This is a list of ethnic riots, sectarian riots, and race riots, by country.
War and inter-war period: 1914–1945
1917: East St. Louis Riot
1917: Chester, Pennsylvania
1917: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1917: Houston Riot
Red Summer of 1919
*1919: Washington, D.C.
*1919: Chicago Race Riot of 1919
*1919: Omaha Race Riot of 1919
*1919: Charleston, South Carolina
*1919: Longview, Texas
*1919: Knoxville Riot of 1919
*1919: Elaine Race Riot
1920: Ocoee Massacre
1921: Tulsa race riot (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
1921: Springfield, Ohio Race Riot
1923: Rosewood massacre (Rosewood, Florida)
1927: Yakima Valley Anti-Filipino Riot
1928: Wenatchee Valley Anti-Filipino Riot
1929: Exeter Anti-Filipino Riot
1930: Watsonville Riots, Anti-Filipino riot which inspired race riots in San Francisco, Salinas and San Jose and attacks elsewhere.
1935: Harlem Riot of 1935
1943: Detroit Race Riot
1943: Beaumont Race Riot of 1943
1943: Harlem Riot of 1943
1943: Zoot Suit Riots
1946: Columbia, Tennessee Riot
1949: Peekskill Riots
1951: Cicero Race Riot in Illinois
Civil Rights and Black Power Movement's Period: 1955–1977
1958: Battle of Hayes Pond (Maxton, North Carolina)
1962: Ole Miss riot, Oxford, Mississippi
1963: Birmingham Riot of 1963, Birmingham, Alabama
1963: Cambridge riot of 1963 (Cambridge, Maryland)
1963: Lexington Riot, Lexington, North Carolina
1964: Harlem Riot of 1964 (Harlem neighborhood, Manhattan, New York City)
1964: Rochester riot (Rochester, New York)
1964: Philadelphia 1964 race riot (North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
1965: Watts Riots (Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles, California)
1966: Division Street Riots (Humboldt Park neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois)
1966: Hough Riots (Hough community, Cleveland, Ohio)
1966: North Omaha, Nebraska (North Omaha community, Omaha, Nebraska)
Long Hot Summer of 1967
1967: Roxbury riots, (Boston, Massachusetts)
1967: Tampa riots, (Tampa, Florida)
1967: Texas Southern University Riot (Houston, Texas)
1967: 1967 Detroit riot (Detroit, Michigan)
1967: Buffalo riot (Buffalo, New York)
1967: Milwaukee Riot (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
1967: Minneapolis North Side Riots (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
1967: 1967 Newark riots (Newark, New Jersey)
1967: Plainfield riots (Plainfield, New Jersey)
1967: Cincinnati riots (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Protests of 1968
1968: Orangeburg massacre (Orangeburg, South Carolina)
1968: King assassination riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1968: Baltimore riot of 1968 (Baltimore, Maryland)
1968: Chicago West Side riots (Chicago, Illinois)
1968: Louisville riots of 1968 (Louisville, Kentucky)
1968: 1968 Washington, D.C. riots (Washington, D.C.)
1968: 1968 Wilmington riots (Wilmington, Delaware)
1968: Glenville shootout and riot (Cleveland, Ohio)
1969: 1969 York Race Riot (York, Pennsylvania)
1970: May 11 Race Riot (Augusta, Georgia)
1970: Jackson State killings (Jackson, Mississippi)
1971: Camden riots (Camden, New Jersey)
1972-1977: Escambia High School riots (Pensacola, Florida)
1975: Chaffey High School Race Riot enhanced by local sniper (Ontario, California)
1978: Houston's Moody Park on the first anniversary of Joe Campos Torres death.
1979: Great Brook Valley Projects Riots Worcester, Massachusetts, Puerto Ricans rioted
1980: Miami Riots (Miami, Florida): Reactions following the acquittal of four Miami-Dade Police officers in the death of Arthur McDuffie.
1980: Chattanooga Riot (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
1984: Lawrence, Massachusetts Race Riot: A small scale riot centered at the intersection of Haverhill and railroad streets between working class whites and Hispanics; several buildings were destroyed by Molotov cocktails; August 8, 1984.
