London Rebel History Calendar - February 2020

if they evict you...
take to the air!

1

A Fiery Flying Roll
by ranter Abiezer
Coppe ordered
to be burned, 1650.

2

Squatters, locals & kids resist eviction
of squatted school,
Colliers Wood, 2004

3

Tube workers strike
for shorter hours, 1919.

4

Bugging
device found hidden
in wall in Communist
Party HQ in
King St, 1975.

5

Riot in Whitehall in response to Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry, 1972

6

Chartist Convention, (protoparliament of the people?), moves to Bolt Court, Fleet St, 1839.

7

Strike of NUPE ancillary staff, Gtreat Ormond St hospital, 1979

8

Heathcote, London bookseller/printer, committed to Newgate for printing treasonable libels, 1718.

9

Suffragette Mud
March, 1907:
first big
women's suffrage demo.

10

Alex Comfort,
anarchist, pacifist,
sexologist, born,
1920.

11

Mass gay demo,
Trafalgar Square, 1978,
protests Gay News editor Denis Lemon
being tried for blasphemy.

12

Puritan activist John Bastwick excommunicated,
fined and
imprisoned, 1635.

13

Miles Sindercombe,
failed assassin of Oliver
Cromwell, kills himself,
Tower of London, 1657.

14

Fleet St bookseller
John Williams pilloried
outside Parliament,
1765, for reprinting
Wilkes' North Briton.

15

Kids launch mass climate strike and demos, 2019.

16

Muriel Matters
flies suffragette
airship over
London
to distribute
leaflets, 1909.

17

Riotous
women's
suffrage demo
in Bow, 1913.

18

Occupied
block on Aylesbury Estate, Southwark, stormed:
anti-gentrification
protestors evicted. 2015.

19

Dalston theatre
squatted in protest
against gentrifixating
of the area, 2006

20

Two pakistanis
shot dead after
being
spotted with
(fake, as it
turned out) pistols, 1973.

21

WW2 ID cards
finally
abandoned in
UK, 1952.

22

1811: Leigh &
John Hunt tried for
'seditious libel' - attacking
flogging in the army.

23

West Ham unemployed march fights off police attack with banner poles, 1922.

24

Radical Daniel
Eaton tried for
seditious libel, 1794.

25

Lord Mayor
petitions Archbishop of Canterbury against
disorder & immorality
spread by plays, 1592.

26

Half of Grow
Heathrow eco-village
squat evicted, 2019.

27

Rail workers
and civil servants
strike begins, 1973.

28

1995: unarmed
David Ewin shot
dead by police, Barnes.

29

Arthur
O'Connor
attempts to kill
Queen Victoria, 1872.