List of ethnic riots

This is a list of ethnic riots, sectarian riots, and race riots, by country.

Africa

Côte d'Ivoire 
 Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire caused by the 2004 French–Ivorian clashes (2004) – Anti-French riots

Egypt
Egypt (1945) - Anti-Jewish riots

Lesotho 
 Maseru (2007) – Anti-Chinese riot

Libya
Tripolitania (1945) - Anti-Jewish riot
Tripolitania (1948) - Anti-Jewish riot

Mauritania 
 Mauritania (1989) – Mauritania–Senegal Border War. Race riots erupt in Mauritania between white and black Mauritanians.

Rhodesia 
 Kananga (1925) – Kananga Riot of 1925

South Africa 
Durban (1949) – Anti-Indian riots
 Durban (1985) – Anti-Indian riot
 Port Elizabeth (2007) – Anti-Somali riot

Tanzania 
 Zanzibar (1964) – The Zanzibar Revolution of January 12, 1964 put an end to the local Arab dynasty. Thousands of Arabs were massacred in riots, and thousands more were detained or fled the island

Zambia 
 Zambia (2008) - Anti-Chinese riot

Americas

Brazil 
 Rio de Janeiro (1823) – Anti-Portuguese riots
 Salvador (1831) – Anti-Portuguese riots

Canada 
 Toronto (August 2–5, 1918) – 1918 Toronto anti-Greek riot
 Toronto (August 16, 1933) – Christie Pits riot
 Vancouver (September 7, 1907) – anti-Asian riot

Mexico 
 Torreón massacre (1911) – over 300 Chinese immigrants are killed by a mob including forces of the Mexican Revolution.

Peru
 Afro-Peruvian massacre of Chinese coolies (1880s)
 Indigenous uprising against White Peruvians (1880s)

United States

Nativist Period: 1700s–1860 
 1824: Providence, Rhode Island Hard Scrabble Riots
 1829: Cincinnati riots of 1829 – Rioting against African Americans results in over a thousand leaving for Canada.
 1829: Charlestown Anti-Catholic Riots
 1831: Providence, Rhode Island
 1834: Massachusetts Convent Burning
 1834: Philadelphia pro-slavery riots
 1834: New York City pro-slavery riots
 1835: Boston pro-slavery riots
 1835: Five Points Riot
 1835: Snow Riot, Washington, D.C.
 1836: Cincinnati riots of 1836 – Several anti-abolitionist riots
 1841: Cincinnati, Ohio White Irish-descendant and Irish immigrant dock workers rioted against Black dock workers. When the Black dock workers banded together to defend their community from the approaching Whites, the White rioters retreated, commandeered a 6-pound cannon, and shot it through the streets of Cincinnati.
 1844: Philadelphia Nativist Riots (May 6–8, July 5–8)
 1851: Hoboken Anti-German Riot
 1855: Louisville Anti-German Riots

Civil War Period: 1861–1865

Reconstruction Period: 1865–1877

Jim Crow Period: 1878–1914 

 1885: Anti-Chinese riot in Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory
 1886: Seattle riot of 1886
 1898: Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, white Democrats overthrew elected government and attacked blacks
 1898: Lake City, South Carolina
 1898: Greenwood County, South Carolina
 1900: Robert Charles Riots
 1900: New York City
 1904: Springfield, Ohio Race Riot
 1906: Springfield, Ohio Race Riot
 1906: Atlanta Race Riot, whites against African Americans
 1906: Brownsville, Texas
 1907: Onancock, Virginia
 1907: Pacific Coast Race Riots of 1907
 1908: Springfield Race Riot of 1908
 1909: Omaha, Nebraska anti-Greek riot
 1910: Nationwide riots following the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in Reno, Nevada on July 4
 1910: Slocum, Texas

