1340: Fishmongers riot with Skinners after a Skinner murders a Fishmonger's servant, Ralph Turk.[4]
A dispute arose between certain of the craft of the goldsmiths and certain of the craft of the tailors
The Justiciar...took proceedings against them in the King's behalf, saying that they, against the peace and their fealty to his lordship the King, had gone armed in the City, and had at night wickedly and feloniously wounded some persons, and had slain others, whose bodies, it was said, had been thrown into the Thames.
Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London
1391: Riots break out in Salisbury Place over a baker's loaf[2]
1517: Evil May Day riot against foreigners takes place
1668: Bawdy House Riots took place following repression of a series of attacks against brothels[5]
1719: Spitalfieldsweavers rioted, attacking women wearing Indian clothing and then attempting to rescue their arrested comrades[6]
1743: Riots against Gin Taxes and other legislation to control the Gin Craze, principally the Gin Act 1736; rioting was fuelled by consumption of the drink itself[7]
1830: Attacks against the Duke of Wellington in his carriage and on his home, for his opposition to electoral reform (which had been seen partly as a solution to rioting by rural workers).
1866: a riot took place in Hyde Park after a meeting of the Reform League was declared illegal
1981: Brixton riot against the Metropolitan Police. Especially on 10 July, rioting extended to other parts of London and numerous other cities around the UK[11]
1985: Brixton riot against the Metropolitan Police after they shot the mother of suspect Michael Groce
1985: Broadwater Farm riot, residents of Tottenham riot against the Metropolitan Police following a death during a police search
1993: Welling riots, October 1993.[12] A march organised by the ANL,[13][14] the SWP and Militant resulted in riots against the Metropolitan police.[12][note 1]
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Notes
^The march was against the headquarters of the British National Party, located in the area.[13] Thousands of people attended the demonstration, for which 2,600 police officers were deployed.[14] A hardcore element associated with the SWP and Militant[15] refused to accept police instruction to divert the march away from the BNP's headquarters itself, once it had gone past it. In a resulting riot, 21 police officers and 41 demonstrators were injured.[14] In 1995, Welling Council shut down the BNP headquarters.[16]