List of peasant revolts
This is a chronological list of revolts organized by peasants.
Chronological list
| Date | Conflict | Location | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| 209–206 BC | Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising | Qin China | |
| 205–186 BC | Horwennefer and Ankhwennefer | Ptolemaic Egypt | |
| 17–25 | Lulin and Red Eyebrows | Xin China | |
| 172–173 | Bucolic War of Isidorus | ||
| 184–205 | Yellow Turban Rebellion and Heishan bandits | Han China | |
| 284–417 | Bagaudae revolt | ||
| 317–340 | Circumcellions | ||
| 682–693 | Najdat | Umayyad Arabia | |
| 720–832 | Bashmurian revolts | ||
| 841–843 | Stellinga | Carolingian Germany | |
| 859–884 | Rebellion of Ch'iu Fu, Wang Xianzhi, and Huang Chao | ||
| 928–932 | Basil the Copper Hand | ||
| 993–995 | Da Shu rebellion | ||
| 996 | Peasants' revolt in Normandy | Normandy France | |
| 1032–1040 | Pagan reaction in Poland | ||
| 1096–1320 | Popular crusades | ||
| 1130–1240 | Civil war era in Norway | ||
| 1196 | William Fitz Osbert | ||
| 1215–1267 | William of Cassingham and Roger Godberd during Barons' War | ||
| 1277–1280 | Uprising of Ivaylo | ||
| 1282 | Sicilian Vespers | ||
| 1323–1328 | 1323–1328 Flemish revolt | ||
| 1341–1350 | Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 and Zealots of Thessalonica | ||
| 1347–1354 | Cola di Rienzo | ||
| 1351–1368 | Red Turban Rebellions | ||
| 1358 | Jacquerie | ||
| 1361 | Battle of Visby | ||
| 1378–1384 | Tuchin revolt | ||
| 1381 | Peasants' Revolt | ||
| 1382 | Harelle | ||
| 1401–1404 | Samogitian uprisings | ||
| 1401–1429 | Appenzell Wars | ||
| 1415–1420 | Raron affair | ||
| 1420–1452 | Taborites | ||
| 1426 | Battle of Detern | ||
| 1428 | Shōchō uprising | ||
| 1434–1436 | Engelbrekt rebellion | ||
| 1437 | Transylvanian peasant revolt | ||
| 1438–1439 | David's Rebellion | ||
| 1438 | Hallvard Graatop | ||
| 1441 | Kakitsu uprising | ||
| 1441 | Henrik Reventlow | ||
| 1450 | Jack Cade's Rebellion | ||
| 1450–1451 | John and William Merfold | ||
| 1454-1603 | Ikki and Jizamurai in Sengoku period | ||
| 1462–1486 | War of the Remences | ||
| 1467–1469 | Irmandiño revolts | ||
| 1476 | Hans Böhm | ||
| 1478 | Carinthian Peasant Revolt | ||
| 1490–1492 | Muha Rebellion | ||
| 1493–1517 | Bundschuh movement | ||
| 1497 | Cornish rebellion of 1497 | ||
| 1498–1878 | Opryshky | ||
| 1500 | Battle of Hemmingstedt | ||
| 1510–1514 | Hvar rebellion | ||
| 1511 | Friulian revolt of 1511 | ||
| 1514 | Poor Conrad | ||
| 1514 | György Dózsa | ||
| 1515 | Slovene Peasant Revolt of 1515 | ||
| 1515–1523 | Frisian freedom and Arumer Zwarte Hoop | ||
| 1516–1521 | Trần Cao rebellion | ||
| 1520–1521 | Revolt of the Comuneros | ||
| 1520–1524 | Revolt of the Brotherhoods | ||
| 1524–1525 | German Peasants' War | ||
| 1524–1534 | Dalecarlian rebellions | ||
| 1529 | Västergötland rebellion | ||
| 1534–1536 | Count's Feud | ||
