2011 Event The Arab League agrees to impose sanctions on Syria due to the nation's continued violent uprising; Syria says the move is 'unprecedented' 2011 Event The 2011 Syrian uprising continues as Turkey seizes a Syrian ship that is possibly carrying weapons to the Syrian Army 2011 Event The Government of Syria is under investigation by the U.N. Human Rights Council for alleged human rights violations during the 2011 Syrian uprising 2011 Event U.K. Prime Minister, David Cameron, confirms the United Kingdom is sending Apache attack helicopters to assist the 2011 Libyan uprising 2011 Event The U.S. intends to impose sanctions on Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, for alleged human rights breaches during the 2011 Syrian Uprising 2011 Event Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, commented that the 2011 Egyptian protests and Tunisian uprising are a result of 'Islamic awareness' 1993 Event Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed 1991 Death John Russell, actor and writer (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky), dies at 70 1989 Event Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956 1987 Event Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank 1987 Event Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel 1987 Event Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank 1984 Event 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India 1980 Event South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed 1979 Death Arthur Hunnicutt, actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising), dies at 68 1978 Event Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army 1976 Death Richard Arlen, actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75 1972 Event Prison uprising at Washington D.C. jail 1970 Event Polish uprising fails 1968 Event Uprising in South Yemen 1967 Event Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City 1967 Event Congo uprising under Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme 1962 Event Military uprising under Col Abdullah as-Sallal North Yemen 1961 Event Uprising of French parachutist of General Salan/Challe in Algeria 1959 Event 50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau 1959 Event Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails 1959 Event 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government and installs Panchen Lama 1959 Event Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet 1958 Event Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet 1957 Event Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising 1957 Event Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising 1953 Event Islamic uprising in Atjeh at Indonesia 1952 Event Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die 1952 Event Popular uprising in Bolivia 1951 Event Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg 1945 Event Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague 1945 Event Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy 1944 Event Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums 1944 Event Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp 1944 Event Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people 1943 Event 400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland 1943 Event Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) 1943 Event Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction 1943 Death Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed 1943 Event Uprising in Warsaw ghetto 1936 Event Spanish Civil War begins, General Francisco Franco led uprising 1936 Event Military uprising under General Franco/begins Spanish civil war 1933 Event Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies 1927 Event Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen) 1927 Event Uprising against Portuguese regime of General Carmona defeated 1927 Event Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal 1927 Event Communist uprising in West Java 1926 Event Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java 1926 Event Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos 1926 Event Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia 1926 Birthday Corinne Calvet, France, actress, Apache Uprising 1925 Event Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee) 1922 Event Uprising of social righteousness in Rio de Janeiro 1920 Birthday Constantly, A Nieuwenhuys, painter, Uprising of Homo Ludens 1919 Event Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege 1919 Event Anti-British uprising in Ireland 1917 Birthday Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist, barricade uprising 1916 Event Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising 1916 Death Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51 1916 Event British court martial (Easter uprising) 1911 Birthday Arthur Hunnicutt, Gravelly AR, actor, Big Sky, Apache Uprising 1906 Event Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising 1904 Event Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garison 1904 Event Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising 1903 Event Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey 1896 Event Uprising in Matabeleland 1894 Event Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails 1887 Birthday Albert PAA Besnard, Dutch poet/journalist, Uprising and Remorse 1864 Birthday Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist, Easter uprising 1916 1862 Event 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minn, due to their uprising 1862 Event Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota 1855 Event Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising 1854 Event Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo 1853 Death Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), dies 1848 Event People's uprising in Palermo Sicily 1837 Event Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada 1831 Event Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia 1831 Event Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery 1825 Event Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins 1824 Birthday Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet, 1st Serbian Uprising 1817 Event Leaders of Molukkas uprising hanged in Ambon 1817 Event Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia 1808 Event Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid 1798 Event Flemish uprising against French occupied Boerenkrijg 1795 Death Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising, executed 1795 Event Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao 1793 Event Pro-royalist uprising in Vendee region of France 1750 Event Slave uprising on Curacao 1715 Event Uprising of Yamasse-indians in South Carolina 1648 Event People's uprising against Anna of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin 1648 Event Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples 1647 Event People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples 1641 Event Catholic uprising in Ulster: 1000s English and Scots killed 1640 Event Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV 1605 Event Chinese uprising on Philippines, Tondo/Quiapo massacre 1603 Event Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed 1579 Event Anti-English uprising in Ireland 1570 Event Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas 1569 Event Catholic uprising under Northumberland and Westmoreland 1568 Event Uprising of Morisco's against suppression in Granada 1568 Event Uprising of Morisco's in Granada 1537 Event Uprising in Lubeck fails 1535 Event Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Admiral Barbarossa 1522 Event Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails 1519 Event Austrian adel/burgerij in uprising against central government 1494 Event Uprising against Piero de' Medici in Florence Italy 1437 Event Farmer uprising in Transsylvania 1381 Death John Ball, English priest/ideologist of Boer uprising, hanged 1381 Event English boer uprising begins in Essex 1358 Event Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising 1328 Event Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers 1180 Event Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against emperor Kiyomori Taira 532 Event Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die 69 Event Roman garrison of Mainz uprising