
|
1594 |
Tyrone Rebellion |
Britain |
13 |
|
1596 |
Enslow
Hill Rebellion |
Britain |
1 |
|
1603 |
Urban Riots |
France |
1 |
|
1605 |
Gunpowder plot |
Britain |
13 |
|
1607 |
The Midland Revolt |
Britain |
1 |
|
1613 |
Urban Riots |
France |
1 |
|
1621 |
Revolt of La Rochelle |
France |
1 |
|
1624 |
Croquants
of Quercy |
France |
1 |
|
1625 |
Huguenot Revolt |
France |
1 |
|
1626 |
Troubles in the West
Ridings |
Britain |
1 |
|
1627 |
Huguenot Revolt of La
Rochelle |
France |
1 |
|
1628 |
The Western Rising |
Britain |
1 |
|
1630 |
Fenlands Rising |
Britain |
1 |
|
1630 |
Cascavéoux
Uprising |
France |
1 |
|
1630 |
Lanturelu
Uprising |
France |
1 |
|
1632 |
Revolt of Languedoc |
France |
1 |
|
1635 |
Gabelle
Uprising |
France |
1 |
|
1635 |
Gabelle
Uprising |
France |
1 |
|
1635 |
The Ormée Revolt |
France |
1 |
|
1636 |
Croquants
of Poitou |
France |
1 |
|
1636 |
Croquants
of Angoumois |
France |
1 |
|
1636 |
Croquants
of Saintonge |
France |
1 |
|
1636 |
Urban Riots |
France |
1 |
|
1636 |
Maine Indentured
Servants' and Fishermen's Mutiny |
US |
7 |
|
1637 |
Croquants
of Périgord |
France |
1 |
|
1639 |
Revolt of the Va-Nu-Pieds |
France |
1 |
|
1639 |
Urban Riots |
France |
1 |
|
1639 |
Bishop's War (Scottish
Revolt) |
Britain |
13 |
|
1640 |
The English Revolution |
Britain |
1 |
|
1640 |
Urban Riots |
France |
1 |
|
1641 |
Irish Rising |
Britain |
1 |
|
1641 |
Tax Revolt |
France |
1 |
|
1642 |
English Civil War
starts |
Britain |
1 |
|
1643 |
Urban Riots |
France |
1 |
|
1643 |
Croquants
of Rouergue |
France |
|
|
1644 |
Scottish Revolt |
Britain |
1 |
|
1644 |
Valbelle
Rebellion |
France |
1 |
|
1645 |
Montpellier Uprising |
France |
1 |
|
1648 |
The Fronde |
France |
1 |
|
1649 |
First War of the Fronde |
France |
1 |
|
1649 |
Loricard
Movement |
France |
1 |
|
1650 |
Second War of the Fronde |
France |
1 |
|
1651 |
Ormée
Movement |
France |
1 |
|
1655 |
Guyenne Rising |
France |
1 |
|
1657 |
Tax Revolt |
France |
1 |
|
1658 |
Revolt of the Sabotiers |
France |
1 |
|
1659 |
Saint Valentine's Day
Revolt |
France |
1 |
|
1661 |
Tax Revolt |
France |
1 |
|
1661 |
Virginia Indentured
Servants' Plot |
US |
3 |
|
1662 |
Revolt of the Lustucrus |
France |
1 |
|
1663 |
Chalosse
Rising |
France |
1 |
|
1663 |
Maryland Indentured Servants' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1663 |
Virginia Indentured
servant and slave plot |
US |
5 |
|
1664 |
Audijos
Uprising |
France |
1 |
|
1668 |
Revolt of the Valespir |
France |
1 |
|
1675 |
Boston Ship Carpenters' Protest |
US |
3 |
|
1676 |
Nathaniel Bacon's
Rebellion of servants and slaves in Virginia |
US |
7 |
|
1677 |
New York City Carters' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1677 |
North Carolina
colonists rebel against English taxation |
US |
12 |
|
1679 |
The Exclusion Crisis
beginning of the Whig and Tory parties |
Britain |
13 |
|
1682 |
Urban Riots |
Britain |
1 |
|
1684 |
New York Ctiy
Carters' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1688 |
Glroious
Revolution |
Britain |
1 |
|
1689 |
Irish Rising |
Britain |
|
|
1692 |
Witch hysteria breaks
out in Salem MA, 20 people killed |
US |
12 |
|
1692 |
Glencoe Massacre |
Britain |
|
|
1708 |
Jacobite
Rising |
Britain |
1 |
|
1712 |
Slave Revolt, New York
City |
US |
5 |
|
1713 |
Boston Bread Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1715 |
Jacobite
Rising |
Britain |
1 |
|
1719 |
Jacobite
Rising |
Britain |
1 |
|
1724 |
The Galloway Levellers' Revolt |
Britain |
1 |
|
1726 |
Poor riot in Philidelphia |
US |
4, 12 |
|
1730 |
Slave Revolt: 3
executed in Orleans LA |
US |
11 |
|
1734 |
Mast tree riot,
Fremont NH |
US |
14 |
|
1736 |
Porteous
riots |
Britain |
22 |
|
1737 |
Boston Brothal Riot, Boston, Massachusetts |
US |
14 |
|
1739 |
Slave rebellion in Stono SC |
US |
5 |
|
1740 |
50 slaves hung in
Charleston SC after plans for revolt revealed |
US |
4, 12 |
|
1741 |
New York City Bakers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1741 |
Hysteria over black
plot to take over NYC |
US |
14 |
|
1742 |
Philadelphia Election
Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1743 |
Gin riots |
Britain |
22 |
|
1745 |
Jacobite
Rising |
Britain |
1 |
|
1746 |
New Jersey Tennant
Riots |
US |
14 |
|
1747 |
Boston
