Sack of Aquascogoc Village in Virginia by Richard Grenville in 1585 | 1585 | | | 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 | | | Labor Lockout | Owners | Workers | Gloucester | ME |
Dutch Pirates destroy Fort Pentagoet (Castine, Maine) in 1674 | 1674 | | | 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 | | | 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 |