List of Boycotts - Past Boycotts

Past Boycotts

Time frame	Participants	Target	Cause	Main article
617	Quraysh tribe	Banu Hashim tribe	Hashemite protection of Muhammad	Meccan boycott of the Hashemites
March 1769	Philadelphia merchants First Continental Congress	Kingdom of Great Britain	Opposition to colonial taxation without representation	Continental Association
1848	Milan	Austrian Empire	Austrian state monopolies	Five Days of Milan
1880	Irish Land League	Charles Boycott	Desired land reform in Ireland
1882	China	United States	The Chinese Exclusion Act and similar developments in 1905 and 1906
1891	Iranian Shia	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	The Shah's granting of a tobacco monopoly to Britain	Tobacco Protest
1919	Republic of China	Empire of Japan	May Fourth Movement	Chinese boycotts of Japanese products
March 1933	American Jewish Congress International critics of Nazism	Nazi Germany	Antisemitism in Nazi Germany	Anti-Nazi boycott of 1933
April 1933	Nazi Germany	German Jews	Anti-Nazi boycotts	Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses
1941–1951	Kingdom of Iraq	Iraqi Jews	Farhud
	Mohandas Gandhi Indian independence movement	British Raj	Desired economic independence for India	Swadeshi movement
1955–1968	African Americans	Various	Racial segregation in the United States	U.S. civil rights movement Montgomery Bus Boycott
1961–1983	West Berlin	Berlin S-Bahn	East German operation of the S-Bahn	Berlin S-Bahn#Cold War
	United Farm Workers	Grapes and lettuce in retail grocery stores	Labor disputes
1960s–1990	Various academics	South Africa universities	Apartheid	Academic boycott of South Africa
	Various	South African produce	Apartheid
1973–1995	LGBT groups	Coors Brewing Company	Anti-gay hiring practices
1990s–2000	Andrew Vachss	Thailand	Prostitution of children in Thailand	Don't! Buy! Thai!
1998-2003	American gun owners	Colt Smith & Wesson	Colt and Smith & Wesson's cooperation with Bill Clinton's gun control efforts
2001-2002	Greenpeace Friends of the Earth People & Planet	Esso/ExxonMobil	Esso's climate change denial and lack of investment in renewable energy	Stop Esso campaign
2003	US conservatives	Various celebrities	Celebrity opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq	FireHollywood
2005	Association of University Teachers	Bar-Ilan University University of Haifa	Bar-Ilan's operations in the West Bank Haifa's discipline of a lecturer	Association of University Teachers#Boycott of Israeli universities 2005
1 May 2006	Illegal immigrants in the United States	US businesses and schools	US immigration policy	Great American Boycott
2008	German labor unions	Nokia	Nokia's closing of a German plant
2008	Stonewall	Heinz	Heinz's pulling of a commercial featuring two men kissing
2009	Various countries	Durban Review Conference	Scope of the conference	Durban Review Conference#Boycotts
2010	Various	BP	Deepwater Horizon oil spill	Reactions to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill#Public reaction
5 November 2011	Various	Commercial banks	Debit card fees	Bank Transfer Day