List of ethnic riots
Violent public disturbances between differently self-identifying groups From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of ethnic riots by country, and includes riots based on ethnic, sectarian, xenophobic, and racial conflict. Some of these riots can also be classified as pogroms.
Africa
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| Country | Riot | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burundi | 1972 Ikiza tragedy | ||
| 1993 ethnic violence in Burundi | |||
| Côte d'Ivoire | 2004 French–Ivorian clashes | [1][2] | |
| Egypt | 1945 Anti-Jewish riots in Egypt | ||
| Ghana | see: Ethnic conflict in Ghana | ||
| Kenya
(see: Ethnic conflicts in Kenya) |
Somali–Kenyan conflict | ||
| 2012 Baragoi clashes | |||
| 2012–13 Tana River District clashes | |||
| Lesotho | 2007 Anti-Chinese riot in Maseru | [3] | |
| Libya | 1945 Anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania | ||
| 1948 Anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania | |||
| Mauritania | 1989 race riots in Mauritania | Riots took place during Mauritania–Senegal Border War | [4] |
| Mauritius | 1906 Pagoda riots | ||
| 1911 Curepipe riots | |||
| 1937 Uba riots | |||
| 1943 Belle Vue Harel Massacre | |||
| 1965 Mauritius race riots | |||
| 1968 Mauritian riots | |||
| 1999 Mauritian riots | |||
| 1999 L'Amicale riots | |||
| Nigeria | 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom | ||
| Rhodesia | 1925 Kananga riot[citation needed] | ||
| South Africa | 1949 Anti-Indian riots in Durban | These riots, taking place between 13–14 January 1949, were a pogrom in which Indians were targeted, predominantly by Zulus. In total 142 Asians died and another 1,087 people were injured; the riot resulted in the massacre of mostly poor Indians. It also led to the destruction of 58 shops, 247 dwellings, and one factory. | [5] |
| 1976 Soweto uprising | |||
| 1985 Anti-Indian riot in Durban | This riot came as Zulu youth spilled into Asian suburbs of Durban (including Inanda) during the night. While this event was less severe in its intensity and of much shorter duration than the 1949 riots, this riot also saw hundreds of South-African Indians families fleeing their neighbourhoods in order to escape Zulu rioters who looted and torched their homes on the night of 7 August 1985. | [6][7][8] | |
| 2007 Anti-Somali riot in Port Elizabeth | [9] | ||
| 2020 riot in Senekal | Protests in response to the killing of Brendin Horner turned violent. Rioters, largely Boers, stormed the courthouse where the two perpetrators were being held. Gunfire was exchanged, and a police van outside was turned over and set alight. | [10] | |
| Tanzania | 1964 Zanzibar Revolution | Took place on 12 January 1964. | [11][12] |
Americas
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| Country | Riot | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 1823 Anti-Portuguese riots in Rio de Janeiro | [13] | |
| 1831 Anti-Portuguese riots in Salvador | |||
| Canada | 1784 Shelburne riots in Nova Scotia | These riots took place in July 1784 by landless white Loyalist veterans of the American War of Independence against Black Loyalists and government officials in the Nova Scotian town of Shelburne, and the nearby village of Birchtown.
They are considered the first race riots in Canada, and are one of the earliest recorded race riots in North America. |
[14] |
| 1835–45 Shiners' War | |||
| Riot over a black person taking up a military uniform in 1852 in St. Catharines, Ontario. | |||
| Riot over a black man marrying a white woman in 1860 in Chatham, Ontario. | |||
| Riot over a blacks sitting in the main theatre section in 1860 in Victoria, British Columbia. | |||
| 1875 Jubilee riots in Toronto | |||
| Anti-Chinese riot in 1887 due to both xenophobia and economic competition, (Vancouver, British Columbia) | |||
| Anti-Chinese riot in 1892 due to a small-pox outbreak, (Calgary, Alberta) | |||
| Anti-Chinese riot in 1907 due to an altercation between a Chinese employee and a white customer, (Lethbridge, Alberta) | |||
| 1907 Anti-Oriental riots in Vancouver | As part of the larger anti-Asian Pacific Coast race riots of 1907, along the west coast of Canada and the US. | ||
| Anti-German riots in reaction to World War I in 1916, (Calgary, Alberta) | |||
| 1918 Toronto anti-Greek riot | |||
| Anti-Chinese riot in 1919, (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | |||
| Anti-immigrant riot in 1919, (Winnipeg, Manitoba) | |||
| 1933 Christie Pits riot in Toronto | |||
| Anti-black riot in 1940, (Calgary, Alberta) | |||
| 1969 Sir George Williams affair | |||
| Riot by blacks against white owned businesses in response to perceived discrimination against them in 1991, (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | |||
| Yonge Street Riot-rioting by black protestors in response to the Rodney King verdict and another victim of police brutality that occurred shortly before in 1992, (Toronto, Ontario) | |||
| 1999 Burnt Church Crisis | |||
| 2020 Mi'kmaq lobster dispute | |||
| Mexico | 1911 Torreón massacre | ||
| Peru | 1880s anti-Chinese riots | Peruvians held the Chinese as responsible for Chile's invasion during the War of the Pacific, due to Chinese support for Chile throughout the war. This would stem a sense of sinophobia among Peruvians, the first of its kind in Latin America.
