| Slavery and serfdom, revolts against it 200sBC Revolts against oppressive imperial Chinese emperor First
Servile War: 135 BC-132 BC on Sicily, led by Eunus, a former slave claiming be
a prophet, and Cleon (Cilician). 869-883 Khariji Islamic sect sees slave revolt, in Iraq, and Basra, 1million die. 1251 France, Syria, and Britain peasants revolts era, 1267-82 Sicily V French control, Aragon takes over, peasants and serfs 1290s, some claim the Scottish independence war, was partly a peasant revolt versus feudalism, 1328 Flanders, peasants, versus French and the elite, 15000 die at least, 1350s-60s Chinese Mongols, ousted by Chinese peasants, and serfs and slaves 1358 Jacqurie, 30,000 French peasants executed for a North France revolt 1378 Fiorentina Locals poorer groups take over but lose power by a decade to the rich again, 1381 Peasants Revolt, South East England, 50,100,000 rise, 1500 are executed by crown, 1400s the Revolt of Owain Glyndwr had some serfs and peasants revolt elements 1434 Swden had a peasants's revolt 1450 Jack Kade, Kentish revolt, he is executed, for his peasants revolt Catalonia 1460s when part of Aragon, peasants and serfs revolt, 1497 Cornish revolt, against tax, partly nationalist, partly peasant, 1000s died. see http://www.lonympics.co.uk/sw.htm 1510 Hvar in Croatia, a peasants revolt v Venice, 1511 Puerto Rican slaves, 6/12,000 massacred in revolt against Spanish slaving 1515 899 Slovene peasants or serfs burnt a German castle in revenge for terrible treatment 1524 155,000 Germans die in Peasants Revolt, 1000s massacred, by the elite 1540s Sweden a peasants revolt Slave revolt around 1570, led by Yanga near Veracruz,
Mexico; the group then escaped to the highlands and built a free colony 1573 Croatian Peasants revolt, leader executed, 1590s 3000 Finns died, high 100s massacred at least by Swedish crown. in peasants revolt, 1594-96 Peasants revolt in Upper Austria, the Emperor is losing in crisis to the Turks, Upper Austrians rebel, against more corvee labour, and 4000 peasants beat a 400 strong impeerial terminator style army, but eventually reach agreement, 2 are executed, and peasants get some more rights, spread to Lower Austria for a while, 1599 Peru, 25,000 spanish killed by a local revolt, maybe nationalist really, Panama also has an extensive history of slave rebellions going back to the 16th Century. Slaves were brought to the isthmus from many regions in Africa now in modern day countries like the Congo, Senegal, Guinea, and Mozambique. Immediately before their arrival on shore, or very soon after, many enslaved Africans revolted against their captors, or participated in mass maroonage, or desertion. The freed Africans founded communities in the forests and mountains, organized guerrilla bands known as Cimarrones, and began a long guerrilla war against the Spanish Conquistadores, sometimes in conjunction with nearby indigenous communities like the Kuna and the Guaymí. Despite massacres by the Spanish, the rebels fought until the Spanish crown was forced to concede to treaties that granted the Africans a life without Spanish violence and incursions. The leaders of the guerrilla revolts included Felipillo, Bayano, Juan de Dioso, Domingo Congo, Antón Mandinga, and Luis de Mozambique. 1607 English Midlands, peasants revolt against Enclosures, some hanged for it, Bohemia 1621 1625-26 A revolt against Bavaria's attenmpt to impose Catholisism, getting this area off Austria, this decade saw the peasants lose, after a great fight, and see Austria regt the land, and Protestants not treated as bad as can be. and agsin in 1632, 1636 Upper Austria , Protestant Peasants revolt sees leader caught and tortured to death 1640s Palermo peasants 1647 Naples a peasants Fisherman's coup lasts some days, but is killed, off by some deaths. 1648-53 The Fronde, in France, by serfs, and peasants, many died, 1648 A brutal revolt by Ukranian Cossacks, free peasants, and by peasants, who were unfree, against Polish ownership killed 100/350,000 Jews, and Poles, Cossacks, also revolt in 1599, 1620s, 1630s, Late 1640s, Barbados 50 executed, by Royalist planters, fearing leveller style activity by slaves, Late 1640s or early 1650s a revolt in Scotland against upped nobles and royal power, by peasants, 1667 Russia, Peasants revolt with Cossacks, 100,000 died, 1675, peasants revolt in Brittany high 100s hung by the crown 1680 Bohemia peasants and serfs, 1680s revolts in England and Scotland against the crown, religous, but quite a bit peasants 1000s executed, by crown 1683-1715 Many Hungarian revolts, 100s too 5000 executed. 1714 70,000 die some peasants crowned with New York slave Revolt
