In the 1830s, many Welsh people from the steelworks of Merthyr migrated to the city following the civil strife and aftermath of the Merthyr Riots of 1831.

* January 6 – January 20 – The Bombay Riots take place in the city now known as Mumbai.

* July 23 – 12th Street Riot / Detroit Race Riots: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1, 400 buildings burned.

After 1992 Los Angeles Riots 4, 000 National Guard troops patrolled the city to enforce the law.

Riots and civil unrest in the city following the 1968 assassination of Rev.

In 1828, the city sold the second Lester and Pack bell to St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, which was burned down by an anti-Catholic mob in the Philadelphia Nativist Riots of 1844.

During the 1992 Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles, when many people left the city, Olmos went out with a broom and worked to get communities cleaned up and rebuilt.

The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots in 1943 during World War II that exploded in Los Angeles, California, between white sailors and Marines stationed throughout the city and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored.

Police Constables and an Inspector of Greater Manchester Police on the beat in Manchester city centre after the 2008 UEFA Cup Final Riots

Seattle's open housing forces took a blow when, on May 15, 1965, just before the summer of the Voting Rights Act and the Watts Riots, an airplane crash killed Sidney Gerber and city council member Wing Luke.

Riots broke out in St. Louis as Lyon marched his prisoners through the city to the St. Louis Arsenal.

Riots due to famine in the city.

In his first return term as mayor, Luken had to deal with the 2001 Cincinnati Riots resulting from perceived racism on the part of city police, as evidenced by a pattern of racial profiling and the shooting deaths of several unarmed black men.

The New York Draft Riots continued for three days before army troops managed to contain the mob, which had burned and looted much of the city.

His tenure was marked by increasing racial tensions in the city, culminating in the Hough Riots of 1966.

Increased religious tensions in the city of Bombay ( now Mumbai ) led to the Bombay Riots.

The Zoot Suit Riots were unique in that the fashions of the largely Mexican American ( and some white and African American ) victims made them the target of white servicemen stationed in the city, many of whom were from southern white towns.

The war, and especially conscription, was nevertheless often unpopular in the city, sparking the deadly New York Draft Riots.

* the 1992 Bombay Riots in Bombay more than 200, 000 people ( both Hindus and Muslims ) fled the city or their homes during the time of the riots, 900 – 3000 people died.

In 1737 he took a conspicuous part in opposing the bill inflicting penalties upon the city of Edinburgh for the Porteous Riots.

* July 1978-Race Riots occur in the Moody Park section of the city ( in response to the drowning of Jose Campos Torres by two Houston Police officers, and are documented by KPRC-TV, whose reporters are attacked and injured during their report.

This caused city officials to realize there had been a Pachuco gang problem in the city, whilst the Sleepy Lagoon incident with the 38th Street gang had national news media coverage on the Los Angeles gang problem leading to the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots.

Riots broke out following the opening of an exit in the Arab Quarter for the Western Wall Tunnel on the instructions of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which prior Prime Minister Shimon Peres had instructed to be put on hold for the sake of peace ( stating it has waited for over 1000 years, it could wait a few more ).

After the Poll Tax Riots, Conservative ministers contemplated abolition of the tax but knew that, as a flagship Thatcherite policy, its abolition would not be possible while Thatcher was still Prime Minister.

While known for his staunch adherence to apartheid, overseeing as Minister of Justice the Rivonia Trial in which Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment, and as Prime Minister the Terrorism Act, the complete abolishment of non-white political representation, the Soweto Riots and the Steve Biko crisis, he nevertheless concluded a more pragmatic foreign policy than his predecessors in an effort to improve relations between the white minority government and South Africa's neighbours, particularly after the breakup of the Portuguese colonial empire.

The Poll Tax Riots were a series of mass disturbances, or riots, in British towns and cities during protests against the Community Charge ( commonly known as the poll tax ), introduced by the Conservative government led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

B. Bajpayee and the BJP, the NDA was again victorious in 2004 and Patnaik continued as the Chief Minister, but the friction between the ruling partners was getting more and more apparent, especially after the killing of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati in the Kandhamal district of Orissa in 2007 – 2008 and also active participation of Bajrang Dal in Riots.

Andries Petrus Treurnicht ( 19 February 1921, Piketberg, Cape Province – 22 April 1993, Cape Town ) was a South African politician, Minister of Education during the Soweto Riots and for a short time leader of the National Party in Transvaal.

Newly appointed as Deputy Minister of Education in 1976, his instruction to implement the policy that black students should be taught half in English, half in Afrikaans triggered the Soweto Riots.

* Desan, S. “ The Role of Women in Religious Riots during the French Revolution .” Eighteenth-Century Studies.

* 1791 – The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.

The Priestley riots of 1791The outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 caused political strains between members of the society, but it was the Priestley Riots of 1791 in Birmingham itself that saw a decisive falling off of the society's spirit and activities.

** Riots occur in French Somaliland.

Montreal's Gay Pride Parade ( in French, Défilé de la fierté gai ) is held mid-August and has taken place every year since 1979, when a group of 200 people commemorated New York City's 1969 Stonewall Riots with " Gairilla ," a precursor to Montreal's gay pride parade celebrations.

Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge is set amid the Gordon Riots, and A Tale of Two Cities in the French Revolution.

In his " Narrative of the Riots in Birmingham " ( 1816 ), stationer and Birmingham historian William Hutton agreed, arguing that five events stoked the fires of religious friction: disagreements over inclusion of Priestley's books in the local public library ; concerns over Dissenters ' attempts to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts ; religious controversy ( particularly involving Priestley ); an " inflammatory hand-bill "; and a dinner celebrating the outbreak of the French Revolution.

The events which precipitated the Priestley Riots came less than a month after the attempted flight and arrest of the French Royal family, and at a point when much of the early promise of the Revolution had already dissipated.

1558: Riots break out over French prosecution of Protestants ; the Flodden Wall is complete ; Edinburgh's population is about 12, 000 ; there are 367 merchants, and 400 craftsmen

Riots continued for two days until being quelled by the army ; 67 people were killed according to official figures.

In June 1780 Amherst oversaw the British army as they suppressed the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London: after the outbreak of rioting Amherst deployed the small London garrison of Horse and Foot Guards as best as he could but was hindered by the reluctance of the civil magistrates to authorise decisive action against the rioters.

In November 1830, during the Cholera Riots in Russia, the citizens of Tambov attacked their governor, but they were soon suppressed by the regular army.

He served in that position during the violent Memphis Riots of 1866 on May 1, 1866, where, since he had few troops at his disposal, he was powerless to protect the black Union veterans who had been mustered out of the army the previous day.

Riots in a working class neighbourhood in Amsterdam were put down with army assistance, with fatal consequences ( for more details: the Great Depression in the Netherlands )..