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revolutions In political science, a revolution (, 'a turn around') is a rapid, fundamental transformation of a society's class, state, ethnic or religious structures. According to sociologist Jack Goldstone, all revolutions contain "a common set of elemen ...
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rebellion Rebellion is an uprising that resists and is organized against one's government. A rebel is a person who engages in a rebellion. A rebel group is a consciously coordinated group that seeks to gain political control over an entire state or a ...
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, style="background:#F88" , Siamese victory , , , - , 1827–1828 , The failed conservative rebellion in Mexico led by
Nicolás Bravo Nicolás Bravo Rueda (10 September 1786 – 22 April 1854) was a Mexican soldier and politician who served as interim President of Mexico three times, in 1839, 1842, and 1846. Previously, he fought in the Mexican War of Independence, and ser ...
. ,
First Mexican Republic The First Mexican Republic, known also as the First Federal Republic (), existed from 1824 to 1835. It was a Federal republic, federated republic, established by the 1824 Constitution of Mexico, Constitution of 1824, the first constitution of ...
, colspan="2" , rebels led by
Nicolás Bravo Nicolás Bravo Rueda (10 September 1786 – 22 April 1854) was a Mexican soldier and politician who served as interim President of Mexico three times, in 1839, 1842, and 1846. Previously, he fought in the Mexican War of Independence, and ser ...
, style="background:#F88" , Rebellion suppressed , , , - , 1828–1834 ,
Liberal Wars The Liberal Wars (), also known as the Portuguese Civil War () and the War of the Two Brothers () was a civil war in Portugal that lasted from May 1828 to May 1834, fought between liberal progressive constitutionalists (led by former King P ...
, Miguelites Supported by: , colspan="2" , Liberals Supported by: , style="background:#AF9" , Liberal victory , , , - , 1829 ,
Bathurst War The Bathurst War (1824) was a war between the Wiradjuri nation and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Following the successful Blaxland, Lawson, and Wentworth expedition to find a route through the "impenetrable" Blue Mountains ...
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United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
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Wiradjuri The Wiradjuri people (; ) are a group of Aboriginal Australian people from central New South Wales, united by common descent through kinship and shared traditions. They survived as skilled hunter-fisher-gatherers, in family groups or clans, a ...
, style="background:#F88" , British victory , , , - , 1829–1832 ,
War of the Maidens The War of the Maidens () was a rebellion that took place in the French department of Ariège (department), Ariège from 1829 to 1832, and continued in a less intense fashion until 1872. It was the most well-known struggle among those that develo ...
. Countrymen dressed as women resisted the new forestry law, which restricted their use of the forest , France (Bourbon Restoration) (until 1830) France (July Monarchy) (from 1830) , colspan="2" , rebels , , , , - , 1830 , colspan="5" , The
Revolutions of 1830 The Revolutions of 1830 were a revolutionary wave in Europe which took place in 1830. It included two "Romantic nationalism, romantic nationalist" revolutions, the Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the July Revolution ...
were a wave of
Romantic nationalist Romantic nationalism (also national romanticism, organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state claims its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs. This includes ...
revolutions in Europe , , , - , 1830–1831 ,
Belgian Revolution The Belgian Revolution (, ) was a conflict which led to the secession of the southern provinces (mainly the former Southern Netherlands) from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium. The ...
, , colspan="2" , , style="background:#AF9" , Belgian victory , , , - , 1830 ,
July Revolution The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution (), Second French Revolution, or ("Three Glorious ays), was a second French Revolution after French Revolution, the first of 1789–99. It led to the overthrow of King Cha ...
, France (Bourbon Restoration) , colspan="2" , Middle class against Bourbon King Charles X , style="background:#AF9" , Charles X which forced him out of office and replaced him with the Orleanist King Louis-Philippe (the "July Monarchy") , , , - , 1830–1831 ,
November uprising The November Uprising (1830–31) (), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in Russian Partition, the heartland of Partitions of Poland, partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. ...
,
Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...
, colspan="2" ,
Congress Poland Congress Poland or Congress Kingdom of Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It was established w ...
* National Government , style="background:#F88" , Russian victory , , , - , 1830 , Ustertag revolution ,
Canton of Zürich The canton of Zurich is an administrative unit (Swiss canton, canton) of Switzerland, situated in the northeastern part of the country. With a population of (as of ), it is the most populous canton of Switzerland. Zurich is the ''de facto'' Capi ...
, colspan="2" , Rebels , , , , - , 1830 ,
Bathurst Rebellion The Bathurst Rebellion of 1830 was an outbreak of bushranging near Bathurst in the British penal colony (now the Australian state) of New South Wales. The rebellion involved a group of escaped convicts who ransacked villages and engaged in shoot ...
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United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
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Colony of New South Wales The Colony of New South Wales was a colony of the British Empire from 1788 to 1901, when it became a State of the Commonwealth of Australia. At its greatest extent, the colony of New South Wales included the present-day Australian states of New ...
, colspan="2" , Convict rebels , , , , - , 1830–1833 ,
Yagan Yagan (;  – 11 July 1833) was an Aboriginal Australian warrior from the Noongar people. Yagan was pursued by the local authorities after he killed Erin Entwhistle, a servant of farmer Archibald Butler. It was an act of retaliation aft ...
's War ,
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
, colspan="2" , Noongar people , , , , - , 1830–1836 ,
Tithe War The Tithe War () was a campaign of mainly nonviolent civil disobedience, punctuated by sporadic violent episodes, in Ireland between 1830 and 1836 in reaction to the enforcement of tithes on the Roman Catholic majority for the upkeep of the est ...
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United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
, colspan="2" , Irish Demonstrators , , , , - , 1831 ,
Nat Turner's slave rebellion Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, the rebels, made up of enslaved African Americans, killed b ...
, , colspan="2" , Insurgents , style="background:#F88" , Rebellion suppressed , , , - , 1831 ,
Merthyr Rising The Merthyr Rising, also referred to as the Merthyr Riots, of 1831 was the violent climax to many years of simmering unrest among the large working class population of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales and the surrounding area. The Rising marked the fir ...
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United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
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Working class The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition. Members of the working class rely primarily upon earnings from wage labour. Most c ...
, , , , - , 1831, 1834, 1848 ,
Canut revolts The Canut revolts () is the collective name for the major revolts by Lyonnais silk workers () which occurred in 1831, 1834 and 1848. They were among the first well-defined worker uprisings of the period known as the Industrial Revolution. The Fi ...
, France (July Monarchy) , colspan="2" , Lyonnais silk workers (French: ''canuts'') , , , , - , 1831–1832 ,
Bosnian uprising Bosnian may refer to: *Anything related to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina or its inhabitants *Anything related to Bosnia (region) or its inhabitants * Bosniaks, an ethnic group mainly inhabiting Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of three constitu ...
, , colspan="2" , Bosnian ayans , style="background:#F88" , Ottoman victory , , , - , 1831–1832 ,
Baptist War The Baptist War, also known as the Sam Sharp Rebellion, the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started on 25 December 1831 and involved up to 60,000 of t ...
,
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
*
Colony of Jamaica The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was Invasion of Jamaica (1655), captured by the The Protectorate, English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire. Jamaica became a British Empire, British colon ...
, colspan="2" , Slave rebels , style="background:#F88" , Rebellion suppressed , , , - , 1832 ,
June Rebellion The June Rebellion, also called the Paris Uprising of 1832 (), was an anti-monarchist insurrection of Parisian republicans on 5 and 6 June 1832. The rebellion originated in an attempt by republicans to reverse the establishment in 1830 of t ...
, France (July Monarchy) * National Guards * Regular Army , colspan="2" , Republicans , style="background:#F88" , Rebellion suppressed , , , - , 1832–1833 ,
Anastasio Aquino's Rebellion Anastasio Aquino's rebellion was an uprising led by Salvadoran indigenous leader Anastasio Aquino (15 April 1792, in Santiago Nonualco, El Salvador – 24 July 1833, in San Vicente, El Salvador) in El Salvador during the time it belonged to the F ...
, * , colspan="2" , Indigenous rebels , style="background:#F88" , Rebellion suppressed , , , - , 1832–1843 , Abdelkader's rebellion in French-occupied
Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
, France (July Monarchy) , colspan="2" , Rebels led by Abdelkader , , , , - , 1833–1835 ,
Lê Văn Khôi revolt The Lê Văn Khôi revolt (, 1833–1835) was an important revolt in Nguyễn dynasty, 19th-century Vietnam, in which southern Vietnamese, Catholic Church in Vietnam, Vietnamese Catholics, Paris Foreign Missions Society, French Catholic mission ...
,
Nguyễn dynasty The Nguyễn dynasty (, chữ Nôm: 茹阮, chữ Hán: 朝阮) was the last List of Vietnamese dynasties, Vietnamese dynasty, preceded by the Nguyễn lords and ruling unified Vietnam independently from 1802 until French protectorate in 1883 ...
, colspan="2" , Lê Văn Khôi rebels Supported by: Rattanakosin Kingdom (
Siam Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...
) , style="background:#F88" , Rebellion suppressed , , , - , 1834 , Flores' Rebellion ,
Nicaragua Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous country in Central America aft ...
, colspan="2" , Rebels , , , , - , 1834–1859 ,
Imam Shamil Imam Shamil (; ; ; ; ; 26 June 1797 – 4 February 1871) was the political, military, and spiritual leader of North Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in the 1800s, the third Imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1840–1859), and a Sunni Muslim ...
's rebellion in Russian-occupied
Caucasus The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, comprising parts of Southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The Caucasus Mountains, i ...
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Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...
, colspan="2" , Rebels , , , , - , 1835–1836 ,
Texas Revolution The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) against the Centralist Republic of Mexico, centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of ...
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Mexican Republic Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...
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Republic of Texas The Republic of Texas (), or simply Texas, was a country in North America that existed for close to 10 years, from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846. Texas shared borders with Centralist Republic of Mexico, the Republic of the Rio Grande, an ...
, style="background:#AF9" , '' De facto'' Texian independence from the Centralist Republic of Mexico , , , - , 1835 ,
Malê revolt Male, in biology, is the half of a sex system that produces sperm cells. Male may also refer to: Gender * Male, the gender of men and boys ** Man, a male adult ** Boy, a young male person, usually a child or adolescent ** Masculinity, attributes ...
, *
National Guard National guard is the name used by a wide variety of current and historical uniformed organizations in different countries. The original National Guard was formed during the French Revolution around a cadre of defectors from the French Guards. ...
, colspan="2" , Malê slaves (primarily Nagôs) , style="background:#F88" , Rebellion suppressed , , , - , 1835–1840 , The
Cabanagem The Cabanagem (; 1835–1840) was a popular revolution and pro-separatist movement that occurred in the then province of Grão-Pará, Empire of Brazil. Among the causes for this revolt were the extreme poverty of the Paraense people, oppressio ...
was a popular
revolution In political science, a revolution (, 'a turn around') is a rapid, fundamental transformation of a society's class, state, ethnic or religious structures. According to sociologist Jack Goldstone, all revolutions contain "a common set of elements ...
and pro-
separatist Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, regional, governmental, or gender separation from the larger group. As with secession, separatism conventionally refers to full political separation. Groups simply seekin ...
movement that occurred in the then province of Grão-Pará,
Empire of Brazil The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence in 1828. The empire's government was a Representative democracy, representative Par ...
, , colspan="2" , Rebels , , , , - , 1835–1845 ,
Ragamuffin War The Ragamuffin War, also known as the Ragamuffin Revolution or Heroic Decade, was a republican uprising that began in southern Brazil, in the province (current state) of Rio Grande do Sul in 1835. The rebels were led by Generals Bento Gonçalv ...
, *
National Guard National guard is the name used by a wide variety of current and historical uniformed organizations in different countries. The original National Guard was formed during the French Revolution around a cadre of defectors from the French Guards. ...
* Imperial Navy , colspan="2" , Supported by: Colorados
Unitarians Unitarian or Unitarianism may refer to: Christian and Christian-derived theologies A Unitarian is a follower of, or a member of an organisation that follows, any of several theologies referred to as Unitarianism: * Unitarianism (1565–present) ...
, style="background:#BBF" , Peace treaty between both parties *The
Juliana Republic The Juliana Republic () or the Catarinense Republic (''República Catarinense''), fully and officially the Free and Independent Catarinense Republic (''República Catarinense Livre e Independente''), was a revolutionary state that existed betwe ...
