London Rebel History Calendar - August 2020

"Don't mess with the tailors, mate!

1

Riot in the women's
section of Bridewell
(prison), Clerkenwell, 1784.

2

Margaret
Nicholson tries
to stab George III, 1786.

3

Roger Casement executed for treason (plotting
irish independence),
1916, Pentonville prison.

4

OutRage! invade Vatican Embassy in London in protest against Church homophobia, 1992.

5

Womens Suffrage leader Millicent Garrett Fawcett dies, Bloomsbury, 1929.

6

1859: Trollope's
of Pimlico stonemasons strike over sacking of trade unionists demanding a
9-hour day.

7

Irish soldiers
riot, Somers Town, 1798.

8

1980 : Greater
London Council
bans punk
band, the
Plasmatics, from
blowing up a car onstage.

9

Gordon rioters executed
in St George's Fields, 1780.

10

Prisoners Justice Day – prison solidarity march from Holloway
to Pentonville, 1996.

11

Police raids on
Chartist meeting
places
all over
London, 1848.

12

10-12,000 attend
Chartist rally, Kennington Common, 1839.

13

1889: Great Dock Strike starts, South West India Dock.

14

1984: Police
raid 121 anarchist
centre & local squats,
Brixton, looking for guns.

15

Tailors offended at
anti-tailor play riot at
Haymarket Theatre, 1805.

16

2500 strong demo in Poplar during 1925 seamen's strike.

17

Cleaners at St Pancras
and Eurostar stations end 2 day
strike over job cuts
and security, 2014.

18

1903: Final break between
Bolsheviks & Mensheviks
at RSDLP congress,
Communist Club, Soho.

19

Riot in
Newgate Prison 1777.

20

Young
Spitalfields silkweaver
killed in fighting as
weavers cut scab silk, 1769.

21

Hackney Lesbian Strength & Gay Pride Free festival, Clissold Park, 1993.

22

Peckham Fair
usually
began today:
banned
1826 due to riotousness.

23

Grunwicks strike
begins officially, 1976.

24

Lenin and other
Russian socialists visit Marx's grave, 1903.

25

William Rayner indicted
for printing/publishing
'Robin's Game', a seditious
libel on PM Walpole, 1731.

26

Parliament orders
the suppression of all
'false and scandalous'
pamphlets, 1642.

27

2012: Disabled People's Action Coalition launch 'Atos Games' against dodgy ATOS sponsoring olympics.

28

Lord Mayor & Aldermen ban plays and 'interludes'
at Bartholomew
Fair, 1744.

29

'Reclaiming Our
Futures' disability
week of action
begins, 2013.

30

Chartist leader
Feargus O'Connor
dies, 1855.

31

1955: Sidney
Adams Turner fined
for "creating an
abominable noise" -
playing rock n roll.