Popular Revolt in Late-medieval Europe - Notable Rural Revolts

Notable Rural Revolts

• The Ivaylo rebellion in Bulgaria 1277-1280. In the wake of some disastrous Mongol incursions into the Bulgarian Empire, the swineherd Ivaylo led a popular revolt against the Bulgarian tsar Constantine I who was proving inadequate when it came to dealing with the threat. He gained notable popularity among his fellow peasants and managed to overthrow the tsar (reportedly killing him personally), ascending to the throne in 1278. For a certain period of time, he was successful against the Mongols and managed to decisively defeat a larger Byzantine army in the battle of Devina. His success was short-lived however and eventually he lost support.
• The Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323-1328. Beginning as a series of scattered rural riots in late 1323, peasant insurrection escalated into a full-scale rebellion that dominated public affairs in Flanders for nearly five years.
• The St. George's Night Uprising of 1343-1345 in Estonia.
• The Jacquerie was a peasant revolt that took place in northern France in 1356-1358, during the Hundred Years' War.
• The English peasants' revolt of 1381 or Great Rising of 1381 is a major event in the history of England. It is the best documented and best known of all the revolts of this period.
• The revolt against the regency of Elizabeth of Bosnia as Queen of Hungary from 1382 onwards.
• The Irmandiño Revolts in Galicia in 1431 and 1467.
• The Budai Nagy Antal Revolt broke out in Transylvania in 1437. The military tactics of the rebels were inspired by the Hussites wars (for example, the use of battle wagons).
• The Kent rebellion of 1450 led by Jack Cade.
• The Rebellion of the Remences in Catalonia in 1462 and 1485.
• The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 in Cornwall and London.
• The 1514 peasant's war led by György Dózsa in the Kingdom of Hungary.
• The Slovenian peasant revolt of 1515 was a peasant revolt which engulfed most of what is now Slovenia.
• The Jelali Revolts in the Ottoman Empire.
• The Knight's Revolt of 1522-1523 in Germany.
• The German Peasants' War of 1524-1526 in the Holy Roman Empire.
• Opryshky, a counter-serfdom movement in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth first mentioned in 1529.
• The Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 in England.
• The Dacke Feud of 1542 in Sweden.
• The Wyatt's rebellion of 1554 in England.
• The Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549 in Cornwall and Devon.
• The Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt of 1573 was a large peasant revolt in Croatia.
• The Club War uprising 1596 in Finland.
• The peasant wars of Ivan Bolotnikov and Stenka Razin in the 17th-century Russia.
• The Swiss peasant war of 1653.