In the Cañete region, Chinese immigrants were massacred by Afro-Peruvian peasants, led by women during the War of the Pacific. Following the war, Chinese were further targeted and murdered by native Peruvians. In the central Sierra, armed indigenous peasants sacked and occupied the haciendas of landed elite Criollo 'collaborationists', a majority of whom were of ethnic-Chinese descent. In Lima, Indigenous and mestizo Peruvians murdered Chinese shopkeepers. In response, Chinese coolies revolted, some even joining the Chilean Army. It was not until 1890s that anti-Chinese pogroms ended in Peru. |
[15][16][17][18] |
| 1880s Indigenous uprising against White Peruvians | [19] |
United States
Nativist period: 1700s–1860
- 1824: Providence, RI – Hard Scrabble Riots
- 1829: Cincinnati, OH – Cincinnati riots of 1829
- 1829: Charlestown, Massachusetts – anti-Catholic Riots[citation needed]
- 1831: Providence, RI[citation needed]
- 1834: Massachusetts – Convent burning[citation needed]
- 1834: Philadelphia, PA – pro-slavery riots[20]
- 1834: New York, NY – New York City pro-slavery riots
- 1835: Boston, MA – pro-slavery riots
- 1835: Five Points Riot[where?][citation needed]
- 1835: Washington, D.C. – Snow Riot[21][22]
- 1836: Cincinnati, OH – Cincinnati riots of 1836
- 1841: Cincinnati, OH – White Irish-descendant and Irish immigrant dock workers rioted against Black dock workers.[citation needed]
- 1844: Philadelphia, PA – Philadelphia Nativist Riots
- 1851: Hoboken, NJ – anti-German riot[citation needed]
- 1855: Louisville, KY – anti-German riots[citation needed]
Civil War period: 1861–1865
Reconstruction era: 1865–1877
- 1866: New Orleans massacre of 1866
- 1866: Memphis, Tennessee, mostly ethnic Irish against African Americans
- 1868: Pulaski Riot
- 1868: St. Bernard Parish massacre, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, whites against blacks
- 1868: Opelousas massacre, Opelousas, Louisiana, whites against blacks
- 1868: Camilla massacre, Camilla, Georgia, whites against blacks
- 1870: Eutaw massacre, Eutaw, Alabama, whites against blacks
- 1870: Laurens, South Carolina
- 1870: New York City Orange Riot
- 1871: Second New York City Orange Riot
- 1871: Los Angeles, Chinese massacre. Mixed Mexican and white mob killed 17–20 Chinese in the largest mass lynching in U.S. history
- 1871: Meridian race riot of 1871, Meridian, Mississippi, whites against African Americans
- 1891: New Orleans, lynchings of Italians and riot
- 1873: Colfax massacre, white Democrats against black Republicans
- 1874: New Orleans, Louisiana (Battle of Liberty Place)[23] After contested gubernatorial election, Democrats took over state buildings for three days
- 1874: Coushatta massacre, Coushatta, Louisiana, white Democrats against black Republicans
- 1874–1875: Vicksburg massacre, Vicksburg, Mississippi
- 1875: Yazoo City, Mississippi
- 1875: Clinton, Mississippi
- 1876: Hamburg Massacre
- 1876: Ellenton riot, Ellenton, South Carolina
Jim Crow era: 1878–1914
- 1885: Rock Springs, WY – Anti-Chinese riot
- 1886: Seattle, WA – Seattle riot of 1886[24]
- 1889: Forrest City, AR – 1889 Forrest City riot
- 1891: New Orleans, LA – March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings
- 1898: North Carolina – Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 (white Democrats overthrew elected government and attacked Blacks)[25]
- 1898: Lake City, SC – Lynching of Frazier B. Baker and Julia Baker
- 1898: Greenwood County, SC – Phoenix election riot
- 1900: New Orleans, LA – Robert Charles riots
- 1900: Manhattan, NY – Tenderloin anti-Black mob and police riot