and the
Riograndense Republic The Riograndense Republic, often called the Piratini Republic ( or ), was a ''de facto'' state that seceded from the Empire of Brazil and roughly coincided with the present state of Rio Grande do Sul. It was proclaimed on 11 September 1836 by ...
are dissolved and reintegrated into the Empire. , , , - , 1837 , Río Arriba Rebellion ,
Republic of Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...
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Territory of New Mexico The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912. It was created from the U.S. provisional government of New Mexico, as a result of '' Nuevo México'' becomi ...
, colspan="2" ,
Puebloans The Pueblo peoples are Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices. Among the currently inhabited Pueblos, Taos Pueblo, Taos, San Il ...
Hispanos The Hispanos of New Mexico, also known as New Mexican Hispanics or Nuevomexicanos, are Hispanic residents originating in the historical region of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, today the US state of New Mexico (''Nuevo México''), southern Color ...
, Temporary success: * Puebloans
José María González José María Angél González was the governor of the independent Junta Popular during New Mexico’s Río Arriba Rebellion in 1837. González, sometimes spelled Gonzáles, was a Taos Pueblo Indian who led the Junta Popular or Cantón, which was ...
and
Pablo Montoya Pablo Montoya (also known as Jose Pablo Montoya) (July 1, 1792– February 7, 1847) was a New Mexican politician who was active both in the 1837 revolt against the Mexican government, and in the Taos Revolt of 1847 against the United States, dur ...
briefly lead the independent Junta Popular , , , - , 1837-1838 ,
Rebellions of 1837-1838 Rebellion is an uprising that resists and is organized against one's government. A rebel is a person who engages in a rebellion. A rebel group is a consciously coordinated group that seeks to gain political control over an entire state or a ...
,
Upper Canada The Province of Upper Canada () was a Province, part of The Canadas, British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Queb ...
Lower Canada The Province of Lower Canada () was a British colonization of the Americas, British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence established in 1791 and abolished in 1841. It covered the southern portion o ...
, colspan="2" , Hunter's Lodges (Upper Canada) *
Republic of Canada The Republic of Canada was a government proclaimed by William Lyon Mackenzie on December 5, 1837. The self-proclaimed government was established on Navy Island in the Niagara River in the latter days of the Upper Canada Rebellion. History In t ...
Patriotes (Lower Canada) * Republic of Lower Canada , Rebels defeated in both Upper and Lower Canada Upper and Lower Canada unified into the single
Province of Canada The Province of Canada (or the United Province of Canada or the United Canadas) was a British colony in British North America from 1841 to 1867. Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, in the Report ...
, , , - , 1837-1838 ,
Sabinada The Sabinada (1837–1838) was a revolt by military officer Francisco Sabino that occurred in Brazil's Bahia province between 6 November 1837 and 16 March 1838. Calling for the abolition of slavery and the redistribution of land, the rebel " Ba ...
,
Empire of Brazil The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence in 1828. The empire's government was a Representative democracy, representative Par ...
* Bahia Province , colspan="2" , Bahia Republic, led by Francisco Sabino , Government victory; rebel capital of Salvador captured after four months of resistance , , , - , 1838-1841 , Balaida ,
Empire of Brazil The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence in 1828. The empire's government was a Representative democracy, representative Par ...
* Maranhão Province , colspan="2" , Rebels * Balaios * African slaves , Government victory , , , - , 1839 , Amistad Rebellion , Amistad slave ship , colspan="2" , Slaves , Initial slave victory, eventual capture of slaves by the
United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...
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United States v. The Amistad ''United States v. Schooner Amistad'', 40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841), was a United States Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of Africans on board the Spanish schooner '' La Amistad'' in 1839.. It was an unusual freedom suit that i ...
'' supreme court decision , , , - , 1839-1843 ,
Rebecca Riots The Rebecca Riots () took place between 1839 and 1843 in West and Mid Wales. They were a series of protests undertaken by local farmers and agricultural workers in response to levels of taxation. The rioters, often men dressed as women, took ...
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Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ...
, colspan="2" , Farmers and agricultural workers , End in riots due to increased military presence Act of Parliament amends laws relating to
turnpike trusts Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual Acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries. At the peak, in the 1830s, ...
, , , - , 1841 , Creole revolt , ''Creole'' American slave ship , colspan="2" , Slaves , Revolt successful , , , - , 1841-1842 , Dorr Rebellion ,
Rhode Island Rhode Island ( ) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Is ...
, colspan="2" , Disenfranchised voters led by
Thomas Wilson Dorr Thomas Wilson Dorr (November 5, 1805 – December 27, 1854), was an American politician and reformer in Rhode Island, best known for leading the Dorr Rebellion. Early life, family, and education Thomas Wilson Dorr was born in Providence, Rhod ...
, Military government victory Land qualification to vote removed from the state constitution , , , - , 1841-1842 , Afghan uprising ,
Kabul Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province. The city is divided for administration into #Districts, 22 municipal districts. A ...
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Emirate of Kabul The Emirate of Afghanistan, known as the Emirate of Kabul until 1855, was an emirate in Central Asia and South Asia that encompassed present-day Afghanistan and parts of present-day Pakistan (before 1893). The emirate emerged from the Durrani ...
* Under occupation by
British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture ...
forces under
William Elphinstone William Elphinstone (143125 October 1514) was a Scottish statesman, Bishop of Aberdeen and founder of the University of Aberdeen. Biography He was born in Glasgow. His father, also William Elphinstone, later became the first Dean of the Facu ...
during the
First Anglo-Afghan War The First Anglo-Afghan War () was fought between the British Empire and the Emirate of Kabul from 1838 to 1842. The British initially successfully invaded the country taking sides in a succession dispute between emir Dost Mohammad Khan ( Bara ...
, colspan="2" , Afghan citizens of Kabul , Afghan victory * British forces retreat from Kabul to
Jalalabad Jalalabad (; Help:IPA/Persian, ͡ʒä.lɑː.lɑː.bɑːd̪ is the list of cities in Afghanistan, fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 200,331, and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part ...
* Most British soldiers and civilians killed or captured * Elphinstone captured as a
POW POW is "prisoner of war", a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. POW or pow may also refer to: Music * P.O.W (Bullet for My Valentine song), "P.O.W" (Bull ...
, , , - , 1842 , Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation ,
Cherokee Nation The Cherokee Nation ( or ) is the largest of three list of federally recognized tribes, federally recognized tribes of Cherokees in the United States. It includes people descended from members of the Cherokee Nation (1794–1907), Old Cheroke ...
, colspan="2" , Slaves , Slaves eventually captured and some executed , , , - , 1844–1856 ,
Dominican War of Independence The Dominican War of Independence () was a war of independence that began when the Dominican Republic declared independence from the Republic of Haiti on February 27, 1844 and ended on January 24, 1856. Before the war, the island of Hispaniola ...
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Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...
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Republic of Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...
(1844–1849)
Second Empire of Haiti The second (symbol: s) is a unit of Time in physics, time derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes, and finally to 60 seconds each (24 × 60 × 60 = 86400). The current and formal definition in the Internati ...
(1854–1856) , style="background:#AF9" , Dominican victory , - , 1845-1872 ,
New Zealand Wars The New Zealand Wars () took place from 1845 to 1872 between the Colony of New Zealand, New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori people, Māori on one side, and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other. Though the wars were initi ...
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New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...
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Māori Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand * Māori culture * Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the Co ...
iwi Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori, roughly means or , and is often translated as "tribe". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, and is typically pluralised as such in English. ...
, Eventual British victory 16000 km2 of Māori land seized in New Zealand Settlements Act of 1863 , , , - , 1846 , Greater Poland uprising ,
Greater Poland Greater Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (; ), is a Polish Polish historical regions, historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief and largest city is Poznań followed by Kalisz, the oldest city in Poland. The bound ...
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Prussia Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a Germans, German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussia (region), Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, ...
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Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...
(planned) *
Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a Multinational state, multinational European Great Powers, great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the Habsburg monarchy, realms of the Habsburgs. Duri ...
(planned) , colspan="2" ,
Poles Pole or poles may refer to: People *Poles (people), another term for Polish people, from the country of Poland * Pole (surname), including a list of people with the name * Pole (musician) (Stefan Betke, born 1967), German electronic music artist ...
, Planned revolution never goes through 8 rebels executed , , , - , 1846 ,
Kraków uprising The Kraków Uprising ( Polish: ''powstanie krakowskie'', ''rewolucja krakowska''; German: ''Krakauer Aufstand''; Russian: ''краковское восстание'') of 1846 was an attempt, led by Polish insurgents such as Jan Tyssowski and ...
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Free City of Kraków The Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Cracow and its District, more commonly known as the Free City of Cracow () and the Republic of Cracow (), was a city republic created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, which included the Poli ...
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Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a Multinational state, multinational European Great Powers, great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the Habsburg monarchy, realms of the Habsburgs. Duri ...
, colspan="2" , Polish resistance , Austrian victory , , , - , 1846 ,
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Taos Revolt The Taos Revolt was a popular insurrection in January 1847 by Hispano and Pueblo allies against the United States' occupation of present-day northern New Mexico during the Mexican–American War. Provisional governor Charles Bent and severa ...
in New Mexico against the United States. * 1847: The
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Switzerland as a federal state The rise of Switzerland as a federal state began on 12 September 1848, with the creation of a federal constitution in response to a 27-day civil war, the ''Sonderbundskrieg''. The constitution, which was heavily influenced by the United State ...
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were a wave of failed liberal and republican revolutions that swept through Europe. ** The
French Revolution of 1848 The French Revolution of 1848 (), also known as the February Revolution (), was a period of civil unrest in France, in February 1848, that led to the collapse of the July Monarchy and the foundation of the French Second Republic. It sparked t ...
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Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states The 1848 Revolutions in the Italian states, part of the wider Revolutions of 1848 in Europe, were organized revolts in the states of the Italian peninsula and Sicily, led by intellectuals and agitators who desired a liberal government. As Italian ...
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Hungarian Revolution of 1848 The Hungarian Revolution of 1848, also known in Hungary as Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849 () was one of many Revolutions of 1848, European Revolutions of 1848 and was closely linked to other revolutions of 1848 in ...
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. *** The Slovak Uprising of 1848–49. ** The Revolutions of 1848 in the Danish States started in the German speaking cities of Altona and Kiel. It spilled into a peaceful revolution in Copenhagen, which abolished absolutism in favor of parliamentary constitutional monarchy, and a counter-revolutionary war against the German speaking minority. ** The
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. ** The Czech Revolution of 1848. ** The Greater Poland uprising. ** The
Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 The Young Irelander Rebellion was a failed Irish nationalist uprising led by the Young Ireland movement, part of the wider Revolutions of 1848 that affected most of Europe. It took place on 29 July 1848 at Farranrory, a small settlement about ...
took place during the Great Famine. ** Serbian Revolution of 1848. **
Wallachian Revolution of 1848 The Wallachian Revolution of 1848 was a Romanian liberal and nationalist uprising in the Principality of Wallachia. Part of the Revolutions of 1848, and closely connected with the unsuccessful revolt in the Principality of Moldavia, it sough ...
. ** Moldavian Revolution of 1848. * 1848: Matale Rebellion A rebellion in Sri Lanka, Ceylon against British colonial rule. *1848-1849: Praieira revolt, Beach Rebellion (''Revolução Praieira'') in Pernambuco, Empire of Brazil, Brazil.