1712 In the early 18th Century there were revolts in South West Scotland against enclosures, claiming the monarch was not legitamate, and that more democarcy was needed Prussia 1719 small serfs and peasants revolt 1720s White Lotus Revolt China, 1723 A revolt in a Switz canton, well this is just a example, there have been 1000s of revolts like this, Venezeuala had a slave revolt in 1732 1733 Virgin Isles,
of Denmark, the ones now owned by the US. 1/4 of the population die, due to famine,
and foreign treatment of the revolt. a French isle also joined. 1734
Montreal, slave executed and tortured, by French Canadian kingdom for a revolt,
1743 Peasants Dalaran in Sweden 100s die, Transylvania serfs 1751 1759 1753 South Hungary serfs 1760 Slavonia serfs orpeasants Austrian Silesia 1760 peasants 1760s Ecuador revolt, peasants and others 700 died, against the state, Eisenburg 1762 and 1765 peasants Surinam, constant guerrilla
warfare by Maroons, in 1765-1793 by the Aluku led by Boni 1760s Mexico revolt, in a area 1768 peasants and serfs 650 Poles die in a smallish revolt 1771-76 Szechwen Revolt, 120,00 die
| When certain lands abolished slavery
14thC Scotland, after the black death saw serfdom start dissapearing.and end, that century, 17thC, Wales and England saw serfdom dissapear. 1761 - Slavery abolished inside Portugal England 10,000 black slaves in it freed, 1771 Savoy ends serfdom in 1771 Sardinia 1778 according to some reports 1820-48 Serfdom, ends in Sardinia, to others 1777 Manx, end conscription of Labour, after petition. 1777 Vermont ends slavery, 1780 Massachusetts ends slavery 1780s Pennsylvania ends slavery Baden ends serfdom in 1783 New Jersey ends slavery 1784
1789-92 France serfdom is abolished for millions, and essentially sharecropping for 10s of millions.
1790s Luxemburg ends serfdom under French and Belgium, only in 1800s did this turn from sharecropping to freedom, under Napoleon's industrial boom there,
1799 Scotland ends serfdom again, after James VI restarted it in the 1600s. 1800s,
Deanmark, abolishes serfdom, after abolition, and restarting in 1788, and 1706,
1806 Prussia, Bavaria, ending serfdom 1810s
Baltic states, like EStonia, for serfs but to some extent feudal ways remained,
as of other laws, 1820
Mecklenberg ends serfdom 1827 New York ends slavery Hannover 1831, ends serfdom 1831 Albania sees
semi feudal timar end some remain essentially serfs till late 1940s, |
| 1773 Pugachov Russia, rebellion against serfdom, 20/65,000 killed 1000s massacred
1775 Bohemia, 1000s, of serfs 1781 Chenaux revolt peasants revolt and such in Switzerland 1781 Colombia v tax 1783 Transylvania kills 1000s of Hungarian aristocrtas. 1784 Wallachia Peasants Revolt 1780s anearly socialist revolt in Chile, fails, Hungary 1785, the peasants and serfs revolt against their oppression, 1786 Small peasants revolt in Norway, in a petition style way 1789 French Revolution peasants and serfs,a nd middle class, and some upper class, 1790 Sorbs and Saxons revolt French Revolution style some die. the revolt is put down. Switzerland 1790s, loads of revolts like in Bern, by peasants, ousting the old order creating new liberal ways, 1794 Polish revolt, partly nationalist, partly peasants, 1795 Venezuala
62000 slaves revolt, on hearing of Bastille 1790s Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.revolt of black population, of escapsed slaves, against British attack 5000 sent to Belize, half lose lives in process, 600 Jamaiacans eviocted after they revolt in Maroon, lands they are sent out of Jamaica, some die, 1797 Caracas, lower class revolt, some hanged, 1799 Ireland, 60,000 deaths, 1000 massacred, by government opposing the revolution Haiti 1792 - 1800s, revolt against slavery, ends up being supported by Jacobins, then sees Napoleon attack, the independence of the state, then the local leaders of the revolt win, and beconme the second post imperial land in the Americas, In the 1820s, the French king threatened to invade and forced huge reparations, to himself, which was spent partly on giving French lords cash, and stuff, and helped make Haiti poor for decades. Guadeloupe also had a revolt at the same time, 100s of 1000s died of this revolt. But it saved many people , by ending the slave trade towards Haitu, and giving Haitians more freedom. All lands mentioned and unmentioned have had loads more revolts than I am stating here. 1809 Tyrol revolt against Bavarian, and French anti-religous act 1810-15 Mexican revolt,
against colonial oppression, 400/600,00 die/ 1813 77,000 die in 3 Trigranms revolt China, 1814
Sri Lanka, revolts against British rule, some peasant rebellion element, not just
on nationalist grounds,
1817 Puri Revolt, by peasants in Orissa, India, against British Empire, 1817 riots, some want Napoleon back instead of the re-instated Ancien monarchy. some wexecuted. 1820 1828 1830 Italian placdes had revolts,
