Peasants are an exploited class who work in agriculture, they do not control the land they work on.
List of Peasant Rebellions
Pre-1300s
- 209BCE: Anti-Qin revolts
- 205BCE: Great revolt of the Egyptians
- 17: Lülin
- 17: Red Eyebrows
- 172: Bucolic War
- 184: Yellow Turban Rebellion
- 185: Heishan bandit movement
- 200s: Bagaudae
- 300s: Circumcellions
- 611: Anti-Sui rebellions
- 841: Stellinga Uprising
- 859: Rebellion of Ch'iu Fu
- 874: Rebellion of Wang Xianzhi
- 875: Rebellion of Huang Chao
- 928: Basil the Copper Hand Rebellions
- 993: Da Shu rebellion in Sichuan
- 996: Peasants' revolt in Normandy
- 1277: Uprising of Ivaylo
1300s
- 1323: Peasant revolt in Flanders
- 1343: St. George's Night Uprising
- 1351: Red Turban Rebellion
- 1358: Jacquerie
- 1381: The Great Rising
- 1382: Harelle
1400s
- 1401: Samogitian uprisings
- 1428: Shocho uprising
- 1437: Transylvanian peasant revolt
- 1438: Hallvard Graatops Revolt
- 1441: Kakitsu uprising
- 1441: Funen and Jutland Peasant rebellions
- 1450: Jack Cade Revolt
- 1450: John and William Merfold's Uprising
- 1453: Morea revolt
- 1462: War of the Remences
- 1478: Carinthian Peasant Revolt
- 1482: Yamashiro-ikki uprisings
- 1487: Kaga Rebellion
- 1488: Ikkō-ikki Uprisings
- 1498: Opryshky movement
1500s
- 1511: Friulian Revolt
- 1514: Poor Conrad Rebellion
- 1514: György Dózsa Rebellion
- 1515: Slovene Peasant Revolt
- 1515: Frisian peasant rebellion
- 1516: Trần Cảo Rebellion
- 1524: German Peasants' War
- 1524: Dalecarlian Rebellions
- 1525: Palatine Peasants' War
- 1534: Skipper Clement's Rebellion
- 1540: Peasant's Rebellion in Telemark
- 1542: Dacke War
- 1549: Kett's Rebellion
- 1573: Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt
- 1596: Cudgel War
1600s
- 1606: Bolotnikov Rebellion
- 1626: Peasants' War in Upper Austria
- 1630: Rebellion of Li Zicheng
- 1630: Rebellion of Zhang Xianzhong
- 1637: Shimabara Rebellion
- 1651: Kostka-Napierski Uprising
- 1652: Guo Huaiyi Rebellion
- 1653: Swiss Peasants War
- 1667: Stepan Razin Rebellion
- 1669: Peasant Rebellion in Podhale
1700s
- 1704: Kuridža's Rebellion
- 1705: Bavarian's People Uprising
- 1707: Bulavin Rebellion
- 1730: Lê Peasant Revolts
- 1768: Koliyivschyna
- 1769: Tây Sơn Revolt
- 1773: Pugachev's Rebellion
- 1784: Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișa
- 1786: Shay's Rebellion
- 1789: French Revolution
- 1790: Saxon Peasant's Revolt
- 1794: Kościuszko Uprising
- 1794: White Lotus Rebellion
- 1798: Dutch Peasants' War
1800s
- 1809: Tyrolean Rebellion
- 1809: Gottscheer Rebellion
- 1834: Syrian Peasant Revolt
- 1846: Galician Peasant Revolt
- 1850: Taiping Revolution
- 1858: Mahtra War
- 1862: Joseon Peasant Uprising
- 1884: Chichibu Uprising
- 1894: Donghak Peasants Revolt
- 1896: War of Canudos
1900s
- 1905: Maji Maji Rebellion
- 1907: Romanian Peasant Revolt
- 1911: Henan Peasant Rebellion
- 1913: Northern Shaanxi Peasant Revolt
- 1916: Semirechye Revolt
- 1917: Russian Revolution
- 1918: Arsk Uprising
- 1918: Ukrainian Revolution
- 1920: Pitchfork Uprising
- 1920: Tambov Rebellion
- 1921: Sorokino Peasants' Revolt
- 1921: Malabar Rebellion
- 1924: Revolt of Mang-The-Sixth
- 1925: Revolt of Chu Heng-teng
- 1927: Autumn Harvest Uprising
- 1928: Red Spears Uprising
- 1932: Salvadoran Peasant Uprising
- 1932: Lesko Uprising
- 1932: Anti-Poppy Tax Uprising
- 1936: Miyun District Rebellion
- 1944: Beichuan District Rebellion
- 1946: Tebhaga Movement
- 1946: Telengala Movement
- 1947: Hukbalahap Rebellion
- 1950: Cazin Rebellion
- 1952: Mau Mau Uprising
- 1959: Escambray Rebellion
- 1968: Agbekoya Parapo Uprising
- 1973: Thailand Peasants' Uprising
- 1975: Tigray and Eritrea Uprisings
- 1994: Zapatista Revolution