In AD 60 or 61, while the current governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, was leading a campaign against the island of Mona ( modern Anglesey ) in the north of Wales, which was a refuge for British rebels and a stronghold of the druids, the Iceni conspired with their neighbours the Trinovantes, amongst others, to revolt.

Since the incident on 19 September 2002 ( see History of Ivory Coast ), a civil war broke out, and the north part of the country has been seized by the rebels, the New Forces ( FN ).

Because the British promised slaves of rebels freedom for fighting with them, escaped slaves flocked north to join their lines.

Elizabeth was persuaded to send a force into Scotland to aid the Protestant rebels, and though the campaign was inept, the resulting Treaty of Edinburgh of July 1560 removed the French threat in the north.

The conspirators ambushed him north of Port-au-Prince at Pont Larnage ( now known as Pont-Rouge ) on October 17, 1806 en route to battle rebels to his regime.

During a 16th-century peasant revolt in southern Norway, the rebels claimed, during their trial, that they expected the " Hun king Atle " to come from the north with a great host.

* 1403 – Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.

By the end of the summer the rebels had regained the south-east of England and parts of the north.

However, due to the 2012 insurgency in northern Mali, the military government controls only the southern third of the country, leaving the north of the country ( known as Azawad ) to MNLA rebels.

Although Azawad, a region spanning the expansive north of Mali, was proclaimed independent in April 2012 by Tuareg rebels, Mali has not recognised the de facto state.

* Brendan Whiting's book Victims of Tyranny, gives an account of the lives of the Irish rebels, the Fitzgerald convict brothers who were sent to help open up the north of Van Diemen's Land in 1805, under the leadership of the explorer Colonel William Paterson.

Fighting broke out again in February and March 1979, with South Yemen allegedly supplying aid to rebels in the north through the National Democratic Front and crossing the border.

But Martin was far too deeply committed to Charles and French interests to heed them ; instead, he excommunicated the rebels, the Emperor Michael, and the Ghibellines in north Italy.

This first round of suppressions contributed to popular discontent in the Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536 ; an event which led to Henry increasingly associating monasticism with betrayal, as most of the spared religious houses in the north of England ( more or less willingly ) sided with the rebels ; while former monks resumed religious life in several of the suppressed houses.

Baldwin served as an intermediary between the rebels and the governor, carrying a flag of truce to the rebel camp north of Toronto on 5 December 1837, but failed to head off an armed clash.

Leaders of the Forces Nouvelles ( former rebels ) asserted that Gbagbo was not the Head of State and could not make such a request and also asserted that the demand was a part of a plan to commit genocide on ethnicities from the north of the country, as stated by Gbagbo's Minister of Youth and Employment.

Dessalines was assassinated north of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, at Pont Larnage ( now known as Pont-Rouge ), on 17 October 1806 on his way to fight the rebels.

A first cousin of former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, he became notorious in the 1980s and 1990s for his role in the Iraqi government's campaigns against internal opposition forces, namely the ethnic Kurdish rebels of the north, and the Shia religious dissidents of the south.

Though this originally began in the Spanish-controlled area in the north of the country, it reached the French-controlled area until a coalition of France and Spain finally defeated the rebels in 1925.

The rebels also advanced north towards Elephant Pass and Jaffna.

Then the two generals went separate ways, Huangfu to join in the attack on the rebels north of the Yellow River, and Zhu to deal with the rebels of Nanyang.

Overran by rebels, Liu Bei moved north to join Gongsun Zan, who was at war with Yuan Shao for control of Ji Province ( Hebei ) and Qing Province ( Shandong ).

In July 1601 he had successfully ordered an amphibious landing at Lough Foyle, near Derry, which penetrated the north of the province and undermined the rebels.

Recently, some councils, normally in the north of England, have revived the term.

A mangelwurzel hurling championship was revived in the north Wiltshire village of Sherston on October 7, 2006.

After the Norman invasion of north Pembrokeshire led by Robert fitz Martin, the Normans built a rabbit farm on the island, later revived during the Victorian era.

