* 2011 – A peaceful march in protest of the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London ends in a riot, sparking off a wave of rioting throughout the country over the following four nights.

* Peggy Duff, Left, Left, Left: A personal account of six protest campaigns 1945-65 ( Allison and Busby: London, 1971 ) ISBN 0-85031-056-3

* 1990 – 200, 000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.

Smith premiered two new protest songs in London in September 2006.

The most serious was in a protest at Trafalgar Square, London, on 31 March 1990, of more than 200, 000 protesters.

Lamy was awarded a medal at the International Exhibition in London 1862: For the discovery of a new and abundant source of thallium and after heavy protest Crookes also received a medal: thallium, for the discovery of the new element.

* March 26 – 80, 000 demonstrators gather in Hyde Park, London, to protest against the importation of Chinese labourers to South Africa by the British government.

* October 21 – Tens of thousands of coal miners march in London to protest government plans to close coal mines and reduce the number of coal miners.

After the announcement of Lumumba's death, street protests were organized in several European countries ; in Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia, protesters sacked the Belgian embassy and confronted the police, and in London a crowd marched from Trafalgar Square to the Belgian embassy, where a letter of protest was delivered and where protesters clashed with police.

On October 27, 2000, he staged the Real Turner Prize Show at the Dead End Gallery in his home, concurrent with three shows with the same title in England ( London, Falmouth and Dartington ) and one in Germany in protest against the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize.

An initial peaceful protest led on to widespread rioting and looting and was the most destructive of the 18th century in London.

When Chamberlain suggested that he would march on London with thousands of Birmingham constituents to protest the House of Lords ' powers, Salisbury remarked that " Mr. Chamberlain will return from his adventure with a broken head if nothing worse.

In March 2011, the Park was the South London starting point for a feeder march to the 2011 anti-cuts protest in London.

He spoke against the war at the February 2003 protest in London organised by the Stop the War Coalition, attended by over 1 million people.

* Hundreds of thousands of people marched in London to protest the U. S. plan to invade Iraq.

Protests it organised included the Halloween 2002 anti-war protest in London, and the Old Street Roundabout protest that occurred the day after the War in Iraq started.

* David Chick-Infamous rather than famous protester ; dressed up as Spider-Man, scaled a crane in London to protest for rights to see his daughter after divorcing his wife.

in Brixton, London, in Autumn 1991 and was born out of anti-road protest camps at places such as Claremont Road and Twyford Down.

The Virginia House of Burgesses in December 1764 sent a protest of the taxes to London, arguing that they did not have the specie required to pay the tax.

A tactical frivolity float, surrounded by protestors at the 2011 London anti-cuts protest

Tactical frivolity was used at the 2011 London anti-cuts protest.

A group of about 400 black bloc anarchists took part in the 2011 London anti-cuts protest where they attacked various high end retail outlets ; according to journalist Paul Mason this may have been the largest ever black block assembly in the UK.

In September 1938 the Sudetenland was occupied by German forces and Masaryk resigned as ambassador in protest, although he remained in London.

The incident inspired Henry David Thoreau, whose similar protest led to a night in jail and his essay " Civil Disobedience ".

The regime stifled the public protest and incarcerated the leaders, but this led to the ratification of a new Constitution in 1974, giving more rights to the individual republics.

Subsequent protest led to the 2000 Ecuadorean coup d ' état which saw Mahuad's removal from office and the elevation of Vice President Gustavo Noboa to the presidency.

The Hong Kong 1 July March is an annual protest rally led by the Civil Human Rights Front since the 1997 handover on the HKSAR establishment day.

As a reaction to their exclusion from political representation, the Kikuyu people, the most subject to pressure by the settlers, founded in 1921 Kenya's first African political protest movement, the Young Kikuyu Association, led by Harry Thuku.

Therefore, three wealthy business men Ibrahim Al-Mudhaf, Helal Al-Mutairi, and Shamlan Ali bin Saif Al-Roumi ( brother of Hussain Ali bin Saif Al-Roumi ), led a protest against Mubarak by making Bahrain their main trade point, which negatively affected the Kuwaiti economy.

The arrest of an opposition figure on 6 April 2010 in the town of Talas led opposition supporters to protest.

Dissatisfaction over governmental plans to raise the price of rice in 1979 led to protest demonstrations in the streets of Monrovia.

When Ehud Olmert was serving in his post as Mayor of Jerusalem, he led efforts to protest against the way Orient House was functioning, refusing to meet with Faisal Husseini and demanding that Orient House pay 300, 000 USD in municipal taxes.

Orange Alternative ( Pomarańczowa Alternatywa ) is a name for an underground protest movement which was started in Wrocław, a town in south-west Poland and led by Waldemar Fydrych ( sometimes misspelled as Frydrych ), commonly known as Major ( Commander of Festung Breslau ) in the 1980s.

That action led to a protest from the citizens of Flushing, Queens, which came to be known as the Flushing Remonstrance, considered by some a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights.

The continued friction led to McDaniels sitting out most of the group's recording sessions in protest.

The second major incident arose out of an initially peaceful protest by the Mau ( which literally translates as " strongly held opinion "), a non-violent popular movement which had its beginnings in the early 1900s on Savai ' i, led by Lauaki Namulauulu Mamoe, an orator chief deposed by Solf.

The censorship administered under the Licensing Act led to public protest ; as the act had to be renewed at two-year intervals, authors and others sought to prevent its reauthorisation.

In protest, squatters in Amsterdam had occupied a former fire department the week before the law began ( returning it to the owners control on 30 September ) and a riot occurred on 1 October when the police blocked a protest and led a horse charge upon it.

Sylvia Rivera led an alternate march in New York City in 1994 to protest the exclusion of transgender people from the events.

* The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were disrupted by a boycott led by the United States and 64 other countries in protest of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

* 1894: Coxey's Army a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by the populist Jacob Coxey.

This led to the development of a Māori protest movement which in turn led to greater recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi in the late 20th century.

His maternal grandfather, Asa Dunbar, led Harvard's 1766 student " Butter Rebellion ", the first recorded student protest in the Colonies.

) The previous day, he had led a crowd of thousands in Rome on Friday in protest at the center-right government's decision to cut state arts funding by 35 percent.

Controversy over leaked autopsy photos led to a protest by NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

In protest of his jailing, Charles Ruthenberg led a parade of unionists, socialists, anarchists and communists to march on May 1 ( May Day ) 1919, in Cleveland, Ohio.