This is a chronological list of known riots.
17th century and earlier
205–186 – BC The great revolt of Egypt against Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 48 BC – 47 BC – Riots during the Siege of Alexandria (47 BC) in Egypt. 44 BC – Assassination of Julius Caesar (Rome, Roman Republic). During Caesar's cremation in the Forum, an incensed mob took firebrands from the pyre and attacked the houses of Brutus and Cassius, as well as killing Helvius Cinna. 6 CE – Riots in Rome precipitated by a grain shortage caused by a failed harvest. 38, 40 – Alexandrian riots (38 CE) erupted in Alexandria (Roman Egypt) between Jews and Greeks. 532 – Nika riots (Constantinople, Byzantine Empire). Thirty thousand killed in the Hippodrome. 1046 – Vata pagan uprising (Pest, Hungary) 1066 – 1066 Granada massacre (Granada, Andalusia). A Muslim mob killed the Jewish vizier and massacred the Jewish population. 1182 – (Constantinople, Byzantine Empire). Venetians and other "Latins" massacred during a riot. 1196 – Poor riot (England) 1229 – 1229 University of Paris strike (France). Student riot leads to closing of university for two years. 1298 – Rintfleisch massacres (Holy Roman Empire) 1349 – Strasbourg massacre, over 2000 Jews killed after widespread rioting caused by claims that they were behind the spread of the Black Death Epidemic. Most of the victims were burned to death. 1355 – St Scholastica Day riot (Oxford, England) 1381 – Peasants' Revolt (England) 1382 – Harelle (France) 1391 – The Massacre of 1391 (Spain) 1437–1438 – Transylvanian peasant revolt (Hungary) 1506 – Lisbon massacre of Jews. 1517 – Evil May Day (London, England) 1562 – 1562 Riots of Toulouse (Toulouse, France) 1572 – St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Paris, France) 1588 – Day of the Barricades (Paris, France) 1640 – Corpus de Sang (Barcelona, Spain) 1648 – Salt Riot (Moscow, Russia) 1662 – Copper Riot (Moscow, Russia) 1668 – Bawdy House Riots (London, England) 1692 – Mexico City
18th century 1706–1707 – Treaty of Union Riots (various cities, Scotland) 1710 – Sacheverell riots (England) 1710–1713 – Boston Bread Riot (Boston, British America) 1713 – Dublin election riot (Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland) 1714 – Coronation riots, England 1715 – 1715 England riots 1726 – Riot in Dresden for two days after a Protestant clergyman was killed by a soldier who had recently converted from Catholicism. 1736 – Porteous Riots (Edinburgh, Scotland)
1740 – Batavia Massacre (Jakarta, Indonesia). Anti-Chinese race riots led by Dutch and Indonesian residents. 1742 – Philadelphia Election Riot (Philadelphia, British America) 1743 – London Gin Riots (London, England) 1754 – Taunton, England 1766 – Esquilache Riots (Madrid, Spain) 1766 – Food Riots (Black Country and elsewhere, England) 1766 – Nottingham cheese riot 1768 – Massacre of St George's Fields (London, England) 1769 – Spitalfield Riots (Spitalfields, London, England) 1770 – Boston Massacre (Boston, British America) 1771 – Plague Riot (Moscow, Russia) 1772 – Pine Tree Riot (Weare, New Hampshire, British America) 1773 – Boston Tea Party Boston, British America 1775 – Flour War (France) 1780 – Gordon Riots (London, England) 1788 – Doctors' Riot (New York City) 1789 – Réveillon Riots (Paris, France) 1791 – Priestley Riots (Birmingham, England) 1793 – Ebel Riot (Stockholm, Sweden) 1794 – Whiskey Rebellion (Western Pennsylvania, United States) 1795 – Revolt of the housewives (England) 1798 – Vienna flag riot (Vienna, Austrian Empire) 1797 – Massacre of Tranent (East Lothian, Scotland)