Anti-Impressment Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1756 |
Knowles Riot, Boston,
Massachusetts |
US |
14 |
|
1764 |
Paxton Boys revolt in Pennsylvannia |
US |
14 |
|
1766 |
British soldiers and
armed colonists clash in New York |
US |
4 |
|
1766 |
Green Mountain
uprising to protest political inequality |
US |
7 |
|
1768 |
Florida Servants' Revolt |
US |
3 |
|
1769 |
Spitalfield riots |
Britain |
22 |
|
1770 |
Boston Massacre |
US |
14 |
|
1771 |
Battle of Alamance,
Regulators, May 1771, Alamance, NC |
US |
14 |
|
1772 |
Pine Tree Riot, Weare, New Hampshire |
US |
14 |
|
1774 |
Hibernia, New Jersey,
Ironworks Strike |
US |
7 |
|
1775 |
British troops and
colonial militia clash; starts revolution |
US |
4 |
|
1776 |
Slave Revolt: 3
executed in East Baton Rouge LA |
US |
11 |
|
1786 |
Daniel Shays leads a
rebellion against Massachusetts govt. |
US |
14 |
|
1788 |
Doctors Mob Riot, New
York City |
US |
14 |
|
1791 |
Philadelphia Carpenters' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1792 |
Philadelphia Pilots' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1793 |
New York City Brothel
Riot, New York City |
US |
14 |
|
1794 |
Whiskey Rebelion |
US |
14 |
|
1795 |
Slave Revolt: 23
executed in Pointe Coupee LA, |
US |
11 |
|
1800 |
Slave revolt led by
Gabriel Prosser |
US |
5 |
|
1806 |
Cordwainers'
Conspiracy Case |
US |
3 |
|
1811 |
Revolt of 500 slaves
(16 executed in New Orleans) |
US |
5 |
|
1822 |
Slave revolt
conspiracy led by Denmark Vessey |
US |
5 |
|
1822 |
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1825 |
Boston House Carpenters' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1827 |
Philadelphia Carpenters' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1828 |
Paterson, New Jersey, Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1828 |
Manayunk,
Pennsylvania, Mill Strikes |
US |
3 |
|
1828 |
New York City Carpenters' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1828 |
Lynn, Massachusetts, Shoebinders'
Protests of 1828-1834 |
US |
3 |
|
1829 |
Race Riot: Cincinnati |
US |
2 |
|
1830 |
Slave Revolt New
Orleans (8 executed) |
US |
11 |
|
1831 |
Lynn, Massachusetts, Shoebinders'
Protests |
US |
3 |
|
1831 |
Nat Turner's
Slave Revolt |
US |
5 |
|
1832 |
Boston Ship Carpenters' Ten-Hour Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1832 |
Anti-abolitionist Riots
in New York City |
US |
14 |
|
1834 |
Lowell, Massachusetts, Mill Women's Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1834 |
Manayunk,
Pennsylvania, Mill Strikes |
US |
3 |
|
1834 |
Farren
Anti-abolitionist Riots in New York City |
US |
14 |
|
1835 |
Paterson, New Jersey, Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1835 |
Ten-Hour Movement |
US |
3 |
|
1835 |
American settlers
begin Texas Revolution against Mexican rule. |
US |
8 |
|
1835 |
Baltimore Bank Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1836 |
Lowell, Massachusetts, Mill Women's Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1836 |
New York City Tailors' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1836 |
Philadelphia Bookbinders' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1837 |
Slave Revolt: Rapides
LA (11 executed) |
US |
11 |
|
1837 |
Flour Riots, New York
City, New York |
US |
14 |
|
1840 |
Slave Revolt Iverville LA (29 executed) |
US |
11 |
|
1841 |
Whig Party Riot, Washington, D.C. |
US |
14 |
|
1841 |
Dorr Rebellion, Rhode
Island |
US |
14 |
|
1842 |
Anthracite Coal Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1844 |
Philadelphia Nativist
Riots |
US |
14 |
|
1844 |
Astor Place Riots, New
York City |
US |
14 |
|
1850 |
New York City Tailors' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1855 |
Lager Beer Riot,
Chicago, Illinois |
US |
14 |
|
1855 |
Bloody Monday,
Louisville, Kentucky |
US |
14 |
|
1856 |
Know-Nothing Riot,
Baltimore, Maryland |
US |
14 |
|
1857 |
Know-Nothing Riot,
Washington DC |
US |
14 |
|
1857 |
New York City Police
Riots |
US |
14 |
|
1860 |
Shoemakers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1861 |
The Confederate States
of America declare their independence from the U.S. |
US |
8 |
|
1861 |
Baltimore Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1863 |
New York Draft Riots |
US |
2 |
|
1864 |
Charleston Riot,
