Learn Revolutions, Revolts, and Rebellions
Learn about history's greatest uprisings in this course!
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What you'll learn in Revolutions, Revolts, and Rebellions
- Fall of the Bourbon monarchy led to series of short-lived regimes — French Revolution
- Lenin's Bolsheviks seized power from the Provisional Government — Russian Revolution
- Catholic James II fled from England, letting William III take the throne — Glorious Revolution
- Xenophobic Chinese revolt that included siege of Peking embassies — Boxer Rebellion
- F. Madero overthrew P. Diaz in this struggle for land reform — Mexican Revolution
- Rebellion against Qing Dynasty led by supposed brother of Jesus — Taiping Rebellion
- Mutiny by Indian soldiers angered by the British East India Company — Indian Rebellion of 1857
- Brief seizure of Dublin landmarks by Irish republican activists — Easter Rising
- Rebellion by Kikuyu people near end of British colonial rule in Kenya — Mau Mau uprising
- France's Charles X was replaced by the "citizen king" Louis-Philippe — July Revolution
- Series of revolutions that swept across the Middle East and North Africa — Arab Spring
- Western Pennsylvania uprising against excise taxes on alcohol — Whiskey Rebellion
- Discontented army officers tried to overthrow Tsar Nicholas I — Decembrist uprising
- A poll tax helped cause this anti-feudal rebellion led by Wat Tyler — English Peasants' Revolt of 1381
- Rebellion of Massachusetts farmers under Articles of Confederation — Shays' Rebellion
- Ayatollah Khomeini 's deposition of the shah — Islamic Revolution
- Louis Riel's Manitoba Metis rebellion against Canadian confederation — Red River Rebellion
- Uprising by Cossacks, serfs, Old Believers against Catherine the Great — Pugachev Rebellion
- Replaced Tsar Nicholas II with a liberal Provisional Government — February Revolution of 1917
- Revolt by nobles, parliamentarians against Cardinal Mazarin, Louis XIV — Fronde
- "Springtime of the Peoples" spread revolution across Europe — Revolutions of 1848
- Taoist rebellion during a period of famine under China's Han Dynasty — Yellow Turban Rebellion
- Bonnie Prince Charlie's Scottish rebellion against Hanoverian rule — Jacobite Rebellion of 1745
- The Russo-Japanese War led to this failed effort to depose Nicholas II — Revolution of 1905
- Uprising against Governor William Berkeley in colonial Virginia — Bacon's Rebellion
- Separatist revolt in California during Mexican-American War — Bear Flag Revolt
- Samurai uprising against the Meiji Restoration government — Satsuma Rebellion
- Fidel Castro's Communist overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista — Cuban Revolution
- Clash of chariot-racing fans in Justinian's Byzantium — Nika Riots
- Uprising by Rhode Islanders trying to expand voting rights — Dorr's Rebellion
- Uprising that overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, ending Mongol rule of China — Red Turban Rebellion
- Toussaint L'Ouverture and other "Black Jacobins" led this slave uprising — Haitian Revolution
- President Madero was killed in this coup during the Mexican Revolution — Ten Tragic Days
- Nationalist rebellion in Russian-ruled Poland — November Uprising of 1830
- Peaceful uprising ousted Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze — Rose Revolution
- Greek cities in western Asia Minor rebelled against Persian rule — Ionian revolt
- Six legions were needed to suppress this Jewish uprising against Rome — Bar Kokhba Rebellion
- Budapest revolution against Warsaw Pact control — 1956 Hungarian uprising
- Illegitimate Protestant claimant's attempt to depose James II — Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion
- The British queen of the Iceni led this rebellion against Rome — Boudicca's Revolt
- Revolt of rural laborers radicalized by the Reformation — German Peasants' War
- Louis Riel was hanged after this last major Metis revolt against Canada — North-West Rebellion
- Popular revolution that deposed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos — People Power Revolution
- Overthrow of the Qing Dynasty by Sun Yat-sen's Nationalists — Chinese Revolution
- Bloody rebellion against Charles of Anjou's rule in Sicily — Sicilian Vespers
- Revolt of a Central Asian general against China's Tang Dynasty — An Lushan Rebellion
- Uprising by discontented clothworkers of medieval Florence — Ciompi Revolt
- An Ottawa chief led this frontier uprising after the French and Indian War — Pontiac's Rebellion
- Rebellion of Japanese peasants who converted to Catholicism — Shimabara Rebellion
- Guillaume Cale led this French peasant uprising during the 100 Years' War — Jacquerie
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