• The Bristol riots refer to a number of significant riots in the city of Bristol in England. In 1794 the populace of Bristol were said to be "apt to collect...
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    The 1831 Bristol riots took place on 29–31 October 1831 and were part of the 1831 reform riots in England. The riots arose after the second Reform Bill...
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    Leicester, Yeovil, Sherborne, Exeter, Bath and Worcester and riots at Nottingham, Derby and Bristol. Targets included Nottingham Castle, home of the anti-reform...
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    The Riot Act 1714 was introduced during a time of civil disturbance in Great Britain, including the Sacheverell riots of 1710, the Coronation riots of...
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    March 2021). "How Kill the Bill protest became a violent night of riots in Bristol". BristolLive. Reach plc. Archived from the original on 23 March 2021. Retrieved...
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  • Serpico, John. "The Southmead Riots". Bristol Radical History Group. Retrieved 27 October 2011. Ball, Roger. "'The Bristol Riot and its Other': St. Paul's...
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    2008–2009 Oslo riots 2007 Villiers-le-Bel riots 2006 Brussels riots 2005 French riots 2001 England riots Ferguson unrest 1981 Brixton riot George Floyd...
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    From 30 July to 5 August 2024, far-right, anti-immigration protests and riots occurred in England and Northern Ireland, within the United Kingdom. This...
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    Clifton Suspension Bridge (category Tourist attractions in Bristol)
    towns such as Bristol. Five to six hundred young men were involved in the riots and Brunel was sworn in as a special constable. The riots severely dented...
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    further period of time the Bristol Bridge Riot ensued. 11 people were killed and 45 injured, making it one of the most deadly riots of the 18th century. Competition...
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  • chronological list of known riots. 205–186 – BC The great revolt of Egypt against Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 48 BC – 47 BC – Riots during the Siege of Alexandria...
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    Prince Street Bridge (category Bristol Harbourside)
    traffic over the bridge, with the toll house being burnt during the Bristol Riots of 1831. The swing bridge is operated by water hydraulic power provided...
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    created the first Bishop of Bristol. The new cathedral was dedicated to the Holy and Undivided Trinity. In the 1831 Bristol Riots, a mob broke into the Chapter...
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    they become convinced that a ghost connected in some way with the Bristol Riots of 1831 is haunting the house. The plot is based on the story of the...
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  • Black and White On the Buses. Bristol: Bristol Broadsides. pp. 47–50. ISBN 0-906944-30-9. Bristol Riots with the St Paul's riot at the bottom of the page...
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    in buildings such as the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, the Royal West of England Academy, and The Victoria Rooms. Riots broke out in 1793 and 1831;...
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    connection. The painting was narrowly saved from destruction during the 1831 Bristol riots, following the defeat of the second Reform Bill. The Mansion House was...
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    Horfield (redirect from Horfield, Bristol)
    area remained rural until the early 19th century. Following the 1831 Bristol Riots, during which the local gaol burnt down, Horfield Prison was completed...
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  • set at the time of the Bristol Riots (1831). The play represents the emotions and the types of people involved in the riots and their climax which occur...
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    required.) "The 1831 Reform Riots in Bristol". Bristol Museums. Retrieved 6 May 2020. Thomas, Susan (1974). The Bristol Riots. Bristol University: The Historical...
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    The coronation riots of October 1714 were a series of riots in southern and western England in protest against the coronation of the first Hanoverian king...
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    The Park Street riot occurred in Park Street and George Street Bristol, England, on 15 July 1944 when many black US servicemen (GIs) refused to return...
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  • the top. The riots in which Blakelock died took place within a wave of social unrest across England. Since the 1980 St Pauls riot in Bristol, and particularly...
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  • Henry Somerton was writing for the Mercury, including reporting the Bristol Riots of 1831, which took place after the House of Lords rejected the second...
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  • constructs the first dynamo. 29–31 October – 1831 Bristol riots ("Queen Square riots") in Bristol, in connection with the Great Reform Act controversy:...
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    constructs an early form of dynamo. October 29 – The 1831 Bristol riots ("Queen Square riots") in Bristol (England) begin, in connection with the Great Reform...
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    Urban riots 1980 St Pauls riot 1981 Handsworth riots, Birmingham 1981 Chapeltown riots, Leeds 1981 Toxteth riots, Liverpool 1985 Brixton riot 1995 Brixton...
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    Hake Seward and opened in 1820. In 1831, it was destroyed during the Bristol Riots and was rebuilt to designs by Richard Shackleton Pope, but was never...
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  • 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...
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    1840s, very few Tories would have agreed with him: events such as the Bristol riots of 1831 seeming to provide evidence that coercion was essential. Working...
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