List of riots

17th century and earlier

• 205–186 – BC The great revolt of Egypt against Ptolemy V Epiphanes.
• 48 BC – 47 BC – Riots during the Siege of Alexandria in Egypt.
• 44 BC – Assassination of Julius Caesar. During Caesar's cremation in the Forum, an incensed mob took firebrands from the pyre and attacked the houses of Brutus and Cassius, as well as killing Helvius Cinna.
• 6 CE – Riots in Rome precipitated by a grain shortage caused by a failed harvest.
• 38, 40 – Alexandrian riots erupted in Alexandria between Jews and Greeks.
• 532 – Nika riots. Thirty thousand killed in the Hippodrome.
• 1046 – Vata pagan uprising
• 1066 – 1066 Granada massacre. A Muslim mob killed the Jewish vizier and massacred the Jewish population.
• 1182 –. Venetians and other "Latins" massacred during a riot.
• 1196 – Poor riot
• 1229 – 1229 University of Paris strike. Student riot leads to closing of university for two years.
• 1298 – Rintfleisch massacres
• 1349 – Strasbourg massacre, over 2000 Jews killed after widespread rioting caused by claims that they were behind the spread of the Black Death Epidemic. Most of the victims were burned to death.
• 1355 – St Scholastica Day riot
• 1381 – Peasants' Revolt
• 1382 – Harelle
• 1391 – The Massacre of 1391
• 1437–1438 – Transylvanian peasant revolt
• 1506 – Lisbon massacre of Jews.
• 1517 – Evil May Day
• 1562 – 1562 Riots of Toulouse
• 1572 – St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
• 1588 – Day of the Barricades
• 1640 – Corpus de Sang
• 1648 – Salt Riot
• 1662 – Copper Riot
• 1668 – Bawdy House Riots
• 1692 – Mexico City

  18th century

• 1706–1707 – Treaty of Union Riots
• 1710 – Sacheverell riots
• 1710–1713 – Boston Bread Riot
• 1713 – Dublin election riot
• 1714 – Coronation riots, England
• 1715 – 1715 England riots
• 1726 – Riot in Dresden for two days after a Protestant clergyman was killed by a soldier who had recently converted from Catholicism.
• 1736 – Porteous Riots
• 1740 – Batavia Massacre. Anti-Chinese race riots led by Dutch and Indonesian residents.
• 1742 – Philadelphia Election Riot
• 1743 – London Gin Riots
• 1754 – Taunton, England
• 1766 – Esquilache Riots
• 1766 – Food Riots
• 1766 – Nottingham cheese riot
• 1768 – Massacre of St George's Fields
• 1769 – Spitalfield Riots
• 1770 – Boston Massacre
• 1771 – Plague Riot
• 1772 – Pine Tree Riot
• 1773 – Boston Tea Party Boston, British America
• 1775 – Flour War
• 1780 – Gordon Riots
• 1788 – Doctors' Riot
• 1789 – Réveillon Riots
• 1791 – Priestley Riots
• 1793 – Ebel Riot
• 1794 – Whiskey Rebellion
• 1795 – Revolt of the housewives
• 1797 – Massacre of Tranent