- 1904: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1904[26]
- 1906: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1906[26]
- 1906: Atlanta, GA – Atlanta Massacre of 1906 (whites against African Americans)[27]
- 1906: Brownsville, TX – Brownsville affair
- 1907: Onancock, VA[citation needed]
- 1907: San Francisco, CA and Bellingham, WA – Pacific Coast race riots of 1907 (anti-Asian)
- 1908: Springfield, IL – Springfield race riot of 1908[28]
- 1909: Omaha, NE – Greek Town riot
- 1910: Nationwide – Johnson–Jeffries riots (anti-black riots following the heavyweight championship victory of Jack Johnson against Jim Jeffries)
- 1910: Slocum, TX – Slocum massacre
War and interwar period: 1914–1945
- 1917: East St. Louis, IL – East St. Louis riots[29]
- 1917: Chester, PA – 1917 Chester race riot
- 1917: Philadelphia, PA[citation needed]
- 1917: El Paso, TX – 1917 Bath riots
- 1917: Houston, TX – Houston riot
- 1919: Red Summer
- 1920: Ocoee, FL – Ocoee Massacre
- 1921: Tulsa, OK – Tulsa race massacre[31]
- 1921: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1921[26]
- 1923: Rosewood, FL – Rosewood massacre[32]
- 1927: Yakima Valley, WA – Yakima Valley riots (anti-Filipino)[33]
- 1928: Wenatchee Valley – Wenatchee Valley anti-Filipino riot[33]
- 1929: Exeter, CA – Exeter anti-Filipino riot[34]
- 1930: Watsonville, CA – Watsonville riots (anti-Filipino riot that inspired further riots and attacks in San Francisco, Salinas, San Jose, and elsewhere).[34]
- 1935: New York, NY – Harlem riot of 1935
- 1943: Detroit, MI – Detroit race riot[35]
- 1943: Beaumont, TX – Beaumont race riot of 1943
- 1943: New York, NY – Harlem riot of 1943
- 1943: Los Angeles, CA – Zoot Suit Riots (white against Mexican Americans and other Zoot suit wearers)
- 1944: Agana, Guam – Agana race riot
Postwar era: 1946–1954
- 1946: Airport Homes race riots (series) Airport Homes race riots
- 1946: Columbia, TN – Columbia race riot of 1946
- 1949: Cortlandt Manor, NY – Peekskill riots (anti-communist race riots against Jews and African Americans)
- 1951: Cicero, IL – Cicero race riot
Civil rights and Black Power period: 1955–1977
- 1958: Maxton, NC – Battle of Hayes Pond
- 1962: Oxford, MS – Ole Miss riot
- 1963: Birmingham, AL – Birmingham Riot of 1963
- 1963: Cambridge, MD – Cambridge riot of 1963
- 1963: Lexington, NC – Lexington riot[36]
- 1964: Harlem, NY – Harlem Riot of 1964
- 1964: Rochester, NY – Rochester riot
- 1964: North Philadelphia, PA – Philadelphia 1964 race riot
- 1965: Los Angeles, CA – Watts Riots
- 1966: Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL – Division Street riots
- 1966: Cleveland, OH – Hough Riots
- 1966: Omaha, NE – North Omaha summer riots
- 1966: Dayton, Ohio – 1966 Dayton race riot
- 1967: Long Hot Summer of 1967
- June 2: Boston riot (Boston, MA)[37]
- June 11 – 14: Tampa riot (Tampa, FL)
- June 12 – June 15: Cincinnati riot (Cincinnati, OH)
- June 17: Atlanta riot (Atlanta, GA)
- June 26 – July 1: Buffalo riot (Buffalo, NY)
- July 12 – 17: Newark riots (Newark, NJ)
- July 14 – 16: Plainfield riots (Plainsfield, NJ)
- July 17: Cairo riot (Cairo, IL)
- July 20 – 21: Minneapolis riot (Minneapolis, MN)
- July 23 – 25: Toledo riot (Toledo, OH)
- July 23 – 28: Detroit riot (Detroit, MI)
- July 24: Cambridge riot (Cambridge, MD)
- July 26: Saginaw riot (Saginaw, MI)
- July 30: Albina riot (Portland, OR)
- July 30 – August 3: Milwaukee riot (Milwaukee, WI)
- 1968: Protests of 1968
- Orangeburg massacre (Orangeburg, SC)
- 1968: King-assassination riots (riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.)