19th century 1809 – Old Price Riots, 1809 (London, England) 1811–1812 – English Luddite Riots (Leicester/York, England) 1816 – Ely and Littleport riots of 1816 1816 – Spa Fields riots 1819 – Hep-Hep riots (Germany) 1826 December – Eggnog riot (United States Military Academy, West Point, New York) 1829 – Cincinnati riots of 1829 (Cincinnati, United States) 1830 – Swing Riots (south and east of England) 1830 – Opera Riot (Belgium) 1831 – Cholera Riots (Sevastopol/Saint Petersburg, Russia) 1831 – Merthyr Rising (Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales) 1831 – 1831 reform riots (various places in England) 1831 – 1831 Bristol riots (Bristol, England) 1833 – Coldbath Fields riot (Calthorpe Estate near Gray's Inn Road, Coldbath Fields, Clerkenwell, Islington, London):File:Cold Bath Fields Public Meeting 1833-05-13 National Union of the Working Classes, Poster.jpgHeavy-Handed Policing: The Killing of Constable Culley International Centre for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice 1833 – Sylvester Graham Riot (Providence, United States) 1834 – Anti-abolitionist riots (New York City, United States) 1834 – Sylvester Graham Riot (Portland, United States) 1835 – Baltimore bank riot (Baltimore, United States) 1835 August – Snow Riot: Lynch mob and riots in Washington, D.C. over a drunken attack by slave Arthur Bowen against his mistress, Anna ThorntonSnow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835 1836 – Cincinnati riots of 1836 (Cincinnati, United States) 1836 – Abolition Riot of 1836 (Boston, United States) 1837 – Flour Riot (New York City, United States) 1837 – Sylvester Graham Riot (Boston, United States) 1838 – Rabulist riots (Stockholm, Sweden) 1838 – Pennsylvania Hall riots (Philadelphia, United States) 1839 – Newport Rising (Newport, South Wales)
1839–1843 – Rebecca Riots (Wales) 1841 – Cincinnati riots of 1841 (Cincinnati, United States) 1841–1842 – Potato Riots (Russian Empire) 1842 – Plug Plot Riots (England) 1842 – Lombard Street riot (Philadelphia, United States) 1844 – Beer riots in Bavaria (Bavaria, independent at the time, later part of Germany) 1844 – Philadelphia Nativist Riots (Philadelphia, United States) 1848 – Marsoroligheterna (Stockholm, Sweden) 1849 – Genoa (Kingdom of Sardinia – actual Italy) 1849 – Stony Monday Riot (Bytown, Upper Canada, Canada) 1849 – Montreal Riots (Montreal, Lower Canada, Canada) 1849 – Astor Place Riot (New York City, United States) 1850 – Squatters' Riot (California, United States) 1851 – Christiana Riot (Christiana, Pennsylvania) 1851 – Anti-Catholic Riots, Singapore 1853 – Cincinnati riot of 1853 (Cincinnati), United States 1854 – Hokkien–Teochew Riots, Singapore 1855 – Bloody Monday (Louisville, Kentucky, United States) 1855 – Portland Rum Riot (Portland, Maine, United States)
1855 – Lager Beer Riot (Chicago, United States) 1856 – Know-Nothing Riot of 1856 (Baltimore, United States) 1857 – Know-Nothing Riot (Washington, D.C., United States) 1857 – New York City Police Riot (New York, United States) 1860 – Lambing Flat riots (New South Wales, now in Australia) 1861 – Election Riots (St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador) 1862 – 1862 Brooklyn riot (Brooklyn, New York, United States) 1862 – Buffalo riot of 1862 (Buffalo, New York, United States) 1863 – Richmond Bread Riot (Richmond, Virginia, Confederate States of America) 1863 – New York City draft riots (New York City, United States) 1864 – Leicester balloon riot (Leicester, United Kingdom) 1866 – Memphis Riots of 1866 (Memphis, Tennessee), United States 1866 – New Orleans Riot (New Orleans, United States) 1868 – Pulaski Riot (Pulaski, Tennessee, United States) 1868 – Camilla riot (Camilla, Georgia), United States 1870 – New York City Orange Riot (New York City, United States) 1871 – Second New York City Orange Riot (New York City, United States) 1871 – Meridian race riot of 1871 (Meridian, Mississippi) 1871 – Los Angeles anti-Chinese riot (Los Angeles, United States) 1873 – Colfax Riot (Colfax, Louisiana, United States) 1874 – Election Riot of 1874 (Barbour County, Alabama, United States) 1874 – Tompkins Square Riot (New York City, United States) 1874 – Battle of Liberty Place New Orleans, United States 1876 – Hamburg Massacre (Hamburg, South Carolina), United States 1879 – Sydney Riot of 1879 (Sydney, New South Wales, now in Australia) 1881 – Canboulay Riots (Trinidad, later part of Trinidad and Tobago) 