List of Revolutions and Rebellions - 1910s

1910s

  • 1910–1920: The Mexican Revolution overthrows the dictator Porfirio Díaz; seizure of power by Institutional Revolutionary Party.
  • 1910: The republican revolution in Portugal.
  • 1910–1911: The Sokehs Rebellion erupts in German-ruled Micronesia. Its primary leader, Somatau, is executed soon after being captured.
  • 1911: The Xinhai Revolution overthrows the ruling Qing Dynasty and establishment of the Republic of China.
  • 1913: The Second Revolution against President Yuan Shikai of China.
  • 1914: The Ten Days War was a shooting war involving irregular forces of coal miners using dynamite and rifles on one side, opposed to the Colorado National Guard, Baldwin Felts detectives, and mine guards deploying machine guns, cannon and aircraft on the other, occurring in the aftermath of the Ludlow Massacre. The Ten Days War ended when federal troops intervened.
  • 1914: The Boer Revolt against the British in South Africa.
  • 1914: The Revolt of Peasants of Central Albania overthrows Prince William of Wied.
  • 1915: The Armenian Revolt in city of Van against the Ottomans in Turkey.
  • 1915–1916: The National Protection War against the Empire of China headed by Emperor Yuan Shikai. The Republic of China was restored.
  • 1916: The Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland during which the Irish Republic was proclaimed.
  • 1916: An anti-French uprising in Algeria.
  • 1916: The Central Asian Revolt started when the Russian Empire government ended its exemption of Muslims from military service.
  • 1916–1917: The Tuareg rebellion against French colonial rule of the area around the Aïr Mountains of northern Niger.
  • 1916–1918: The Arab Revolt with the aim of securing independence from the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1916–1923: The Irish War of Independence, the period of nationalist rebellion, guerrilla warfare, political change and civil war which brought about the establishment of the independent nation, the Irish Free State.
  • 1916–1947: The Indian people's struggle against the British for Indian Independence.
  • 1917: The French Army Mutinies.
  • 1917: The February Revolution in Russia overthrows Tsar Nicholas II.
  • 1917: The Green Corn Rebellion takes place in rural Oklahoma.
  • 1917: The October Revolution in Russia: Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia and the establishment of the Soviet Union, sparking the Russian Civil War.
  • 1917–1921: The Ukrainian Revolution.
  • 1918: The Finnish Civil War.
  • 1918: The Christmas Uprising in Montenegro: Montenegrins (Zelenaši) rebelled against unification of Kingdom of Montenegro with Kingdom of Serbia.
  • 1918: The Wilhelmshaven mutiny.
  • 1918: The German Revolution overthrows the Kaiser; establishment of the Weimar Republic.
  • 1918–1919: A wave of strikes and student unrest shakes Peru. These events influence two of the dominant figures of Peruvian politics in the 20th century: Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre and José Carlos Mariátegui.
  • 1918–1919: The Greater Poland Uprising, Polish uprising against German authorities.
  • 1918–1920: The Georgian-Ossetian conflict, the southern Ossetians revolted against Georgian rule.
  • 1918–1922: The Third Russian Revolution, a failed anarchist revolution against Bolshevism.
  • 1918–1931: The Basmachi Revolt against Soviet Russia rule in Central Asia.
  • 1919–1920: Iraqi revolt against the British and British-Indian troops, attempting to create a Muslim regime or the restoration of Ottoman rule.
  • 1919–1921: The Tambov Rebellion, one of the largest peasant rebellions against the Bolshevik regime during the Russian Civil War.
  • 1919–1921: The Silesian Uprisings of the ethnic Poles against Weimar rule.
  • 1919–1922: The Turkish War of Independence commanded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
  • 1919: The German Revolution of 1918–1919.
  • 1919: Simko Shikak revolt in Persia.
  • 1919: A revolution in Hungary, resulting in the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic.
  • 1919: 1919 Egyptian revolution.

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