This is a chronological list of historical riots:
- 532 - Nika riots, (Constantinople)
- 1182 - Venetians and other "Latins" are massacred during a riot in Constantinople
- 1736 - Porteous Riots, (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- 1780 - Gordon riots, (London)
- 1835 - Baltimore Bank Riot
- 1844 - Philadelphia Nativist Riots
- 1855 - Lager Beer Riot, (Chicago)
- 1863 - New York Draft Riot (New York)
- 1886 - Haymarket Riot, (Chicago)
- 1917 - Anti-conscription riots, (Quebec)
- 1919 - Chicago Race Riot (Chicago)
- 1921 - Tulsa Race Riot, (Tulsa)
- 1937 - Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage,
- 1943 - Zoot Suit Riots, (Los Angeles)
- 1946 - Nylon Riots
- 1965 - Watts Riot, (Los Angeles)
- 1967 - 12th Street Riot (Detroit)
- 1968 - 1968 Democratic National Convention (Chicago)
- 1968 - Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr
- 1969 - Stonewall Riots, (New York)
- 1970 - Kent State massacre, (Ohio)
- 1975 - Livernois-Fenkell riot (Detroit)
- 1992 - 1992 civil unrest in Los Angeles, (Los Angeles)
- 1999 - WTO_Fighting_of_1999 (Seattle)
- 2000 - Cochabamba protests of 2000,
- 2001 - Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest (Genoa, Italy)
