List of revolutions and rebellions

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This is a list of revolutions and rebellions.

Contents

1 before 1000
2 1000-1600
3 1600-1900
4 1900-1950
5 1950-2000
6 2000-today
7 References
8 See also

before 1000

206 BC: Ziying, last ruler of the Qin Dynasty of China surrenders himself to Liu Bang, leader of a popular revolt and founder of the Han Dynasty.
66-70: Great Jewish Revolt, the first of three Jewish-Roman wars that took place in Iudea Province against the Roman Empire.
115-117: Kitos War, the second Jewish-Roman wars.
132-135: Bar Kokhba's revolt, the third and last Jewish-Roman wars.
184: Zhang Jiao led an unsuccessful peasant rebellion during the later Han dynasty, which later collapsed due to the destabilization.

1000-1600

1323-1328: beginning as a series of scattered rural riots in late 1323, the Peasant revolt in Flanders escalated into a full-scale rebellion and ended with the Battle of Cassel.
1354: revolt of Cola di Rienzi.
1356-1358: a peasant revolt called Jacquerie took place in northern France, during the Hundred Years' War.
1368: Zhu Yuanzhang led peasant Han Chinese in a rebellion against the Mongol Yuan dynasty, establishing the Ming dynasty.
1378: Revolt of the Ciompi.
1381: the Peasants' Revolt or Great Rising of 1381 took place in England.
1420: Bohemian Hussites begin a rebellion against both Catholicism and the Holy Roman Empire. The wars that ensue are known as the Hussite Wars.
1437: the Bobâlna (Bábolna) revolt broke out in Transylvania, using military tactics inspired by the Hussites wars.
1444-1468: Skenderbeg's rebellion in Ottoman-ruled Albania
1450: Kent rebellion led by Jack Cade.
1462-1485: Rebellion of the Remences in Catalonia.
1497: Cornish Rebellion of 1497 in England.
1514: peasant's war led by György Dózsa in the Kingdom of Hungary.
1515: Slovenian peasant revolt
1519-1523: the first Revolta de les Germanies in Valencia, an anti-monarchist, anti-feudal autonomist movement inspired by the Italian republics
1524-1525: Peasants' War of in the Holy Roman Empire.
1542: Dacke Feud in Sweden.
1573: Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt.
1596: Club War uprising in Finland.

