Rebellion
A rebellion is an armed resistance to an established government. Those who participate in rebellions are rebels.
Other words for a rebellion include: revolt, uprising, insurrection, and insurgency. Some of these words, especially rebellion and revolt, often have a pejorative connotation while uprising or insurrection are preferred by rebels (insurgents, freedom fighters) themselves. Compare: mutiny, revolution.
For example, the Boxer rebellion was an uprising against Western commercial and political influence in China during the final years of the 19th century.
Famous rebellions / uprisings in history
- 73-71 B.C: The Roman Slave rebellion
- 66-70 (A.D): Great Jewish Revolt
- 1378: Revolt of the Ciompi in Florence
- 1381: Peasants' Revolt in England
- 1637-1638: Shimabara Rebellion
- 1642-1649: The English civil wars, also known as the Great Rebellion
- 1676: Bacon's Rebellion
- 1715: Third Jacobite Rebellion
- 1745: Fifth Jacobite Rebellion
- 1763-1766: Pontiac's Rebellion
- 1775-1783: American Revolutionary War
- 1786: Shays' Rebellion
- 1794: Whiskey Rebellion
- 1798: Irish Rebellion of 1798
- 1804-1807: First Serbian Uprising
- 1815: Second Serbian Uprising
- 1837: Rebellions of 1837 in Canada
- 1848: Fenian rebellion (also known as the Young Irelanders' Rebellion of 1848)
- 1851-1864: The Taiping rebellion
- 1853-1868: Nien rebellion
- 1857-1858: Sepoy Rebellion
- 1899-1913: Moro Rebellion
- 1900: Boxer rebellion
- 1916: Easter Rebellion
- 1919-1921: Tambov rebellion
- 1921: Kronstadt rebellion
- 1932: Mäntsälä rebellion
- 1968: May 1968 revolt in France
- 1994-Present: Zapatista Rebellion
Famous rebels
- Bohdan Chmielnicki
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Che Guevara
- Helgi Hóseasson
- John O'Mahoney
- Subcomandante Marcos
- Francis Meagher
- John Mitchel
- William Smith O'Brien
- Eric Raymond
- Spartacus
- Leon Trotsky
- William Wordsworth
See also
- American Slave rebellions (Nat Turner's rebellion, Stono Rebellion, et cetera)
- Polish uprisings
- The Open Source Movement has been called a "rebellion" against closed source software and intellectual capitalism.