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List of riots
This is a chronological list of historical riots:
- 532 - Nika riots, (Constantinople)
- 1182 - Venetians and other "Latins" are massacred during a riot in Constantinople
- 1736 - Porteous Riots, (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- 1780 - Gordon riots, (London)
- 1791 - Priestley Riots, (Birmingham, England)
- 1830 - Swing Riots, England
- 1835 - Baltimore Bank Riot
- 1841 - Whig Party Riot . Washington DC, (United States of America)
- 1844 - Philadelphia Nativist Riots
- 1855 - Lager Beer Riot, (Chicago, Illinois)
- 1863 - New York Draft Riot, (New York, New York)
- 1866 - Memphis Race Riot , (Memphis, Tennessee)
- 1868 - Pulaski Riot , (Pulaski, Tennessee)
- 1873 - Colfax Riot, (Louisiana)
- 1886 - Haymarket Riot, (Chicago, Illinois)
- 1898 - Wilmington Race Riot , (Wilmington, North Carolina)
- 1906 - Atlanta Riots , (Atlanta, Georgia)
- 1908 - Springfield Race Riot , (Springfield, Illinois)
- 1917 - St. Louis Riot , (St. Louis, Missouri & East St. Louis, Illinois)
- 1917 - Conscription Crisis of 1917, (Quebec)
- 1919 - Chicago Race Riot, (Chicago, Illinois)
- 1919 - Elaine Race Riot, (Elaine, Arkansas)
- 1919 - Longview Race Riot , (Longview, Texas)
- 1919 - D.C. Race Riot , (Washington, D.C.)
- 1921 - Tulsa Race Riot, (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
- 1937 - Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage,
- 1943 - Zoot Suit Riots, (Los Angeles, California)
- 1943 - Detroit Race Riot , (Detroit, Michigan)
- 1946 - Nylon Riots
- 1949 - Peekskill Riot (Peekskill, New York)
- 1959 - Tibetan riots against Chinese government , (Tibet, China)
- 1965 - Watts Riot, (Los Angeles, California)
- 1967 - 12th Street Riot (Detroit, Michigan)
- 1966 - Hunter's Point Riot , (San Francisco, California)
- 1967 - Newark Riots , (Newark, New Jersey)
- 1968 - 1968 Riots , (Washington, D.C.)
- 1968 - French student riots of May (Paris, France)
- 1968 - 1968 Democratic National Convention (Chicago, Illinois)
- 1969 - Stonewall Riots, (New York, New York)
- 1969 - York Race Riot , (York, Pennsylvania)
- 1971 - Attica Prison riots, (Attica, New York)
- 1973 & 1974 - Greece: student riots and revolution at Polytechnio , military junta overthrown
- 1975 - Livernois-Fenkell riot (Detroit, Michigan)
- 1979 - White Night Riots: Gay riots in San Francisco, California
- 1980 - New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
- 1981 - 1981 Springbok Tour, New Zealand
- 1985 - Broadwater Farm Riot, London, England
- 1987 - Iranian pilgrim riot, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
- 1989 - Aftermath of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Bejing China
- 1989 - Romanian riots
- 1992 - L.A. riot, (Los Angeles, California)
- 1999 - WTO Meeting of 1999 (Seattle, Washington)
- 2000 - Cochabamba protests of 2000,
- 2001 - Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest (Genoa, Italy)
- 2001 - 2001 Cincinnati Riots (Cincinnati,Ohio, United States of America)
- The Red Summer
- Long Hot Summer
- Canboulay Riots
- Hosay Riots
- Water Riots
See also
Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45