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One or two nativists were reportedly killed. George Shiffler, an 18-year-old leatherworker, was the first nativist killed in the riots of 1844. A mob of nativists attacked the Seminary of the Sisters of Charity and several Catholic homes before the riot ended. Numerous people were injured, and two more nativists were killed. [12] [13]
1844 – Philadelphia Nativist Riots, May 6–8, July 6–7, ... New Jersey riots began following rumors a man was killed by the police while being arrested. One ...
The term Know-Nothing Riot has been used to refer to a number of political uprisings of the Know Nothing Party in the United States of the mid-19th century. These anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic protests culminated into riots in Philadelphia in 1844; St. Louis in 1854, Cincinnati and Louisville in 1855; Baltimore in 1856; Washington, D.C., and New York City in 1857; and New Orleans in 1858.
Pennsylvania Hall riot, an 1838 riot where a venue was attacked by anti-abolitionists; Lombard Street riot, an 1842 riot where black freemen were attacked by an Irish Catholic mob; Philadelphia nativist riots, in May and June 1844, against Irish Catholic immigrants; Race riots in Philadelphia during the 1919 Red Summer, a series of riots ...
1844 – Philadelphia Nativist Riots (Philadelphia, United States) 1848 – Marsoroligheterna (Stockholm, Sweden) ... Six rioters killed in police firing. [520] [521]
In 1838, the church was designated as Philadelphia's Proto-Cathedral and the bishop took up residence in the rectory. [The previous cathedral, from 1810 to 1838, was Old St. Mary's Church at 4th and Locust Streets.] In 1844 the Nativist Riots, in which several dozen people were killed, broke out.
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1844: Philadelphia Nativist Riots (May 6–8 and July 5–8), Philadelphia; 1844: Brooklyn riot, occurred on April 4 between nativists and Irish immigrants. [49] 1846: Nativist riot, (Boston, Massachusetts) [45] 1849: Astor Place riot, between immigrants and nativists; 1851: Hoboken anti-German riot; 1853: Cincinnati riot of 1853 (Cincinnati ...