1850–1899

* 1851–64: The Taiping Rebellion by the Hong Xiuquan#The God Worshippers, God Worshippers against the Qing dynasty of China. In total between 20 and 30 million lives had been lost, making it the second deadliest war in human history. * 1852: The Kautokeino rebellion in Kautokeino, Norway. * 1852–62: The Herzegovina Uprising (1852–62) in Ottoman Herzegovina. * 1853–55: The Small Knife Society rebellion in Shanghai, China. * 1854: A Spanish Revolution of 1854, revolution in Spain against the Moderate Party (Spain), Moderate Party Government. * 1854: The Eureka Rebellion (Eureka Stockade) in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Miners battled British Colonial forces against taxation policies of the Government. * 1854–56: Peasant Rebel in Vietnam, led by Cao Ba Quat, against the
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. * 1854–56: The Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856) in Guangdong (Canton), China. * 1854–73: The Miao people, Miao Rebellion in China. * 1854–55: The Revolution of Ayutla in Mexico. * 1855–1856: The Karakalpak Rebellion by the Karakalpak leader Ernazor Alakoz against the Khanate of Khiva * 1855–73: The Panthay Rebellion by Chinese Muslims against the Qing dynasty. * 1857: The Indian rebellion against British East India Company, marking the end of Mughal Empire, Mughal rule in India. Also known as the 1857 War of Independence and, particularly in the West, the Sepoy Mutiny. * 1858: The Mahtra War in Estonia. * 1858: Pecija's First Revolt, in Ottoman Bosnia. * 1858–61: The War of the Reform in Mexico. * 1859: John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, an effort by abolitionist John Brown (abolitionist), John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over Harpers Ferry Armory in Virginia. * 1859: The Second Italian War of Independence. * 1861–65: The American Civil War in the United States, between the United States and the Confederate States of America, which was formed out of eleven Southern United States, southern states. ** 1863–65: A counter-rebellion occurred in the self-declared Free State of Jones in Mississippi. * 1861–66: Quantrill's Raiders in Missouri. * 1862: The Dakota War of 1862, Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. * 1862–77: The Dungan revolt (1862–1877), Muslim Rebellion by Chinese Muslims against the Qing dynasty. * 1862: The 23 October 1862 Revolution was a popular insurrection which led to the overthrow of King Otto of Greece. * 1863: The New York Draft riots. * 1863–65: The January Uprising was the list of Polish uprisings, Polish uprising against the
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. * 1863–65: The Dominican Restoration War was the
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's second war of independence, this time against the Spain, Kingdom of Spain. * 1864–65: The Mejba Revolt was a rebellion in Tunisia against the doubling of an unpopular poll tax imposed by Sadok Bey. * 1865: The Morant Bay rebellion. * 1866: The Uprising of Polish political exiles in Siberia. * 1866–68: The Meiji Restoration and modernization revolution in Japan. Samurai uprising leads to overthrow of shogunate and establishment of "modern" parliamentary, Western-style system. * 1867: The Fenian Rising: an attempt at a nationwide rebellion by the Irish Republican Brotherhood against British rule. * 1868: The Glorious Revolution (Spain), Glorious Revolution in Spain deposes Queen Isabella II of Spain, Isabella II. * 1868: The Grito de Lares was the first major revolt against Captaincy General of Puerto Rico, Spanish rule in Puerto Rico. The rebels proclaimed the independence of Puerto Rico from Spain. * 1868–74: The Six Years' War, often called the Dominican Republic's third war of independence, was to disrupt the Proposed annexation of Santo Domingo, annexation to the United States. * 1868–78: Ten Years' War, also known as the Great War (Guerra Grande) and the War of '68, was part of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, led by Cuban-born planters (especially by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes) and other wealthy natives. * 1869–70: The Red River Rebellion, the events surrounding the actions of a provisional government established by Métis people (Canada), Métis leader Louis Riel at the Red River Colony, Manitoba, Canada. * 1870–72: The Revolution of the Lances, the National Party (Uruguay), National Party revolts against the Colorado Party (Uruguay), Colorado Government in Uruguay. * 1870–71: Lyon Commune in France. * 1871: The Paris Commune. * 1871–72: Porfirio Díaz rebels against President Benito Juárez of Mexico. * 1871: The liberal revolution in Guatemala. * 1873: The Petroleum Revolution in the First Spanish Republic. * 1873–74: The Cantonal rebellion in the First Spanish Republic. * 1873: The Khivan slave uprising against slavery in the Khanate of Khiva. * 1875: The Deccan Riots. * 1875: The Stara Zagora Uprising, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against Ottoman Empire, Ottoman rule. * 1875–76: The Svaneti uprising of 1875–1876 * 1875–78: The Great Eastern Crisis: ** 1875–77: The Herzegovina Uprising (1875–1878), Herzegovinian rebellion, the most famous of the rebellions against the Ottoman Empire in Herzegovina; unrest soon spread to other areas of Vilayet of Bosnia, Ottoman Bosnia. ** 1876: The April uprising, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against Ottoman Empire, Ottoman rule. *** 1876: The Razlovtsi insurrection, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against Ottoman Empire, Ottoman rule, part of the April Uprising. ** 1876–78: Serbian-Turkish Wars (1876–1878) ** 1876–78: Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1876–78) ** 1877–78: Romanian War of Independence ** 1878: Kumanovo Uprising ** 1878: Kresna–Razlog uprising, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against Ottoman Empire, Ottoman rule. ** 1878 Greek Macedonian rebellion ** Epirus Revolt of 1878 ** Cretan Revolt (1878) * 1876: The second rebellion by Porfirio Díaz against President Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada of Mexico. * 1877: The Satsuma Rebellion of Satsuma han, Satsuma ex-samurai against the Meiji government. * 1877: Banda del Matese in Italy. * 1879: Little War (Cuba) or Small War, second of three conflicts between Cuban rebels and Spain. It started on 26 August 1879 and ended in rebel defeat in September 1880. * 1879–1882: The Urabi Revolt: an uprising in Egypt on 11 June 1882 against the Khedive and European influence in the country. It was led by and named after Colonel Ahmed Urabi. * 1880–1881: The Brsjak revolt. * 1883: The Timok Rebellion was a popular uprising that began in eastern Serbia. * 1885: A peasant revolt in the Ancash region of Peru led by Pedro Pablo Atusparía succeeds in occupying the Callejón de Huaylas for several months. * 1885–96: Cần Vương movement of Vietnam, led by emperor Hàm Nghi, against French colonialism * 1885: The North-West Rebellion of Métis people (Canada), Métis in Saskatchewan. * 1885: Bulgarian unification - accomplished after revolts in Eastern Rumelian towns, followed by a coup. * 1888: The Peasant Rebellion in Banten, Indonesia. * 1889: The Proclamation of the Republic (Brazil), Republican Revolution in Brazil. * 1890–1914: The Saminism Movement in Indonesia. * 1890: Revolution of the Park, Argentina. * 1892: Jerez uprising in Spain. * 1893: Revolution of 1893, Argentina * 1893: A liberal revolt brings José Santos Zelaya to power in
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. * 1894: Lunigiana revolt in Italy. * 1894–95: The Donghak Peasant Revolution: Korean peasants led by Jeon Bong-jun revolted against the Joseon dynasty; the revolt was crushed by Empire of Japan, Japanese and Qing dynasty, Chinese intervention, leading to First Sino-Japanese War. * 1895: The revolution against President Andrés Avelino Cáceres in Peru ushers in a period of stable constitutional rule. * 1895–1896: The War of Canudos was a conflict between the First Brazilian Republic and the residents of Canudos in the northeastern brazil, northeastern Bahia, state of Bahia. * 1895–1896: The First Italo-Ethiopian War in which Ethiopians fought against Italians colonizers. * 1895–1898: Cuban War of Independence, the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, being initiated by José Martí. * 1896: Yaqui Uprising in Sonora and Arizona * 1896–98: The Philippine Revolution, a war of independence against Spanish rule directed by the Katipunan society. * 1897: The Intentona de Yauco (Attempted Coup of Yauco), was the second and last major revolt against Spanish colonial rule in Puerto Rico, staged by Puerto Rico's pro-independence movement. * 1898: The Dukchi Ishan (Andican Uprising): Kirgiz, Uzbek, and Kipcak peoples rebelled against Tsarist Russia in Turkestan (Fargana Valley). * 1898: The Hut Tax War of 1898, Hut Tax War was a resistance in the newly annexed Protectorate of Sierra Leone to a new, severe tax imposed by the colonial military governor. * 1898: The Dog Tax War was a confrontation between the Colony of New Zealand and a group of Northern Māori, led by Hone Riiwi Toia, opposed to the enforcement of a 'dog tax'. * 1898: The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, A mob of white supremacists forced out the city government of Wilmington, North Carolina. * 1899: The tancament de caixes, a tax revolt in Barcelona. * 1899–1902: The Philippine–American War, an insurgency against the imposition of colonial rule by the United States following the transfer of the Philippines from Spain to the U.S. in the Treaty of Paris (1898), Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish–American War. * 1899–1901: The Boxer Rebellion against foreign influence in areas such as trade, politics, religion and technology that occurred in China during the final years of the Qing dynasty, which was defeated by the Eight-Nation Alliance. * 1899–1962: The Mau movement, Mau was a non-violent movement for Samoan independence from colonial rule (by German Samoa, Germany and then Western Samoa Trust Territory, New Zealand) during the first half of the 20th century.


1900s

* 1900: The War of the Golden Stool was a resistance by the Asante of West Africa against the imposition of colonial rule by the United Kingdom. * 1901–1936: Holy Man's Rebellion. * 1903: The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising breaks out in the Ottoman Empire. * 1904: Revolution of 1904 * 1904: A History of Paraguay#Revolution of 1904, liberal revolution in Paraguay. * 1904–1908: Macedonian Struggle. * 1904–1908: Herero Wars in German South-West Africa. * 1905: Argentine Revolution of 1905. * 1905–1906: The Persian Constitutional Revolution, Persian/Iranian constitutional revolution. * 1905–1906: The Maji Maji Rebellion in German East Africa. * 1905: Shoubak Revolt. * 1905: Łódź insurrection. * 1905–1907: Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland (1905–07). * 1905–1906: 1905 Tibetan Rebellion. * 1905–1907: 1905 Russian Revolution, which was abortive and ultimately crushed, though forming the critical precedent for the 1917 Russian Revolution. * 1906: Bambatha Rebellion by the Zulus of southern Africa against British rule. * 1906–1908: Theriso revolt. * 1907: The 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt, Romanian Peasants' Revolt. * 1908: The Young Turk Revolution: Young Turks force the autocratic ruler Abdul Hamid II to restore parliament and constitution in the Ottoman Empire. * 1909: HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (1909). * 1909: Hauran Druze Rebellion.


