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41 matches to Rhine Uprising
June Days. 1848. Paris workers uprising. Cavaignac’s military rule kills 10,000 to restore order.
Khrushchev, Nikita. 1894-1971. Soviet leader 1953-64. Berlin Wall 1961. Hungarian Uprising 1956. Malenkov.
Kiel Mutiny. 1918. Navy mutiny causes German uprising. Weimar Republic.
May Demonstrations. 1968 Paris student uprising for more money to education, less to defence. General Strike brought 33% increase in minimum wage.
Nagy, Imre. 1896-1958. Hungarian premier 1953~56. Executed after Hungarian Uprising. Rehabilitated 1989.
Pausanius. Spartan. Drove Persians from Greece at Plataea, 479BC. Starved to death for plotting helot uprising.
Pilgrimage of Grace. 1536. Catholic uprising in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire against dissolution of monasteries, taxation and inflation.
Polish Uprising. 1863. January Insurrection.
Poznán Riots. 1956. Polish workers strike for bread and freedom. 53 killed by Russian troops. Led to new regime, Hungarian Uprising.
RákóczI II, Ferenc. 1676-1735. Transylvanian prince. Led Hungarian Uprising 1703.
Rákosi, Mátyás. 1892-1971. Stalinist Hungarian leader 1945-56. Fled before 1956 uprising.
Secret Speech. 1956. Khrushchev call for destalinization in USSR leads to Hungarian, Polish uprisings.
Sinn Fein. 1905. (=Ourselves Alone). Irish Nationalist movement. 1916 uprising. Founded Irish Free State. Legalized as political party in Northern Ireland, 1974. Political wing of IRA. De Valera.
Spartacus League. 1914-19. Forerunner of German Communist Party. Leaders executed after 1919 uprising.
Vendée, Wars. French Royalist uprisings of 1793,4,9, 1815,32.
Warsaw Uprising. 1830-1. Czartoryski attempt to oust Russians crushed. 1944. Polish underground army defeats Germans but Soviet delay allows German reinforcements to defeat Poles, destroying potential opposition to later Soviet control.