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List of revolutions and rebellions

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ142330 ↗
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This is a list of revolutions, rebellions, insurrections, and uprisings.

BC

1–999 AD

1000–1499

1500–1699

1700–1799

1800–1849

1850–1899

1851–64: The Taiping Rebellion by the God Worshippers against the Qing dynasty of China. In total between 20 and 30 million lives had been lost, making it the second deadliest war in human history.

1852: The Kautokeino rebellion in Kautokeino, Norway.

1852–62: The Herzegovina Uprising (1852–62) in Ottoman Herzegovina.

1853–55: The Small Knife Society rebellion in Shanghai, China.

1854: A revolution in Spain against the Moderate Party Government.

1854: The Eureka Rebellion (Eureka Stockade) in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Miners battled British Colonial forces against taxation policies of the Government.

1854–56: Peasant Rebel in Vietnam, led by Cao Ba Quat, against the Nguyễn dynasty.

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