Charleston, Illinois |
US |
14 |
|
1866 |
Race Riot: New Orleans |
US |
14 |
|
1868 |
Anthracite Coal Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1868 |
Memphis, Tennessee |
US |
14 |
|
1869 |
Troy, New York, Collar Laundresses' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1872 |
Lynn, Massachusetts, Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1873 |
Colfax, LA Massacre (600+ dead) |
US |
14 |
|
1874 |
New Orleans: The
Battle of Liberty Place (38 killed, 79 wounded). |
US |
2 |
|
1874 |
Tompkins Square Riot |
US |
3 |
|
1875 |
Anthracite Coal Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1877 |
Cigarmakers'
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1877 |
Railroad Strikes |
US |
3 |
|
1877 |
San Francisco Anti-Chinese Riots |
US |
3 |
|
1882 |
Cohoes, New York, Cotton Mill Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1883 |
Cowboy Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1883 |
Lynchburg, Virginia, Tobacco Workers' Strike
|
US |
3 |
|
1883 |
Iron Molders' Lockout of 1883-1884 |
US |
3 |
|
1884 |
Fall River Textile Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1884 |
Union Pacific Railroad Strikes |
US |
3 |
|
1884 |
Cincinnati Vigilante
Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1885 |
Cloakmakers'
General Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1885 |
McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1885 |
Southwest Railroad Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1885 |
Yonkers, New York, Carpet Weavers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1885 |
Anti-Chinese Riots |
US |
3 |
|
1886 |
Anti-Chinese Riots |
US |
3 |
|
1886 |
Augusta, Georgia, Textile Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1886 |
Cowboy Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1886 |
Eight-Hour Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1886 |
Iron Molders' Lockout |
US |
3 |
|
1886 |
McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1886 |
Southwest Railroad Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1886 |
Troy, New York, Collar Laundresses' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1886 |
Haymarket Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1887 |
New York City Longshoremen's Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1888 |
Burlington Railroad Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1888 |
Cincinnati Shoemakers' Lockout |
US |
3 |
|
1889 |
Fall River Textile Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1889 |
Baseball Players' Revolt of 1889-1890 |
US |
3 |
|
1890 |
Carpenters' Strike for the Eight-Hour Day |
US |
3 |
|
1891 |
Savannah, Georgia Black Laborers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1891 |
Tennessee Miners' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1892 |
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Miners' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1892 |
Homestead Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1892 |
New Orleans General Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1894 |
Cripple Creek, Colorado, Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1894 |
Great Northern Railroad Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1894 |
Pullman Strike and Boycott |
US |
3 |
|
1894 |
May Day Riots of 1894 |
US |
14 |
|
1895 |
Haverhill, Massachusetts, Shoe Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1896 |
Leadville, Colorado, Strike of 1896-1897 |
US |
3 |
|
1897 |
Bituminous Coal Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1897 |
Lattimer,
Pennsylvania, Massacre |
US |
3 |
|
1898 |
Wilmington, North
Carolina: (8 killed, 30 wounded) |
US |
2 |
|
1898 |
Marlboro, Massachusetts, Shoeworkers'
Strike of 1898-1899 |
US |
3 |
|
1899 |
Buffalo, New York, Grain Shovellers'
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1899 |
Cleveland, Ohio, Street Railway Workers'
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1899 |
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Miners' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1899 |
New York City Newsboys' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1900 |
Race Riot: New Orleans |
US |
2 |
|
1900 |
Anthracite Coal Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1900 |