| 1534–1535 | Münster rebellion | ||
| 1536–1537 | Pilgrimage of Grace | ||
| 1540 | Bondeopprøret 1540 | ||
| 1541–1549 | Revolt of the Pitauds | ||
| 1542–1543 | Dacke War | ||
| 1549 | Kett's Rebellion and Prayer Book Rebellion | ||
| 1550 | Battle of Sauðafell | ||
| 1551–1553 | Lappvesi Peasant Revolt (1551–1553) | ||
| 1559 | Last Feud | ||
| 1573 | Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt | ||
| 1591–1594 | Rappenkrieg (Basel) | ||
| 1591–1855 | Cossack uprisings and Haydamak | ||
| 1594–1637 | Croquant rebellions | ||
| 1596–1597 | Cudgel War | ||
| 1612–1614 | Rappenkrieg | ||
| 1622–1624 | White Lotus Societies | ||
| 1628–1644 | Late Ming peasant rebellions | ||
| 1626–1636 | Upper Austrian peasant war of 1626 | ||
| 1630–1633 | Peasant uprising in Podhale (1630–1633) | ||
| 1630–1645 | Rebellion of Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying | ||
| 1630–1647 | Zhang Xianzhong | ||
| 1931 | Castilblanco events | ||
| 1637–1638 | Shimabara Rebellion | ||
| 1639 | Revolt of the va-nu-pieds | ||
| 1640 | Corpus de Sang | ||
| 1641 | Irish Rebellion of 1641 | ||
| 1651 | Kostka-Napierski uprising | ||
| 1652 | Guo Huaiyi rebellion | ||
| 1653 | Morning Star rebellion | ||
| 1653 | Swiss peasant war of 1653 | ||
| 1667–1675 | Angelets | ||
| 1669–1670 | Peasant rebellion in Podhale (1669–1670) | ||
| 1693–1694 | Second Brotherhood | ||
| 1702–1710 | War of the Camisards | ||
| 1704 | Kuridža's Rebellion | ||
| 1705–1706 | Bavarian uprising of 1705–1706 | ||
| 1713 | Ivan Miklavčič in Tolmin | ||
| 1725–1743 | Saltpeter Wars | ||
| 1743 | Dalecarlian rebellion (1743) | ||
| 1765 | Strilekrigen | ||
| 1771–1802 | Tây Sơn wars | ||
| 1775 | Peasant revolt of 1775 in Bohemia | ||
| 1780–1783 | Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II | ||
| 1784 | Revolt of Horea, Cloșca, and Crișan | ||
| 1786–1787 | Christian Jensen Lofthuus | ||
| 1790 | Saxon Peasants' Revolt | ||
| 1793–1796 | War in the Vendée | ||
| 1793–1804 | Chouannerie | ||
| 1794 | Kościuszko Uprising | ||
| 1794–1804 | White Lotus Rebellion | ||
| 1798 | Peasants' War (1798) | ||
| 1800–1802 | Anders Olson Lysne | ||
| 1801–1895 | 19th-century peasant rebellions in Korea | ||
| 1804 | 1804 Mtiuleti rebellion | ||
| 1807–1820 | Jean-Baptiste Perrier | ||
| 1809 | Tyrolean Rebellion | ||
| 1809 | 1809 Gottscheer rebellion | ||
| 1811 | Klågerup riots | ||
| 1817 | Pentrich rising | ||
| 1819 | Chuguev uprising | ||
| 1821 | Wallachian uprising of 1821 | ||
| 1829–1872 | War of the Maidens | ||
| 1834–1835 | Syrian peasant revolt (1834–1835) | ||
| 1839–1843 | Rebecca Riots | ||
| 1834 | Peasants' revolt in Palestine | ||
| 1841 | Rebellion in Guria (1841) | ||
| 1843–1844 | Lukian Kobylytsia | ||
| 1846 | Galician peasant uprising of 1846 | Habsburg-Lorraine Poland | |
| 1846 | 1846 Venezuelan peasant insurrection | ||
| 1847–1915 | Caste War of Yucatán | ||
| 1848 | Matale rebellion | ||
| 1850–1864 | Taiping Rebellion | ||