1600-1900

1642-1653: the English Revolution commence as a civil war between Parliament and King and culminates in the execution of Charles I and the establishment of a republican Protectorate.
1688: The Glorious Revolution overthrow in England of King James II and establishment of a Whig-dominated Protestant constitutional monarchy.
1693: the second Revolta de les Germanies in Valencia, prompted by feudal taxation.
1774-1783: the American Revolution establishes independence of the thirteen North American colonies from Great Britain, creating the republic of the United States of America. A war of independence in that it created one nation from another, it was also a revolution in that it overthrew an existing societal and governmental order: the Colonial government in the Colonies. The American Revolution heavily influenced the French Revolution that followed it and lead to the creation of a Constitutional form of government (see U.S. Constitution).
1780-1782: José Gabriel Condorcanqui, known as Túpac Amaru II, raises an indigenous peasant army in revolt against Spanish control of Peru.
1789: regarded as one of the most influential of all socio-political revolutions, the French Revolution is associated with the rise of the bourgeoisie and the downfall of the aristocracy.
1795-1796: rebels in Grenada led by Julien Fédon execute the governor and wrest control of most of the island from Britain, which maintains a stronghold in St. George's, the capital. The goal was to incorporate Grenada into revolutionary France, but Fédon soon disappeared and was never heard from again.
1798: the Irish Rebellion failed to overthrow British rule in Ireland.
1804: the successful slave rebellion led by Toussaint Louverture establishes Haiti as the first free, black republic.
1810-1821: the Mexican War of Independence, a revolution against Spanish colonialism
1810: the Viceroy of the Río de la Plata is deposed by local officers in Argentina
1810-1840: the dictatorship of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia in Paraguay is dubbed the "autonomous revolution" by Paraguay specialist Richard Alan White.White, Richard Alan. Paraguay's Autonomous Revolution, 1810-1840. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978. Influenced by the Jacobins of the French Revolution and the meritocratic theory of socialism propounded by Henri de Saint-Simon, Francia led his country on an isolationist path, emphasizing self-sufficiency and breaking the power of the traditional colonial elite with harsh, autocratic repression. Paraguay remained one of South America's most advanced countries until the War of the Triple Alliance.
1820-1824: revolutionary war of independence in Peru led by José de San Martín
1822-1823: republican revolution in Mexico overthrows Emperor Agustín de Iturbide
1827-1828: failed conservative rebellion in Mexico led by Nicolás Bravo
1830: July Revolution - the French Revolution of 1830 was a revolt by the middle class against Bourbon King Charles X which forced him out of office and replaced him with the Orleanist King Louis-Philippe (the "July Monarchy").
1830: the Belgian Revolution was a conflict in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands that began with a riot in Brussels in August 1830 and eventually led to the establishment of an independent, Catholic and neutral Belgium
1832-1843: Abdelkader's rebellion in French-occupied Algeria
1835-1836: Texas secedes from Mexico in the Texas Revolution
1837-1838: Rebellions of 1837 - failed republican revolutions against British rule in Canada.
1848: the Revolutions of 1848 are a wave of failed liberal and republican revolutions that swept Europe.
1848: rebellion in British-ruled Ceylon
1851: Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty and Manchu domination.
1854-1855: Revolution of Ayutla in Mexico
1857: failed Indian rebellion against British imperialism, marking the end of Mughal rule in India. Also known as the 1857 War of Independence and, particularly in the West, the Sepoy Mutiny.
1858-1861: War of the Reform in Mexico
1865: Morant Bay rebellion
1866-1868: Meiji Restoration and modernization revolution in Japan.The Japanese international position rose by this revolution. On the other hand, it become a factor of the decline of samurai.
1868: the Glorious Revolution in Spain deposes Queen Isabella II
1868: in the Grito de Lares, rebels proclaim the independence of Puerto Rico from Spain.
1871: Paris Commune
1871-1872: Porfirio Díaz rebels against President Benito Juárez of Mexico
1876: a second rebellion by Porfirio Díaz against President Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada of Mexico
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: North-West Rebellion of Métis in Saskatchewan
1893: a liberal revolt brings José Santos Zelaya to power in Nicaragua
1895: revolution against President Andrés Avelino Cáceres in Peru ushers in a period of stable constitutional rule
1896-1898: the Philippine Revolution, a war of independence against Spanish rule directed by the Katipunan society