Machinists' Strikes |
US |
3 |
|
1901 |
Machinists' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1901 |
National Cash Register Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1901 |
San Francisco Restaurant Workers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1901 |
Steel Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1902 |
Anthracite Coal Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1902 |
Chicago Teamsters' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1903 |
Oxnard, California, Sugar Beet Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1903 |
Cripple Creek, Colorado, Strike of 1903-1904
|
US |
3 |
|
1903 |
Telluride, Colorado, Miners' Strike of 1903-1904
|
US |
3 |
|
1904 |
Race Riot:
Springfield, Ohio |
US |
2 |
|
1904 |
New York City Interborough
Rapid Transit Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1904 |
Packinghouse Workers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1904 |
Utah Coal Strike of 1903-04 |
US |
3 |
|
1904 |
Santa Fe Railroad Shopmen's
Strikes of 1904-1905 |
US |
3 |
|
1906 |
Race Riot:
Springfield, Ohio |
US |
2 |
|
1906 |
Race Riot:
Brownsville, Texas |
US |
2 |
|
1906 |
Race Riot: Atlanta |
US |
2 |
|
1907 |
Goldfield, Nevada,
Strike of 1907-1908 |
US |
3 |
|
1907 |
Bellingham WA riots |
US |
14 |
|
1908 |
Race Riot:
Springfield, Illinois |
US |
2 |
|
1909 |
Georgia Railroad
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1909 |
McKees Rocks,
Pennsylvania, Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1909 |
"Uprising of the 20,000" |
US |
3 |
|
1909 |
Watertown, Connecticut, Arsenal Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1910 |
Bethlehem Steel Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1910 |
Chicago Clothing Workers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1910 |
Cloakmakers'
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1910 |
Los Angeles Open Shop Strikes |
US |
3 |
|
1910 |
Philadelphia General Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1911 |
Triangle Fire |
US |
3 |
|
1911 |
Southern Lumber Operators' Lockout of
1911-1913 |
US |
3 |
|
1911 |
Illinois Central and Harriman Lines Railroad
Strike of 1911-1914 |
US |
3 |
|
1912 |
Chicago Newspaper Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1912 |
Fur Workers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1912 |
Lawrence, Massachusetts, Textile Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1912 |
New York City Hotel Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1912 |
Paint Creek and Cabin Creek Mine Strikes |
US |
3 |
|
1912 |
Louisiana Timber Workers' Strike of
1912-1913 |
US |
3 |
|
1913 |
Ludlow Massacre |
US |
3 |
|
1913 |
Michigan Copper Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1913 |
Paterson, New Jersey, Textile Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1913 |
Rubber Workers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1913 |
Studebaker Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1913 |
Wheatland, California, Hop Riot |
US |
3 |
|
1913 |
Machinists' Strike and Boycott against
Duplex Printing |
US |
3 |
|
1914 |
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Company Strike
of 1914-1915 |
US |
3 |
|
1915 |
Standard Oil Strikes |
US |
3 |
|
1915 |
Youngstown, Ohio, Steel Strike of 1915-1916 |
US |
3 |
|
1916 |
Arizona Copper Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1916 |
Cloakmakers'
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1916 |
Everett, Washington, Massacre |
US |
3 |
|
1916 |
Minnesota Iron Range Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1916 |
New York City Transit Strikes |
US |
3 |
|
1916 |
San Francisco Open Shop Campaign |
US |
3 |
|
1916 |
Standard Oil Strikes |
US |
3 |
|
1916 |
Preparedness Day
bombing, July 22, San Francisco, CA |
US |
14 |
|
1917 |
East St. Louis,
Illinois: (40-200 killed) |
US |
2 |
|
1917 |
Houston, Texas: 19
dead. Later, 13 members of the 24th Infantry Regiment are hanged. |
US |
2 |
|
1917 |
Bisbee, Arizona, Miners' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1917 |
Butte, Montana, Miners' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1917 |
East St. Louis Race Riot |
US |
3 |
|
1917 |