1910s

* 1910: The 5 October 1910 revolution, republican revolution in Portugal. * 1910–1920: The Mexican Revolution overthrows the dictator Porfirio Díaz; seizure of power by the National Revolutionary Party (later called Institutional Revolutionary Party). * 1910: The Albanian Revolt of 1910 against Ottoman centralization policies in Albania. * 1910–1911: The Sokehs Rebellion erupts in German-ruled Micronesia. Its primary leader, Somatau, is executed soon after being captured. * 1911–1912: The Xinhai Revolution overthrows the ruling Qing dynasty and establishment of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China. * 1911–1912: The East Timorese rebellion of 1911–12, East Timorese rebellion against Portuguese Empire, colonial Portugal. * 1911–1912: The Dominican Civil War (1911–1912) against the Dominican Government. * 1912: The Albanian Revolt of 1912 against Ottoman Empire rule in Albania. * 1912-1916: The Contestado War was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners in South Region, Brazil, South Brazil. * 1913: The Second Revolution (China), Second Revolution against President Yuan Shikai of China. * 1914: The Ten Days War was a shooting war involving irregular forces of coal miners using dynamite and rifles on one side, opposed to the Colorado National Guard, Baldwin Felts detectives, and mine guards deploying machine guns, cannon and aircraft on the other, occurring in the aftermath of the Ludlow massacre. The Ten Days War ended when federal troops intervened. * 1914: The Dominican Civil War (1914) against the Dominican Government. * 1914: The Albanian Peasant's Revolt, revolt of Peasants of Central Albania overthrows Prince William of Wied. * 1914–1915: The Boer Revolt against the British in South Africa. * 1914–1915: World War I in Albania#Failed revolt against Toptani (October 1914–June 1915), Muslim rebellion in Krujë (Albania) * 1915: The Armenian resistance during the Armenian genocide, Armenian revolt in city of Van, Turkey, Van against the Ottomans in Turkey. * 1915: Somba rebellion (Tammari people) * 1915–1916: The National Protection War against the Empire of China (1915–1916), Empire of China headed by Emperor Yuan Shikai. The Republic of China was restored. * 1915–1916: The Tapani incident is the last major Chinese uprising in Taiwan under Japanese rule, Taiwan during the Territorial conquests of the Empire of Japan, Japanese colonial era. * 1916: The Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland during which the Irish Republic was proclaimed. * 1916: An anti-French uprising in
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. * 1916: The Central Asian revolt of 1916, Central Asian Revolt started when the
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government ended its exemption of Muslims from military service. * 1916: 1916 Cochinchina uprising, Cochinchina uprising of Vietnam against French colonialism * 1916–1917: The Kaocen Revolt, Tuareg rebellion against French colonial empires, French colonial rule of the area around the Aïr Mountains of northern Niger. * 1916–1918: The Arab Revolt with the aim of securing independence from the Ottoman Empire. * 1916–1923: The Irish War of Independence, the period of nationalist rebellion, guerrilla warfare, political change and civil war which brought about the establishment of the independent nation, the Irish Free State. Sparking the Irish Civil War between pro-treaty forces and pro-republic forces * 1916–1917: Ahmad bin Yahya#World War I, Ahmad bin Yahya revolt * 1916–1947: The Indian subcontinent, Indian people's struggle against the British India, British for Indian independence movement, Indian Independence. * 1917: The French Army Mutinies (1917), French Army Mutinies. * 1917: Thái Nguyên uprising of Vietnam, led by Trinh Van Can, against French colonialism * 1917: The February Revolution made Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Nicholas II abdicate and abolishes the Russian Empire, Russian monarchy * 1917: The Green Corn Rebellion takes place in rural Oklahoma. * 1917: The October Revolution in Russia: Bolsheviks take over the provisional government of the Russian Republic, instituting the first socialist society in the world. The chaos leads to the final collapse of the
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as many peripheral territories declare independence and anti-Bolshevik forces rose in revolt against the new Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russian order, sparking the Russian Civil War, eventually leading to the establishment of the Soviet Union. * 1917–1921: The Ukrainian War of Independence, Ukrainian Revolution: Ukrainian People's Republic, Nationalists and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet allies both declare separate republics in Ukraine, fighting Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, anarchists under Nestor Makhno as well as White forces loyal to the Ukrainian State, a German puppet state. * 1918: The Finnish Civil War: Finnish Red Guards sympathetic to the Bolsheviks in Russia rise in revolt against the newly independent Finnish Whites, supported by the German Empire. * 1918–1922: The Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks, Third Russian Revolution, a failed anarchist revolution against Bolshevism. * 1918: The Rumburk rebellion * 1918: The Uprising in the Kragujevac [:cs:Vzpoura_v_Kragujevaci, cz] * 1918: Czechoslovak coup in Písek, Czechoslovak coup in Dobruška By mistake the first attempt to declare the Czechoslovak Republic. * 1918: General strike of 14 October 1918 [:cs:Generální_stávka_14._října_1918, cz] * 1918: Czechoslovak coup in Písek [:cs:Vyhlášení_republiky_v_Písku, cz] As a result of the October strike, the second mistake attempt to declare the Czechoslovak Republic. * 1918: Declaration the Czechoslovak Republic * 1918: Aster Revolution ends Habsburg rule in Hungary * 1918–1919: The German Revolution of 1918–19, German Revolution overthrows the Kaiser; establishment of the Weimar Republic after a brief socialist uprising by the Spartacus League, Spartacists. ** 1918: The Wilhelmshaven mutiny. ** 1918: The Kiel mutiny * 1918: Prešov revolt [:sk:Prešovská_vzbura, sk] * Simko Shikak revolt (1918–1922) * 1918–1919: A wave of strikes and student unrest shakes Peru. These events influence two of the dominant figures of Peruvian politics in the 20th century: Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre and José Carlos Mariátegui. * 1918–1919: The Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19), Greater Poland Uprising, Polish uprising against German authorities. * 1918: 1918 Rio de Janeiro anarchist insurrection, Rio de Janeiro anarchist insurrection in Brazil. * 1918–1919: The 1919 Egyptian revolution against the History of Egypt under the British, British occupation of Egypt. * 1918–1920: The Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–20), Georgian–Ossetian conflict, the southern Ossetians revolted against Georgia (country), Georgian rule. * 1918–1931: The Basmachi Revolt against Russian SFSR, Soviet Russia rule in Central Asia. * 1919: The Christmas uprising in Montenegro: Montenegrins (Zelenaši) rebelled against unification of the Kingdom of Montenegro with the Kingdom of Serbia. * 1919: Sudet demonstrations [:cs:Sudetská_demonstrace, cz] * 1919: Shooting in the Bratislava (1919) [:sk:Streľba_v_Bratislave_(1919), sk] * 1919: March 1st movement In Korea against the Japanese occupation (1910). Ultimately fails. * 1919: Illegal 2nd Congress of Czechoslovak Legions (Yekaterinburg) *1919: The Sette Giugno (Malta) * 1919-1920: The Biennio Rosso in Italy. * 1919–1922: The Turkish War of Independence commanded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. * 1919–1921: The Tambov Rebellion, one of the largest peasant rebellions against the Bolshevik regime during the Russian Civil War. * 1919: Uprising in Železna Ruda [:cs:Železnorudské_povstání, cz] * 1919–1921: The Silesian uprisings of the ethnic
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against Weimar Republic, Weimar rule. * 1919: A revolution in Hungary, resulting in the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic. * 1919: White Terror (Hungary), Counterrevolution in Hungary against the Hungarian Soviet Republic. After many failed attempts, legitimist and other far-right forces take over Transdunabia after the Soviet Republic falls to the Romanians.


1920s

* 1920: The Pitchfork uprising was a peasant uprising against the Soviet policy of the war communism in what is today Tatarstan. * 1920: Kapp Putsch and the following Ruhr uprising, Ruhr Uprising in Germany * 1920: Iraqi Revolt * Tambov Rebellion, 1920-1922 Tambov Rebellion * 1920–1922: Patagonia Rebelde, the uprising and violent suppression of a rural workers' strike in the Argentine province of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz in Patagonia between 1920 and 1922. * 1920–1922: Gandhi led Non-cooperation movement (1909–22), Non-cooperation movement. * 1920: The Husino uprising in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina * 1920: December general strike in Czechoslovakia [:cs:Prosincová_generální_stávka_1920, cz] * 1920: Oslavan uprising [:cs:Oslavanské_povstání, cz] * 1921: The Battle of Blair Mountain ten to fifteen thousand coal miners rebel in West Virginia, assaulting mountain-top lines of trenches established by the coal companies and local sheriff's forces in the largest armed, organized uprising in American labor history. * 1921: The Kronstadt rebellion of Soviet sailors against the government of the early Russian SFSR. * 1921: The Poplar Rates Rebellion. * 1921: Brief communist takeover of Baranya County, Baranya county, declaring the Serbian–Hungarian Baranya–Baja Republic, Serbian-Hungarian Baranya-Baja Republic * 1921: Uprising in West Hungary by far-right paramilitaries resisting the Hungarian handover of Burgerland to Austria * 1921: Habsburg legitimist Charles IV of Hungary's attempts to retake the throne, rebellion attempting to restore Charles IV of Hungary's attempts to retake the throne, Charles IV to the throne of Hungary. * 1921: The rebellion of Mirdita led by Markagjoni declares the independence of Republic of Mirdita from Albania. * 1921–1922: The Karelian Uprising * 1921–1923: The Yakut Revolt. * 1921–1924: Mongolian Revolution of 1921, A revolution in (Outer) Mongolia re-establishes the country's independence and sets out to construct a Soviet-style socialist state. * 1921: The Moplah rebellion, uprising against the colonial British authority and Hindu landlords in the Malabar in South India by Mappila Muslims, aftermath of a series of peasant uprising in the past centuries. * 1921: March Action in Germany * 1922: The March on Rome, organized mass demonstration which resulted in Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party acceding to power in the Kingdom of Italy. * 1922: The Bondelswarts Rebellion by Khoikhoi people against the apartheid regime of South West Africa. * 1922–1923: The Irish Civil War, between supporters of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the government of the Irish Free State and more radical members of the original Irish Republican Army who opposed the treaty and the new government. * 1923: Bajram Curri attacks gendarmerie of Kruma, Albania. * 1923: The founding of the Republic of Turkey by overthrow of the Ottoman Empire and introduction of Atatürk's Reforms. * 1923: The Klaipėda Revolt in the Memel territory that had been detached from Germany after World War I. * 1923: Küstrin Putsch in Germany * 1923: The German October, communist revolutions across Germany, including the Hamburg Uprising and ''Reichsexekution'' in Saxony and Thuringia * 1923: September Uprising in Bulgaria. * 1923-24: Rebellion in Pfalz, by Franz Joseph Heinz's ''Pfälzischen Corps'' * 1923: The Adwan Rebellion in Jordan. *1924–1925: The Khost rebellion (1924–1925), Khost rebellion in Afghanistan. * 1924: The August Uprising in Georgia against Soviet Union, Soviet rule. * 1925: The Sheikh Said Rebellion. * 1925: The July Revolution in Ecuador. * 1925–1927: The Great Syrian Revolt, a revolt initiated by the Druze and led by Sultan al-Atrash against French Mandate of Syria, French Mandate. * 1926: Angry catholic peasants of Dukagjin, Shkodër fight against army and gendarmerie. * 1926: The 28th May 1926 coup d'état, National Revolution in Portugal initiated a period known as the Ditadura Nacional, National Dictatorship. * 1926–1929: The Cristero War in Mexico, an uprising against anti-clerical government policy. * 1926–1927: The first Communist Party of Indonesia, Communist rebellion in Indonesia against colonialism and imperialism of Dutch East Indies, Dutch colonial government. * 1927-1937: First half of the Chinese Civil War. * 1927: Sheikh Abdurrahman rebellion by Kurdish Zazas against Turkey. * 1927–1930: The Ikhwan Revolt, Wahhabi Rebellion of Ikhwan against Ibn Saud in Arabia. * 1927–1931: The Ararat rebellion, Ağrı Rebellion by Kurds against Turkey. * 1927–1933: A rebellion led by Augusto César Sandino against the United States presence in
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. * 1928–1931: A rebellion led by Bhagat Singh against the British Rule in India. * 1929: The Women's War broke out when thousands of Igbo people, Igbo women traveled to the town of Oloko to protest against the Warrant Chiefs, whom they accused of restricting the role of women in the government.


