Over 14,000 Australian gold miners gathered at Forest Creek in Victoria for a protest known as the Monster Meeting.
22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard
22nd November 2017
Over 500,000 protesters marched on Washington D.C. as part of the national Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.
On the 16th August 1819, the Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter’s Field in Manchester when a group of over 60,000 protesters were charged by cavalry.
Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death at a busy crossroads in Saigon.
Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four Kent State University students.
The closure of Palmer’s Shipyard was a devastating blow to the people of Jarrow, where unemployment had hit 70%.
On the evening of the 3rd June 1989, the People’s Liberation Army began firing on protesters taking part in the student-led Tiananmen Square protests.
On the 12th March 1930, Mohandas Gandhi began the Salt March – a 240 mile (390 km) journey to the coastal village of Dandi.
23rd January 1556: Most destructive earthquake on record in Shaanxi
23rd January 2019
22nd January 1808: Portuguese royal court relocates to Brazil
22nd January 2019
21st January 1793: Louis XVI executed for high treason
21st January 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017