1884 – Hosay Riots (Trinidad, later part of Trinidad and Tobago) 1884 – Cincinnati riots of 1884 (Cincinnati, Ohio, United States) 1885 – Rock Springs massacre (Rock Springs, Wyoming, United States) 1885 – Tacoma riot of 1885 (Tacoma, Washington, United States) 1885 – Issaquah riot of 1885 (Issaquah, Washington, United States) 1886 – Haymarket affair (Chicago, United States) 1886 – Seattle riot of 1886 (Seattle, United States) 1886 – Belfast Home Rule Riots (Belfast, Northern Ireland) 1886 – Bay View Labor Riot (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States) 1891 – 1891 Belgrade riot (Belgrade, Serbia) 1896 – Newlyn riots (Cornwall, United Kingdom) 1897 – Badeni riots (Prague, Austria-Hungary) 1898 – Wilmington massacre (Wilmington, North Carolina, United States)
20th century
1900 – Robert Charles riots (New Orleans, United States) 1903 – Chișinău pogrom (Chişinău, Russia, now in Moldova) 1904 – Vaccine Revolt (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 1905 – Hibiya Incendiary Incident (Japan) 1905 – Broome riots (Australia) 1905 – Bloody Sunday (Saint Petersburg, Russia) 1905 – Pagoda riots Cantonese versus Hakka clans (Mauritius) 1906 – Atlanta race riot (Atlanta, United States) 1907 – Bellingham riots (Bellingham, Washington, United States) 1907 – Brown Dog riots, (London, United Kingdom]) 1908 – Springfield Race Riot (Springfield, Illinois, United States) 1909 – Tragic Week (Catalonia, Spain)
1910s 1910 – Black Friday Riot (London) 1910 – Tonypandy Riot (South Wales, United Kingdom) 1911 – Champagne Riots (France) 1911 – 1911 Curepipe riots (Mauritius) 1911 – Vienna inflation riot (Vienna, Austria-Hungary) 1912 racial conflict in Forsyth County, Georgia (Forsyth County, Georgia, United States) 1915 – The first and second Battle of the Wazzir 1915 – Anti-German riots across Britain in retaliation for the sinking of the RMS Lusitania 1916 – Everett massacre (Everett, Washington, United States) 1916 – Liverpool riot of 1916 (Sydney, Australia) 1917 – 1917 Bath riots (El Paso, United States) 1917 – East St. Louis Riot (St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois, United States) 1917 – Quebec Easter riots (Quebec, Canada) 1917 – Houston riot of 1917 (Houston, United States) 1918 – Rice Riots of 1918 (Japan) 1918 – 1918 Kudus riot an anti-Chinese pogrom in Semarang Regency, Dutch East Indies 1918 – 1918 Toronto anti-Greek riot, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, involved 5,000 veterans destroying and looting over 20 Greek businesses causing $100,000 damage, 16 police and 150 rioting veterans and civilians were hurt 1918/19 – Red Flag Riots, Queensland, Australia, largely undertaken by members of the First Australian Imperial Force 1919 – Battle of Bow Street (Bow Street, London) 1919 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Jallianwala Bagh, Punjab, British India 1919 – Luton Peace Day Riots, (Luton, England) 1919 – Red Summer (United States) 1919 – Annapolis riot of 1919 (United States) 1919 – May Day Riots (Cleveland, United States) 1919 – Jenkins County, Georgia (United States) 1919 – Charleston, South Carolina (United States) 1919 – Bisbee, Arizona (United States) 1919 – Longview, Texas (United States) 1919 – Knoxville, Tennessee (United States) 1919 – Omaha, Nebraska (United States) 1919 – Chicago race riot (Chicago, United States) 1919 – Washington, D.C. (United States) 1919 – Boston Police Strike (Boston, United States) 1919 – Elaine massacre (Elaine, Arkansas, United States) 1919 – Bloody Saturday (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
1920s 1920 – Nebi Musa riots (British Mandate of Palestine, later Israel) 1921 – Black Wall Street Massacre 1921 – March Action (Mansfeld Land, Germany) 1921 – Jaffa riots (British Mandate of Palestine, later Israel, May 1–7, 1921) 1921 – Tulsa race massacre (Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States) 1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday (10 July 1921 in Belfast, Northern Ireland)