and other years of peasant revolt natures 1823 Demerera, Rising 100s die, and loads executed. 11 executed in Jamaica for a revolt
1830s Jamiaca saw a revolt a little bit before the end of slavery, 500 were killed, some hanged, 1831 Britain, Riots in Britain, against House of Lords opposistion to democratic reform, 100s die, in attacks by Royal forces. 1831 French Revolution, ousts absolute tendancies monarchy for less absolutist, 1831, Hesse, Brunswic, failed in Berlin, and many deaths in Slovakia, failed, 1830s-40s many revoltsi n Brazil, 10s of 1000s die, including the Farrapos, revolt, also many Bahia Islamic slave revolts, peasants and slaves in these revolts. 1836 Suriname smallish slave revolt 1836 Yamanashi Japan, 50,000 people involved in rebellion, 562 executed. 1837 Canadian republican radical revolts, 100s died in Canada this century of revolts and rebellions, with many in the rebellions this year, that caused the state to set up a more representative system, There was a revolt by Metis in the 1870s V British oppression which also saw some deaths, with some rebels executed in both rebellions, Osaka 1837, 1000s of Japanese rebels, some killed, against the feudal system, and taxes
1839 Yucatan caste revolt, 200,000 die, in anti Slavery revolt against Mexico. 1840s Tagalogs against slavery in Phillipines, 1840s Rebecca Riots, Rural Wales, revolts against toll roads, 1-2 deaths 1843 1000 Cubans executed for a slave revolt 1844 Prussian weavers, 12 die in a small revolt 1848 Across loads of European lands, peasants and serfs, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium the Dutch, the Swedes, all saw revolts, and Transylvania, and Romania. Austria, Taiping
40million die, China crushed by Chinese empire, British and foreigners, Nien 1861 75,000 die, in a smallish Chinese peasants revolt somewhere 1860s revolts by serfs, against being given hardly any land, on serf emancipation, 100s die, 1865 Jamaica,. 22 die in revolt against rich oppression, and land enroachment, then 439 executed, 1870 failed French Revolution, 30,000 massacred by Royalist army, but by 10 years parliament elects a Republican regime, which does not install a monarchy, as wanted by those Royal massacres. 1870-86 Cuba Puerto Rico, 200,000 die, 0.4million slaves freed, 100s in PR, Yaqui, across the 19thC, including 1890s, some made slaves, Korea 1894-95 100/300,000 die. of the war including diseases spreading, worldwide, 1905 First Russian Revolution, 1000s died, in suppression, loads executed, 1910s Mexico peasants and slaves against dictatorship 1912 170 miners die in Russian place Rwanda, Burundi 1912, Tutis, help Germans, put down Hutu revolt 1921 Moplah part Islamic fundementalist, part anti Landlords, peasants revolt in Kerala, against Hindu landlords, sees 1000s die. 1930s Carribean revolts against bad consitions, sees democarcy and unions come along soon, Aturias 1930s, 1/3,000 massacred by the guy who became Spanish dictator in th 1940s, in a mining led revolution, 1943 Warsaw Ghetto revolt, 50,000 die, 5000 enemied slayed, Indonesia, 1940s, Under Japanese occupation, 100s die in peasants revolts 1940s or 1950s Nepali farmers die in small revolt, Portuguese led Angola 1960s, 10s of thousands die, in peasants and slave style indivuals revolt, 1000s massacred by both sides, 1965-68 Peru8,000 die in peasants revolt 1967 Cambodia, peasants huts burned by Royal army, 1994 Chiapos 500 die, in peasant revolt 2006 Nepali revolt, Nepali protestors protests oust the autocratic brutal king, and install a democracy 2006 Tongan Revolution, 8 people are killed by the authorities, in rioting against stalling behaviour by arrogant corrupt nobles, who were making their country poor, and jailing, and bullying democracy campaigners and other majority commoners. | 1843 - Slavery abolished in Swedish Colonies 1848 Serfdom ended
in Austria, Transylvania, 1852 Last German serfs freed, 1853 Hungary ends serfdom for millions, of people,
1854 the feudal Seigneurial system
is abolished in Quebec, at last 1861 Russia and 1864 Poland Romania 1864, 200,000 Gypsy slaves, and aslo hundreds of 1000s of serfs, as of Liberal requests,
1870-1918 Indonesia sees Dutch Liberals ends the semi
serfdom, Culture system, that was introduced by the king in the 1820s-30s, 1918 Serfdom ended in Bosnia 1917-20 Loads of tribes in Russia freed from tsarist homage 1920s Sharecropping ways end in Russia, Bahrain, 1932, after serfdom started in 1811, but a revolt ends it, but they retain the same rulers, although some stay in soem fedual ways sadly, 1924 Nepal, ends slavery 1950s China ends slavery and serfdom in many lands. and slavery and serfdom among many ethnic minorities, and in Tibet and among Uighurs, |
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