War and inter-war period: 1914–1945 
 1917: East St. Louis Riot
 1917: Chester, Pennsylvania
 1917: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 1917: Houston Riot
 Red Summer of 1919
1919: Washington, D.C.
1919: Chicago Race Riot of 1919
1919: Omaha Race Riot of 1919
1919: Charleston riot of 1919
1919: Longview race riot
1919: Knoxville Riot of 1919
1919: Elaine Race Riot
 1920: Ocoee Massacre
 1921: Tulsa race riot (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
 1921: Springfield, Ohio Race Riot
 1923: Rosewood massacre (Rosewood, Florida)
 1927: Yakima Valley Anti-Filipino Riot
 1928: Wenatchee Valley Anti-Filipino Riot
 1929: Exeter Anti-Filipino Riot
 1930: Watsonville Riots, Anti-Filipino riot which inspired race riots in San Francisco, Salinas and San Jose and attacks elsewhere.
 1935: Harlem Riot of 1935
 1943: Detroit Race Riot
 1943: Beaumont Race Riot of 1943
 1943: Harlem Riot of 1943
 1943: Zoot Suit Riots
1944: Agana race riot

Postwar era: 1946–1954 
 1946: Columbia, Tennessee Riot
 1949: Peekskill Riots
 1951: Cicero Race Riot in Illinois

Civil Rights and Black Power Movement's Period: 1955–1977 
 1958: Battle of Hayes Pond (Maxton, North Carolina)
 1962: Ole Miss riot, Oxford, Mississippi
 1963: Birmingham Riot of 1963, Birmingham, Alabama
 1963: Cambridge riot of 1963 (Cambridge, Maryland)
 1963: Lexington Riot, Lexington, North Carolina
 1964: Harlem Riot of 1964 (Harlem neighborhood, Manhattan, New York City)
 1964: Rochester riot (Rochester, New York)
 1964: Philadelphia 1964 race riot (North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
 1965: Watts Riots (Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles, California)
 1966: Division Street Riots (Humboldt Park neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois)
 1966: Hough Riots (Hough community, Cleveland, Ohio)
 1966: North Omaha, Nebraska (North Omaha community, Omaha, Nebraska)
 Long Hot Summer of 1967
 1967: Roxbury riots (Boston, Massachusetts)
 1967: Tampa riots (Tampa, Florida)
 1967: Texas Southern University Riot (Houston, Texas)
 1967: 1967 Detroit riot (Detroit, Michigan)
 1967: Buffalo riot (Buffalo, New York)
 1967: Milwaukee Riot (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
 1967: Minneapolis North Side Riots (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
 1967: 1967 Newark riots (Newark, New Jersey)
 1967: Plainfield riots (Plainfield, New Jersey)
 1967: Cincinnati riots (Cincinnati, Ohio)
 Protests of 1968
 1968: Orangeburg massacre (Orangeburg, South Carolina)
 1968: King assassination riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
 1968: Baltimore riot of 1968 (Baltimore, Maryland)
 1968: Chicago West Side riots (Chicago, Illinois)
 1968: Louisville riots of 1968 (Louisville, Kentucky)
 1968: 1968 Washington, D.C. riots (Washington, D.C.)
 1968: 1968 Wilmington riots (Wilmington, Delaware)
 1968: Glenville shootout and riot (Cleveland, Ohio)
 1969: 1969 York Race Riot (York, Pennsylvania)
 1970: May 11 Race Riot (Augusta, Georgia)
 1970: Jackson State killings (Jackson, Mississippi)
 1971: Camden riots (Camden, New Jersey)
 1972–1977: Escambia High School riots (Pensacola, Florida)
1972: USS Kitty Hawk Riot (Coast of North Vietnam); October 12–13
 1975: Chaffey High School Race Riot enhanced by local sniper (Ontario, California)