- Baltimore riot of 1968 (Baltimore, MD)
- Chicago West Side riots (Chicago, IL)
- Louisville riots of 1968 (Louisville, KY)
- 1968 Washington, D.C. riots (Washington, D.C.)
- 1968 Wilmington riots (Wilmington, DE)
- 1968: Cleveland, OH – Glenville shootout and riot
- 1969: York, PA – 1969 York Race Riot
- 1969: New York, NY – Stonewall Riot
- 1970: Augusta, GA – May 11 Race Riot
- 1970: Jackson, MS – Jackson State killings
- 1971: Camden, NJ – Camden riots
- 1976: Pensacola, FL – Escambia High School riots
- 1972: Coast of North Vietnam – USS Kitty Hawk Riot (October 12–13)
- 1975: Ontario, CA – Chaffey High School race riot enhanced by local sniper[citation needed]
1978 to today
- 1978: Houston, TX – Moody Park Riot (on the first anniversary of Joe Campos Torres' death).
- 1979: Worcester, MA – Great Brook Valley Projects Riots (Puerto Ricans rioted)
- 1980: Miami, FL – Miami riots (riots in reaction to the acquittal of four Miami-Dade Police officers in the death of Arthur McDuffie).
- 1980: Chattanooga, TN – Chattanooga riot[38]
- 1984: Lawrence, MA – 1984 Lawrence Riot (a small scale riot centered at the intersection of Haverhill and railroad streets between working class whites and Hispanics; several buildings were destroyed by Molotov cocktails; August 8, 1984).[39]
- 1989: Miami, FL – Overtown riot (two nights of rioting by residents after a black motorcyclist was shot by a Hispanic police officer in the predominantly black community of Overtown. The officer was later convicted of manslaughter).
- 1990: Miami, FL – Wynwood riot (Puerto Ricans rioted after a jury acquitted six officers accused of beating a Puerto Rican drug dealer to death)
- 1991: Brooklyn, New York, NY – Crown Heights riot (black anti-Jewish mob killed 2, injured 190).
- 1992: Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles riots (riots in reaction to the acquittal of all four LAPD officers involved in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, in addition to the Korean involved in the murder of Latasha Harlins; riots broke out mainly involving black and Latino youths in the black neighborhoods of South Central LA and in the neighborhood of Koreatown before spreading to the rest of the city)
- 1996: St. Petersburg, FL – St. Petersburg riots (2-day riots that broke out after 18-year-old Tyron Lewis was fatally shot by Officer Jim Knight, who stopped Lewis for speeding and claimed to have accidentally fire his weapon).
- 2001: Cincinnati, OH – Cincinnati riots (riots in a reaction to the fatal shooting of an unarmed young black male, Timothy Thomas by Cincinnati police officer Steven Roach).
- 2003: Benton Harbor, MI – Benton Harbor riots
- 2005: Toledo, OH – 2005 Toledo riot (a race riot that broke out after a planned Neo-Nazi protest march through a black neighborhood).
- 2006: Fontana, CA – Fontana High School riot (riot involving about 500 Latino and black students)[40]
- 2006: California – Prison race riots (a series of riots across California set off by a war between Latino and black prison gangs)[41][42]
- 2008: Los Angeles, CA – Locke High School riot[43]
- 2009: Oakland, CA – 2009 Oakland riots (peaceful protests turned into rioting after the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man, by a BART transit policeman).
- 2014–2015: Ferguson, MO – The Ferguson unrest (a series of riots that broke out over the shooting of Michael Brown).
- 2014 August: riots for two weeks after the initial shooting of Brown.
- 2014 November – December: riots for one week after the police officer who shot Brown was not indicted.