Northwest Lumber Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1918 |
Chester, Pennsylvania:
(5 killed) |
US |
2 |
|
1918 |
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania: (4 killed, 60 wounded) |
US |
2 |
|
1919 |
Race Riot: Chicago (38 killed, 291 wounded) |
US |
2 |
|
1919 |
Race Riot: Washington,
DC : (40 killed, 150 wounded) |
US |
2 |
|
1919 |
Race Riot: Knoxville,
Tennessee: (7 killed) |
US |
2 |
|
1919 |
Actor's Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1919 |
Boston Police Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1919 |
Centralia, Washington, Massacre |
US |
3 |
|
1919 |
Chicago Race Riot |
US |
3 |
|
1919 |
New England Telephone Operators' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1919 |
Seattle General Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1919 |
Steel Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1919 |
Red Scare begins |
US |
14 |
|
1919 |
May Day Riots, May 1,
Cleveland, Ohio |
US |
14 |
|
1919 |
Charleston SC Race
riot |
US |
14 |
|
1919 |
Washington, DC Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1919 |
Omaha NB Race riot,
Sept. 28 |
US |
14 |
|
1919 |
Elaine, Arkansas Race
Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1919 |
Longview Race Riot in
Gregg County TX |
US |
14 |
|
1920 |
Alabama Miners' Strike
|
US |
3 |
|
1920 |
Clothing Workers'
Lockout of 1920 and 1921 |
US |
3 |
|
1920 |
West Virginia Coal Wars of 1920-1921 |
US |
3 |
|
1921 |
Race Riot: Tulsa,
Oklahoma: ca 300 killed |
US |
2 |
|
1921 |
Seamen's Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1922 |
Anthracite Coal Strike
|
US |
3 |
|
1922 |
Bituminous Coal Strike
|
US |
3 |
|
1922 |
Herrin, Illinois,
Massacre |
US |
3 |
|
1922 |
Railroad Shopmen's Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1923 |
Race Riot: Rosewood,
Florida: (8 killed, dozens wounded) |
US |
2 |
|
1925 |
Anthracite Coal Strike
of 1925-1926 |
US |
3 |
|
1926 |
Passaic, New Jersey,
Textile Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1927 |
Bituminous Coal Strike
|
US |
3 |
|
1927 |
Columbine Mine
Massacre, Nov.21, Serene, Colorado |
US |
14 |
|
1928 |
New Bedford,
Massachusetts, Textile Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1929 |
Gastonia, North
Carolina, Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1930 |
Imperial Valley,
California, Farmworkers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1931 |
Harlan County
Kentucky, Miners' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1931 |
Tampa, Florida, Cigar
Workers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1931 |
Chicago Rent Strike
Riot, Aug. 3 |
US |
14 |
|
1932 |
California Pea
Pickers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1932 |
Century Airlines
Pilots' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1932 |
Ford Hunger March |
US |
3 |
|
1932 |
Vacaville, California,
Tree Pruners' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1932 |
Davidson-Wilder, Tennessee, Coal Strike of
1932-1933 |
US |
3 |
|
1933 |
Briggs Manufacturing Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1933 |
California
Farmworkers' Strikes |
US |
3 |
|
1933 |
Detroit Tool and Die
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1933 |
Gallup, New Mexico,
Miners' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1933 |
Hormel Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1934 |
Harlem
Jobs-for-Negroes Boycott |
US |
3 |
|
1934 |
Imperial Valley,
California, Farmworkers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1934 |
Minneapolis,
Minnesota, Teamsters' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1934 |
Rubber Workers' Strike
|
US |
3 |
|
1934 |
San Francisco
Longshoremen's Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1934 |
Textile Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1934 |
Toledo, Ohio,
Auto-Lite Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1934 |
Newark Star-Ledger
Strike of 1934-1935 |
US |
3 |
|
1935 |
Northwest Lumber
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1935 |
Oklahoma, Kansas, and
Missouri Metal Workers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1935 |
Sharecroppers' and
Farm Laborers' Strike of 1935-1936 |
US |
3 |
|
1936 |
Atlanta UAW Sit-Down