1900-1950

1904: Liberal revolution in Paraguay
1905: failed bourgeois-liberal revolution against Tsar Nicholas II in Russia.
1908: Young Turks force the autocratic ruler Abdul Hamid II to restore parliament and constitution in the Ottoman Empire.
1910: the Mexican Revolution overthrows the dictator Porfirio Díaz; seizure of power by Institutional Revolutionary Party.
1910: republican revolution in Portugal
1910-1911: the Sokehs Rebellion erupts in German-ruled Micronesia. Its primary leader, Somatau, is executed soon after being captured.
1911: the Xinhai Revolution overthrowes the ruling Qing Dynasty and establishment of the Republic of China.
1916-1923: Irish Revolution, the period of nationalist rebellion, guerrilla warfare, political change and civil war which brought about the establishment of the Irish Free State.
1917: the February Revolution overthrows Tsar Nicholas II in Russia.
1917: Russian Revolution - Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia and the establishment of the Soviet Union.
1918: German Revolution Overthrow of the Kaiser by a workers' revolution; establishment of the Weimar Republic.
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.
1918-1921: Ukrainian Revolution
1918-1922: Third Russian Revolution, a failed anarchist revolution against both Bolshevism and the White movement.
1919: German Revolution
1919: revolution in Hungary results in the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic
1921-1924: a revolution in Mongolia re-establishes the country's independence and sets out to construct a Soviet-style socialist state
1926: the so-called "National Revolution" in Portugal initiates a period known as the "National Dictatorship"
1926-1929: the Cristero War in Mexico, an uprising against anti-clerical government policy
1927-1933: rebellion led by Augusto César Sandino against the United States presence in Nicaragua
1930: Brazilian Revolution of 1930 led by Getúlio Vargas
1932: a Constitutionalist Revolution against the provisional president Getúlio Vargas led Brazil to a short civil war.
1932: an Aprista revolt in Trujillo, Peru. After about 60 officers are executed, the army responds with the killing of at least 1,000 people. The repression includes the first aerial bombing in South American history.
1932: the Siamese coup d'état of 1932, sometimes called the "Promoters Revolution", ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
1933: popular revolution against Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado
1934: In October, workers including radical socialists and anarchists stage coups in the Spanish regions of Asturias and Catalonia. The immediate cause was the entrance of a right-wing Catholic party into the government of the unstable Second Spanish Republic. The Asturian uprising was put down by General Francisco Franco.
1936: the Febrerista Revolution, oligarchic Liberal Party rule in Paraguay ended by Rafael Franco.
1936: General Francisco Franco leds a coup and starts the Spanish Civil War.
1936: Spanish Revolution
1936-1939: a period of so-called "military socialism" in Bolivia follows a revolution in which celebrated war hero David Toro takes power. A constitution establishing a corporative state is promulgated in 1938, following the nationalization of Standard Oil and the passage of progressive labor laws.
1937: the "Jornadas de Mayo", a workers' revolution in Catalonia
1938-1948: The Zionist Revolution - the period of Jewish nationalist rebellion and guerrilla warfare against the British Empire in Palestine which brought about the establishment of the State of Israel. Mainly fought by the Lehi and Irgun underground organizations but periodically joined by the Jewish Agency's official Haganah militia.
1942: Sri Lankan soldiers ignite the Cocos Islands Mutiny in an unsuccessful attempt to transfer the islands to Japanese control
1944: Guatemalan Revolution overthrowes the dictator Jorge Ubico by liberal military officers.
1944-1947: a Communist-friendly government is installed in Bulgaria following a coup d'état and the Soviet invasion. The government was nominally a coalition called the Fatherland Front, but the Communist Party faction consolidated its power with Soviet support until 1947, when Soviet troops withdrew. Many royalist and fascist leaders from the previous Axis regime were given summary trials and executed.
1944: Following the liberation of Albania completed on November 29, the Communist Party of Albania under Enver Hoxha consolidates its control, moves forward with industrialization and modernization, and declares the People's Republic of Albania in January 1946.
1945: August Revolution led by Ho Chi Minh declares the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from French rule
1945: democratic revolution in Venezuela led by Rómulo Betancourt
1947: Three months after an abortive coup, civil war breaks out in Paraguay. Led by Rafael Franco, the former head of the Febrerista (see above) government displaced in 1937, the rebellion was crushed by the government of dictator Higinio Morínigo. A local commander, Lt. Col. Alfredo Stroessner, seized the presidency in 1954 and ruled until 1989.
1947-1952: In the Albanian Subversion, the intelligence services of the United States and Britain deploy exiled fascists, Nazis, and monarchists (especially members of Balli Kombëtar and the Legaliteti) in a failed attempt to foment a counterrevolution in Communist-ruled Albania. The exiles carried out some sabotage but found little popular support. Some exiles were captured and executed, along with some ordinary Albanians suspected of assisting them.
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."
1949: revolution in Hungary
1949: the Communist-led Chinese Revolution under chairman Mao overthrows the ruling Nationalist Party and establishes the People's Republic of China.
1954-1962: Algerian War of Independence - revolutionary war of independence against French colonialism
1945-1975: civil war in Vietnam