| 1851–1868 | Nian Rebellion | ||
| 1858 | Mahtra War | ||
| 1861 | Bezdna unrest | ||
| 1867–1869 | Julio López Chávez | ||
| 1873 | Blood tax riots | ||
| 1879–1913 | Land War | ||
| 1884 | Chichibu Incident | ||
| 1886 | Ciomas | ||
| 1888 | Banten | ||
| 1892 | Jerez uprising | ||
| 1894–1895 | Donghak Peasant Revolution | ||
| 1896–1897 | War of Canudos | ||
| 1899–1900 | 1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria | ||
| 1902-1906 | Gurian Republic | ||
| 1905–1907 | Russian Revolution of 1905 | ||
| 1905–1908 | Maji Maji Rebellion | ||
| 1907 | Revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers | ||
| 1907 | 1907 Romanian peasants' revolt | ||
| 1911–1912 | 1911 Revolution | ||
| 1912–1916 | Contestado War | ||
| 1913 | Zolskoye Uprising | ||
| 1913–1914 | Juazeiro Sedition | ||
| 1914 | 1914–1915 Muslim revolts in Albania | ||
| 1915 | Kelantan rebellion | ||
| 1915 | 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots | ||
| 1916 | Central Asian revolt of 1916 | ||
| 1917–1921 | Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict | ||
| 1918 | Livny Uprising | ||
| 1918 | Minusinsk Uprising | ||
| 1918 | Arsk uprising | ||
| 1918 | Left SR uprising | ||
| 1918 | Sheksna uprising | ||
| 1918 | Rybinsk Uprising | ||
| 1918 | Anti-Hetman uprising | ||
| 1918 | Yaroslavl Uprising | ||
| 1919 | Khotyn Uprising | ||
| 1919 | Chapan rebellion | ||
| 1919 | Hryhoriv Uprising | ||
| 1919 | Trypillia Incident | ||
| 1919 | Chapan rebellion | ||
| 1919–1921 | Medvyn rebellion | ||
| 1920 | Pitchfork uprising | ||
| 1920 | Guba Uprising (1920) | ||
| 1920 | 1920 Croatian Peasant Rebellion | ||
| 1920–1922 | Tambov Rebellion | Russia | |
| 1920–1926 | Spirit Soldier rebellions (1920–1926) | China | |
| 1926–1929 | Cristero War | ||
| 1921 | Proština rebellion | ||
| 1921 | Kronstadt rebellion | ||
| 1921 | West Siberian rebellion | ||
| 1921 | Peasant rebellion of Sorokino | ||
| 1921 | Malabar rebellion | ||
| 1924 | Tatarbunary uprising | ||
| 1924 | June Revolution | ||
| 1924 | August Uprising | ||
| 1927 | Autumn Harvest Uprising | ||
| 1928–1929 | Red Spears' uprising in Shandong (1928–1929) | ||
| 1930 | Peasant March | ||
| 1932 | La Matanza | ||
| 1932 | Lesko uprising | ||
| 1934 | Ranquil massacre | ||
| 1936 | Miyun and Yellow Sand Society | ||
| 1942-1943 | Osip Tsebriy | ||
| 1943 | Woyane rebellion | Solomonic Ethiopia | |
| 1944 | Indramayu | ||
| 1952–1960 | Mau Mau rebellion | Kenya Colony | |
| 1959 | Spirit Soldier rebellion (1959) | China | |
| 1967–1970 | Srikakulam peasant uprising | India | |
| 1973–1979 | 1970s peasant revolts in Thailand | Thailand | |
| 1975–1991 | Peasant revolution in Ethiopia | Derg | |
| 1994 | Zapatista uprising | Mexico |
See also
- Peasant movement
- Popular revolts in late medieval Europe
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants
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