1989: Overtown Riot (Miami, FL) In a reaction to the shooting of a black motorcyclist by a Hispanic police officer in the predominantly black community of Overtown in Miami, residents rioted for two nights. The officer was later found guilty of manslaughter.
1990: Wynwood Riot (Miami, FL) Puerto Ricans rioted after a jury decided not to convict six officers accused of beating a Puerto Rican drug dealer to death
1991: Crown Heights riot (Crown Heights neighborhood, Brooklyn, New York City), black anti-Jewish mob killed 2, injured 190.
1992: Los Angeles Riots (Los Angeles, California): In a reaction to the acquittal of all four LAPD officers involved in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, in addition to the Korean involved in the murder of Latasha Harlins; riots broke out mainly involving black and Latino youths in the black neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles and Korean-American neighborhood of Koreatown before spreading to the rest of the city including Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, Central Los Angeles, South Bay and the Westside, as well as neighboring cities including Compton, Long Beach, Inglewood, Lynwood, Huntington Park, Carson, Lawndale, Pasadena and Gardena, with minor situations in East Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley regions, but overall rioting was mainly to get out the frustrations of the racial groups over the racial tensions that were building in the South Central neighborhoods for years. The riots have also influenced similar situations in San Bernardino, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, Chicago and Toronto.
1996: St. Petersburg Riots (St. Petersburg, Florida): After Officer Jim Knight stopped 18 yr. old Tyron Lewis for speeding, his car lurched forward and Knight fired his weapon, fatally wounding the black teenager. Riots broke out and lasted for about 2 days.
2001: Cincinnati riots (Cincinnati, Ohio): In a reaction to the fatal shooting of an unarmed young black male, Timothy Thomas by Cincinnati police officer Steven Roach, during a foot pursuit, riots broke out over the span of a few days.
2003: Benton Harbor riots (Benton Harbor, Michigan)
2005: 2005 Toledo Riot (Toledo, Ohio): A race riot that broke out after a planned Neo-Nazi protest march through a black neighborhood.
2006: Fontana High School riot (Fontana, California): Riot involving about 500 Latino and black students
2006: Prison Race Riots (California): A war between Latino and black prison gangs set off a series of riots across California
2008: Locke High School riot (Los Angeles, California)
2009: 2009 Oakland Riots (Oakland, California): Peaceful protests turned into rioting after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, Oscar Grant, by a BART transit policeman.
2014-2015: The Ferguson unrest, a series of riots break out in Ferguson, Missouri over the shooting of Michael Brown.
August 2014: riots for two weeks after the initial shooting of Michael Brown.
Late November and early December 2014: riots for one week after the police officer who shot Michael Brown was not indicted.
August 2015: riots for two days during the anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown.
2015: The Death of Freddie Gray was an incident in which a suspect died in police custody and later protests turned into riots in Baltimore.
2016: The Shooting of Abdullahi Omar Mohamed sparked riots on the night of the shooting.
Noakhali riot
1950 Barisal Riots
1964 East-Pakistan riots
Bangladesh (1990) - 1990 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence
Hathazari (2012) - 2012 Hathazari violence
Ramu (2012) - 2012 Ramu violence
Bangladesh (2013) - 2013 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence
Bangladesh - 2014 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence
Burma (1930) - Anti-Indian riots
Mandalay (1997) - Anti-Muslim Riots
Taungoo (2001) - Anti-Muslim Riots
Nanjing anti-African protests (1988) - Nanjing
Ghulja Incident, Xinjiang, China (1997)
2008 Tibetan unrest (2008) - Tibet, China
2008 Uyghur unrest
June 2009 Shaoguan incident - Guangdong, China
July 2009 Ürümqi riots - Xinjiang, China
Indonesia (1965) - Anti-Chinese riots
Jakarta, Surakarta (1998) - Anti-Chinese riots
Acre, Israel (2008) - Sectarian violence erupted on 8 October 2008 turning into 5 days of violence after an Arab Israeli citizen drove through a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood during Yom Kippur.
