This is a list of revolutions, rebellions, insurrections, and uprisings.
BC
1–999 AD
1000–1499
1500–1699
1700–1799
1800–1849
1848: Matale Rebellion A rebellion in Ceylon against British colonial rule. 1848-1849: Beach Rebellion (Revolução Praieira) in Pernambuco, Brazil.
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. 1854–56: The Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856) in Guangdong (Canton), China. 1854–73: The Miao Rebellion in China. 1854–55: The Revolution of Ayutla in Mexico. 1855–73: The Panthay Rebellion by Chinese Muslims against the Qing dynasty. 1857: The Indian rebellion against British East India Company, marking the end of Mughal rule in India. Also known as the 1857 War of Independence and, particularly in the West, the Sepoy Mutiny. 1858: The Mahtra War in Estonia. 1858: Pecija's First Revolt, in Ottoman Bosnia. 1858–61: The War of the Reform in Mexico. 1859: John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over Harpers Ferry Armory in Virginia. 1859: The Second Italian War of Independence. 1861–65: The American Civil War in the United States, between the United States and the Confederate States of America, which was formed out of eleven southern states. 1863–65: A counter-rebellion occurred in the self-declared Free State of Jones in Mississippi. 1861–66: Quantrill's Raiders in Missouri. 1862: The Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. 1862–77: The Muslim Rebellion by Chinese Muslims against the Qing dynasty. 1862: The 23 October 1862 Revolution was a popular insurrection which led to the overthrow of King Otto of Greece. 1863: The New York Draft riots. 1863–65: The January Uprising was the Polish uprising against the Russian Empire. 1864–65: The Mejba Revolt was a rebellion in Tunisia against the doubling of an unpopular poll tax imposed by Sadok Bey. 1865: The Morant Bay rebellion. 1866: The Uprising of Polish political exiles in Siberia. 1866–68: The Meiji Restoration and modernization revolution in Japan. Samurai uprising leads to overthrow of shogunate and establishment of "modern" parliamentary, Western-style system. 1867: The Fenian Rising: an attempt at a nationwide rebellion by the Irish Republican Brotherhood against British rule. 1868: The Glorious Revolution in Spain deposes Queen Isabella II. 1868: The Grito de Lares was the first major revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico. The rebels proclaimed the independence of Puerto Rico from Spain. Ten Years' War (1868–1878), also known as the Great War (Guerra Grande) and the War of '68, was part of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, led by Cuban-born planters (especially by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes) and other wealthy natives. 1869–70: The Red River Rebellion, the events surrounding the actions of a provisional government established by Métis leader Louis Riel at the Red River Colony, Manitoba, Canada. 1870–72: The Revolution of the Lances, the National Party revolts against the Colorado Government in Uruguay. 1871: The Paris Commune. 1871–72: Porfirio Díaz rebels against President Benito Juárez of Mexico. 1871: The liberal revolution in Guatemala. 1873: The Petroleum Revolution in the First Spanish Republic. 1873–74: The Cantonal rebellion in the First Spanish Republic. 1875: The Deccan Riots. 1875: The Stara Zagora Uprising, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against Ottoman rule. 1875–76: The Svaneti uprising of 1875–1876 1875–78: The Great Eastern Crisis: 1875–77: The Herzegovinian rebellion, the most famous of the rebellions against the Ottoman Empire in Herzegovina; unrest soon spread to other areas of Ottoman Bosnia. 1876: The April uprising, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against Ottoman rule. 1876: The Razlovtsi insurrection, a revolt by the Bulgarian population against Ottoman rule, part of the April Uprising.