1978 to today 
 1978: Houston's Moody Park on the first anniversary of Joe Campos Torres death.
 1979: Great Brook Valley Projects Riots Worcester, Massachusetts, Puerto Ricans rioted 
 1980: Miami Riots (Miami, Florida): Reactions following the acquittal of four Miami-Dade Police officers in the death of Arthur McDuffie.
 1980: Chattanooga Riot (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
 1984: Lawrence, Massachusetts Race Riot: A small scale riot centered at the intersection of Haverhill and railroad streets between working class whites and Hispanics; several buildings were destroyed by Molotov cocktails; August 8, 1984.
 1989: Overtown Riot (Miami, FL) After a black motorcyclist was shot by a Hispanic police officer in the predominantly black community of Overtown, residents rioted for two nights. The officer was later convicted of manslaughter.
 1990: Wynwood Riot (Miami, FL) Puerto Ricans rioted after a jury acquitted six officers accused of beating a Puerto Rican drug dealer to death
 1991: Crown Heights riot (Crown Heights neighborhood, Brooklyn, New York City), black anti-Jewish mob killed 2, injured 190.
 1992: Los Angeles Riots (Los Angeles, California): In reaction to the acquittal of all four LAPD officers involved in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, in addition to the Korean involved in the murder of Latasha Harlins; riots broke out mainly involving black and Latino youths in the black neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles and Korean-American neighborhood of Koreatown before spreading to the rest of the city
 1996: St. Petersburg Riots (St. Petersburg, Florida): After Officer Jim Knight stopped 18 yr. old Tyron Lewis for speeding, he claimed to accidentally fire his weapon, fatally wounding the black teenager. Riots broke out, lasting 2 days.
 2001: Cincinnati riots (Cincinnati, Ohio): In a reaction to the fatal shooting of an unarmed young black male, Timothy Thomas by Cincinnati police officer Steven Roach, riots broke out over the span of a few days.
 2003: Benton Harbor riots (Benton Harbor, Michigan)
 2005: 2005 Toledo Riot (Toledo, Ohio): A race riot that broke out after a planned Neo-Nazi protest march through a black neighborhood.
 2006: Fontana High School riot (Fontana, California): Riot involving about 500 Latino and black students
 2006: Prison Race Riots (California): A war between Latino and black prison gangs set off a series of riots across California
 2008: Locke High School riot (Los Angeles, California)
 2009: 2009 Oakland Riots (Oakland, California): Peaceful protests turned into rioting after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, Oscar Grant, by a BART transit policeman.
 2014–2015: The Ferguson unrest, a series of riots break out in Ferguson, Missouri over the shooting of Michael Brown.
 August 2014: riots for two weeks after the initial shooting of Michael Brown.
 Late November and early December 2014: riots for one week after the police officer who shot Michael Brown was not indicted.
 August 2015: riots for two days during the anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown.
 2015: The Death of Freddie Gray was an incident in which a suspect died in police custody and later protests turned into riots in Baltimore.
 2016: The Shooting of Abdullahi Omar Mohamed sparked riots on the night of the shooting.

Asia

Azerbaijan 
 Sumgait pogrom (1988), Anti-Armenian pogrom
 Kirovabad pogrom (1988), Anti-Armenian pogrom
 Baku pogrom (1990), Anti-Armenian pogrom

Bangladesh 
 Noakhali riot
 1950 Barisal Riots
 1964 East-Pakistan riots
 Bangladesh (1990) – 1990 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence
 Hathazari (2012) – 2012 Hathazari violence
 Ramu (2012) – 2012 Ramu violence
 Bangladesh (2013) – 2013 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence
 Bangladesh – 2014 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence

Burma 
 1930 Rangoon riots – Anti-Indian riots
 Mandalay (1997) – Anti-Muslim Riots
 Taungoo (2001) – Anti-Muslim Riots

China 
 Nanjing anti-African protests (1988) – Nanjing
 Ghulja Incident, Xinjiang, China (1997)
 2008 Tibetan unrest (2008) – Tibet, China
 2008 Uyghur unrest
 June 2009 Shaoguan incident – Guangdong, China
 July 2009 Ürümqi riots – Xinjiang, China

Fiji
Fiji (2000) - Anti-Indian riots

Indonesia 
 Indonesia (1965) – Anti-Chinese riots
 Jakarta, Surakarta (1998) – Anti-Chinese riots

Israel 
 Acre, Israel (2008) – Sectarian violence erupted on 8 October 2008 turning into 5 days of violence after an Arab Israeli citizen drove through a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood during Yom Kippur.
 Tel Aviv (2012) – Race riots by Jewish Israelis against black African immigrants took place in May 2012 after the rape of an elderly woman, and an under age Israeli girl by South Sudanese men in front of her boyfriend.
 Tel Aviv (2015) – After an Ethiopian-born IDF officer was beaten by an Israeli police officer and police volunteer, protests in Tel Aviv against racism and police brutality turned violent, with injuries among protesters and police.