- 2015 August: riots for two days during the anniversary of Brown's shooting.
- 2015: Baltimore, MD – 2015 Baltimore riots (protests-turned-riots following the death of Freddie Gray, an incident in which a suspect died in police custody)
- 2016: Salt Lake City, UT – Riots sparked by the shooting of Abdullahi Omar Mohamed.
- 2020: Nationwide – 2020 United States riots (protests-turned-riots that broke out across the US following the murder of George Floyd).
Asia
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| Country | Riot | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azerbaijan (incl. Soviet Azerbaijan) | 1988 Sumgait pogrom | Anti-Armenian pogrom riots in Azerbaijan SSR during February 1988 | |
| 1988 Kirovabad pogrom | Anti-Armenian pogrom | ||
| 1990 Baku pogrom | Anti-Armenian pogrom | ||
| Bahrain | 1947 Manama riots | Anti-Jewish riots led to the outbreak of civil war in Mandatory Palestine | |
| Bangladesh (incl. East Pakistan) | 1946 Noakhali riots | ||
| 1950 Barisal riots | |||
| 1964 East-Pakistan riots | |||
| 1990 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence | |||
| 2012 Hathazari violence | |||
| 2012 Ramu violence | |||
| 2013 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence | |||
| 2014 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence | |||
| Cambodia | 1975–79 Cambodian genocide | Systematic persecution and mass murder of Cambodian citizens, especially the minorities ethnic as Cham, Vietnamese, and Chinese sponsored by the Khmer communist government, the Khmer Rouge. It was proposed to create a homogeneous country only for the Khmer ethnic group. | [44][45] |
| China | 1988 Nanjing anti-African protests | ||
| 1997 Ghulja incident | [46] | ||
| 2002 Yizhou riots | |||
| 2008 Tibetan unrest | |||
| 2008 Uyghur unrest | |||
| 2009 Shaoguan incident | |||
| July 2009 Ürümqi riots | |||
| India (incl. British Raj)
(see also: Violence against Muslims in India) |
1882 Salem riots | ||
| 1895 Kalugumalai riots | |||
| 1899 Sivakasi riots | |||
| 1918 Kamuthi looting | |||
| 1948 Guwahati riots | |||
| 1984 anti-Sikh riots | Also includes the Hondh-Chillar massacre | ||
| 1991 anti-Tamil violence in Karnataka | |||
| 1997–98 Kuki–Paite ethnic clash | |||
| 2007 Christmas violence in Kandhamal | |||
| 2008 Kandhamal violence | |||
| 2012 Assam riots | |||
| 2014 Saharanpur riots | |||
| 2016 Dhulagarh riots | |||
| Ethnic conflict in Nagaland | |||
| 2023 Manipur violence | Ethnic tensions between the Meitei and the Kuki people | ||
| Indonesia (incl. Dutch East Indies) | 1740 Batavia massacre | Pogrom in which Dutch East Indies soldiers and natives killed ethnic Chinese residents of Batavia. | |
| 1918 Kudus riot | Anti-Chinese riot | ||
| 1965 riots in Sumatra and Kalimantan | Anti-Chinese riots | [47] | |
| 1998 Jakarta riots | Anti-Chinese riots | [48] | |
| 1999 Sambas riots | |||
| 2001 Sampit conflict | |||
| 2022 Southeast Maluku riots | Anti-Banda Muslims riots | [49] | |
| Israel (excl. Mandatory Palestine, see below) |
1947 Jerusalem riots | ||
| 1936 Tulkarm shooting retaliation in Tel Aviv | |||
| 1959 Wadi Salib riots | |||
| 1988–92 First Intifada | |||
| 2008 riots in Acre | Sectarian violence erupted on 8 October 2008 turning into 5 days of violence after an Arab-Israeli citizen drove through a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood during Yom Kippur. | [50][51][52] | |
| 2012 race riots in Tel Aviv | Race riots by Jewish Israelis against black-African immigrants took place in May 2012 after the rape of an elderly woman and an underage Israeli girl by 3 Eritrean men. | [53][54][55][56] | |
| 2015 riots in Tel Aviv | After an Ethiopian-born IDF officer was beaten by an Israeli police officer and police volunteer, protests in Tel Aviv against racism and police brutality turned violent, with injuries among protesters and police. | [57] | |
