The Eastern Roman Empire was already beset by internal problems, such as famine and plague, as well as riots and a series of earthquakes in Constantinople itself.

In response, a series of violent Arab riots broke out in 1933.

* 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.

* 2009 – A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.

* 2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.

The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

* February 27 – A series of riots leaves hundreds dead, after 59 Hindu pilgrims die aboard a train burned by a Muslim in Godhra, India.

The unrest in 2004 was sparked by a series of minor events that soon cascaded into large-scale riots.

Competition on the goldfields, particularly resentment among white miners towards the successes of Chinese miners, led to tensions between groups and eventually a series of significant protests and riots, including the Buckland Riot in 1857 and the Lambing Flat Riots between 1860 and 1861.

Major riots in black neighborhoods caused a series of " long hot summers.

A series of anti-immigrant riots occurred in South Africa beginning on 11 May 2008.

In May 1968, a series of worker strikes and student riots rocked France.

In 1998, preceding the fall of Suharto's 32-year presidency, large riots targeted the Chinese Indonesians in another series of pogroms.

Due to the late April 1992 Los Angeles riots, the Anaheim Convention Center was the site of Game 4 of the series, which the Clippers won.

In 1258, after a series of bloody riots instigated by the count's officials, the chapter finally gained permission from the King to seal off the area of the cloître and lock the gates each night.

In Bernard Cornwell's series of novels Sharpe, the protagonist Richard Sharpe's mother was killed during the riots when he was three.

* The Hep-Hep riots-a series of antisemitic riots in Germany and neighbouring countries in 1819.

In Britain, a series of race riots broke out in several cities in 1919 between whites and black sailors.

Five main reasons for sports riots are teams contending for a championship, a long series of matches, a gathering place for many fans, the presence of young men, and scores that are close.

Sports are the most common cause of riots in the United States, accompanying more than half of all championship games or series ; almost all occur in the winning team's city.

Amnesty International notes that China “ has the largest recorded number of imprisoned journalists and cyber-dissidents in the world .” The offences of which they are accused include communicating with groups abroad, signing online petitions, and calling for reform and an end to corruption .< ref >< nowiki > http :// www. internetfreedom. org / Background </ nowiki > Background Global Internet Freedom Consortium ( do not download anything from this site – it is a known Trojan supplier )</ ref > The escalation of the government's effort to neutralize critical online opinion comes after a series of large anti-Japanese, anti-pollution, anti-corruption protests, and ethnic riots, many of which were organized or publicized using instant messaging services, chat rooms, and text messages.

The series finale aired during the race-related 1992 Los Angeles riots, with Cosby quoted in media at the time pleading for peace.

The poor responded in 1934 with a series of demonstrations, strikes, petitions, and riots that marked the beginning of modern politics and the independence movement.

" The failure to come to an agreement was widely attributed to Yasser Arafat, as he walked away from the table without making a concrete counter-offer and because Arafat did little to quell the series of Palestinian riots that began shortly after the summit.

This central episode consists of a series of staccato scenes set in the period from the beginning of the present century up to the first World War.

The Institute also planned to furnish a regular series of articles, beginning in the fall of 1960, on its more significant Scientific Exhibits.

Centering around this historic old structure, a group of public-spirited Barbour County citizens have organized and planned a week-long series of events, beginning on May 28th and continuing through June 3rd, to observe most appropriately the centennial of the first land engagement of the Civil War at Philippi.

In a series of fairy tales and fantasies, Melies demonstrated that the film is superbly equipped to tell a straightforward story, with beginning, middle and end, complications, resolutions, climaxes, and conclusions.

In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for " beginning ", or " first " ( in a series ), reflecting its Greek roots.

In the period between 1989 and the beginning of the 2005 series, the two sides had played 43 times ; Australia winning 28 times, England 7 times, with 8 draws.

The Leduc No. 1 well, which blew in 1947, marked the beginning of series of petroleum-related economic booms.

David Brown also acquired Lagonda that year for its 2. 6-litre W. O. Bentley-designed engine, both companies shared resources and workshops and that was the beginning of the classic series of cars bearing the initials " DB ".

Along with BOCA, Collegiate a cappella groups may submit their tracks to Voices Only, a two-disc series released at the beginning of each school year.

The spelling of his name was changed after the beginning of the series ; his nameplate and office door spells his surname " McVicar " in early episodes.

Each series was set in a different period of British history, beginning in 1485 and ending in 1917, and comprised six half-hour episodes.

The Voortrekkers were those Boers ( mainly from the eastern Cape ) who left the Cape en masse in a series of large scale migrations later called the Great Trek beginning in 1835 as a result of British colonialism and constant border wars.

Robinson writes that it is possible the Chaplin experienced a series of minor strokes during his convalescence, which marked the beginning of a slow decline in his health.

A formal neurological examination runs through a precisely delineated series of tests, beginning with tests for basic sensorimotor reflexes, and culminating with tests for sophisticated use of language.

In a series of experiments beginning in the mid-1880s, Theodor Boveri gave the definitive demonstration that chromosomes are the vectors of heredity.

A series of papers published between 1931 and 1935 had its beginning on a trip from India to England in 1930,

In the Brain and Brawn series of novels series by Anne McCaffrey and others, beginning with The Ship Who Sang, a " brainship " is a human body, usually one that could not develop normally, encased in the strongest materials available in that universe, and mentally connected to the controls of a spacecraft.

When Beaux arrived in Paris, the Impressionists, a group of artists who had begun their own series of independent exhibitions from the official Salon in 1874, were beginning to lose their solidarity.

She recorded a series of bluegrass-inspired albums, beginning with The Grass Is Blue ( 1999 ), winning a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, and Little Sparrow ( 2001 ), with its cover of Collective Soul's " Shine " winning a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

In a series of courts martial beginning on 2 May 90 people were sentenced to death.

Among the commercial successes for German films of the 1980s were the Otto film series beginning in 1985 starring comedian Otto Waalkes, Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of The NeverEnding Story ( 1984 ), and the internationally successful Das Boot ( 1981 ), which still holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for a German film ( six ).

Popular comedy series included the St Trinians films and the " Doctor " series, beginning with Doctor in the House in 1954.

The writer / director / producer team of twin brothers John and Roy Boulting also produced a series of successful satires on British life and institutions, beginning with Private's Progress ( 1956 ), and continuing with Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.