Tel Aviv (2012) - Race riots by Jewish Israelis against black African immigrants took place in May 2012 after the rape of an elderly woman, and an under age Israeli girl by South Sudanese men in front of her boyfriend.
Tel Aviv (2015) - After an Ethiopian-born IDF officer was beaten by an Israeli police officer and police volunteer, protests in Tel Aviv against racism and police brutality turned violent, with injuries among protesters and police.
Kuala Lumpur (1969) - May 13 Incident
2001 Kampung Medan riots
Bersih Riot 3.0 (2013)
Sectarian violence in Pakistan
Palestine (British Mandate)
Nebi Musa riots (1920) - Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Jerusalem
Jaffa riots (1921) - Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Jaffa
1929 Palestine riots - Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Hebron, Safed, Jerusalem and Jaffa
1933 Palestine riots - Anti-Jewish riots due to Jewish immigration
1947 Jerusalem riots - Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Jerusalem
Singapore (1950) - Maria Hertogh riots
Singapore (1964) - 1964 race riots in Singapore
Singapore (1969) - 1969 Race Riots of Singapore
Singapore (2013) - 2013 Little India Riot
1915 Sinhalese Muslim riots - Nationwide
Gal Oya riots - 1956, Ampara District
1958 riots in Ceylon - Nationwide
1977 riots in Sri Lanka - Nationwide
Burning of Jaffna library - 1981, Jaffna
Black July - 1983, nationwide
2000 Bundarawela riots — Mawanella
2006 riots — Trincomalee, Galle
Sumgait pogrom (1988), anti-Armenian pogrom
Kirovabad pogrom (1988), anti-Armenian pogrom
Baku pogrom (1990), anti-Armenian pogrom
Brussels (2006) - 2006 Brussels riots
Sofia (2007) - Romani riots
St. Croix riot (1873) - St. Croix Agricultural labor rioted against landlords and labor laws.
Jewish skirmishes (1820–22) - Various Danish and German cities and towns.
2005 civil unrest in France – mainly Paris far suburbs, but also in other high-immigrant areas.
Perpignan (2005) – Perpignan Riots between Maghrebi and Romani communities after a man of Maghrebi descent was shot dead.
Avignon (September 2009) – between Turkish and Moroccan youths (one youth of African descent was dead)
Ajaccio, Corsica (December 2015) - 2015 Corsican protests between locals and immigrants.
The Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden have sparked many riots as recently as August 2015.
Milan (2007) - Milan Chinese riot
Rosarno (2010) - African immigrants riots
Bari (2011) - African immigrants
Lampedusa (2011) - African immigrants (mostly Tunisians) riots
Sassari (2015) - Refugees refuse to reside in provided buildings
Sesto Fiorentino (2016) - Chinese riots againsts arab immigrants and refugees
Netherlands
Utrecht (2007) - Utrecht Riots
Amsterdam (2007) - Moroccan-Dutch youth sectarian violence
The Hague (2015) - Immigrants riot after Caribbean man dies resisting arrest
Poland
Przytyk pogrom (1936) - anti-Jewish riots in Przytyk, on March 9, 1936
Kraków pogrom (1945) - anti-Jewish riots that occurred on August 11, 1945, in the city of Kraków
Kielce pogrom (1946) - an outbreak of violence against the Jewish community of Kielce, Poland on July 4, 1946
Mława pogrom (1991) - a series of violent incidents in June 1991, when a crowd attacked Roma residents of the Polish town of Mława
During the New Year's Eve (31.12.2016) a Polish man was stabbed to death by a Tunisian man during the brawl with said Tunisian, two Algerians and a Moroccan who all have worked at the local Kebab restaurants in the city of Ełk. Following this event violent anti-foreigner, anti-immigrant, anti-arab and anti-muslim riots erupted in the city. Protesters clashed with the police, and also with the military police who has to intervene due to escalation of the conflict, and the kebab restaurant near which the murder took place has been demolished. Following riots several foreigner-owned kebab shops in other cities were vandalized and the number of attacks on darkskinned foreigners in Poland increased. There had been an attempt to set fire to the apartment of the Algerian suspect and the property of the girlfriend of the Tunisian suspect had been devastated. In aftermatch of the riots polish police began countrywide patrols, supervision and monitoring of restaurants, shops and catering services, especially kebab serving ones, run by foreigners for fear of revenge attacks and possible retaliatory lynching of foreigners.
