A food riot is a riot in protest of a shortage and/or unequal distribution of food. Historical causes have included rises in food prices, harvest failures...

The following is a list of food riots. Salt riot, also known as the Moscow Uprising of 1648, started because of the government's replacement of different...

incapacitate rioters for easier arrest. Food riots are caused by harvest failures, incompetent food storage, hoarding, poisoning of food, or attacks by...

1766 food riots took place across England in response to rises in the prices of wheat and other cereals following a series of poor harvests. Riots were...

1739–1740: Food riots 1749: Food riots 1752: Food riots 1768: Food riots 1770: Food riots 1775: Flour War, a wave of riots in April to May 1775, that followed...

Food riots refer to protests, riots, and civil unrest attributed to popular outrage against food shortages and high or rising prices of food. In the 20th...

followed by additional nights of rioting on August 30 and September 7. The food riot stemmed from an increase in the price of food, particularly pasta products...

Bengal food riots took place in West Bengal, India over shortage of food and widespread corruption in the public distribution system. The riots first happened...

Nottingham cheese riot (also known as The Great Cheese Riot) started on 2 October 1766 at the city's Goose Fair. The riot came at a time of food shortages and...

influence public opinion or government policy. They range from village food riots against imposed taxes to protests that initiated the Russian Revolution...

DeCredico, Mary. "Bread Riot, Richmond". Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved March 2, 2023. Bellemare, Marc F. "Rising food prices, food price volatility, and...

County, Iowa 1863 – Southern bread riots, April 2, Riots which broke out in the South during the Civil War due to food shortages throughout the Confederate...

contributed to the magnitude of the disturbances. List of food riots Portals: Russia Society History Food Холерные и картофельные бунты первой половины XIX века...

Esquilache Riots (Madrid, Spain) 1766 – Food Riots (Black Country and elsewhere, England) 1766 – Nottingham cheese riot 1768 – Massacre of St George's Fields...

Although the media spotlight focused on the riots that ensued in the face of high prices, the ongoing crisis of food insecurity had been years in the making...

of Austrian politics. In August, a food riot in Bad Ischl turned into a pogrom of local Jews. In November, the food shortage sparked workers' strikes in...

subsidies only apply to four basic food items (coarse baladi bread, wheat flour, edible oil and sugar). The origins of the riots lay in the people's dissatisfaction...

The Riot Act (1 Geo. 1. St. 2. c. 5), sometimes called the Riot Act 1714 or the Riot Act 1715, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which authorised...

The riots were caused by the rampant hyperinflation and food shortage, and were associated with legal protests and demonstrations. The first riots started...

protests were a series of food riots and deadly mass demonstrations sparked by spiralling food inflation and unemployment. Bread riots erupted on 1 September...

financial limit of two thousand million yen". List of food riots Portals: Japan Society History Food Crump, John (1996). "The Anarchist Movement in Japan...

The New York City Food Riot of 1917 were a series of demonstrations and riots which began on February 19, 1917, after a mob composed mostly of women confronted...

the Réveillon riots were noted in the fifth season in the episode Wesen Nacht to have been wesen-on-wesen violence. List of food riots Estates General...

(Russian: Соляной бунт, Московское восстание 1648), sometimes known as the salt riot, started because of the government's replacement of different taxes with...

The 2021 South African unrest, also known as the July 2021 riots, the Zuma unrest or Zuma riots, was a wave of civil unrest that occurred in South Africa's...

Great Britain, Ireland, and France experienced significant hardship, with food riots and famine becoming common. The situation was exacerbated by the fact...

Benjamin S. 1997. Meat and Strength: The Moral Economy of a Chilean Food Riot. Cultural Anthropology, 12, pp. 234–268. "Specific Annex D: Customs Warehouses...

would receive no more food from their port. They, like the Cork Corporation officials, wanted no trouble from the Irish citizens. A riot broke out in Dublin...

orders to open fire on an unarmed food riot in Bakersfield, California. Although other officers massacre the rioters, Richards is framed for the incident...

affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing...