List of peasant revolts
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Background
History of peasant wars spans over a period of over two thousand years. A variety of reasons fueled the emergence of the peasant revolt phenomenon, including:
- Tax resistance
- Social inequality
- Religious war
- National liberation
- Resistance against serfdom
- Redistribution of land
- External factors such as plague and famine
Later peasant revolts such as the Telangana Rebellion were also influenced by agrarian socialist ideologies.
The majority of peasant rebellions ended prematurely and were unsuccessful. Peasants suffered from limited funding and lacked the training and organisational capabilities of professional armies.
This is a list of peasant revolts.
- Dazexiang Uprising 209 BC
- Yellow Turban Rebellion 184
- Bagaudae in 3rd- to 5th-century Gaul and Hispania
- Stellinga
- Rebellions of Basil the Copper Hand in the Byzantine Empire (920s–930s)
- Popular revolt in late-medieval Europe:
- Ivaylo rebellion in Bulgaria (1277–1280)
- Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323–1328
- St. George's Night Uprising in Estonia (1343–1345)
- Jacquerie in France (1358)
- Revolt of the Ciompi in Italy (1378)
- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Harelle in France (1382)
- Budai Nagy Antal Revolt in Hungary (1437)
- Funen and Jutland Peasant rebellions (1441)
- Jack Cade's rebellion (1450)
- John and William Merfold's uprising (1450–1451)
- Ikkō-ikki in Japan (1488–1588)
- Cruel Fat Thursday Revolt in Friuli (1511)
- Poor Conrad rebellion in Württemberg (1514)
- Dózsa rebellion in Hungary (1514)
- Slovenian peasant revolt of 1515
- German Peasants' War (1524–1526)
- Dalecarlian Rebellions (1524–1533)
- Battle of Svenstrup 1534, led by Skipper Clement, in what is known as the Skipper Clement's Rebellion, a part of the civil war in Denmark-Norway, known as the Count's Feud during the reformation in Scandinavia.
- Opryshky Movement, led by the legendary Oleksa Dovbush (1529–19th century)
- Peasant's Rebellion in Telemark, Norway (1540)
- Kett's Rebellion in England (1549)
- Club War in Finland (1596–1597)
- Croatian–Slovenian peasant revolt (1573)
- Ivan Bolotnikov (1606–1607)
- Peasants' War in Upper Austria (1626)
- Kostka-Napierski Uprising (1651)
- Swiss peasant war of 1653
- Stenka Razin (1670)
- Bulavin Rebellion (1707–1708)
- Pugachev's Rebellion (1773–1775)
- Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan (1784–1785)
- Saxon Peasants' Revolt (1790)
- Peasants' War (1798)
- 1834 Arab revolt in Palestine
- Galician slaughter (1846)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Mahtra War in Estonia (1858)
- Chichibu Incident in Japan (1884)
- 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt (1907)
- Peasant Revolt in Albania (1914)
- Tambov Uprising (1920–1921)
- 1932 Salvadoran peasant massacre (1932)
- Tebhaga movement (1946)
- Telangana Rebellion (1946)
- Cazin Uprising (1950)
See also
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