  19th century

• 1809 – Old Price Riots, 1809
• 1811–1812 – English Luddite Riots
• 1816 – Ely and Littleport riots of 1816
• 1816 – Spa Fields riots
• 1819 – Hep-Hep riots
• 1826 December – Eggnog riot
• 1829 – Cincinnati riots of 1829
• 1830 – Swing Riots
• 1830 – Opera Riot
• 1831 – Cholera Riots
• 1831 – Merthyr Rising
• 1831 – 1831 reform riots
• 1831 – 1831 Bristol riots
• 1833 – Coldbath Fields riot
• 1833 – Sylvester Graham Riot
• 1834 – Anti-abolitionist riots
• 1834 – Sylvester Graham Riot
• 1835 – Baltimore bank riot
• 1835 August – Snow Riot: Lynch mob and riots in Washington, D.C. over a drunken attack by slave Arthur Bowen against his mistress, Anna Thornton
• 1836 – Cincinnati riots of 1836
• 1836 – Abolition Riot of 1836
• 1837 – Flour Riot
• 1837 – Sylvester Graham Riot
• 1838 – Rabulist riots
• 1838 – Pennsylvania Hall riots
• 1839 – Newport Rising
• 1839–1843 – Rebecca Riots
• 1841 – Cincinnati riots of 1841
• 1841–1842 – Potato Riots
• 1842 – Plug Plot Riots
• 1842 – Lombard Street riot
• 1844 – Beer riots in Bavaria
• 1844 – Philadelphia Nativist Riots
• 1848 – Marsoroligheterna
• 1849 – Genoa
• 1849 – Stony Monday Riot
• 1849 – Montreal Riots
• 1849 – Astor Place Riot
• 1850 – Squatters' Riot
• 1851 – Christiana Riot
• 1851 – Anti-Catholic Riots, Singapore
• 1853 – Cincinnati riot of 1853, United States
• 1854 – Hokkien–Teochew Riots, Singapore
• 1855 – Bloody Monday
• 1855 – Portland Rum Riot
• 1855 – Lager Beer Riot
• 1856 – Know-Nothing Riot of 1856
• 1857 – Know-Nothing Riot
• 1857 – New York City Police Riot
• 1860 – Lambing Flat riots
• 1861 – Election Riots
• 1862 – 1862 Brooklyn riot
• 1862 – Buffalo riot of 1862
• 1863 – Richmond Bread Riot
• 1863 – New York City draft riots
• 1864 – Leicester balloon riot
• 1866 – Memphis Riots of 1866, United States
• 1866 – New Orleans Riot
• 1868 – Pulaski Riot
• 1868 – Camilla riot, United States
• 1870 – New York City Orange Riot
• 1871 – Second New York City Orange Riot
• 1871 – Meridian race riot of 1871
• 1871 – Los Angeles anti-Chinese riot
• 1873 – Colfax Riot
• 1874 – Election Riot of 1874
• 1874 – Tompkins Square Riot
• 1874 – Battle of Liberty Place New Orleans, United States
• 1876 – Hamburg Massacre, United States
• 1879 – Sydney Riot of 1879
• 1881 – Canboulay Riots
• 1884 – Hosay Riots
• 1884 – Cincinnati riots of 1884
• 1885 – Rock Springs massacre
• 1885 – Tacoma riot of 1885
• 1885 – Issaquah riot of 1885
• 1886 – Haymarket affair
• 1886 – Seattle riot of 1886
• 1886 – Belfast Home Rule Riots
• 1886 – Bay View Labor Riot
• 1896 – Newlyn riots
• 1898 – Wilmington race riot

  20th century

• 1900 – Robert Charles riots
• 1903 – Chișinău pogrom
• 1904 – Vaccine Revolt
• 1905 – Hibiya Incendiary Incident
• 1905 – Broome riots
• 1905 – Bloody Sunday
• 1905 – Pagoda riots Cantonese versus Hakka clans
• 1906 – Atlanta race riot
• 1907 – Bellingham riots
• 1907 – Brown Dog riots,
• 1908 – Springfield Race Riot
• 1909 – Tragic Week