In January 2011 it was revealed that the team would be playing in the revived Southwest Division of the NPSL and the team would be playing their home games at the football / soccer stadium on the campus of Westview High School on the north side of San Diego.

The scheme was revived in 1752 when the York Corporation sought that no gate should be nearer to York than the north end of Skelton, and that the section of the road nearer York should be repaired first.

The destruction of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan in 1258 revived the trade route running north from Armenia and the upper Euphrates valley to Erzerum and then through the Zigana Pass to Trebizond.

The city was revived after Genghis's assault, but the sudden change of Amu-Darya's course to the north and the town's destruction again in the 1370s, this time by Timur, forced the inhabitants to leave the site forever.

Under Chandragupta I ( 320-335 ), empire was revived in the north.

( Plans for a MAX line north from downtown Portland along Interstate Avenue were later revived, as the Yellow Line, but without the portion extending across the Columbia River to Vancouver, and this opened in 2004.

In another joint invasion with Silla, the Tang army severely weakened the Goguryeo Kingdom in the north by taking out its outer forts in the year 645.

In 660, the southeastern kingdom of Silla conquered Baekje in the Southwest, and in 668, Silla conquered Goguryeo in the north with the help of China's Tang Dynasty ( see also Three Kingdoms of Korea ).

In 721, Silla solidifed its northern boundary with Balhae ( which replaced Goguryeo in the north ) by building a wall between P ' yŏngyang and Wŏnsan.

Taejo expanded the country's territory by conquering part of the land formerly belonging to Goguryeo, in the northwest of the Korean peninsula, as far north as the Yalu River.

When Buddhism was introduced to Korea in the 4th century CE, the Korean peninsula was politically subdivided into three kingdoms: Goguryeo in the north, Baekje in the southwest, and Silla in the southeast.

Goguryeo emerged on the north and south banks of the Yalu ( Amrok ) River, in the wake of Gojoseon's fall.

Allied with China under the Tang dynasty, Silla conquered Goguryeo in 668, after having already conquered Gaya in 562 and Baekje in 660, thus ushering in the North-South states period with Later Silla to the south and Balhae to the north, when Dae Jo-young, a former Goguryeo military officer, revolted Tang Chinese rule and began reconquering former Goguryeo territories.

In early 3rd century, Gongsun Du, a Chinese warlord in Liaodong, supported Buyeo to counter Xianbei in the north and Goguryeo in the east.

In 5 BC, East Okjeo ( a small state to the north, later conquered by Goguryeo ) sent an emissary, and Hyeokgeose presented him with 20 horses.

Gwanggaeto also attacked several Malgal and Ainu tribes further north, bringing them under Goguryeo domination.

In 402, he returned Silseong to Silla, to establish peaceful relationship with the kingdom while he continued the conquest of the north, but Goguryeo forces remained and continued to influence Silla.

At the time of his birth, the kingdom of Goguryeo had grown to be a powerful and belligerent state, constantly warring with its neighbours, Chinese states to its north and west, and its fellow Korean kingdoms Silla and Baekje to its southeast and southwest respectively.

During this early time in the history of Gaya, several waves of migration from the north, including the earlier-extant Gojoseon, Buyeo, and the Goguryeo, arrived and integrated with existing populations and stimulated cultural and political developments.

Goguryeo was one of the strongest Korean kingdoms in the north east of China and the Korean Peninsula from 37 BCE to the 7th century CE.

It bordered Goguryeo and Okjeo to the north, Jinhan to the south, and China's Lelang Commandery to the west.

He ordered numerous attacks against Goguryeo, which was expanding into Baekje territory from the north.

However, in 392 King Gwanggaeto of Goguryeo counterattacked and seized most of the Baekje territory north of the Han River.

During his reign, Goguryeo forces under Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo steadily pushed into Baekje from the north.

Emperor Taizong also invaded the Goguryeo Kingdom in an effort to help their Silla Kingdom ally crush its rival kingdom of Goguryeo to the north.

At the beginning of his reign, Sui faced the threat of Tujue to the north, and neighbored Tibetan tribes to the west, Goguryeo in the northeast, and the kingdom known as Champa threatening the south.