. . Execution of mutineers by
blowing from a gun by the British, 8 September 1857. of the
American Civil War. , 29 May 1871 was an uprising led by Christian population, mostly
Serbs, against the
Ottoman Empire fighting
Eight-Nation Alliance was flown for the first time in Puerto Rico by Fidel Vélez and his men during the "Intentona de Yauco" revolt • 1851–64: The
Taiping Rebellion by the
God Worshippers against the
Qing dynasty of China. In total between 20 and 30 million lives had been lost, making it the second deadliest war in
human history. • 1852: The
Kautokeino rebellion in Kautokeino, Norway. • 1852–62: The
Herzegovina Uprising (1852–62) in Ottoman Herzegovina. • 1853–55: The
Small Knife Society rebellion in Shanghai, China. • 1854: A
revolution in Spain against the
Moderate Party Government. • 1854: The
Eureka Rebellion (Eureka Stockade) in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Miners battled British Colonial forces against taxation policies of the Government. • 1854–56: Peasant Rebel in Vietnam, led by
Cao Ba Quat, against the
Nguyễn dynasty. • 1854–56: The
Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856) in Guangdong (Canton), China. • 1854–73: The
Miao Rebellion in China. • 1854–55: The
Revolution of Ayutla in Mexico. • 1855–1856: The
Karakalpak Rebellion by the Karakalpak leader Ernazor Alakoz against the
Khanate of Khiva • 1855–73: The
Panthay Rebellion by Chinese
Muslims against the
Qing dynasty. • 1857: The Indian rebellion against
British East India Company, marking the end of
Mughal rule in India. Also known as the 1857 War of Independence and, particularly in the West, the
Sepoy Mutiny. • 1858: The
Mahtra War in Estonia. • 1858:
Pecija's First Revolt, in Ottoman Bosnia. • 1858–61: The
War of the Reform in Mexico. • 1859:
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, an effort by
abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over
Harpers Ferry Armory in
Virginia. • 1859: The
Second Italian War of Independence. • 1861–65: The
American Civil War in the United States, between the United States and the
Confederate States of America, which was formed out of eleven
southern states. • 1863–65: A counter-rebellion occurred in the self-declared
Free State of Jones in Mississippi. • 1861–66:
Quantrill's Raiders in
Missouri. • 1862: The
Sioux Uprising in
Minnesota. • 1862–77: The
Dungan revolt (1862–1877) by Chinese Muslims against the
Qing dynasty. • 1862: The
23 October 1862 Revolution was a popular insurrection which led to the overthrow of King
Otto of Greece. • 1863: The
New York Draft riots. • 1863–65: The
January Uprising was the
Polish uprising against the
Russian Empire. • 1863–65: The
Dominican Restoration War was the
Dominican Republic's second war of independence, this time against the
Kingdom of Spain. • 1864–65: The
Mejba Revolt was a rebellion in
Tunisia against the doubling of an unpopular
poll tax imposed by
Sadok Bey. • 1865: The
Morant Bay rebellion. • 1866: The
Uprising of Polish political exiles in Siberia. • 1866–68: The
Meiji Restoration and modernization revolution in Japan.
Samurai uprising leads to overthrow of shogunate and establishment of "modern" parliamentary, Western-style system. • 1867: The
Fenian Rising: an attempt at a nationwide rebellion by the
Irish Republican Brotherhood against British rule. • 1868: The
Glorious Revolution in Spain deposes Queen
Isabella II. • 1868: The
Grito de Lares was the first major revolt against
Spanish rule in
Puerto Rico. The rebels proclaimed the independence of
Puerto Rico from Spain. • 1868–74: The
Six Years' War, often called the Dominican Republic's third war of independence, was to disrupt the
annexation to the United States. • 1868–78:
Ten Years' War, also known as the Great War (Guerra Grande) and the War of '68, was part of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, led by Cuban-born planters (especially by
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes) and other wealthy natives. • 1869–70: The
Red River Rebellion, the events surrounding the actions of a
provisional government established by
Métis leader
Louis Riel at the
Red River Colony, Manitoba, Canada. • 1870–72: The
Revolution of the Lances, the
National Party revolts against the
Colorado Government in
Uruguay. • 1870–71:
Lyon Commune in France. • 1871: The
Paris Commune. • 1871–72:
Porfirio Díaz rebels against President
Benito Juárez of Mexico. • 1871: The liberal revolution in
Guatemala. • 1873: The
Petroleum Revolution in the
First Spanish Republic. • 1873–74: The
Cantonal rebellion in the
First Spanish Republic. • 1873: The
Khivan slave uprising against
slavery in the Khanate of Khiva. • 1875: The
Deccan Riots. • 1875: The
