Baltimore riots can refer to several incidents of civil unrest in Baltimore, Maryland's history. It generally refers to the

Baltimore Riot of 1861 The Baltimore riot of 1861 (also called the "Pratt Street Riots" and the "Pratt Street Massacre") was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland. It occurred between antiwar "Copperhead" Democrats (the lar ...

(also known as the "Pratt Street Riots"), where a mob of Confederate Southern sympathizers attacked newly raised Union state militia troops transiting through the town on April 18–19, 1861 in some of the first bloodshed of the American Civil War. It may also refer to: * Baltimore doctors' riots (1807) * 1812 Baltimore riots *

Baltimore bank riot The Baltimore bank riot of 1835 took place in Baltimore, the major port city of Maryland. It was a violent reaction to the failure of the Bank of Maryland in 1834. Thousands of citizens had lost millions of dollars in savings. The riot, which las ...

(1835) *

Know-Nothing Riot of 1856 The Baltimore Know-Nothing riots of 1856 occurred in Baltimore, Maryland between September and November of that year. The Know Nothing Party gained traction in Baltimore as native-born residents disliked the growing immigrant population. Local ...

* Baltimore election riot of 1857 * Baltimore election riot of 1858 * Baltimore election riot of 1859 * Baltimore railroad strike of 1877, strikes and riots which took place as part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 * Baltimore riot of 1919, part of

Red Summer The Red Summer was a period in mid-1919 during which Terrorism in the United States#White nationalism and white supremacy, white supremacist terrorism and Mass racial violence in the United States, racial riots occurred in more than three d ...

Baltimore riot of 1968 The Baltimore riot of 1968 was a period of civil unrest that lasted from April 6 to April 14, 1968, in Baltimore. The uprising included crowds filling the streets, burning and looting local businesses, and confronting the police and national gua ...

, one of a series of nationwide riots in response to the death of national civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. *

2015 Baltimore protests On April 12, 2015, Baltimore Police Department officers arrested Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American resident of Baltimore, Maryland. Gray's neck and spine were injured while he was in a police vehicle and he went into a coma. On Ap ...

, a series of protests and riots in response to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody

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