  1910s

• 1910 – Black Friday Riot
• 1910 – Tonypandy Riot
• 1911 – Champagne Riots
• 1911 – 1911 Curepipe riots
• 1912 racial conflict in Forsyth County, Georgia
• 1915 – The 1st and 2nd Battle of the Wazzir
• 1915 – Anti-German riots across Britain in retaliation for the sinking of the RMS Lusitania
• 1916 – Everett massacre
• 1916 – Liverpool riot of 1916
• 1917 – 1917 Bath riots
• 1917 – East St. Louis Riot
• 1917 – Quebec Easter riots
• 1917 – Houston riot of 1917
• 1918 – Rice Riots of 1918
• 1918 – 1918 Kudus riot an anti-Chinese pogrom in Semarang Regency, Dutch East Indies
• 1918 – 1918 Toronto anti-Greek riot, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, involved 5,000 veterans destroying and looting over 20 Greek businesses causing $100,000 damage, 16 police and 150 rioting veterans and civilians were hurt
• 1918/19 – Red Flag Riots, Queensland, Australia, largely undertaken by members of the First Australian Imperial Force
• 1919 – Battle of Bow Street
• 1919 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Jallianwala Bagh, Punjab, British India
• 1919 – Luton Peace Day Riots,
• 1919 – Red Summer
• 1919 – Annapolis riot of 1919
• 1919 – May Day Riots
• 1919 – Jenkins County, Georgia
• 1919 – Charleston, South Carolina
• 1919 – Bisbee, Arizona
• 1919 – Longview, Texas
• 1919 – Knoxville, Tennessee
• 1919 – Omaha, Nebraska
• 1919 – Chicago race riot
• 1919 – Washington, D.C.
• 1919 – Boston Police Strike
• 1919 – Elaine Race Riot
• 1919 – Bloody Saturday

  1920s

• 1920 – Nebi Musa riots
• 1921 – Black Wall Street Massacre
• 1921 – March Action
• 1921 – Jaffa riots
• 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot
• 1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday
• 1921 – Bloody Night
• 1921 – Prince of Wales Riots
• 1921–1922 – Moplah Riots
• 1922 – Harry Thuku Riot, Nairobi, Kenya, March 15–16. The violence and its suppression lasted a minute or two at the most.
• 1922 – Herrin Massacre
• 1923 – Hamburg Uprising
• 1923 – Rosewood massacre
• 1927 – Nagpur riots of 1927
• 1929 – Blutmai
• 1929 – Hebron–Safed riots

  1930s

• 1931 – Hawaii Riot
• 1932 – 1932 Colonial Building riot
• 1932 – Queen Street unemployment riot
• 1932 – Altona Bloody Sunday
• 1932 – Ford Hunger March
• 1932 – Bonus Army March, Spring/Summer, Washington, D.C., United States
• 1933 – Christie Pits riot - clash between Jewish and pro-Nazi demonstrators in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• 1933 – Palestine riots
• 1934 – Copley Street riot
• 1934 – U.S. Nazi Riot
• 1934 – Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 Minneapolis
• 1935 – Harlem Race Riot
• 1935 – Regina Riot
• 1935 – Battle of Ballantyne Pier
• 1936 – Battle of Cable Street
• 1936 – Bhagalpur riots of 1936
• 1936–1939 – Arab Revolt
• 1937 – Memorial Day massacre of 1937
• 1937 – Uba riots of 1937 August 1937 Mauritian sugar cane growers versus sugar mill owners at Union Flacq Sugar Estate, Mauritius
• 1938 – Bloody Sunday

  1940s

• 1941 – Ossewabrandwag attacks on South African Union Defence Force February 1
• 1942 – Battle of Manners Street
• 1943 – Easter Riots
• 1943 – Belle Vue Harel Massacre Anjalay
• 1943 – Zoot Suit Riots
• 1943 – Detroit Race Riot
• 1943 – Beaumont Race Riot of 1943
• 1943 – Harlem Riot
• 1944 – Fort Lawton Riot
• 1944 – The Montreal and Verdun Zoot-Suit disturbances of June 1944
• 1944 – Agana race riot
• 1945 – Hanaoka mine riot by Chinese workers, Ōdate, Akita, Japan
• 1945 – Halifax Riot
• 1945 – Helwan Riots, Egypt
• 1946 – Direct Action Day, India
• 1946 – Nylon riots, United States
• 1946 – Bhagalpur riots of 1946
• 1947 – Jerusalem Riots
• 1947 – Partition riots, India and modern-day Pakistan and Bangladesh, the hardest hit region was the densely populated state of Punjab, death toll estimates between 500,000 and 2,000,000, the deadliest riots known to humankind.
• 1948 – Accra Riots
• 1948 – Bogotá riots, named Bogotazo
• 1949 – Durban Riot, South Africa
• 1949 – Peekskill Riot
• 1949 – Icelandic NATO Riot of the thirtieth of March