Malaysia 
 Kuala Lumpur (1969) – May 13 Incident
 2001 Kampung Medan riots

Pakistan 
 Sectarian violence in Pakistan

Palestine (British Mandate) 
 Nebi Musa riots (1920) – Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Jerusalem
 Jaffa riots (1921) – Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Jaffa
 1929 Palestine riots – Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Hebron, Safed, Jerusalem and Jaffa
 1933 Palestine riots – Anti-Jewish riots due to Jewish immigration
 1947 Jerusalem riots – Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Jerusalem

Singapore 
 Singapore (1950) – Maria Hertogh riots
 Singapore (1964) – 1964 race riots in Singapore
 Singapore (1969) – 1969 Race Riots of Singapore
 Singapore (2013) – 2013 Little India Riot

Sri Lanka 

 1958 riots in Ceylon – Anti-Tamil riot
 1977 riots in Sri Lanka – Anti-Tamil riot
 Black July - Anti-Tamil riot
 1915 Sinhalese Muslim riots – Nationwide
 Gal Oya riots – 1956, Ampara District
 Burning of Jaffna library – 1981, Jaffna
 2000 Bundarawela riots – Mawanella
 2006 riots – Trincomalee, Galle

Europe

Belgium 
 Brussels (2006) – 2006 Brussels riots

Bulgaria 
 Sofia (2007) – Romani riots

Denmark 
 St. Croix riot (1873) – St. Croix Agricultural labor rioted against landlords and labor laws.
 Jewish skirmishes (1820–22) – Various Danish and German cities and towns.

France 
 2005 civil unrest in France – mainly Paris far suburbs, but also in other high-immigrant areas.
 Perpignan (2005) – Perpignan Riots between Maghrebi and Romani communities after a man of Maghrebi descent was shot dead.
 Avignon (September 2009) – between Turkish and Moroccan youths (one youth of African descent was dead)
 Ajaccio, Corsica (December 2015) – 2015 Corsican protests between locals and immigrants.

Germany 
Kristallnacht - Anti-Jewish riots
 The Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden have sparked many riots as recently as August 2015.

Italy 
 Milan (2007) – Milan Chinese riot
 Rosarno (2010) – African immigrants riots
 Bari (2011) – African immigrants
 Lampedusa (2011) – African immigrants (mostly Tunisians) riots
 Sassari (2015) – Refugees refuse to reside in provided buildings
 Sesto Fiorentino (2016) – Chinese riots against Arab immigrants and refugees
 Florence (2018) – Senegal community riot the city

Netherlands 
 Utrecht (2007) – Utrecht Riots in Ondiep
 Amsterdam (2007) – Moroccan-Dutch youth sectarian violence
 The Hague (2015) – Immigrants riot after Caribbean man dies resisting arrest

Poland 
 Przytyk pogrom (1936) – anti-Jewish riots in Przytyk, on March 9, 1936
 Kraków pogrom (1945) – anti-Jewish riots that occurred on August 11, 1945, in the city of Kraków
 Kielce pogrom (1946) – an outbreak of violence against the Jewish community of Kielce, Poland on July 4, 1946
 Mława pogrom (1991) – a series of violent incidents in June 1991, when a crowd attacked Roma residents of the Polish town of Mława
 Ełk riots (2017) – During the New Year's Eve, a Polish man was stabbed to death by a Tunisian man - incident sparked the riots.

Russia 
Anti-Jewish pogroms
 Kondopoga (2006) – Anti-immigrant riots in Kondopoga, Karelia, Russia
 Moscow (2010) – Anti-immigrant riots on the Manezhnaya Square, Moscow, Russia
 Moscow (2013) – Anti-immigrant riots in Biryulyovo district of Moscow

Soviet Union 
 Sumgait Massacre (1988) – anti-Armenian riots in Azerbaijan SSR during February 1988
 Uzbek SSR (1989) – After bloody riots against the Meskhetian Turks in Central Asia's Fergana Valley, nearly 90,000 Meskhetian Turks left Uzbekistan
 Dushanbe riots (1990) – anti-Armenian unrest in Dushanbe, the capital of the Tajik SSR, from February 12–14, 1990.
 Osh riots (1990) – an ethnic conflict between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks that took place in June 1990 in the Kyrgyz SSR