1930s

* 1930: The Brazilian Revolution of 1930 led by Getúlio Vargas. * 1930–1931: Nghe-Tinh Revolt in Vietnam, led by the Communist Party of Indochina, against French colonialism. * 1930–1934: The Saya San Rebellion in British Burma, led by Saya San, against British rule in Burma. * 1930: Yên Bái mutiny of Vietnam, led by Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, Vietnamese Nationalist Party, against French Occupation. * 1930: The Salt Satyagraha, a campaign of non-violent protest against History of the British salt tax in India, the salt tax in British India. * 1930: The Musha Incident led by the Seediq people, Seediq Taiwanese indigenous peoples, Indigenous group is the last major uprising in Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese-controlled Taiwan. * 1931: Taking of Encarnación by Anarcho-syndicalism, anarcho-syndicalists in Paraguay. * 1932: Alt Llobregat insurrection in Spain. * 1932: The Constitutionalist Revolution against provisional president Getúlio Vargas led Brazil to a short civil war. * 1932: The Aprista revolt in Trujillo, Peru. * 1932: The 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising, known as ''La matanza'' ("The Slaughter"), Pipil people, Pipil and peasant rebellion led by Farabundo Martí * 1932: The Siamese coup d'état of 1932, sometimes called the "Promoters Revolution", ends absolute monarchy in Thailand. * 1933: Anarchist insurrection of January 1933 in Spain. * 1933: The popular revolution against Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado. * 1933: Dutch sailors on the cruiser mutiny. * 1933: Boworadet Rebellion in Thailand * 1933: Anarchist insurrection of December 1933 in Spain. *1934: 1934 Latvian coup d'état, Latvian coup d’état by Latvian prime minister Kārlis Ulmanis against the parliamentary system in Latvia. Lasted until 1940. * 1934: The Austrian Civil War between paramilitary forces of socialist ''Republikanischer Schutzbund, Schutzbund'' and Austrofascism, fascist ''Heimwehr'' * 1934: The Spanish Revolution of 1934, Revolutionary General Strike of October took place during the Background of the Spanish Civil War#The "black biennium", black biennium of the Second Spanish Republic. * 1935: Muharrem Bajraktari, former Aide-de-camp of King Zog, led a revolt against government in North Albania. * 1935: A secret anti-Zogist organization led an uprising against the Albanian government and King Zog in Fier and Lushnje. *1935: The Communist uprising of 1935, Communist Uprising in Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro; Brazil. * 1935–1936: 1935–36 Iraqi Shia revolts, Iraqi Shia revolts against Hashemite central rule. * 1935: Imam Reza shrine rebellion in Iran of Shi'ite radicals against Reza Shah. * 1935–1936: Second Italo-Ethiopian War in which Ethiopians resisted Italian occupation. * 1936: The Febrerista Revolution, led by Rafael Franco, ended oligarchic Liberal Party rule in Paraguay. * 1936: The Spanish Revolution of 1936, Spanish Revolution, a workers' social revolution that began during the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. * 1936: The 1936 Naval Revolt, Portuguese Naval revolt against the Estado Novo (Portugal), Estado Novo regime. * 1936–1939: 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, Arab revolt in Palestine against the British Mandate. * 1936–1939: Spanish Civil War. * 1936–1939: David Toro seizes power in Bolivia, initiating a period of so-called "military socialism", including nationalization of Standard Oil and passage of progressive labor laws, and establishing a corporative state in 1938. * 1937–1938: The Dersim Rebellion, the most important Kurdish people, Kurdish rebellion in modern Turkey. * 1937: The ''Fets de Maig'' or "May Days", a major strike in Catalonia, Spain. * 1937: The Revolt of Delvina, a revolt of gendarmerie and local peasants against King Zog. * 1938: Sudeten German uprising orchestrated by Sudeten German Party against Czechoslovakia. *1938: The Brazilian Integralist Action, Integralist Uprising in Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. * 1939–1965: Spanish Maquis insurgency * 1939–1940: The Irish Republican Army attempt a Irish Republican Army – Abwehr collaboration in World War II, sabotage campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland * 1939–1945: Resistance during World War II * 1939-1945: Home Army, Polish resistance


1940s

* 1940–1948: The 1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya, Insurgency in Chechnya. * 1940: 1940 Cochinchina uprising, Cochinchina Uprising of Vietnam, led by Viet Minh, against French and Japanese Occupation * 1940-1944: French Resistance * 1940: Bac Son Uprising of Vietnam, led by Viet Minh, against French and Japanese Occupation * 1940–1947: Mohammad Ali Jinnah's struggle for a separate state for the Muslims of India. * 1941: The Lithuanian 1941 independence, June Uprising against the Soviet Union in Lithuania. * 1941: Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom, Romania * 1941–1945: Yugoslav People's Liberation War against the Axis Powers in World War II. * 1941–1944: Greek Resistance * 1941: Do Luong Mutiny of Vietnam, led by Doi Cung, against French occupation * 1942: Sri Lankan soldiers ignite the Cocos Islands Mutiny in an unsuccessful attempt to transfer the islands to Japanese control. * 1942: The destruction of the German garrison in Lenin. *1942–1944: The Irish Republican Army tries to start a new campaign in Northern Ireland called the Northern Campaign (Irish Republican Army), Northern Campaign and fails * 1943: The Warsaw Ghetto uprising. * 1943: The uprising at Treblinka extermination camp#Treblinka prisoner uprising, Treblinka extermination camp. * 1943: Following the liberation of Albania, the Party of Labour of Albania, Communist Party of Albania under Enver Hoxha consolidated its control and declared the People's Republic of Albania in January 1946. * 1943: The Sobibor uprising, uprising at Sobibór extermination camp. * 1943: The Woyane rebellion, Woyane Rebellion in northern Ethiopia threatens to topple the newly restored government, and is put down with British help. * 1943–1945: Italian Resistance Movement against Nazi occupation and the Fascist Italian Social Republic, culminating in 25 April final insurrection in Northern Italy. * 1944: The Guatemalan Revolution overthrows the dictator Federico Ponce Vaides by liberal military officers. * 1944: The Warsaw uprising was an armed struggle during the Second World War by the Polish Armia Krajowa, Home Army (''Armia Krajowa'') to liberate Warsaw from German occupation and Nazism, Nazi rule. It started on 1 August 1944. * 1944: The Liberation of Paris#Events timeline, Paris Uprising staged by the French Resistance against the German Paris garrison. * 1944: The Slovak National uprising against Nazi Germany. * 1944: The Sonderkommando Revolt in Auschwitz, uprising at Auschwitz extermination camp. * 1944–1947: The Jewish insurgency in Palestine. * 1944–1947: A Communist-friendly government was installed in Bulgaria following a 1944 Bulgarian coup d'état, coup d'état and the Soviet invasion. * 1944–1949: The Greek Civil War. * 1944-1953: Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953), Anti-communist resistance in Poland. * 1944–1965: The Forest Brothers, Forest Brothers Rebellion in Baltic states against Soviet Union. * 1945: The first anti-communist revolt in Eastern Europe in Koplik, Albania led by bayraktars and intellectuals. * 1945–1949: The Indonesian National Revolution against Dutch after their independence from Japan. Led by Sukarno, Mohammad Hatta, Hatta, Tan Malaka, etc. with the Dutch led by Van Mook. * 1945: May uprising of Czech people :cs:Kv%C4%9Btnov%C3%A9 povst%C3%A1n%C3%AD %C4%8Desk%C3%A9ho lidu, cz ** The Prague uprising against Nazi Germany, German German occupation of Czechoslovakia, occupation during World War II. * 1945: Ba To Uprising of Vietnam, led by Viet Minh, against French and Japanese Occupation * 1945: The August Revolution led by Ho Chi Minh and Viet Minh declared the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from French rule. * 1945: A democratic revolution in Venezuela, led by Rómulo Betancourt. * 1945-1949: Second half of the Chinese Civil War. * 1946: The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny takes place in Bombay, and spreads to different parts of British India, demanding Indian independence movement, Indian independence. * 1946 — 1951: Telangana Rebellion a Communist-led Peasant rebellion in Telangana and Hyderabad, India, ("Telangana Peasants Armed Struggle") was a Peasant rebellion against the feudal lords of the Telangana region in the princely state of Hyderabad, and later the Indian government. * 1946: Another attempt of anti-communist forces in Albania to take out the government takes place in Shkodër. * 1946: The Battle of Athens (1946), Battle of Athens, Tennessee (aka the McMinn County War); a local revolt against officials accused of rigging local elections. * 1947: Three months after an abortive coup, Paraguayan Civil War (1947), civil war broke out in Paraguay. The rebellion was crushed by the government of dictator Higinio Morínigo. * 1947 : Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan waged and led a guerrilla war against the Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir and formed a revolutionary Government on 24 October under his Presidency. He captured a large area of Kashmir called Azad Kashmir. * 1947–1952: In the Albanian Subversion, the intelligence services of the United States and Britain deployed exiled fascists, Nazis, and monarchists in a failed attempt to foment a counterrevolution in Communist-ruled Albania. * 1947: Angami Zapu Phizo declared the independence of Nagaland from India only to be subdued by the Indian army. * 1947: The 228 Massacre occurred following discontent and resentment of the native Taiwanese under the early rule of the KMT of the island. * 1947: India wins independence from Britain. * 1947-1949: The Malagasy Uprising. * 1948: The Costa Rican Civil War precipitated by the vote of the Costa Rican Legislature, dominated by pro-government representatives, to annul the results of the 1948 Costa Rican general election, presidential election of 1948. * 1948: Following the liberation of Korea, Marxist former guerrillas under Kim Il Sung work to rapidly industrialize the country and rid it of the last vestiges of "feudalism.". * 1948–1960: The Malayan Emergency. *1948-1989: The communist insurgency in Burma is launched. * 1948: Al-Wathbah (the Leap) uprising in Iraq. * 1948 : Second Communist Party of Indonesia, Communist rebellion in Indonesia. The Communists tried to establish the Madiun Affair, Indonesian Soviet Republic, but were crushed by the Indonesian National Armed Forces. * 1949: Chinese Communist Revolution. A period of Social revolution, social and political revolution in China that culminated in the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. * 1949-1962: Darul Islam rebellion. Darul Islam attempted to overthrow the government and establish an Islamic state in Indonesia.


1950s

* 1950: The Cazin uprising in the town of Cazin, Bosnia and Herzegovina * 1950: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s in Puerto Rico, attempt on the life of US president Harry S. Truman in the Blair House, and shooting at Congress, was a call for Puerto Rico's independence and uprising by the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party against United States Government rule of Puerto Rico. * 1950s: The Mau Mau uprising. * 1950: Republic of South Maluku (RMS) separatist rebellion. The rebellion was crushed by Indonesian National Armed Forces. Surviving RMS rebels founded government-in-exile in The Netherlands. * 1951: A 1951 Nepalese revolution, Revolution in Nepal introduced democracy in Nepal. * 1951-1952: 426 Battalion rebellion. An Indonesian army battalion rebelled against the government with the support of Darul Islam (Indonesia), Darul Islam. The rebellion was crushed in 1952, and the remaining rebels joined Darul Islam and an armed group in the Merapi Merbabu Complex. * 1952: A popular revolution in Bolivia led by Víctor Paz Estenssoro and the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) initiates a period of multiparty democracy lasting until a 1964 military coup. * 1952: The Rosewater Revolution in Lebanon. * 1952: Egyptian Revolution of 1952 * 1953: The Vorkuta uprising was a major uprising of the Gulag political prisoner, inmates in Vorkuta in the summer of 1953. Like other camp uprisings it was bloodily quelled by the Red Army and the NKVD. * 1953: Uprising of 1953 in East Germany. * 1953–1959: The Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro removes the government of General Fulgencio Batista. By 1962 Cuba had been transformed into a declared Socialist state, socialist republic. * 1953–1975: The Laotian Civil War in Laos. * 1954–1962: The Algerian War of Independence: an uprising against French colonialism. * 1954–1968: The Civil rights movement in the
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was a struggle by African Americans to end legalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation. * 1954: The Kengir uprising in the Soviet prison labor camp Kengir. * 1954: The Uyghur people, Uyghur uprising against Chinese rule in Hotan. * 1955–1960: The Guerrilla war against British colonial rule of Cyprus led by the EOKA (National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters). * 1955–1972: The First Sudanese Civil War was a conflict between the northern part of Sudan and a south that demanded more regional autonomy. * 1955–1958: The Revolución Libertadora in Argentina. * 1956–1962: The Border campaign (Irish Republican Army), Border Campaign led by the Irish Republican Army against the British, along the border of the independent Republic of Ireland and British Northern Ireland. * 1956: De-Stalinization revolution in the Eastern Bloc: ** The Khrushchev Thaw ** The 1956 Georgian demonstrations ** The Poznań 1956 protests, Poznań protests, a workers' uprising in the Polish People's Republic that was suppressed. ** The Polish October ** The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Hungarian Revolution, a failed workers' and peasants' revolution against the Soviet-supported communist state in Hungary. ** The Bucharest student movement of 1956, Bucharest student movement * 1956: The Tibetan people, Tibetan rebellions against Chinese rule broke out in Amdo and Kham. * 1956: Quỳnh Lưu uprising against communist government in North Vietnam * 1958: A popular revolt in Venezuela against military dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez culminates in a civic-military coup d'état. * 1958: The 14 July Revolution, Iraqi Revolution (14 July Revolution) led by nationalist soldiers abolishes the British-backed monarchy, executes many of its top officials, and begins to assert the country's independence from both Cold War power blocs. * 1959: The failed Tibetan people, Tibetan 1959 Tibetan uprising, uprising against Chinese rule led to the flight of the Dalai Lama. * 1959–1962: In the Rwandan Revolution, the Tutsi king of Rwanda is forced into exile by Hutu extremists; racial pogroms follow an assassination attempt on Hutu leader Grégoire Kayibanda.


