Eighteenth Century
- 1713 - Boston Bread Riot, (Boston, British America)
- 1736 - Porteous Riots, (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- 1742 - Philadelphia Election Riot, (Philadelphia, British America)
- 1743 - London Gin Riots, (London, England)
- 1766 - Esquilache Riots (Madrid, Spain)
- 1769 - Spitalfield Riots (Spitalfields (London), England)
- 1770 - Boston Massacre (Boston, British America)
- 1771 - Plague Riot (Moscow, Russia)
- 1772 - Pine Tree Riot (Weare, New Hampshire, British America)
- 1773 - Boston Tea Party, Boston, British America. Involved destruction of property.
- 1780 - Gordon Riots, (London, England)
- 1789 - Reveillon Riot, (Paris, France)
- 1791 - Priestley Riots, (Birmingham, England)
- 1794 - Whiskey Rebellion, (Western Pennsylvania, United States)
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—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)
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