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1765 - Black Boys Rebellion, 1765 & 1769, Revolt against British policy regarding American Indians in western Pennsylvania. Conococheague Valley, colonial Pennsylvania 1765 - Stamp Act 1765 riots, Protests and riots in Boston, later spread throughout the colonies, notably Rhode Island, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South ...
Multiple rebellions and closely related events have occurred in the United States, beginning from the colonial era up to present day. Events that are not commonly named strictly a rebellion (or using synonymous terms such as "revolt" or "uprising"), but have been noted by some as equivalent or very similar to a rebellion (such as an insurrection), or at least as having a few important elements ...
Resistance to the British Empire in World War II (2 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Rebellions against the British Empire" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
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 in Spain deposes Queen Isabella II.
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the company's army in the garrison town of Meerut , 40 miles (64 km ...
The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381.The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of ...
Early historians believed French colonists had secretly instigated the war by stirring up the Indians to make trouble for the British. [ 58 ] [ 66 ] This belief was held by British officials at the time, but subsequent historians found no evidence of official French involvement in the uprising.
Oldcastle Revolt (1414) – rising of early Protestants known as Lollards centred on north London. Jack Cade's Rebellion (1450) – in England; Cornish Rebellion of 1497 – in England; Pilgrimage of Grace (1536) — in northern England, a popular Catholic uprising against the dissolution of the monasteries and land enclosures during October 1536.