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    The Astor Place Riot occurred on May 10, 1849, at the now-demolished Astor Opera House in Manhattan and left between 22 and 31 rioters dead, and more than...
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    40°43′47″N 73°59′29″W / 40.729861°N 73.991434°W / 40.729861; -73.991434 Astor Place is a street in NoHo/East Village, in the lower part of the New York City...
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    riots, along with several hundred others who used the disturbance to loot the Bowery area. It was the largest disturbance since the Astor Place Riot in...
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    Tree Riot was an act of resistance to British royal authority undertaken by American colonists in Weare, New Hampshire, on April 14, 1772, placing it among...
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  • The eggnog riot, sometimes known as the grog mutiny, was a riot that took place at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, on 24–25...
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    1844 – Brooklyn riot, occurred on April 4 between nativists and Irish immigrants. 1849 – Astor Place riot, occurred May 10 at the Astor Opera House between...
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    The Astor Opera House, also known as the Astor Place Opera House and later the Astor Place Theatre, was an opera house in Lower Manhattan, New York City...
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    John Hancock (redirect from Liberty Riot)
    not just deserters from the Royal Navy, an arguably illegal activity. A riot broke out when officials began to tow the Liberty out to the Romney, which...
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    Hall at 13 Astor Place, also known as 21 Astor Place. This was once the site of the Astor Opera House outside of which the Astor Place Riot occurred. The...
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    The Portland Rum Riot, also called the Maine Law Riot, and the June Riot by Neal Dow, was a brief but violent period of civil unrest that occurred in...
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    and the site of the Astor Opera House where the Astor Place riot of 1849 took place The Astor Place Building at 444 Lafayette Condominium building at 445...
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    the early 19th century, Buntline was one of the instigators of the Astor Place Riot, which left 23 people dead. He was fined $250 and sentenced to a year's...
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  • 2017. At NYU, he was involved in the Hammerkatz sketch comedy and Astor Place Riots stand-up comedy groups. Prior to SNL, he worked as an after-school...
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    with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849. Forrest was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of...
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    The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, were violent...
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    Croton Water Riot, 22 to 23 April 1840; Great New York City Fire of 1845, 19 to 21 July 1845 Astor Place Riot 10, 12 and 14 May 1849 Police Riot 16 June 1857...
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    The Baltimore Know-Nothing riots of 1856 occurred in Baltimore, Maryland between September and November of that year. The Know Nothing Party gained traction...
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    Philadelphia nativist riots took place on May 6—8 and July 6—7, 1844, in Philadelphia, and the adjacent suburbs of Kensington and Southwark. The riots were a result...
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  • riot of 1842 1844 – Philadelphia Nativist Riots, May 6–8, July 6–7, Philadelphia (anti-Catholic) 1845 – Milwaukee Bridge War 1849 – Astor Place riot,...
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    riots, along with several hundred others who used the disturbance to loot the Bowery area. It was the largest disturbance since the Astor Place Riot in...
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    nativist riots (also known as the Philadelphia Prayer Riots, the Bible Riots and the Native American Riots) were a series of riots that took place on May...
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    suffered the curse of the Scottish play. Further instances include the Astor Place Riot in 1849, injuries sustained by actors at a 1937 performance at The...
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    perceived as snobbery by the upper-class audiences at Astor Place: "After the Astor Place Riot of 1849, entertainment in New York City was divided along...
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  • 1849 – Stony Monday Riot (Bytown, Upper Canada, Canada) 1849 – Montreal Riots (Montreal, Lower Canada, Canada) 1849 – Astor Place Riot (New York City, United...
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    Tallmadge, noted reformer and Recorder of New York City during the Astor Place Riots of 1849, who accepted the position of Superintendent of Police after...
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  • antiabolitionist riot (also called Farren Riot or Tappan Riot) that lasted for nearly a week until it was put down by military force. "At times the rioters controlled...
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    The Baltimore riot of 1861 (also called the "Pratt Street Riots" and the "Pratt Street Massacre") was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt...
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    Hillsborough, NC. They rioted through the town for several days. In response in January 1771 the North Carolina assembly passed the Johnston Riot Act, allowing...
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    because the captain of Romney had been impressing local sailors; they began to riot, and customs officials fled to Castle William for protection. Daniel Calfe...
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    stage lighting. In 1849, rival performances of the play sparked the Astor Place riot in Manhattan. The popular American actor Edwin Forrest, whose Macbeth...
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