1960s

* 1960: A group of disaffected Ethiopian officers make an 1960 Ethiopian coup, unsuccessful attempt to depose Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Emperor Haile Selassie and replace him with a more progressive government, but are defeated by the rest of the Ethiopian military. * 1960: April Revolution erupts in South Korea, leading to the end of the First Republic of South Korea. *1961: The Campanha da Legalidade, Legality Campaign (''Campanha da Legalidade'') in Brazil. *1961: El Barcelonazo in Venezuela. * 1961–1970: First Kurdish Iraqi War erupts as a result of Barzanji clan uprising. * 1961–1991: The Eritrean War of Independence led by Isaias Afewerki against Ethiopia. * 1961–1975: The Angolan War of Independence began as an uprising against forced cotton harvesting, and became a multi-faction struggle for control of Portugal's Portuguese West Africa, Overseas Province of Angola. * 1962: El Carupanazo in Venezuela. * 1962: El Porteñazo in Venezuela. * 1962–1974: The leftist African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) wages a revolutionary war of independence in Portuguese Guinea. In 1973, the independent Republic of Guinea-Bissau is proclaimed, and the next year the republic's independence is recognized by the reformist military junta in Lisbon. * 1962: The military coup of 1962 in Burma, led by General Ne Win, who became the country's strongman. * 1962–present: Papua conflict. * 1962: A revolution in northern Yemen overthrew the imam and established the Yemen Arab Republic. * 1962–1975: Dhofar Rebellion in Oman. * 1963: White Revolution in Iran. * 1963: 1963 demonstrations in Iran. * 1963 Dutch farmers' revolt. * 1963: 1963 Syrian coup d'état, Syrian coup d'état in Syria that brought Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region, Ba'ath Party to power. * 1963–1970: The Bale Revolt in southern Ethiopia, was a guerrilla war by local Somali people, Somali and Oromo people, Oromo against Amhara people, Amhara settlers. * 1963–1971: 1963 Ogaden Rebellion, Ogaden Revolt in southern Ethiopia, a guerrilla war by Somalis seeking self-determination. * 1964: Simba Rebellion in the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville), Congo. * 1964: The Zanzibar Revolution overthrew the 157-year-old Arab monarchy, declared the People's Republic of Zanzibar, and began the process of unification with Julius Nyerere's Tanganyika (1961–1964), Tanganyika. * 1964: 1964 Brazilian coup d'état led by Field Marshal Humberto Castelo Branco against president Joao Goulart. * 1964–1979: The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Second Chimurenga, was a guerrilla war which lasted from July 1964 to 1979 and led to universal suffrage, the end of white minority rule in Rhodesia, and the creation of the Republic of Zimbabwe. * 1964: The October Revolution in Sudan, driven by a general strike and rioting, forced President Ibrahim Abboud to transfer executive power to a transitional civilian government, and eventually to resign. * 1964–1975: The Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO), formed in 1962, commenced a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonialism. Independence was granted on 25 June 1975; however, the Mozambican Civil War complicated the political situation and frustrated FRELIMO's attempts at radical change. The war continued into the early 1990s after the government dropped Marxism as the state ideology. * 1964–present: The Colombian Civil War (1964–present), Colombian Armed Conflict. * 1965: Following the overthrow of Dominican President Juan Bosch (politician), Juan Bosch in 1963, tensions erupted between loyalists of the government and rebels, sparking the Dominican Civil War, April Revolution. The fear of communist rule in the
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, similar to the case of Cuba after the Cuban Revolution, triggered a second U.S invasion into the country. * 1965: 30 September Movement was a failed coup by the Communist Party to turn Indonesia into a Communist state. * 1965: The March Intifada in Bahrain: a Leftist uprising demanding an end to the British presence in Bahrain. * 1965-1983: The communist insurgency in Thailand is launched. * 1966: Kwame Nkrumah is removed from power in Ghana by coup d'état. * 1966–1990: A South African Police patrol clashes with militants of the South West African People's Organization in 1966, sparking the Namibian War of Independence. The conflict is part of the larger South African Border War and linked closely with South Africa's intervention in the Angolan Civil War. It largely ended with Namibia's 1989 Namibian parliamentary election, first democratic elections in 1989. * 1966–1993: A guerrilla warfare was conducted against the government of François Tombalbaye from the Sudan-based group FROLINAT. * 1966–1976: Mao Zedong launches the Cultural Revolution, Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China, a sociopolitical movement to purge revisionist and bourgeois elements from the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese society at large through violent class struggle. * 1966–1998: The Ulster Volunteer Force (1966), Ulster Volunteer Force was recreated by militant Ulster Protestant Ulster loyalism, loyalists in Northern Ireland to wage war against the Irish Republican Army and the Roman Catholic community at large. * 1966: The year it is estimated the Black Power movement began, with no exact official end date. * 1967–1970: Biafra: The former eastern Nigeria unsuccessfully fought for a breakaway republic of Biafra, after the mainly Igbo people of the region suffered pogroms in northern Nigeria the previous year. * 1967: The Naxalite Movement begins in India, led by the AICCCR. * 1967: Anguillans resentful of Kittitian domination of the island expelled the Kittitian police and declared independence from the British colony of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla. British forces retook the island in 1969 and made Anguilla a separate dependency in 1980. There was no bloodshed in the entire episode. * 1967–1973: The Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War begins to turn violent, the violence later escalates. Incidents include the Weather High School Jailbreaks and the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion * 1967: 1967 Hong Kong riots, Pro-communist, anti-British riots in Hong Kong * 1967: Long, hot summer of 1967 – a series of 159 Race riots in the United States, race riots which occurred in major cities across the United States in the summer of 1967 **1967 Buffalo riot (June 26 – July 1) **Racial unrest in Cairo, Illinois, 1967 Cairo riot (July 17) **Cambridge riot of 1967, 1967 Cambridge riot (July 24, 1967) **1967 Detroit riot (July 23–28) **1967 Toledo Riot, 1967 Toledo riot (July 23–25) **1967 Milwaukee riot (July 30 – August 31) **1967 Newark riots (July 12–17) **1967 Plainfield riots (July 14–16) **1967 Saginaw riot (July 26) **Albina Riot of 1967, 1967 Albina riot (July 30) *1968–present: Moro conflict in the Philippines. *1968: The revolution in the Republic of Congo. * 1968: The Protests of 1968: ** The May 1968 revolt: students' and workers' revolt against the government of Charles de Gaulle in France. ** A failed attempt by leader Alexander Dubček to liberalise Czechoslovakia in defiance of the Soviet-supported communist state culminates in the Prague Spring. ** The March of the One Hundred Thousand was a manifestation of popular protest against the military dictatorship in Brazil, which occurred in Rio de Janeiro. ** The 1968 movement in Italy ***Battle of Valle Giulia ** The 1968 student demonstrations in Yugoslavia ** The German student movement, West German student movement ** A 1968 movement in Pakistan, mass movement of workers, students, and peasants in Pakistan forced the resignation of President Ayub Khan (President of Pakistan), Mohammad Ayub Khan. ** The 1968 Polish political crisis ** The Mexican Movement of 1968 ***Tlatelolco massacre **King-assassination riots – a series of race riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. ***1968 Detroit riots ***1968 New York City riot ***1968 Washington, D.C., riots, 1968 Washington D.C. riot ***1968 Chicago riots, 1968 Chicago riot ***1968 Pittsburgh riots ***Baltimore riot of 1968, 1968 Baltimore riots ***1968 Kansas City, Missouri riot, 1968 Kansas City riot ***Wilmington riot of 1968, 1968 Wilmington riot ***1968 Louisville riots, 1968 Louisville riot **1968 Democratic National Convention protests **Columbia University protests of 1968 * 1968: A 1968 Peruvian coup d'état, coup by Juan Velasco Alvarado in Peru, followed by radical social and economic reforms. * 1968–1969 Iraqi communists launched an Ba'athist Iraq#Al-Bakr's rule and Saddam's rise to power (1968–1979), insurgency in southern Iraq. * 1968–1969: The Agbekoya, Egbe Agbekoya Revolt was an unsuccessful peasant revolt in Western Nigeria. * 1969–present: Communist rebellion in the Philippines. * 1969–1998: The Troubles: the Provisional Irish Republican Army and other Irish Republicanism, Republican Paramilitaries waged an armed campaign against British Security forces and Ulster Loyalism, Loyalist Paramilitaries in an attempt to bring about a United Ireland. * 1969: The Days of Rage occur, part of the Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War.


1970s

* 1970: Golpe Borghese, Borghese Coup fails in Italy. * 1970: The Black Power Revolution occurs in Trinidad. * 1970: A rebellion in Guinea by what its government identified as Portuguese agents. * 1970–1971: Black September in Jordan * 1971: The Bangladesh Liberation War led by the Mukti Bahini establishes the independent People's Republic of Bangladesh from the former East Pakistan. * 1971 Dutch farmers' revolt * 1972–present: The Maoist insurgency in Turkey is launched. * 1972: A revolution in Benin. * 1972: A military-led revolution against the civilian government of President Philibert Tsiranana in the Malagasy Republic; a Marxist faction takes power in 1975 under Didier Ratsiraka, modeled on the DPRK, North Korean ''juche'' theory developed by Kim Il Sung. * 1973: 1973 Chilean coup d'etat led by Captain General Augusto Pinochet against President Salvador Allende in Chile. * 1973: Wounded Knee Incident. American Indian Movement activists and Oglala Lakota besiege the small town of Wounded Knee in protest of government policies towards Native Americans and the corrupt Wilson Regime. Part of the Red Power movement * 1973: Mohammad Daud Khan overthrows the monarchy and establishes a republic in Afghanistan. * 1973: Worker-student demonstrations in Thailand force dictator Thanom Kittikachorn and two close associates to flee the country, beginning a short period of democratic constitutional rule. * 1974: The Ethiopian Revolution results in the overthrow of Emperor of Ethiopia, Emperor Haile Selassie, the establishment of the communism, communist Derg junta and the beginning of the Ethiopian Civil War. * 1974–1975: The Carnation Revolution overthrows the right-wing dictatorship in Portugal. Leads to the independence of Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste and recognition of Guinea-Bissau's self-proclaimed independence. * 1975–1991: The Western Sahara War was a conflict between the Sahrawi people, Sahrawi national liberation movement named POLISARIO against the armies of their neighbours, Morocco and Mauritania, who have entered the territory when the Spanish colonizers troops fled. * 1975: A revolution in Cambodia. * 1975: Lebanese Civil War lasted from 1975 to 1990. * 1975: 15 August, coup led by young military officers and the Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Bangladesh. * 1975: Coup led by Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf and Colonel Shafaat Jamil in Bangladesh to depose President Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad. Three days later a counter-coup by Colonel Abu Taher puts Ziaur Rahman in power. *1975: Having become disillusioned with the rule of Leonid Brezhnev, Valery Sablin leads a mutiny in hopes of starting a Leninist revolution in the Soviet Union. * 1976-1988: The "May-Revolution" by the Kurds in North-Iraq against the government. * 1976: Student demonstrations and election-related violence in Thailand lead police to open fire on a sit-in at Thammasat University, killing hundreds. The military seizes power the next day, ending constitutional rule. * 1976: The Gang of Four is removed from power in China in a coup led by Chairman Hua Guofeng with the support of senior officers of the People's Liberation Army, ending the Cultural Revolution. * 1976: 1976 Argentine coup d'etat led by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla against President Isabel Perón. * 1977: 1977 Egyptian Bread Riots, Egyptian Bread Riots the riots were a spontaneous uprising by hundreds of thousands of lower-class people, at least 79 people were killed and 800 wounded. * 1977: The Guinean Market Women's Revolt, Market Women's Revolt in Guinea leads to a lessening of the state's role in the economy. * 1977: A 1977 Bangladesh Air Force mutiny, mutiny in Bangladesh Air Force occurs, with the goal of establishing a Marxist government, resulting in the deaths of 11 air force officers. Subsequently, 1143 airmen and soldiers were executed for their alleged involvement in the uprising. * 1978: The Saur Revolution led by the Khalq faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan deposes and kills President Mohammad Daud Khan. * 1979: New Jewel Movement led by Maurice Bishop launch an armed revolution and overthrow the government of Eric Gairy in Grenada. * 1979: The popular overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship in the Nicaraguan Revolution. * 1979: Anti-Communist Rebels in Nicaragua (aka) Contras start to form. * 1979: The Iranian Revolution overthrows Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, resulting in the formation of the History of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran. * 1979: Cambodia is liberated from the Khmer Rouge regime by the Vietnam-backed Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party. * 1979: 1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état led by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo against Francisco Macías Nguema. * 1979–1992: Salvadoran Civil War


1980s

* 1980: National Socialist Council of Nagaland launches its struggle against Indian administration and the establishment of the greater Nagaland. * 1980: 25 February. Suriname Government are put aside by a group of soldiers. The leader of the revolution is Desi Delano Bouterse. * 1980: Gwangju uprising, alternatively called the "May 18 Democratic Uprising", in South Korea * 1980: The Santo Rebellion in the Anglo-French condominium (international law), condominium of New Hebrides * 1980–2000: The Shining Path, Communist Party of Peru launched the internal conflict in Peru. * 1980: 1980 Entumbane clashes, First Entumbane uprising in Zimbabwe. * 1981: Assassination of Ziaur Rahman in Bangladesh sparks protests and riots. * 1981: 1981 Entumbane uprising, Second Entumbane uprising in Zimbabwe. * 1982: General Hussain Muhammad Ershad seizes power through a bloodless coup, deposing president Abdus Sattar (president), Abdus Sattar in Bangladesh. * 1983–1984: Diretas Já, a Brazilian civil unrest movement that demanded direct presidential elections. * 1983: Overthrow of the ruling Conseil de Salut du peuple (CSP) by Marxist forces led by Thomas Sankara in Republic of Upper Volta, Upper Volta, renamed Burkina Faso in the following year. * 1983: Prime Minister of Grenada, Maurice Bishop, overthrown and subsequently executed by high-ranking government officials. * 1983–2009: Starting from 23 July 1983, an on-and-off Sri Lankan civil war, civil war against the Government of Sri Lanka by the secessionist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam begins. The LTTE fight to establish an Tamil Eelam, independent Tamil state in the Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil-majority northeastern half of Sri Lanka. Fighting would last for nearly 26 years, resulting in the brutal defeat of the LTTE. * 1983–2005: The Second Sudanese Civil War was largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War, and one of the longest lasting and deadliest wars of the later 20th century. * 1984–1999: Kurdish–Turkish conflict, Kurdish uprising for independence from the Republic of Turkey * 1984–1985: Pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) forces in New Caledonia revolt following an election boycott and occupy the town of Thio, New Caledonia, Thio from November 1984 to January 1985. Thio is retaken by the French after the assassination of Éloi Machoro, the security minister in the FLNKS provisional government and the primary leader of the occupation. * 1985: Soviet and Afghanistan Prisoners of war, POWs rose against their captors at Badaber Uprising, Badaber base. * 1986: The People Power Revolution peacefully overthrows Ferdinand Marcos after his two-decade rule in the Philippines. * 1986–1991: Somali Rebellion as a result of military dictator Siad Barre beginning to attack clan-based dissident groups. * 1986: Khalistan Commando Force started armed movement for the establishment of Khalistan, an independent Sikh homeland. The movement, as is the case with other Sikh nationalistic movements, was fueled in part by the Indian army's Operation Blue Star. The armed struggle resulted in thousands of mostly civilian deaths. * 1987 : The June Struggle overthrew military dictatorship of South Korea. * The rigged 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election created a catalyst for the Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, insurgency when it resulted in some of the state's legislative assembly members forming armed insurgent groups launches its struggle against Indian administration. * 1987–1991: The First Intifada, or the Palestinian uprising, a series of violent incidents between Palestinians and State of Israel, Israelis. * 1988–1991: The Pan-Armenian National Movement frees Armenia from Soviet rule. * 1988–1991: The Singing Revolution, bloodless overthrow of communist rule in Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, Soviet-occupied Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. * 1988: The 8888 Uprising In Burma or Myanmar. * 1989: Armed resistance breaks out in the Kashmir valley against Kashmir conflict, Indian administration. * 1989–1990 Dutch farmers' protests against wheat price reductions and environmental legislation. * 1989–1997: The First Liberian Civil War in Liberia * 1989: Revolutions of 1989 – a series of revolutions against Communist states around the world, especially in the Soviet Union, Soviet satellite states of the Eastern Bloc ** Strikes by the Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity movement end in Polish Round Table Agreement, negotiations leading to the end of Martial law in Poland, martial law and the History of Poland (1945–1989)#Politics of the last years of the People's Republic and the transition period, peaceful overthrow of the Communist government in Poland **End of communism in Hungary (1989), Demonstrations in Hungary led to the peaceful overthrow of the Communist government and the Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria, dismantlement of the Hungarian border fence with Austria ** The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Tiananmen Square protests, a series of street demonstrations led by students, intellectuals and Labour movement, labour activists in the People's Republic of China between 15 April and 4 June 1989, ends in a violent crackdown by the People's Liberation Army. ** Peaceful Revolution, Demonstrations in East Germany led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. ** End of Communism in Bulgaria (1989), Demonstrations in the People's Republic of Bulgaria led to the fall of the communist government there. ** The bloodless Velvet Revolution removes the communist government in Czechoslovakia. ** The Romanian Revolution kills the dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife, Elena Ceauşescu, in the Socialist Republic of Romania **Baltic Way demonstrations against the Baltic states under Soviet rule (1944–1991), Soviet occupation of the Baltic States in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia; part of the Singing Revolution against Soviet rule leading to the independence of the Baltic states, Baltic States in 1991


1990s

* 1990: Oka Crisis *1990: 1990 Nepalese revolution, People's Movement I was a revolution to restore democracy in Nepal and end the Panchayat (Nepal), panchayat system in Nepal. *1990–present: United Liberation Front of Asom launch major violent activities against Indian rule in Assam. To date, the resulting clashes with the Indian army have left more than 10,000 dead. * 1990: 1990 Mass Uprising in Bangladesh Strikes and Protests topple the Bangladeshi military government and democracy is restored for the first time in nine years. * 1990: The Poll tax riots were a series of riots in British towns and cities during protests against the Community Charge introduced by the government of Margaret Thatcher. * 1990–1993: Rwandan Civil War * 1990–1992: Anticommunist forces led a National Democratic Revolution that overthrew President Ramiz Alia and ended with an 1992 Albanian parliamentary election, election victory by the Democratic Party of Albania, the biggest anticommunist party in Albania. * 1990–1995: The Log Revolution in Croatia starts, triggering the Croatian War of Independence. * 1990–1995: The First Tuareg Rebellion in Niger and Mali. * 1991–2002: The Sierra Leone Civil War against the administration of president, Joseph Saidu Momoh. * 1991: 1991 Iraqi uprisings * 1991: The failed 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt takes place, leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union * 1991: Chechen Revolution leading to the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Chechen Republic. * 1991: The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front take control of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, after dictator Haile Mariam Mengistu flees the country, bringing an end to the Ethiopian Civil War * 1991: Somali National Movement rebels establish the Somaliland administration in northwestern Somalia, and declare the region independent from the rest of the country. * 1992: 1992 Los Angeles riots * 1992: Black May (1992) Thailand popular protest in Bangkok against the government of General Suchinda Kraprayoon and the military crackdown that followed. Up to 200,000 people demonstrated in central Bangkok at the height of the protests. * 1992–1995: Bosnian War * 1992: Afghan uprising against the Taliban by United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan, or the Northern Alliance. * 1993: Waco siege. * 1994: The 1990s Uprising in Bahrain, Shiite-led rebellion for the restoration of democracy in Bahrain. * 1994: The Zapatista Rebellion: an uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas demanding equal rights for indigenous peoples and in opposition to growing neoliberalism in North America. * 1994–1996: The First Chechen War, First Chechen Rebellion against Russia. * 1996–2006: Nepalese Civil War * 1996: Islamic movement in Afghanistan led by the Taliban established Taliban rule. * 1996–1997: The First Congo War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. * 1997: The 1997 rebellion in Albania sparked by Ponzi scheme failures. * 1997–1999: The Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–99), Republic of the Congo Civil War * 1998: The Indonesian Revolution of 1998 resulted the resignation of President Suharto after three decades of the New Order (Indonesia), New Order period. * 1998–1999: The Kosovo War * 1998–1999: The Guinea-Bissau Civil War against the administration and government of President Joao Bernardo Vieira. * 1998–2003: The Second Congo War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. * 1999–2003: The Second Liberian Civil War against the government of Liberia. * 1999–2009: The Second Chechen War, Second Chechen Rebellion against Russia. * 1999: The Iran student protests, July 1999 were, at the time, the most violent protests to occur against the Islamic Republic of Iran. * 1999–2000: The Cochabamba Water War in Bolivia.


2000s

* 2000–2005: The Second Intifada, a continuation of the First Intifada, between Palestinian people, Palestinians and Israel. * 2000: The bloodless Bulldozer Revolution, first of the four colour revolutions (in 2000, 2003, 2004, and 2005), overthrows Slobodan Milošević's régime in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. * 2001: The 2001 Macedonia conflict. * 2001-2021: The Taliban insurgency following the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), 2001 war in Afghanistan which overthrew Taliban rule. * 2001: The EDSA Revolution of 2001, 2001 EDSA Revolution peacefully ousts List of presidents of the Philippines, Philippine President Joseph Estrada after the collapse of his impeachment trial. * 2001: Supporters of List of presidents of the Philippines, former Philippine President Joseph Estrada violently and unsuccessfully stage a rally, so-called the EDSA Tres, in an attempt of returning him to power. * 2001: Cacerolazo in Argentina. Following mass riots and a period of civil unrest, popular protests oust the government and two additional interim presidents within months. December 2001 riots in Argentina * 2003–2005: Bolivian gas conflict. * 2003: The Rose Revolution, second of the colour revolutions, displaces the president of Georgia (country), Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze, and calls new elections. * 2003–2011: The Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011), Iraqi insurgency refers to the armed resistance by diverse groups within Iraq to the Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011), U.S. occupation of Iraq and to the establishment of a liberal democracy therein. * 2003–present: The Darfur rebellion led by the two major rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM/A) and the Justice and Equality Movement, recruited primarily from the land-tilling Fur people, Fur, Zaghawa people, Zaghawa, and Masalit people, Massaleit ethnic groups. * 2003–present: Conflict in the Niger Delta * 2004–2004: The Iraq spring fighting of 2004, Shi'ite Uprising against the Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011), US-led occupation of Iraq. * 2004–2005: The Orange Revolution in Ukraine. After pro-Russian prime minister Viktor Yanukovych was declared the winner of the presidential elections, people took to the streets in protest against mass fraud and vote falsification. Eventually, the country's Supreme Court ordered a recount, in which pro-Western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was declared the winner. This was the third colour revolution. * 2005: A failed attempt at popular colour-style revolution in Azerbaijan, led by the groups Yox! and Freedom (Azerbaijan), Azadlig. * 2004: Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, War in North-West Pakistan. * 2004–present: The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency, Naxalite insurgency in India, led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist). * 2004–2013: The Kivu conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. * 2005: The Cedar Revolution, triggered by the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, asks for the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon. * 2005: The Tulip Revolution (a.k.a. Pink/Yellow Revolution) overthrows the President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, and set new elections. This is the fourth colour revolution. * 2005: Insurgency in Paraguay, Paraguayan People's Army insurgency. * 2005: 2005 Ahvaz unrest, 15 April Intifada – Arab uprising in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. * 2005: Ecuador experiences a nationwide and countrywide revolution, consisting of rallies and demonstrations, rioting and protests in March–April 2005 from indigenous tribes that started with a protest that mushroomed into a widespread uprising and popular movement that led to the overthrow of the government. * 2006: 2006 Nepalese revolution, 2006 democracy movement in Nepal was a revolution against Undemocratic rule of Gyanendra of Nepal, King Gyanendra. * 2006: The 2006 Oaxaca protests demanding the removal of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, the governor of Oaxaca state in Mexico. * 2006–present: The Mexican drug war. * 2007: The Lawyers' Movement in Pakistan emerged to restore a judge but eventually moved to rebel against the military dictatorship of General Pervez Musharraf. * 2007–2015: The War in Ingushetia, Civil war in Ingushetia. * 2007–2009: The Tuareg rebellion (2007–2009), Second Tuareg Rebellion in Niger. * 2007: The Saffron Revolution, Burmese anti-government protests, including the Saffron Revolution of Burmese Buddhist monks. * 2008: 2008 Armenian presidential election protests. * 2008: Amarnath land transfer controversy, 2008 Kashmir Unrest. * 2008: A Mahdi Army#March 2008 Iraqi security forces crackdown, Shiite uprising in Basra. * 2008: Attacks in Lanao del Norte in the Philippines by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front led by Kumander Bravo and Umbrfa Kato. * 2008: Anti-austerity movement in Ireland, Anti-austerity protests in Ireland * 2008: 2008 Tibetan unrest. * 2009: 2009 Iranian presidential election protests, leading to development of Iranian Green Movement * 2009: Bangladesh Rifles revolt, 2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh killing 57 army officers. * 2009–2011: A civil uprising popularly known as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Kitchenware Revolution brought down the Icelandic government after the collapse of the country's financial system in October 2008. * 2009: The 2009 Malagasy political crisis in the Madagascar. * 2009: The Dongo conflict In the Democratic Republic of the Congo. * 2009–present: Somali Civil War (2009–present). * 2009–2015: South Yemen insurgency. * 2009: 2009 Boko Haram uprising. * 2009–2017: Insurgency in the North Caucasus.


