List of riots
This is a chronological list of historical riots:
18th century and earlier
- 121 BC - Roman Election Riot of 121 BC
- 113 BC - Roman Election Riot of 113 BC
- 532 - Nika riots, (Constantinople)
- 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.
- 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)
- 1780 - Gordon riots, (London, England)
- 1788 - Doctors Mob Riot, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 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)
- 1830 - Swing Riots, (south and east of England)
- 1831 - Cholera Riots, (Sevastopol/St. Petersburg, Russia)
- 1832 - Anti-Abolitionist Riot, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1834 - Anti-Abolitionist Riot, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1835 - Baltimore Bank Riot
- 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 - Philadelphia Nativist Riots, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
- 1849 - Astor Place Riots, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1855 - Lager Beer Riot, (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- 1855 - Know-Nothing Riot of 1855, (Louisville, Kentucky, 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)
- 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)
- 1873 - Colfax Riot, (Colfax, Louisiana, USA)
- 1879 - Sydney Riot of 1879, (Sydney, Australia)
- 1881 - Canboulay Riots, (Trinidad and Tobago)
- 1884 - Cincinnati Vigilante Riot, (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
- 1886 - Haymarket Riot, (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- 1898 - Wilmington Race Riot, (Wilmington, North Carolina, USA)
- 1906 - Atlanta Riots, (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
- 1908 - Springfield Race Riot, (Springfield, Illinois, USA)
- 1917 - East St. Louis Riot, (St. Louis, Missouri & East St. Louis, Illinois, USA)
- 1917 - Conscription Crisis of 1917, (Quebec, Canada)
- 1919 - Red Summer, (USA)
- 1919 - Chicago Race Riot, (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- 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)
- 1937 - Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage, (USA)
- 1943 - Zoot Suit Riots, (Los Angeles, California, USA)
- 1943 - Detroit Race Riot, (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
- 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 - Hock Lee bus riots 12 May, Singapore
- 1956 - Chinese Middle School riots 24 October-28 October, Singapore
- 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
- 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
- reference for these 1964 events: [1]
- 1965 - Watts Riot, (Los Angeles, California, USA)
- 1966 - Hunter's Point Riot, (San Francisco, California, USA)
- 1967 - 1967 Newark riots, (Newark, New Jersey, USA)
- 1967 - Cambridge, MD Riot 1967, July 1967 (Cambridge, Maryland, USA)
- 1967 - 12th Street Riot (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
- 1967 - Hong Kong 1967 riots, (Hong Kong )
- 1968 - 1968 Washington, DC riots, (Washington, D.C., USA)
- 1968 - Baltimore Riot 1968, April, 1968 (Baltimore, MD, USA)
- 1968 - May 1968 popular uprising (France)
- 1968 - 1968 Democratic National Convention riot, (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- 1968 - Rodney Riots, (Kingston, Jamaica)
- 1969 - Stonewall Riots, (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1969 - York Race Riot, (York, Pennsylvania, USA)
- 1969 - May 13th race riots, (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
- 1971 - May Day Protests 1971, May, 1971 (Washington, D.C., USA)
- 1971 - Attica Prison uprising, (Attica, New York)
- 1973 and 1974 - Greek student riots and revolution at Polytechnio, military junta overthrown, (Greece)
- 1975 - Livernois-Fenkell riot (Detroit, Michigan)
- 1977 - New York City Blackout Riot, July 1977 (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1979 - White Night gay riots, (San Francisco, California)
- 1980 - New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot, (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
- 1980 - Chattanooga Riot of 1980, (Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA)
- 1980 - Miami Riot 1980, May, 1980 (Miami, Florida, USA)
- 1981 - 1981 Springbok Tour protests and riots, (New Zealand)
- 1981 - Brixton riot of 1981, (London, England)
- 1981 - First Handsworth Riot, (Birmingham, England)
- 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)
- 1988-1989 - Nanjing Anti-African protests, (Nanjing, China)
- 1989 - Miami Riot 1989, January 1989 (Miami, Florida, USA)
- 1989 - Tampa Riot 1989, Feb., 1989 (Tampa, Florida, USA)
- 1989 - Aftermath of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, (Beijing China)
- 1989 - Romanian Revolution of 1989, (Romania)
- 1991 - 1991 Washington, DC riot, Mt. Pleasant riot, May 1991 (Washington, D.C., USA)
- 1992 - L.A. riot/Rodney King riot, (Los Angeles, California)
- 1995 - Brixton riot of 1995, (London, England)
- 1996 - St. Petersburg, FL Riot 1996, October 1996 (St. Petersburg, Florida, USA)
- 1997 - Crown Heights Riot Aug. 1997 (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1997 - Crown Heights Riots Aug. 1997 (New York City, New York, USA)
- 1998 - Jakarta Riots of May 1998, (Jakarta, Indonesia)
- 1999 - WTO Meeting of 1999, (Seattle, Washington) partially a police riot, with no general destruction; just some directed destruction at chain restaurants.
- 2000 - Cochabamba protests of 2000, (Cochabamba, Bolivia)
- 2000 - October Riots, (Israel)
- 2001 - Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest, (Genoa, Italy) - mostly a police riot as the most horrific violence was carried out by Italian law enforcement. One young man, Carlo Giuliani, was killed, and his corpse run over repeatedly by police vehicles. In another instance, police raided a school where activists were staying and violently assaulted those present. Photographs taken after this raid show bloodstains across the walls. See the article for more information.
- 2001 - 2001 Cincinnati Riots, (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
- 2001 - December 2001 Riots, (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- 2001 - 2001 Mardis Gras Race Riots, Seattle, WA
- 2003 - Benton Harbor, MI Riot, June 2003 (Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA)
- 2004 - 2004 Australian Riots, (Queensland, Australia)
- 2004 - Redfern riots, (Sydney, Australia)