1950-2000

1952: a liberal 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: Rosewater Revolution in Lebanon
1955-1970: The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC) engages in a guerrilla struggle against French colonialism in the French Cameroons. In 1955 the UPC was for all practical purposes banned, and in 1960 Cameroon achieved independence under the conservative government of President Ahmadou Ahidjo. After the gradual assassinations of many of its top leaders and the proclamation of a one-party state in 1966, the last significant remnants of the insurgency were extinguished in 1970. The UPC, unlike many other guerrilla organizations throughout Africa, never achieved state power.
1956: Hungarian Revolution, a failed workers' and peasants' revolution against the Soviet-supported communist state in Hungary.
1958: popular revolt in Venezuela against military dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez culminates in a civic-military coup d'état
1958: the Iraqi 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: Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro against U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista establishes a communist-style state.
1959: the Tutsi king of Rwanda is forced into exile by Hutu extremists; racial pogroms follow an assassination attempt on Hutu leader Grégoire Kayibanda
1961-1975: Angolan Marxists and other radicals grouped in the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) begin guerrilla attacks on Portuguese infrastructure. With extensive military assistance from Cuba, the MPLA is able to outmaneuver two rival organizations and establish control of Luanda in time for independence on November 11, 1975. Civil war between the MPLA government and the anti-communist UNITA continued on-and-off until 2002, when UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi was killed.
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: revolution in northern Yemen overthrows the imam and establishes the Yemen Arab Republic
1963-1967: nationalists in British-ruled Aden, with an eye on recent events in North Yemen and in Palestine, declare war on the British under the umbrella of the National Liberation Front (NLF). The UK hands over control to an independent South Yemen in November 1967. In 1969, moderate President Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi is edged out in favor of more radical socialists, who convoke a constituent assembly and begin to develop the state along Marxist-Leninist lines. The result is the only Communist state in the Arab world and the first in a Muslim country.
1964: following an American school's provocative decision to raise only the flag of the United States, Panamanian students march into the Panama Canal Zone with the flag of Panama. After the latter flag is torn, thousands more become involved, starting huge riots that lasted three days. About 20 people were killed and hundreds more injured.
1964: the Zanzibar Revolution overthrows the 157-year-old Arab monarchy, declares the People's Republic of Zanzibar, and begins the process of unification with Julius Nyerere's Tanganyika
1964: the October Revolution in Sudan, driven by a general strike and rioting, forces President Ibrahim Abboud to transfer executive power to a transitional civilian government and eventually resign.
1964-1975: the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO), formed in 1962, commences a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonialism. Independence is granted on June 25, 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.
1966-1976: Cultural Revolution, a maoist-led sociological repression in the People's Republic of China.
1966-1980s: sporadic guerrilla warfare is conducted against the repressive government of François Tombalbaye from the Sudan-based group FROLINAT. After the killing of field commander Ibrahim Abatcha in 1968, the movement jettisoned its socialist rhetoric and split into irreconciliable factions that often fought among themselves. Tombalbaye was brought down and executed in a 1975 military coup, and in 1979 one of the FROLINAT factions established the Transitional Government of National Union (GUNT). This experiment lasted until 1982, when an ex-FROLINAT ally, Hissène Habré, took control of N'Djamena. Supporters of marginalized GUNT president Goukouni Oueddei held out for a few years at Bardai, but the group eventually dissolved.
1967: Anguillans resentful of Kittitian domination of the island expel the Kittitian police and declare independence from the British colony of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla. British forces retake the island in 1969 and make Anguilla a separate dependency in 1980. There was no bloodshed in the entire episode.
1968: revolution in Congo
1968: May 1968 revolt - students' and workers' revolt against the government of Charles de Gaulle in France.
1968: coup by Juan Velasco Alvarado in Peru, followed by radical social and economic reforms
1968: a failed attempt by leader Alexander Dubček to liberalise Czechoslovakia in defiance of the Soviet-supported communist state culminates in the Prague Spring.