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1936 |
Rubber Workers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1936 |
Seamen's Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1936 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1936 |
Radio Corporation of Americ |
US |
3 |
|
1936 |
Berkshire Knitting Mills Strike of 1936-1937
|
US |
3 |
|
1936 |
General Motors Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937 |
US |
3 |
|
1937 |
Hershey, Pennsylvania, Chocolate Workers'
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1937 |
Steel Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1938 |
Hilo, Hawaii, Massacre |
US |
3 |
|
1938 |
Maytag Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1938 |
Chicago Newspaper Strike of 1938-1941 |
US |
3 |
|
1939 |
Chrysler Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1939 |
General Motors Tool and Diemakers'
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1940 |
Ford Motor Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1941 |
Allis-Chalmers Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1941 |
Captive Mine Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1941 |
International Harvester Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1941 |
New York City Bus Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1941 |
North American Aviation
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1941 |
Detroit Hate Strikes
of 1941-1943 |
US |
3 |
|
1942 |
Race Riot: Detroit,
Michigan |
US |
2 |
|
1943 |
Race Riot: Beaumont,
Texas |
US |
2 |
|
1943 |
Race Riot: Harlem |
US |
2 |
|
1943 |
Los Angeles: Zootsuit riots, between zoot suiters
and sailors. |
US |
2 |
|
1943 |
Detroit, Michigan: (34
killed, 700 wounded) |
US |
2 |
|
1943 |
Bituminous Coal Strike
|
US |
3 |
|
1943 |
Detroit Race Riot |
US |
3 |
|
1944 |
Philadelphia Transit Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1945 |
Kelsey-Hayes Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1945 |
Montgomery Ward Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1945 |
New York City Longshoremen's Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1945 |
Oil Workers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1946 |
Race Riot: Columbia,
Tennessee: (2 killed, 10 wounded) |
US |
2 |
|
1946 |
Race Riot: Athens,
Alabama: (100 wounded) |
US |
2 |
|
1946 |
Race Riot:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
US |
2 |
|
1946 |
Bituminous Coal Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1946 |
Electrical Manufacturing Strikes |
US |
3 |
|
1946 |
General Motors Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1946 |
General Strikes |
US |
3 |
|
1946 |
Pittsburgh Power Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1946 |
Railroad Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1946 |
Steel Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1947 |
Reynolds, R.J., Tobacco Company Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1947 |
Telephone Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1949 |
Hawaii Dock Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1949 |
Peekskill NY Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1950 |
Salt of the Earth Strike of 1950-1952 |
US |
3 |
|
1951 |
Cicero IL Riot, July
12 |
US |
14 |
|
1952 |
Steel Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1953 |
Louisiana Sugar Cane Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1954 |
Kohler Strike of
1954-1965 |
US |
3 |
|
1955 |
Southern Telephone Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1956 |
East Coast Longshoremen's Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1956 |
Steel Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1959 |
Steel Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1960 |
Chattanooga, Tennessee |
US |
2 |
|
1960 |
Biloxi, Mississippi |
US |
2 |
|
1960 |
Jacksonville, Florida |
US |
2 |
|
1960 |
General Electric Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1960 |
Civil rights sit-in
begins at Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, |
US |
7 |
|
1962 |
Mississippi |
US |
2 |
|
1962 |
East Coast Longshoremen's Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1962 |
New York City Newspaper Strike of 1962-1963 |
US |
3 |
|
1964 |
Race Riot: St.