Spain 
 Almería (Poniente Almeriense) (2000) – Spain's race riots
 Madrid (2007) – Madrid Riots
 Roquetas de Mar, Almeria (2008) – Riot between Senegalese and Roma (Gypsy) families
 Salou (2015) – African Riot

Turkey 
 Eastern Thrace – (1934 Thrace pogroms), anti-Jewish pogrom.
 Istanbul (1955) – Istanbul Riots, also known as Istanbul Pogrom.

Ukraine
Odessa pogrom (1821) - Anti-Jeiwsh riot
Kiev pogrom (1881) - Anti-Jeiwsh riot
Odessa pogrom (1905) - Anti-Jeiwsh riot
Chernihiv pogrom (1905) - Anti-Jeiwsh riot
Kiev pogrom (1905) - Anti-Jeiwsh riot
Lwów pogrom (1914) - Anti-Jeiwsh riot
Lwów pogrom (1918) - Anti-Jewish riot
Kiev pogroms (1919)  - Anti-Jeiwsh riots
Lviv pogroms (1941) - Anti-Jewish riot

United Kingdom 
 South Shields (February 1919) – South Shields
 Cardiff (June 1919) – Cardiff riots 1919
 Liverpool (June 1919) – Liverpool riot 1919
 London (April 1919) – Stepney
 London (May 1919) – St Anne Street
 London (June 1919) – Cable Street
 London (June 1919) – Poplar
 Birkenhead (1947) – Anti-Jewish riots 
 Liverpool (August 1948) – Liverpool riot 1948
 Nottingham (August 1958) – Nottingham riot 1958
 London (1958) – 1958 Notting Hill race riots
 Leeds (1975) – 1975 Chapeltown riot
 London (1976) – 1976 Notting Hill race riots
 London (23 April 1979) – Southall race riot
 Bristol (1980) – 1980 St. Pauls riot
 London (April 1981) – 1981 Brixton riot
 Liverpool (July 1981) – 1981 Toxteth riots
 Birmingham (July 1981, 1985) – 1985 Handsworth riots
 Leeds (1981) – 1981 Chapeltown Caribbean riot
 Manchester (1981) – Moss Side
 London (1985) – Peckham riot
 London (September 1985) – 1985 Brixton riot
 London (October 1985) – Broadwater Farm riot
 Leeds (1987) – 1987 Chapeltown riot
 Dewsbury (1989) – 1989 Dewsbury riot
 North Shields (1991) – Benwell and The Meadow Well riots
 Oldham (May 2001) – 2001 Oldham riots
 Burnley (June 2001) – Burnley Riots
 Bradford (July 2001) – 2001 Bradford riots
 Stoke-on-Trent (July 2001)
 Birmingham (2005) – 2005 Birmingham riots
 Windsor (2006) – 2006 Windsor ethnic violence
 London (2011) – 2011 London riots

Oceania

Australia 
 Buckland Valley (1857) – Buckland Riot
 Burrangong (1860–1861) – Lambing Flat riots
 Broome (1905,1914,1920) – Broome riots
 Anti-Greek riots in Perth in 1915 and in Kalgoorlie in 1916
 Redfern (2004) – Redfern riots
 Palm Island (2004) – Palm Island death in custody riot
 Sydney (2005) – 2005 Cronulla riots

New Zealand 
 Wellington (1943) – Battle of Manners Street was a conflict involving American servicemen versus New Zealand servicemen and civilians outside the Allied Services Club in Manners Street.

Solomon Islands 
 Honiara (2006) – Anti-Chinese riots

Tonga 
 Nukuʻalofa (2006) – Anti-Chinese riots

See also

 Anti-Armenianism
 Anti-Semitism
 Ethnic cleansing
 Genocide
 Hep-Hep riots
 Indophobia
 List of riots
 Pogrom
 Sinophobia
 Violence
 Xenophobia in South Africa

References

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