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.

The idea of gang membership and gang activity came from the Zoot Suit Riots that took place in Southern California.

Unfortunately for Warner Bros., the song ( which mentions the Rodney King case ) came out just before the controversial acquittal of the police charged with King's beating, which sparked the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the confluence of events put the song under the national spotlight.

After the Rice Riots of 1918, many peasants came under the influence of the urban labor movement with socialist, communist and / or agrarian ideas, which created a serious political issues.

Within weeks of the Stonewall Riots, Craig Rodwell, proprietor of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in lower Manhattan, was working to commemorate them by replacing the Annual Reminder, which had been held annually in at Independence Hall in Philadelphia since 1965, with a celebration of the Stonewall Riots.

In September 1969, Rodwell and local lesbian allies led by Ellen Broidy, attended an Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations ( ERCHO ) meeting in Philadelphia and got it to vote to replace the Fourth of July Annual Reminder at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, which ERCHO had been sponsoring since 1965, with a first commemoration of the Stonewall Riots.

In 1965, at age ten, he endured the Watts Riots with his family, recalling that, " We had to sleep on the floor because of all the sniping and looting going on.

* March 4 – 5 – Kinmel Park Riots by troops of the Canadian Expeditionary Force awaiting repatriation at Kinmel Camp, Bodelwyddan, in North Wales.

* May 1 – May 7 – Riots at Jaffa ( Mandatory Palestine ) result in 47 Jewish and 48 Arab deaths.

* April 14 – The Porteous Riots erupt in Edinburgh after the execution of smuggler Andrew Wilson, when town guard Captain John Porteous orders his men to fire at the crowd.

In August 1969, Northern Ireland cities like Belfast and Derry erupted in major rioting and British troops were called in at the request of the Government of Northern Ireland ( see 1969 Northern Ireland Riots ).

On 24 June 1978 at 10 pm as a night-time celebration following a morning protest march and commemoration of the Stonewall Riots organised by the Gay Solidarity Group, more than 500 people gathered on Oxford Street, calling for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment and housing, an end to police harassment and the repeal of all anti-homosexual laws.

Since the " Battle of Rostock ", traditional " May Day Riots " after demonstrations every May 1 in Berlin, and since 2008 also in Hamburg, became more intense, and violence of the autonomen against police officers and political enemies at demonstrations of radical left groups have dramatically increased.

The Zoot-Suit Riots sharply revealed a polarization between two youth groups within wartime society: the gangs of predominantly black and Mexican youths who were at the forefront of the zoot-suit subculture, and the predominantly white American servicemen stationed along the Pacific coast.

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race & Riots in Wartime L. A. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

* Philadelphia Riots Collection at the Digital Library @ Villanova University

Following the turbulence of the Watts Riots, the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, the Vietnam War Protests, and Death Penalty politics, a law-and-order Reagan dramatically unseated Brown, who had pledged only 2 terms, with 58 % to 42 %, winning another similarly huge majority as Brown's ' 58 gubernatorial success over Knowland, with some 990, 000 more votes.

However, Brown's popularity began to sag amidst the civil disorders of the Watts Riots and the early anti-Vietnam war demonstrations at U. C.

While at Fort Sheridan the regiment played a vital role in containing the Chicago Railway Riots in July 1894.

He served for nearly 20 years as the doctor at the Colored Orphan Asylum in New York but, after it was burned down in July 1863 by a mob in the New York Draft Riots, in which nearly 100 blacks died, Smith moved his family and practice out to Brooklyn for safety.

He saw the strike as a betrayal, and his actions at attempting to break the strike turned into one of the most important and violent events in Rhondda history, the Tonypandy Riots.

Views of the Ruins of the Principal Houses Destroyed during the Riots at Birmingham.

* The Priestley Riots at " Explore the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter "

* A Sorry End: The Priestley Riots at revolutionaryplayers. org. uk

In 1788, Lambert returned to Leicester, to serve as his father's assistant at the gaol ( some sources date Lambert's return to Leicester to 1791, following the destruction of the building housing Messrs Taylor & Co in the Priestley Riots of ).

Skilled African-American workers fought for their rights at the Navy Yard during the tumultuous Draft Riots of 1863 against armed hooligan bands.

Priestley also founded a reform congregation, but, after his home was burned down in the Priestley Riots, fled with his wife to America, where he became a leading figure in the founding of the church on American soil.

* May 31 – The Zoot Suit Riots erupt between military personnel and Mexican American youths in East Los Angeles.

* July 13 – American Civil War – ( New York Draft Riots ): In New York City, opponents of conscription begin 3 days of violent rioting, which would later be regarded as the worst in the history of the United States.

Riots erupt in major American cities, lasting for several days afterwards.

* 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.

* Professor Uwe Boeker: " The Gordon Riots "-Essay in English Language ( Dresden University of Technology-TU Dresden, Institute for English and American Studies )

The Philadelphia Nativist Riots ( also known as the Philadelphia Prayer Riots, the Bible Riots and the Native American Riots ) were a series of riots that took place between May 6 and 8 and July 6 and 7, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, and the adjacent districts of Kensington and Southwark.

Maria Monk's book was published in an American atmosphere of anti-Catholic hostility ( partly fueled by early 19th-century Irish and German Catholic immigration to the U. S .) and followed the 1834 Ursuline Convent Riots near Boston.

* The opening scenes of the film American Me depict confrontations between pachucos and white soldiers during the Zoot Suit Riots

Although three years later the Stonewall Riots would have a more significant impact, the Compton's cafeteria riots were among the first in American history where homosexuals and the newly forming transgender community fought against the authorities.

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The square was used for military drills during the American Civil War, and was the site of some of the New York Draft Riots of July 1863, when the Colored Orphan Asylum at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street was burned down.

Overseeing in this time the Falklands Crisis, the Gordon Riots and much of the American War of Independence .< ref name =" A Web of English History ">< It was headed by the Tory politician Lord North and served under George III.

In June 1943, white American servicemen stationed in Los Angeles rampaged through Mexican American neighborhoods, attacking young people wearing the suits and often stripping them, in what has become known as the Zoot Suit 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.

Rock and roll music collapsed after New Year's Day 1961, when Reverend Jimmy Swaggart led a march against a Madison Square Garden rock festival ; the three-day Rock and Roll Riots left many major stars dead or crippled, and Nixon branded the music as a severe moral threat, leading to moral standards being placed on the American industry.

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