| Kazakhstan (see: Ethnic conflicts in Kazakhstan) |
1951 anti-Chechen pogrom in Eastern Kazakhstan | ||
| Fergana pogrom | |||
| 2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes | |||
| Kyrgyzstan (incl. Kyrgyz SSR) | 1990 Osh riots | An ethnic conflict between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks that took place in June 1990 in the Kyrgyz SSR | |
| 2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes | |||
| Malaysia | 1969 May 13 incident | Sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur | |
| 2001 Kampung Medan riots | Anti-Indian riots | ||
| Myanmar (see also: Rohingya conflict) |
1930 Rangoon riots | Anti-Indian riots | |
| 1997 Mandalay riots | Anti-Muslim riots | ||
| 2001 Taungoo riots | Anti-Muslim riots | ||
| 2012 Rakhine State riots | |||
| 2013 Myanmar anti-Muslim riots | |||
| 2017 Tula Toli massacre | |||
| Pakistan see: Sectarian violence in Pakistan |
2022 Sindhi–Afghan strife | Anti-Afghan demonstrations after the killing of a Sindhi man | [58] |
| Palestine (British Mandate) (see also: Timeline of intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine) |
1920 Nebi Musa riots | Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Jerusalem | |
| 1921 Jaffa riots | Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Jaffa | ||
| 1929 Palestine riots | Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Hebron, Safed, Jerusalem, and Jaffa | ||
| 1933 Palestine riots | Anti-Jewish riots due to Jewish immigration | ||
| 1938 Tiberias massacre | |||
| 1947 Jerusalem riots | Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Jerusalem | ||
| Philippines | see: Ethnic issues in the Philippines | ||
| Singapore (incl. Colony of Singapore and Malaysian Singapore) | 1950 Maria Hertogh riots | Anti-Europe riots due to court decision to return Maria Hertogh back to her biological parents | |
| 1964 race riots in Singapore | Ethnic conflict between Malay and Chinese due to disagreement of Malay special status between UMNO and PAP | ||
| 1969 race riots of Singapore | Ethnic conflict between Malay and Chinese triggered by Malaysian 1969 Race Riots | ||
| 2013 Little India riot | Triggered by traffic accident | ||
| Sri Lanka (incl. British Ceylon) (see also: List of riots in Sri Lanka) |
1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots | Ethnic conflict between Sinhalese Buddhists and Sri Lankan Moors | |
| 1956 anti-Tamil pogrom | Anti-Tamil riots by Sinhalese mobs | ||
| 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom | Anti-Tamil riots by Sinhalese mobs | ||
| 1977 anti-Tamil pogrom | Anti-Tamil riots by Sinhalese mobs | ||
| 1981 anti-Tamil pogrom | Anti-Tamil riots by Sinhalese mobs | ||
| Black July riots of 1983 | Anti-Tamil riots by Sinhalese mobs. Largely believed to be the main cause of the Sri Lankan Civil War. | ||
| 1987 Trincomalee riots | Anti-Sinhalese riots by Tamil mobs in Trincomalee | ||
| Kalutara prison riots | Murder of 3 Tamil political prisoners by Sinhalese prisoners | ||
| 2000 Bindunuwewe riots | Murder of 26 Tamil political prisoners by Sinhalese mobs | ||
| Mawanella riots | Ethnic conflict between Sinhalese and Muslims that took place in April 2001 | ||
| 2014 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka | Anti-Muslim riots by Sinhalese mobs | ||
| 2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka | Anti-Muslim riots by Sinhalese mobs | ||
| 2019 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka | Anti-Muslim riots by Sinhalese mobs | ||
| Syria | 1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo | ||
| Uzbekistan (incl. Uzbek SSR) | 1989 Fergana massacre | After bloody riots against the Meskhetian Turks in Central Asia's Fergana Valley, nearly 90,000 Meskhetian Turks left Uzbekistan | [59] |
| Tajikistan (incl. Tajik SSR) | 1990 Dushanbe riots | anti-Armenian unrest in Dushanbe, the capital of the Tajik SSR, from February 12–14, 1990. | |