Augustine, Florida |
US |
2 |
|
1964 |
Race Riot: Paterson,
New Jersey: (0 killed, 8 wounded) |
US |
14 |
|
1964 |
Race Riot: Elizabeth
NJ (0 killed 6 wounded) |
US |
14 |
|
1964 |
Dixmoor
race riot, Chicago IL, Aug. 16-17 |
US |
14 |
|
1964 |
Race Riot: Harlem, New
York: (1 killed, 144 wounded) |
US |
2, 14 |
|
1964 |
Race Riot: Rochester, New
York: (4 killed, 350 wounded) |
US |
2, 14 |
|
1964 |
Race Riot:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (0 killed, 341 wounded) |
US |
2, 14 |
|
1965 |
Los Angeles: Watts
Riots. (35 killed, 1000 wounded) |
US |
2 |
|
1966 |
Los Angeles: Watts
again |
US |
2 |
|
1966 |
New York City Transportation Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1966 |
Hunter's Point Riot,
San Francisco, California |
US |
14 |
|
1966 |
Hough Race Riots, July
18-24, Cleveland, Ohio |
US |
14 |
|
1967 |
Newark, New Jersey:
(23 killed) |
US |
2 |
|
1967 |
Copper Strike of 1967-1968 |
US |
3 |
|
1967 |
Cambridge, Md. Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1967 |
Race Riot: Plainfield
NJ, July 14-21 |
US |
14 |
|
1967 |
12th Street Riot, July
1967, Detroit, Michigan: (43 killed) |
US |
2, 14 |
|
1968 |
Memphis, Tennessee, Sanitation Workers'
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1968 |
New York City Teachers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1968 |
Dem Convention Rioting |
US |
14 |
|
1968 |
Orangeburg Massacre,
S.C. State Univ., Feb. 8 |
US |
14 |
|
1968 |
Washington, DC riots following
assasination of MLK, April 4-8 |
US |
14 |
|
1968 |
Baltimore MD Riot
following assasination of MLK, April 6-7 |
US |
14 |
|
1968 |
West Side Riot
following assasination of MLK, Chicago IL, April
7-14 |
US |
14 |
|
1968 |
Louisville KY riots,
May 27 |
US |
14 |
|
1968 |
Glenville Shootout,
July 23-28, Cleveland, Ohio |
US |
14 |
|
1968 |
York PA Race Riot,
July |
US |
14 |
|
1969 |
York, Pennsylvania: (2
deaths) |
US |
2 |
|
1969 |
Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital
Workers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1969 |
Stonewall Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1969 |
Days of Rage, Oct.
