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Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea coming into the colonies. This was an important event that helped spark the American Revolution. -
Pugachev's Rebellion
Pugachev's Rebellion was the principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in Russia after Catherine II seized power in 1762. It began as an organized insurrection of Yaik Cossacks headed by Yemelyan Pugachev, a disaffected ex-lieutenant of the Russian Imperial army, against a background of profound peasant unrest and war with the Ottoman Empire. It was the largest pesant revolt in Russian history. -
Start of The American Revolution
The American Revolution ushered in a century long process of political and cultural transformation in Europe and the Americas. -
Creation of the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the continental congress, that announced the thirteen colonies were regarding themselves and independent states that were no longer a part of British rule. -
End Of American Revolution
The End of The American Revolution resulted in the 13 colonies gaining complete independence from Britan, and the creation of the Declaration of Independence. -
The Storming of the Bastille
The invading of the Bastille prison in Paris was one of the most important events that had a large impact of the start of the French Revolution. -
Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution was a slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Dominigue which culminated in the elimination of slavery but resulting in the creation of the new Haitian Republic. -
The Polish Revolt
The Kościuszko Uprising was an uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in the Commonwealth of Poland and the Prussian partition in 1794. It was a failed attempt to liberate Poland and Lithuania from Russian influence after the Second Partition of Poland and the creation of the Targowica Confederation. -
Irish Rebellion of 1798
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 was an uprising against British Rule in Ireland lasting from May to September. The United Irishmen, a republican revolutionary group influenced by the ideas of the American and French revolutions, were the main organising force behind the rebellion. -
Serbian Rebellion
The Serbian Revolution was a national uprising and constitutional change in Serbia, when the state changed from a Ottoman Province to a Constitutional Monarchy. There was a voilent struggle for independence from the Ottomans in the begining, but the revolution ended with a peaceful consolidation of power. -
The Mexican War of Independence
The people of Mexico fight the Spanish authoritites in order to gain independence from them. It started as an idealist pesants' rebellion but then escalate to but ended in a violent war. -
Greek War od Independence
The Greek War of Independence was a series of revolts by the Greeks that attempted to gain independence from their new Ottoman leaders. This ended up being a successful war for the Greeks. -
The June Rebellion
Also know as the PAris Uprising of 1832, this was an unsuccessful, anti-monarchist insurrection of Parisian Republicans. The rebellion originated in an attempt of the Republicans to reverse the establishment in 1830 of the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe, shortly after the death of the king's powerful supporter. -
Hungarian Revolution
This was a rebellion in the Kingdom of Hungary that grew into a war of independence from Austria. The rebellion began with local concerns about taxes and the worsening economy during the reform period. -
Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion was a massive civil war in southern China from 1850 to 1864, against the ruling Manchu-led Qing Dynasty. It was led by Hong Xiuquan, who announced that he had received visions in which he learned that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ. About 20 million people died, mainly civilians, in one of the deadliest military conflicts in history. -
Sepoy Rebellion
The Indians hired Sepoy soldiers to take care of their interests. However, the Sepoy soldiers rebelled when they realized that the British were putting cow fat onto their bullets. -
Dungan Revolt
The Dungan Revolt was a mainly ethnic war with a few religious factors in 19th-century China.ut strictly it was an uprising by members of the Muslim Hui and other Muslim ethnic groups in China's Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia provinces, as well as in Xinjiang, between 1862 and 1877. The revolt was set off over a pricing dispute over bamboo poles which a Han was selling to a Hui, who did not pay the amount the Han merchant demanded. -
The April Uprising
The April Uprising was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to MТhe regular Ottoman Army and irregular bashi-bazouk units brutally suppressed the rebels, leading to a public outcry in Europe and the United States, with many famous intellectuals condemning the Ottoman atrocities and supporting the oppressed Bulgarian population.ay 1876, which indirectly resulted in the re-establishment of Bulgaria in 1878. -
The Philipine Revolution
The Philippine Revolution began upon the discovery of the anti-colonial secret organization Katipunan by the Spanish authorities. the Katipunan leaders organized themselves into a revolutionary government and openly declared a nationwide armed revolution, Despite this revolution, the Philipines would not become internationally recognized until 1946. -
The Intentona de Yauco
The Intentona de Yauco was the second and final major revolt against Spanish colonial rule in Puerto Rico staged by the island's pro-independence movement in the second half of the nineteenth century. With the aid of the local leaders of the independence movement of the town of Yauco, they organized another uprising.
