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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 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 ...
Resistance to the British Empire in World War II (2 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Rebellions against the British Empire" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
The Mejba Revolt was a rebellion in Tunisia against the doubling of an unpopular poll tax (the mejba) imposed on his subjects by Sadok Bey. The most extensive revolt against the rule of the Husainid Beys of Tunis, it saw uprisings all over the country and came close to prompting military intervention by Britain and France.
Richard II of England meets the rebels of the Peasants' Revolt. Popular revolts in late medieval Europe were uprisings and rebellions by peasants in the countryside, or the burgess in towns, against nobles, abbots and kings during the upheavals between 1300 and 1500, part of a larger "Crisis of the Late Middle Ages".
Its economy was eventually surpassed by the United States in 1916. [13] The United Kingdom's involvement in the First World War and the Second World War damaged Britain's economic power, and a global wave of decolonisation led to the independence of most British colonies.
Protesting against George W. Bush in 2008. This is a list of protests and protest movements in the United Kingdom.Protest in the UK has concerned issues such as suffrage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, parliamentary reform from the Chartists to the present day, poverty, wages and working conditions, fuel prices, war, human rights, immigration (both for and against), fathers' rights ...
16 June–28 July: 1790 British general election gives Pitt an increased majority. [2] 23 June – alleged London Monster arrested in London: he later receives two years for three assaults. 28 June – Forth and Clyde Canal opened. [2] 4 July – Third Anglo-Mysore War: in India, Britain allies with the Nizam of Hyderabad against the Kingdom of ...