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The Great Rebellion or Great Revolt is a term that is generally used in English for the following conflicts: First Jewish–Roman War in 66–73 CE, also known as the Great Revolt of Judaea; Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381, also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion; English Civil War in 1642–1651, also called English Revolution
On 15 June, revolt broke out in Cambridgeshire, led by elements of Wrawe's Suffolk rebellion and some local men, such as John Greyston, who had been involved in the events in London and had returned to his home county to spread the revolt, and Geoffrey Cobbe and John Hanchach, members of the local gentry. [11]
Maysar al-Matghari (Berber: Maysar Amteghri or Maysar Amdeghri, Arabic: ميسرة المطغري; sometimes rendered Maisar or Meicer; in older Arab sources, bitterly called: al-Ḥaqir ('the ignoble'); died in September/October 740) was a Berber rebel leader and original architect of the Great Berber Revolt that erupted in 739-743 against the Umayyad Muslim empire.
During the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, he became well known for his actions against the high lord Thomas de la Mare, Abbot of St. Albans. [12] He led a deputation to King Richard II, whom the rebels met at Mile End [13] which 'extorted' a letter from the King to the Abbot forcing the latter to give up the royal charters he held to the rebels.
The siege of Yodfat (Hebrew: יוֹדְפַת, also Jotapata, Iotapata, Yodefat) was a 47-day siege by Roman forces of the Jewish town of Yodfat which took place in 67 CE, during the Great Revolt. Led by Roman General Vespasian and his son Titus , both future emperors, the siege ended with the sacking of the town, the deaths of most of its ...
Great revolt of the Egyptians Ptolemaic Kingdom: Native Egyptian peasants and soldiers under secessionist Pharaohs Hugronaphor and Ankhmakis: Suppression of the rebellion [6] 17–25 Lülin: Xin dynasty: Lülin rebels Collapse of Xin dynasty; ascendancy of rebel leader Liu Xiu after infighting among Lülin forces 17–27 Red Eyebrows: Xin dynasty
Revolt suppressed, Jacob and Simon executed by Tiberius Julius Alexander. [68] 60–61 Boudican revolt: Norfolk, Britain, Roman Empire: Celtic Britons led by Boudica: Revolt crushed by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus. [69] 66–73 First Jewish–Roman War: Judea: Jewish people: Revolt crushed by the Roman Empire, Jerusalem and the Second Temple are ...
A Dream of John Ball is a novel by English author William Morris about the Great Revolt of 1381, conventionally called "the Peasants' Revolt". It features the rebel priest John Ball, who was accused of being a Lollard. He is famed for his question "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?"