Europe
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| Country | Riot | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 1941 Antwerp Pogrom | ||
| 2006 Brussels riots | |||
| Bulgaria | 2007 anti-Romani riots in Sofia | [60] | |
| Banya Bashi mosque clashes | |||
| 2019 anti-Romani riots in Gabrovo | A mob of approximately 1000 Bulgarians rioted for four nights following the assault of a Bulgarian shop worker by Romani youths. Property destruction of the Romani area ensued. | [61] | |
| Denmark | 1873 St. Croix labor riot | St. Croix agricultural labor rioted against landlords and labor laws. | |
| 1820–1822 Jewish skirmishes[citation needed] | Riots in various Danish and German cities and towns. | ||
| France | 2005 Perpignan riots | Riots in Perpignan between Maghrebi and Romani communities after a man of Maghrebi descent was shot dead. | [62] |
| 2009 riots in Avignon[citation needed] | Riots in September 2009 between Turkish and Moroccan youths (one youth of African descent was dead) | ||
| 2015 Corsican protests | Conflict between locals and immigrants in December 2015 in Ajaccio. | ||
| 2020 Dijon riots | These riots between members of the Chechen diaspora and the resident Arab community occurred due to an assault on a Chechen teenager by Arab drug dealers. | [63] | |
| Germany | 1819 Hep-Hep riots | ||
| 1938 Kristallnacht | Anti-Jewish riots that would precipitate the Holocaust | ||
| Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden | These marches have sparked many riots as recently as August 2015.[64] | ||
| 1991 Hoyerswerda riots | |||
| 1992 Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots | |||
| Greece | 1990 Komotini events | ||
| Kosovo | 2000 riots in Kosovo | ||
| 2004 pogrom in Kosovo | |||
| Italy | 2007 Chinese riot in Milan | [65][66] | |
| 2010 African-immigrant riots in Rosarno | [67] | ||
| 2011 African-immigrant riots in Bari | [68][69] | ||
| 2011 African-immigrant riots in Lampedusa | Riots involving mostly Tunisians | [70] | |
| 2015 riots in Sassari | Riots as result of refugees refusing to reside in provided buildings | [71] | |
| 2016 anti-Arab riots in Sesto Fiorentino | Chinese-Italian riots against Arab immigrants and refugees | [72][73][74] | |
| 2018 Italian-Senegalese riots in Florence | Senegal community riot the city of Florence | [75] | |
| North Macedonia | 2001 insurgency in Macedonia | ||
| 2012 Republic of Macedonia inter-ethnic violence | |||
| 2017 storming of Macedonian Parliament | |||
| Norway | 2008–2009 Oslo riots | Anti-Jewish riots in the city of Oslo, involving mostly muslim immigrants and far-left activists | |
| Netherlands | 1972 Afrikaanderwijk riots | ||
| 1976 Schiedam riots | |||
| Poland | 1936 Przytyk pogrom | Anti-Jewish riots in Przytyk, on March 9, 1936 | |
| 1939 Bloody Sunday | Anti-German riots that occurred on September 3, 1939, in the city of Bydgoszcz | ||
| 1939 Skidel revolt | Anti-Polish riots that took place on September 18–19, 1939, in the city of Skidel, part of broader anti-Polish pogroms after the Soviet invasion of Poland. | ||
| 1945 Kraków pogrom | Anti-Jewish riots that occurred on August 11, 1945, in the city of Kraków | ||
| 1946 Kielce pogrom | An outbreak of violence against the Jewish community of Kielce, Poland on July 4, 1946 | ||
| 1991 Mława pogrom | A series of violent incidents in June 1991, when a crowd attacked Roma residents of the Polish town of Mława | ||
| 2017 Ełk riots | During the New Year's Eve, a Polish man was stabbed to death by a Tunisian man – incident sparked the riots. | ||
| Romania | 1990 ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș | ||
| 1993 Hădăreni riots | |||
| Russia
(see also: Ethnic conflicts in the Soviet Union) |
Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire | ||
| 2006 ethnic tensions in Kondopoga | Anti-immigrant riots in Kondopoga, Karelia | ||
