list of riots

This is a chronological list of historical riots:

532 - Nika riots, (Constantinople)
1182 - Venetians and other "Latins" are massacred during a riot in Constantinople
1229 - University of Paris strike of 1229 Student riot leads to closing of university for 2 years.
1736 - Porteous Riots, (Edinburgh)
1780 - Gordon riots, (London)
1788 - Doctors Mob Riot, New York City, New York
1791 - Priestley Riots, (Birmingham)
1830 - Swing Riots, England
1832 - Anti-Abolitionist Riot, New York City, New York
1834 - Anti-Abolitionist Riot, New York City, New York
1835 - Baltimore Bank Riot
1835 - Gentleman's Riot, Boston, Massachusetts
1837 - Flour Riots, New York City, New York
1841 - Whig Party Riot. Washington DC, (United States of America)
1844 - Philadelphia Nativist Riots
1849 - Astor Place Riots, New York City, New York
1855 - Lager Beer Riot, (Chicago, Illinois)
1857 - New York Police Riots of 1857, (New York City)
1861 - Baltimore Riot of 1861
1863 - New York Draft Riot, (New York City)
1866 - Memphis Race Riot, (Memphis, Tennessee)
1868 - Pulaski Riot, (Pulaski, Tennessee)
1873 - Colfax Riot, (Louisiana)
1879 - Sydney Riot of 1879 (Sydney, Australia)
1884 - Cincinnati Vigilante Riot, Cincinnati, Ohio
1886 - Haymarket Riot, (Chicago, Illinois)
1898 - Wilmington Race Riot, (Wilmington, North Carolina)
1906 - Atlanta Riots, (Atlanta, Georgia)
1908 - Springfield Race Riot, (Springfield, Illinois)
1917 - East St. Louis Riot, (St. Louis, Missouri & East St. Louis, Illinois)
1917 - Conscription Crisis of 1917, (Quebec)
1919 - Chicago Race Riot, (Chicago, Illinois)
1919 - Elaine Race Riot, (Elaine, Arkansas)
1919 - Longview Race Riot, (Longview, Texas)
1919 - D.C. Race Riot, (Washington, D.C.)
1921 - Tulsa Race Riot, (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
1937 - Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage,
1943 - Zoot Suit Riots, (Los Angeles, California)
1943 - Detroit Race Riot, (Detroit, Michigan)
1946 - Nylon Riots
1947 - Jerusalem Riots of 1947
1949 - Peekskill Riot (Peekskill, New York)
1959 - Tibetan riots against Chinese government, (Tibet, China)
1964 - New York City 1964 race riot July 18-23
1964 - Rochester 1964 race riot July 24-25
1964 - Jersey City 1964 race riot August 2-4
1964 - Paterson 1964 race riot August 11-13
1964 - Elizabeth 1964 race riot August 11-13
1964 - Chicago (Dixmoor) 1964 race riot August 16-17
1964 - Philadelphia 1964 race riot August 28-30
reference for these 1964 events: http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/cityinstress/mccone/part3.html
1965 - Watts Riot, (Los Angeles, California)
1967 - 12th Street Riot (Detroit, Michigan)
1966 - Hunter's Point Riot, (San Francisco, California)
1967 - Newark Riots, (Newark, New Jersey)
1968 - 1968 Riots, (Washington, D.C.)
1968 - French student riots of May (Paris)
1968 - 1968 Democratic National Convention (Chicago, Illinois) police riot
1969 - Stonewall Riots, (New York, New York)
1969 - York Race Riot, (York, Pennsylvania)
1969 - May 13th Incident, racial riots in Kuala Lumpur
1971 - Attica Prison riots, (Attica, New York) prison uprising, really
1973 & 1974 - Greece: student riots and revolution at Polytechnio, military junta overthrown
1975 - Livernois-Fenkell riot (Detroit, Michigan)
1979 - White Night Riots: Gay riots in San Francisco, California
1980 - New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
1981 - 1981 Springbok Tour, New Zealand
1981 - Brixton riot (1981), London, England
1981 - First Handsworth Riot, Birmingham, England
1985 - Broadwater Farm Riot, London, England
1985 - Second Handsworth Riot, Birmingham, England
1987 - Iranian pilgrim riot, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
1988-1989 - Nanjing Anti-African protests
1989 - Aftermath of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Bejing China
1989 - Romanian riots
1992 - L.A. riot, Rodney King riot, (Los Angeles, California)
1998 - Jakarta Riots of May 1998, Jakarta, Indonesia
1999 - WTO Meeting of 1999 (Seattle, Washington) partially a police riot, no general destruction, just some directed destruction at chain restaurants.
2000 - Cochabamba protests of 2000,
2001 - Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest (Genoa, Italy)
2001 - 2001 Cincinnati Riots (Cincinnati,Ohio, United States of America)
2001 - December 20 & 21 Riots (Buenos Aires,Argentina)

List Of Riots

See also