1969: a mass movement of workers, students, and peasants in Pakistan forces the resignation of President Mohammad Ayub Khan
1969: overthrow of the pro-Western monarchy by Arab nationalist military officers in Libya
1969: multiparty system supplanted by a military socialist government under Siad Barre in Somalia
1971: the Bangladesh Liberation War led by the Mukti Bahini establishes the independent People's Republic of Bangladesh
1972: revolution in Benin
1972: 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 North Korean juche theory developed by Kim Il Sung.
1973: Mohammad Daud 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: revolution in Ethiopia
1974: Carnation Revolution overthrows of right-wing dictatorship in Portugal
1975: revolution in Cambodia
1975: revolution in South Vietnam
1975: revolution in Laos overthrows the monarchy by guerrilla forces of the Pathet Lao
1975: revolution in Cape Verde
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.
1978: the Saur Revolution led by the Khalq faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan deposes and kills President Mohammad Daud.
1979: the dictatorship of Eric Gairy overthrown by the New Jewel Movement in Grenada.
1979: the popular overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship by progressive/Marxist Nicaraguan Revolution.
1979: the Iranian Revolution overthrows the U.S.-backed Shah, resulting in an Islamist cleric-led theocracy.
1979: Cambodia is liberated from the Khmer Rouge regime by the Vietnam-backed Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party
1980: Santo Rebellion in the Anglo-French condominium of New Hebrides. The primary nationalist leader, Father Walter Lini, favored Cold War nonalignment and opposed nuclear weapons in the Pacific. The French resident, Jean-Jacques Robert, who feared that an independent Vanuatu would provide inspiration to similar movements in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, collaborated with an uprising led by Jimmy Stevens' Nagriamel movement in Espiritu Santo. With logistical help and training from supporters of the Phoenix Foundation of the United States, Stevens declared independence as the State of Vemarana. The Nagriamel society had decisively lost elections to the territorial assembly in 1975 and 1979, which revealed its lack of a mass base of support. The revolt was put down by the Vanuatu Mobile Force and Papua New Guinean troops soon after independence was granted on July 30, 1980. Robie, David. Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific. London: Zed Books, Ltd., 1989. pp. 66-80.
1983: Overthrow of the ruling Conseil de Salut du peuple (CSP) by Marxist forces led by Thomas Sankara in Upper Volta, renamed Burkina Faso in the following year.
1984-1985: Pro-independence FLNKS forces in New Caledonia revolt following an election boycott and occupy the town of 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.Ibid., pp. 116-126.
1986: The 1986 EDSA Revolution peacefully overthrows Ferdinand Marcos after his two decade rule in the Philippines.
1988: Singing Revolution, bloodless overthrow of communist states in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
1989: the violent Caracazo riots in Venezuela. In the next few years, there are two attempted coups and President Carlos Andrés Pérez is impeached.
1989: the Romanian Revolution violently overthrows the communist state in Romania.
1989: the bloodless Velvet Revolution overthrows the communist state in Czechoslovakia.
1996: islamist movement in Afghanistan led by the Taliban
1998: the election in Venezuela of socialist leader Hugo Chávez is called the Bolivarian Revolution.
1998: Indonesian Revolution of 1998

2000-today

2000: the bloodless Bulldozer Revolution overthrows the Slobodan Milošević's régime in Yugoslavia.
2001: The 2001 EDSA Revolution peacefully ousts Philippine President Joseph Estrada after the collapse of his impeachment trial.
2001: Supporters of former president Joseph Estrada violently and unsuccessfully stage a rally, so-called the EDSA Tres, in an attempt of returning him to power.
2003: Rose Revolution, the first of five Color revolutions, displaces the president of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze, and calls new elections.
2004: after a run-off election between Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko, with the victory of the former, the Orange Revolution begins and achieves to cancel the election results and set a new one.
2004: failed attempt at popular color-style revolution in Azerbaijan, led by the groups Yox! and Azadlig
2005: the Cedar Revolution, triggered by the assassination of Rafik Hariri, asks for the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon.
2005: the Tulip Revolution (a.k.a. Yellow Revolution) overthrows the President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, and set new elections.

List of revolutions and rebellions

before 1000

1000-1600

1600-1900

1900-1950

1950-2000

2000-today

References

See also