| 2010 Manezhnaya Square riot trials | Anti-immigrant riots on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square following the murder of Egor Sviridov | ||
| 2013 Biryulyovo riots | Anti-immigrant riots in Biryulyovo District, Moscow | ||
| Spain | 2000 race riot in Almería | [76] | |
| 2007 riots in Madrid | [77] | ||
| 2008 immigrant riots in Roquetas de Mar | Riot between Senegalese and Roma (Gypsy) families | [78] | |
| 2015 African riot in Salou | [79] | ||
| Sweden | 2010 Rinkeby riots | ||
| 2013 December Stockholm riots | |||
| 2013 May Stockholm riots | |||
| 2016 riots in Sweden | |||
| 2017 Rinkeby riots | |||
| 2020 Sweden riots | |||
| Turkey | 1934 Thrace pogroms | Anti-Jewish pogrom in Eastern Thrace | |
| 1955 Istanbul pogroms | |||
| 1969 Istanbul riots | |||
| Ukraine | 1821 Odessa pogrom | ||
| 1881 Kiev pogrom | |||
| 1905 Odessa pogrom | |||
| 1905 Chernihiv pogrom | |||
| 1905 Kiev pogrom | |||
| 1914 Lwów pogrom | |||
| 1918 Lwów pogrom | |||
| 1919 Kiev pogroms | |||
| 1941 Lviv pogroms | |||
| 2014 Odesa clashes | Part of the larger pro-Russian unrest, these riots culminated in the 2 May city clashes, pro-Ukrainian rioters burned the House of Trade Unions where pro-Russian rioters barricaded themselves. | [80] | |
| 2016 anti-Romani riot in Odesa | Local villagers attack Romani settlement in Odesa after the body of a 9 year old girl was discovered. | [81] | |
| United Kingdom | 1911 Siege of Sidney Street | ||
| 1911 South Wales anti-Jewish riots | |||
| 1919 riot in South Shields | February 1919 | ||
| 1919 South Wales race riots | June 1919 | ||
| 1919 riot in Liverpool | June 1919 | ||
| 1919 riot in Glasgow | June 1919 | ||
| 1919 riots in London | In Stepney in April; on St Anne Street in May; and on Cable Street and Poplar in June | ||
| 1921 Bloody Sunday | |||
| 1936 Battle of Cable Street | |||
| 1947 anti-Jewish riots in Birkenhead | |||
| 1948 riot in Liverpool | August 1948 | ||
| 1958 riot in Nottingham | August 1958 | ||
| 1958 Notting Hill race riots | |||
| 1969 Northern Ireland riots | |||
| 1975 Chapeltown riot | |||
| 1976 Notting Hill race riots | |||
| 1979 Southall race riot | London, 23 April 1979 | ||
| 1980 St. Pauls riot | In Bristol | ||
| 1981 Brixton riot | London, April 1981 | ||
| 1981 Toxteth riots | Liverpool, July 1981 | ||
| 1981 Handsworth riots | Birmingham July 1981 | ||
| 1981 Chapeltown Caribbean riot | |||
| 1981 Moss Side riot | |||
| 1985 Peckham riot | |||
| 1985 Handsworth riots | Birmingham July 1985 | ||
| 1985 Brixton riot | London, September 1985 | ||
| 1985 Broadwater Farm riot | London, October 1985 | ||
| 1987 Chapeltown riot | |||
| 1989 Dewsbury riot | |||
| 1991 Meadow Well riots | |||
| 1995 Manningham riot | Bradford, June 1995 | ||
| 1997 Northern Ireland riots | |||
| 2001 Oldham riots | Oldham, May 2001 | ||
| 2001 riots in Burnley | Burnley, June 2001 | ||
| 2001 Bradford riots | Bradford, July 2001 | ||
| 2001 riots in Stoke-on-Trent | |||
| 2001 Holy Cross dispute | |||
| July 2001 Belfast riots | |||
| November 2001 Belfast riots | |||
| 2005 Belfast riots | |||
| 2005 Birmingham riots | |||
| 2010 Northern Ireland riots | |||
| 2011 Northern Ireland riots | |||
| 2011 London riots | |||
| 2012 North Belfast riots | |||
| Belfast City Hall flag protests | |||
| 2013 Belfast riots | |||
| 2018 Derry riots | |||
| 2021 Northern Ireland riots | Riots by Loyalist youths due to post-Brexit trading arrangements and the refusal of the PSNI to prosecute a Sinn Fein member's attendance of an illegal funeral. Eventually escalated when Loyalists threw petrol bombs into a nationalist area. | [82] | |
| 2022 Leicester unrest | Riots between Muslims and Hindus in Leicester. | ||
| 2024 United Kingdom riots | Riots against Muslims throughout the UK. | ||
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