Sack of Aquascogoc Village in Virginia by Richard Grenville in 1585 |
1585 |
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Attack |
Sir Richard Grenville |
Aquascogoc Tribe |
Aquascogoc |
NC |
Destruction of a Pequot Village in Connecticut 1637 |
1637 |
05 |
26 |
Annihilation |
Puritans |
Pequot Tribe |
Mystic |
CT |
First Lockout in American Labor History |
1640 |
|
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Labor Lockout |
Owners |
Workers |
Gloucester |
ME |
Dutch Pirates destroy Fort Pentagoet (Castine, Maine) in 1674 |
1674 |
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Attack |
Jurriaen Aernoutsz |
Baron Jean-Vincent de St. Castin |
Castine |
ME |
Farmer's Revolt on the Hudson River |
1689 |
|
|
Farmer's Revolt |
Hudson River Plantation Owners |
Jacob Leisler |
Hudson River Plantations |
NY |
Boston Bread Riot of April 1710 |
1710 |
04 |
|
Food Riot |
Poor and hungry |
Poor and hungry |
Boston |
MA |
Boston Bread Riot of October 1711 |
1711 |
|
|
Food Riot |
Poor and hungry |
Poor and hungry |
Boston |
MA |
First large-scale revolt of slaves in the American colonies |
1712 |
|
|
Slave Revolt |
Militia |
Native Americans, Slaves |
New York |
NY |
Boston Bread Riot of May 1713 |
1713 |
05 |
|
Food Riot |
Poor and hungry |
|
Boston |
MA |
Slave rebellion at Stono, SC |
1739 |
|
|
Slave Revolt |
Militia |
Slaves |
Stono |
NC |
Punishment for Alleged Conspiracy |
1741 |
|
|
Conspiracy |
Whites |
Slaves |
New York |
NY |
The Pennamite Wars |
1769 |
|
|
War |
Connecticut |
Pennsylvania |
Wyoming Valley, PA |
PA |
Battle of Rampart Rocks |
1775 |
12 |
25 |
War |
Connecticut |
Pennsylvania |
Rampart Rocks |
PA |
Battle of the Wyoming |
1778 |
07 |
03 |
Massacre |
Connecticut |
Pennsylvania |
Wyoming Valley, PA |
PA |
Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 |
1783 |
06 |
20 |
Anti-Government Protest |
Alexander Hamilton, Congress |
Continental Army Soldiers |
Philadelphia |
PA |
Shays' Rebellion 1786-1787 |
1786-7 |
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|
Rebellion |
Establishment |
War Veterans |
|
MA |
Doctors' Riot of April 1788 |
1788 |
04 |
|
Riot |
Doctors |
African-Americans |
|
|
Whiskey Rebellion 1791-1794 |
1791-1794 |
|
|
Rebellion |
State Government |
Borderlanders |
|
PA |
The Whorehouse Riots of 1793 |
1793 |
10 |
|
Riot |
Public |
Prostitutes |
New York City |
NY |
Fries's Rebellion 1799-1800 |
1799-1800 |
|
|
Tax Revolt |
Congress |
Pennsylvania Dutch |
|
PA |
German Coast Uprising 1811 |
1811 |
01 |
08 |
Slave Revolt |
Plantation Owners |
Black Slaves |
St. John the Baptist and St. Charles Parishes |
LA |
Cincinnati Riots of 1829 |
1829 |
|
|
Employment Riot |
Irish Immigrants |
Blacks |
Cincinnati |
OH |
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion of 1831 |
1831 |
08 |
|
Slave Revolt |
VA State Militia |
Black Slaves |
Southampton County |
VA |
Anti-Abolitionist Riot of 1832 |
1832 |
|
|
Riot |
Anti-Abolitionists |
Blacks |
New York City |
NY |
Detroit Slave Riot of 1833 |
1833 |
06 |
17 |
Slave Revolt |
Local Police |
Black Slaves |
Detroit |
MI |
Anti-Abolitionist Riots of 1834 |
1834 |
07 |
07 |
Anti-Abolitionist Riot |
Irish Immigrants |
Abolitionists |
New York City |
NY |
Massacre at Fort Pillow by General Nathan Bedford Forrest |
1864 |
04 |
12 |
Massacre |
Nathan Bedford Forrest |
Black Union Troops |
Fort Pillow |
TN |
Attack on Wobblies by the Everett, WA Sheriff |
1916 |
11 |
05 |
Vigilante Justice |
Local Police, Sheriff Donald McRae |
Wobblies |
Everett |
WA |
MacArthur attacks the Bonus Army at the Hooverville Site |
1932 |
07 |
28 |
Suppression |
General Eisenhower, General MacArthur, General Patton, President Hoover |
Bonus Army |
Washington DC |
DC |
Assassination Attempt on FDR in Miami |
1933 |
02 |
15 |
Assassination |
Giuseppe Zangara |
FDR |
Miami |
FL |