2010s

* 2010 Thai political protests. * 2010–2011: 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis. * 2010–2012: Tajikistan insurgency. * 2010: Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010. * 2010: 2010 Kashmir unrest, Kashmir Unrest 2010. * 2010–2012: Anti-austerity movement in Greece * 2010–2012: Arab Spring: ** The Tunisian revolution (2010–2011) forces President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to resign and flee the country, and sets free elections. ** The 2011 Egyptian revolution brings down the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. ** The First Libyan Civil War, 2011 Libyan Civil War in which rebel forces gradually take control of the country, and kill leader Muammar Gaddafi following NATO-led intervention in the war. ** Factional violence in Libya (2011–2014), 2011 Post-civil war violence in Libya. **Syrian revolution, Syrian Revolution. ** 2011 Bahraini uprising, Bahraini uprising of 2011. ** Yemeni Revolution, 2011 Yemeni Revolution, the revolt that led to the eventual resignation of Ali Abdullah Saleh as President of Yemen. * 2011–present: Sinai insurgency. *2011: Cherán#2011 uprising and the transition away from government control, Cherán uprising. *2011: Wukan protests in China. * 2011–2020: Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile * 2011–2017: Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon * 2011–present: Ethnic violence in South Sudan. * Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013). * 2011–2013 Maldives political crisis: Public protests and police mutiny led to resignation of President Mohamed Nasheed. * 2011–2012: Occupy movement. * 2011: 2011 Rome demonstration, 2011 Rome city uprising * 2012–present: Rojava conflict in Syrian Kurdistan. * 2012–2015: Mali War, Northern Mali conflict. ** 2012–2012: Tuareg rebellion (2012), 2012 Tuareg rebellion. * 2012–present: Central African Republic Civil War, Central African Republic conflictFrançois Bozizé, president of the Central African Republic, is overthrown by the rebel coalition Séléka, led by Michel Djotodia. * 2012–2013: M23 rebellion (2012–2013), M23 rebellion. * 2012–2015 unrest in Romania. *2013: 2013 protests in Brazil, 2013 Protests in Brazil * 2013 Eritrean Army mutiny. * 2013: Gezi Park protests in Turkey. * 2013–present: Islamic State-related terrorist attacks in Turkey, Turkey–ISIL conflict. * South Sudanese Civil War, 2013 South Sudanese political crisis. * 2013–2014 Tunisian political crisis, 2013–14 Tunisian protests against the Ennahda-led government. * 2013–2020: South Sudanese Civil War. * RENAMO insurgency (2013–2019). * 2013–2014: Euromaidan. **Revolution of Dignity. * 2013–14 Thai political crisis. * 2013–14 Cambodian protests. * 2014–present: 2014 Protests in Venezuela. * Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017). * 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine. * 2014–2020: Second Libyan Civil War. * 2014: Abkhazian Revolution. * 2014: 2014 Hong Kong protests, The Umbrella Revolution of Hong Kong * 2014 Burkinabé uprising. *2014: Ferguson unrest in Missouri * 2015–present: Yemeni Civil War (2015–present). * Burundian unrest (2015–18). * 2015–present: Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present). * 2015–2022: ISIL insurgency in Tunisia. *2015: 2015 Baltimore protests * 2016–present: 2016 Niger Delta conflict. * 2016 Ethiopian protests. * 2016 Mong Kok civil unrest, also known as "Fishball Revolution" in Mong Kok, Hong Kong * 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, a failed military coup. * 2016–2019: Kamwina Nsapu rebellion * 2017–present: Anglophone Crisis, also known as the Ambazonia War, or the Cameroonian Civil War. * 2016–17 South Korean protests, or Candlelight Revolution, in South Korea. * 2016–17 Kashmir unrest. * 2016–17: Protests against Donald Trump#Post-election, United States election protests – protests challenging the outcome of the 2016 United States presidential election. * 2017 Ivory Coast mutiny. *2017: 2017 Military Police of Espírito Santo strike in Espírito Santo, Brazil. * 2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis. * 2017–2018 Romanian protests. * 2017–2018 Iranian protests. * 2018–present: 2018–19 Arab protests: **2018 Jordanian protests. ** 2018–2019: Sudanese revolution, which resulted in the ouster of the President. ** 2019–2020 Algerian protests, also called Revolution of Smiles or Hirak Movement. ** 2019–present: 2019 Iraqi protests, also nicknamed the October Revolution, and 2019 Iraqi Intifada. ** 2019–present: 2019–20 Lebanese protests, also referred to as the Lebanese revolt. * 2018 Armenian Velvet Revolution, which resulted in the ouster of the Prime Minister. * 2018–2019 Gaza border protests, also referred to by organizers as the "Great March of Return". * 2018–2020: 2018–19 Nicaraguan protests, 2018–20 Nicaraguan protests. * 2018–2019: 2018–2019 Haitian protests. * 2018–2019 Ingushetia protests * 2018–present: Yellow vests protests. * 2019–2020: 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests * 2019 Papua protests. * 2019 Indonesian protests and riots. * Telegramgate, 2019 Puerto Rico Anti-Corruption / Chat scandal Protest. * 2019–present: Dutch farmers' protests. * 2019 Ecuadorian protests. * 2019–2020 Catalan protests. * 2019–2022 Chilean protests, also called "Estallido social". * 2019 Bolivian protests * 2019–2020 Iranian protests. * 2019–2020: Citizenship Amendment Act protests, in India.


2020s

* Protests against responses to the COVID-19 pandemic – a series of protests around the world against National responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, various governments' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly COVID-19 lockdowns, lockdowns. **Strikes during the COVID-19 pandemic – strikes against wages or low hazard pay, insufficient Workplace hazard controls for COVID-19, workplace hazard controls such as a lack of personal protective equipment or social distancing, high rents or evictions, and the pandemic's general Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic impact. * United States racial unrest (2020–2023), 2020–2023 United States racial unrest – a series of protests against Racial inequality in the United States, racial inequality and police brutality in the United States, sometimes in favor of Police abolition movement, abolishing or Defund the police, defunding the police. **George Floyd protests. **Breonna Taylor protests. **Kenosha unrest. **2020–2023 Minneapolis–Saint Paul racial unrest. * 2020–2021 Bulgarian protests – protests against Boyko Borisov's government. * 2020–2021 Belarusian protests – protests against Alexander Lukashenko's government. * 2020–2021 Thai protests – pro-democracy protests for reform to the Monarchy of Thailand, Thai monarchy and against the Constitution of Thailand, 2017 Thai Constitution and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's government. * 2020 Malian protests, also called "Malian Spring". * 2020 Inner Mongolia protests * 2020–2021 women's strike protests in Poland – protests against a Constitutional Tribunal (Poland), Constitutional Tribunal ruling restricting Abortion in Poland, abortion. * End SARS, End SARS protests – protests to abolish the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Nigeria. (2020) * 2020 Kyrgyz Revolution, also called the Third Kyrgyz Revolution. *Indonesia omnibus law protests – protests against the Omnibus Law on Job Creation. * 2020 Peruvian protests – protests against the Second impeachment and removal of Martín Vizcarra, impeachment and removal of Martín Vizcarra. * 2020 Guatemalan protests * 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest – protests against the 2020 Indian agriculture acts. * Tigray War – the conflict started as an uprising in Ethiopia, Ethiopia's Tigray Region, Tigray region led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front, TPLF, but then developed into a civil war in Northern Ethiopia. * 2020-2021 United States election protests – protests challenging the legitimacy of the results in the 2020 United States presidential election. **January 6 United States Capitol attack **Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election * 2021 Boğaziçi University protests * 2021 Tunisian protests * 2021 Russian protests * Myanmar protests (2021–present), 2021-present Myanmar protests, also called the Spring Revolution, followed by Myanmar civil war (2021–present), the escalated civil war. * 2021 Greek protests * 2021 Bangladesh anti-Modi protests * 2021 Northern Ireland riots * 2021 Colombian protests * 2021 Senegalese protests * 2021-2023 Eswatini protests * 2021 South African unrest * 2021 Brazilian protests * 2021 Cuban protests, also called the Cuba Libre movement. * 2021–2022 Iranian protests * Republican insurgency in Afghanistan * 2021–2022 Afghan protests * 2021 Solomon Islands unrest * 2021–2022 Serbian environmental protests * 2022 Kazakh unrest, also called Bloody January. * Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine ** Anti-war protests in Russia (2022–present) * Canada convoy protest * 2022 Sri Lankan protests * 2022 Corsica unrest * 2022 Azadi March I * 2022 Karakalpak protests * 2022 Ecuadorian protests * 2022 Peruvian economic protests * 2022 Iranian food protests * Mahsa Amini protests, 2022 Iranian protests * 2022-2023 Brazilian election protests ** 2023 Brazilian Congress attack * 2022 Azadi March II * Moldovan protests (2022–2023) * 2022 COVID-19 protests in China * 2022 Mongolian protests * Peruvian protests (2022–2023), 2022–2023 Peruvian protests * 2023 French pension reform unrest * 2023 Georgian protests, 2023-2024 Georgian protests * 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests * 2023 Gaza economic protests, 2023 Gaza Protests * War in Sudan (2023) * Wagner Group rebellion * Nahel Merzouk riots - major protests in France following the killing of 17-year old Nahel Merzouk by a police officer. * Kenya Finance Bill protests–Series of protests against the Kenya Finance Bill 2024 * July Revolution (Bangladesh) * 2024 United Kingdom riots * 2024 Venezuelan protests * 2024–2025 Mozambican protests * 2024 Abkhazian protests * 2024–2025 Georgian protests * 2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests * 2024–2025 Romanian election annulment protests * 2025 Slovak protests * 2025 Turkish protests


See also

* List of civil wars * List of cultural, intellectual, philosophical and technological revolutions * List of films about revolution * List of guerrillas * List of invasions * List of peasant revolts * List of rebellions in China * List of riots * List of strikes * Uprisings led by women * List of usurpers * List of wars of independence (national liberation) * List of women who led a revolt or rebellion * Political history of the world * Slave rebellion (including list of North American slave revolts) * List of extensive Iranian ground operations in the Iran-Iraq war


Notes


References

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