Anti-Jewish pogroms
Kondopoga (2006) - Anti-immigrant riots in Kondopoga, Karelia, Russia
Moscow (2010) - Anti-immigrant riots on the Manezhnaya Square, Moscow, Russia
Moscow (2013) - Anti-immigrant riots in Biryulyovo district of Moscow
Sumgait Massacre (1988) - anti-Armenian riots in Azerbaijan SSR during February 1988
Uzbek SSR (1989) - After bloody riots against the Meskhetian Turks in Central Asia's Fergana Valley, nearly 90,000 Meskhetian Turks left Uzbekistan
Dushanbe riots (1990) - anti-Armenian unrest in Dushanbe, the capital of the Tajik SSR, from February 12–14, 1990.
Osh riots (1990) - an ethnic conflict between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks that took place in June 1990 in the Kyrgyz SSR
Almería (Poniente Almeriense) (2000) - Spain's race riots
Madrid (2007) - Madrid Riots
Roquetas de Mar, Almeria (2008) - Riot between Senegalese and Roma (Gypsy) families
Salou (2015) - African Riot
Eastern Thrace - 1934 Thrace pogroms, anti-Jewish pogrom.
Istanbul (1955) - Istanbul Riots, also known as Istanbul Pogrom.
South Shields (February 1919) - South Shields
Cardiff (June 1919) - Cardiff riots 1919
Liverpool (June 1919) - Liverpool riot 1919
London (April 1919) - Stepney
London (May 1919) - St Anne Street
London (June 1919) - Cable Street
London (June 1919) - Poplar
Birkenhead (1947) - Anti-Jewish riots
Liverpool (August 1948) - Liverpool riot 1948
Nottingham (August 1958) - Nottingham riot 1958
London (1958) - 1958 Notting Hill race riots
Leeds (1975) - 1975 Chapeltown riot
London (1976) - Notting Hill
London (23 April 1979) - Southall race riot
Bristol (1980) - 1980 St. Pauls riot
London (April 1981) - 1981 Brixton riot
Liverpool (July 1981) - 1981 Toxteth riots
Birmingham (July 1981, 1985) - 1985 Handsworth riots
Leeds (1981) - 1981 Chapeltown Caribbean riot
Manchester (1981) - Moss Side
London (1985) - Peckham riot
London (September 1985) - 1985 Brixton riot
London (October 1985) - Broadwater Farm riot
Leeds (1987) - 1987 Chapeltown riot
Dewsbury (1989) - 1989 Dewsbury riot
North Shields (1991) - Benwell and The Meadow Well riots
Oldham (May 2001) - 2001 Oldham riots
Burnley (June 2001) - Burnley Riots
Bradford (July 2001) - 2001 Bradford riots
Stoke-on-Trent (July 2001)
Birmingham (2005) - 2005 Birmingham riots
Windsor (2006) - 2006 Windsor ethnic violence
London (2011) - 2011 London riots
Buckland Valley (1857) - Buckland Riot
Burrangong (1860–1861) - Lambing Flat riots
Broome (1905,1914,1920) - Broome riots
Anti-Greek riots in Perth in 1915 and in Kalgoorlie in 1916
Redfern (2004) - Redfern riots
Palm Island (2004) - Palm Island death in custody riot
Sydney (2005) - 2005 Cronulla riots
New Zealand
Wellington (1943) - Battle of Manners Street was a conflict involving American servicemen versus New Zealand servicemen and civilians outside the Allied Services Club in Manners Street.
Solomon Islands
Honiara (2006) - Anti-Chinese riots
Nukuʻalofa (2006) - Anti-Chinese riots
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