Stara Zagora Uprising, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against
Ottoman rule. • 1875–76: The
Svaneti uprising of 1875–1876 • 1875–78: The
Great Eastern Crisis: • 1875–77: The
Herzegovinian rebellion, the most famous of the rebellions against the
Ottoman Empire in
Herzegovina; unrest soon spread to other areas of
Ottoman Bosnia. • 1876: The
April uprising, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against
Ottoman rule. • 1876: The
Razlovtsi insurrection, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against
Ottoman rule, part of the April Uprising. • 1876–78:
Serbian-Turkish Wars (1876–1878) • 1876–78:
Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1876–78) • 1877–78:
Romanian War of Independence • 1878:
Kumanovo Uprising • 1878:
Kresna–Razlog uprising, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against
Ottoman rule. •
1878 Greek Macedonian rebellion •
Epirus Revolt of 1878 •
Cretan Revolt (1878) • 1876: The second rebellion by
Porfirio Díaz against President
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada of Mexico. • 1877: The
Satsuma Rebellion of
Satsuma ex-
samurai against the
Meiji government. • 1877:
Banda del Matese in Italy. • 1879:
Little War (Cuba) or Small War, second of three conflicts between Cuban rebels and Spain. It started on 26 August 1879 and ended in rebel defeat in September 1880. • 1879–1882: The
Urabi Revolt: an uprising in
Egypt on 11 June 1882 against the
Khedive and European influence in the country. It was led by and named after Colonel
Ahmed Urabi. • 1880–1881: The
Brsjak revolt. • 1883: The
Timok Rebellion was a popular uprising that began in eastern
Serbia. • 1885: A peasant revolt in the
Ancash region of Peru led by
Pedro Pablo Atusparía succeeds in occupying the
Callejón de Huaylas for several months. • 1885–96:
Cần Vương movement of Vietnam, led by emperor
Hàm Nghi, against French colonialism • 1885: The
North-West Rebellion of
Métis in Saskatchewan. • 1885:
Bulgarian unification - accomplished after revolts in
Eastern Rumelian towns, followed by a
coup. • 1888: The Peasant Rebellion in Banten, Indonesia. • 1889: The
Republican Revolution in Brazil. • 1890–1914: The
Saminism Movement in Indonesia. • 1890:
Revolution of the Park, Argentina. • 1892:
Jerez uprising in Spain. • 1893:
Revolution of 1893, Argentina • 1893: A liberal revolt brings
José Santos Zelaya to power in
Nicaragua. • 1894:
Lunigiana revolt in Italy. • 1894–95: The
Donghak Peasant Revolution: Korean peasants led by
Jeon Bong-jun revolted against the
Joseon dynasty; the revolt was crushed by
Japanese and
Chinese intervention, leading to
First Sino-Japanese War. • 1895: The revolution against President
Andrés Avelino Cáceres in Peru ushers in a period of stable constitutional rule. • 1895–1896: The
War of Canudos was a conflict between the
First Brazilian Republic and the residents of
Canudos in the
northeastern state of Bahia. • 1895–1896: The
First Italo-Ethiopian War in which Ethiopians fought against Italians colonizers. • 1895–1898:
Cuban War of Independence, the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, being initiated by
José Martí. • 1896:
Yaqui Uprising in
Sonora and
Arizona • 1896–98: The
Philippine Revolution, a war of independence against Spanish rule directed by the
Katipunan society. • 1897: The
Intentona de Yauco (Attempted Coup of Yauco), was the second and last major revolt against Spanish colonial rule in Puerto Rico, staged by Puerto Rico's pro-independence movement. • 1898: The Dukchi Ishan (Andican Uprising): Kirgiz, Uzbek, and Kipcak peoples rebelled against Tsarist Russia in Turkestan (Fargana Valley). • 1898: The
Hut Tax War was a resistance in the newly annexed
Protectorate of Sierra Leone to a new, severe tax imposed by the colonial military governor. • 1898: The
Dog Tax War was a confrontation between the
Colony of New Zealand and a group of
Northern Māori, led by
Hone Riiwi Toia, opposed to the enforcement of a 'dog tax'. • 1898: The
Wilmington insurrection of 1898, A mob of
white supremacists forced out the city government of
Wilmington, North Carolina. • 1899: The
tancament de caixes, a tax revolt in
Barcelona. • 1899–1902: The
Philippine–American War, a conflict over sovereignty of the Philippines between the de facto sovereign
First Philippine Republic and the
nominally sovereign United States. • 1899–1901: The
Boxer Rebellion against foreign influence in areas such as trade, politics, religion and technology that occurred in China during the final years of the
Qing dynasty, which was defeated by the
Eight-Nation Alliance. • 1899–1962: The
Mau was a non-violent movement for
Samoan independence from colonial rule (by
Germany and then
New Zealand) during the first half of the 20th century. ==1900s==