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Protest

Protest across history

PEASANTS’ REVOLT Tea drinking was boycotted

BRITAIN 30 MAY 1381 – NOVEMBER 1381 across America in 1774 in reaction to
the Boston Tea Party
Feudal 14th-century Britain was, of course,
a very different place to today, but the basic
market rules of supply and demand still
applied – and in the wake of the Black Death,
they were to be put to the test. The plague
had hit the peasant population hard, and so
these serfs were in short supply, meaning
they could ask more from their superiors –
like a reduction in their taxes. A mob led by
an individual known as Wat Tyler descended Boston Tea Party USA 16 DECEMBER 1773
upon London to protest. After two days of Towards the end of the 18th century, at the dock in Boston – some dressed
in disguises – and dumped all 340
the British colonies in North
violence and demonstrations, Richard II America were ripe for revolution chests of tea overboard three East
met with the mob and mollified them by when, on 10 May 1773, the British India Company ships. The British
agreeing to their demands. A militia was parliament levied a tax on tea government demanded huge
roused, but in the meantime, Tyler was killed imported to the colonies. Furious reparations that totalled more than
and the king reneged on the deal. This was that duties were being set by a £9,000 (just over £1 million today)
government in which they had no
as well as punitive laws against
just the beginning of the end of the Medieval Wat Tyler can be seen on the left in this representatives of their own, the Boston. This was a catalyst for the
model of government. contemporaneous painting, being killed original American patriots gathered American Revolutionary war.
by the mayor of London
Protest timeline O South Africa Freedom Day O The Troubles O The Stonewall
Inn riots
With Nelson Mandela at its
Violent conflict in
head, the ANC party Northern Ireland Following the city’s
O Protestant Reformation O The Battle of encourages South between sectarians and closure of the New
While the revolution to Central Station Africans to down the British government York lesbian and gay
come will see millions die With poor camp conditions tools and “stay at has existed for bar in a crackdown on
and alter the political map, and following the news that home” in protest decades, but by far the ‘immoral’ homosexual
this protest begins with their training session will of a bill that allows worst ends with the activity, Greenwich
a list of Catholic abuses be extended to a 27-hour the government State-sponsored Good Friday Agreement Village experiences
penned by Martin Luther Martin Luther is stretch, 5,000 soldiers go to ban any political racial segregation in 1998. several days of
who many say nailed his responsible for the on strike, seizing control party it deems as characterised South 1968 98 violent protest.
work to the door of a widespread Lutheran of Sydney’s Liverpool train communist. Africa and its National 28 June 1969
German church. 1517 faith in the world today station. 14 February 1916 26 June 1950 Party until 1994
1517 1800 1900 1950 1960 1970

O Chartist movement O The Rebecca riots O Salt March O In bed for peace
The working classes of Sick of crippling Mahatma Gandhi While most US anti-Vietnam
Britain demand a say in taxation, poverty- organises a 24-day war protesters embark
the law-making of the stricken farmers and march to coastal Dandi, on nonviolent marches,
land and so, through workers in Wales rise India, in a peaceful but John Lennon and Yoko
numerous mass protests, to attack and destroy powerful protest against Gandhi’s march began with Ono take the nonviolent “The newspapers said, ‘Say,
the Reform Act of 1867 the numerous toll gates British-imposed salt just 78 others but finished concept a step further by what you doing in bed?’ I said
is a major step forward. along the roads that lead taxes on the colony. with millions protesting staying in bed for a week. we’re only trying to get us
1838 67 to market. 1839 43 12 March 1930 25 31 March 1969
against British rule some peace”
This diagram shows
The death of Emily where Rosa Parks Montgomery
Wilding Davison was when she Bus Boycott
ENGLAND 18 JUNE 1913 refused to give up USA 1 DECEMBER 1955 – 20 DECEMBER 1956
her seat
Women’s right to vote and the As the civil rights movement entered its peak
Suffragette movement was in full in post-war USA, Rosa Parks had had enough.
swing by 1913, and Emily Wilding When bus driver James Blake asked her to
Davison was one of its most active vacate a seat at the front for a white passenger,
protesters. At the Epsom Derby, she refused. He gave her a warning, as per bus
Davison ran onto the race track company regulations, and when told by his
and attempted to either attach a supervisor that he had to “put her off”, he had
scarf, grab the bridle or deliberately her arrested and she was fined $10 with $4
throw herself under the hooves of court costs. She appealed, and then followed a
King George V’s horse, Amner. This 13-month protest, resulting in a court case that
was undoubtedly intended to be a abolished segregation in Montgomery county,
statement for Women’s Suffrage, but Alabama. These were seemingly small but
it ended in tragedy. The horse hit her significant steps towards the Civil Rights Acts of
What Davison intended to do was and collapsed, trampling her in the the 1960s that outlawed discrimination based on
unclear, although her death helped bring process. She died four days later. race, religion or gender.
in more support for the Suffragettes

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