8-11, Chicago, Illinois |
US |
14 |
|
1970 |
Race Riot: Asbury
Park, NJ: (100 wounded) |
US |
2 |
|
1970 |
General Motors Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1970 |
Postal Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1970 |
Kent State Massacre |
US |
14 |
|
1970 |
Jackson State Massacre |
US |
14 |
|
1970 |
Hard Hat riot, Wall
Street, May 8, New York City, New York |
US |
14 |
|
1970 |
Sterling Hall bombing,
Univ. of Wisc., Aug. 24, Madison, Wisconsin |
US |
14 |
|
1971 |
New York City Police Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1971 |
May Day Protests, May
3, Washington, D.C. |
US |
14 |
|
1971 |
Camden NJ Riots,
August |
US |
14 |
|
1971 |
Attica NY Prison
uprising |
US |
14 |
|
1972 |
Lordstown, Ohio,
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1972 |
Philadelphia Teachers' Strike of 1972-1973 |
US |
3 |
|
1972 |
Farah Clothing Workers' Strike and Boycott
of 1972-1974 |
US |
3 |
|
1974 |
Baltimore Police Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1975 |
Pennsylvania Public Employees' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1975 |
Washington Post Pressmen's Strike of 1975
and 1976 |
US |
3 |
|
1977 |
Bituminous Coal Strike of 1977-1978 |
US |
3 |
|
1977 |
Willmar, Minnesota, Bank Strike of 1977-1979
|
US |
3 |
|
1977 |
Stevens, J.P., Boycott of 1977-1980 |
US |
3 |
|
1977 |
Coors Beer Strike and Boycott of 1977-1987 |
US |
3 |
|
1977 |
Humboldt Park riot,
June 4-5, Chicago, Illinois |
US |
14 |
|
1977 |
New York City Blackout
Riot, July |
US |
14 |
|
1978 |
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Newspaper Strike
of 1978-1982 |
US |
3 |
|
1979 |
Independent Truckers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1979 |
White Night gay riots,
May 1979, San Francisco, CA |
US |
14 |
|
1979 |
Greensboro
Riot/Shootings, Nov. 3, Greensboro, North Carolina |
US |
14 |
|
1980 |
Race riot in Maimi FL after
all-white jury acquits 4 white cops of killing a Black |
US |
2 |
|
1980 |
New Mexico State
Penitentiary Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1980 |
Chattanooga TN Riot |
US |
14 |
|
1981 |
Air Traffic Controllers' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1981 |
Baseball Players' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1982 |
Washington DC
Anti-Klan protest, Nov. 27 |
US |
14 |
|
1982 |
Overtown
Riot, Dec. 1982, Miami, Florida |
US |
14 |
|
1984 |
Yale University Clerical Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1985 |
Los Angeles County Sanitation District
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1985 |
Yale University Clerical Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1986 |
Hormel Strike of 1985-1986 |
US |
3 |
|
1986 |
Phelps-Dodge Strike of 1983-1986 |
US |
3 |
|
1986 |
Trans World Airlines Flight Attendants'
Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1986 |
USX Lockout and Boycott |
US |
3 |
|
1987 |
Football Players' Strike |
US |
3 |
|
1987 |
Paperworkers'
Lockout and Strike of 1987-1988 |
US |
3 |
|
1987 |
Tampa FL Riot, Feb |
US |
14 |
|
1988 |
Tompkins Square Park
Police Riot, August 1988 |
US |
14 |
|
1989 |
Tampa FL Riot, Feb.
1989 |
US |
14 |
|
1989 |
Overtown
riots, Miami FL, Jan |
US |
2, 14 |
|
1991 |
Mount Pleasant riot,
May 5-9, Washington, D.C. |
US |
14 |
|
1991 |
Crown Heights Riot,
August, Brooklyn, New York |
US |
14 |
|
1992 |
Los Angeles:Rodney King Riot: (52 killed, 3000 wounded) |
US |
2 |
|
1996 |
St. Petersburg, FL
Riot, Oct. |
US |
14 |
|
1999 |
WTO Meeting, Seattle,
WA, November |
US |
14 |
|
1999 |
Michigan State
University student riot, April |
US |
14 |
|
1999 |
Woodstock '99 music
festival riot, August |
US |
14 |
|
2000 |
Puerto Rican Day
Parade riot in Central Park, New York, NY |
US |
14 |
|
2001 |
Seattle WA Mardi Gras
Riots, Feb. 27 |
US |
14 |
|
2001 |
Cincinnati OH Riots,
April 10-12 |
US |
2,14 |
|
2002 |
University of
Minnesota Hockey Riots, April 6 |
US |
14 |
|
2003 |
University of
Minnesota Hockey Riots, April 12 |
US |
14 |
|
2003 |
Benton Harbor MI Riot,
June |
US |
14 |
|
2005 |
Civil unrest and
military action in New Orleans LA after Hurricane Katrina, Aug.-Sept |
US |
14 |
|
2005 |
Toledo OH Riot, Oct.
15 |
US |
14 |
|
2006 |
San Bernardino CA punk
riot, March 4 |
US |
14 |
Data
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