London Rebel History Calendar - March 2020

Cuts to
libraries: the new book-burning...

1

Servants & chair
men fight soldiers in Opera House, Pall Mall, 1797.

2

Raymond Hay, 29,
hangs himself in
Brixton Prison, 1990.

3

30 Islington
Council housing advisers
suspended after they take
minimal strike action, 1987.

4

Richard Brothers arrested for
foretelling death
of the king & the destruction
of parliament, 1795.

5

Anti-Poll Tax
protestors ejected from Town Hall meetings in both Sutton & Haringey, 1990.

6

1410: Lollard John Badby, tailor of Evesham, burned for heresy, Smithfield.

7

Burning of pro-
American Revolution pamphlets, Royal Exchange, 1775, leads to riots.

8

Supporters of radical John Wilkes & pro-king loyalists
brawl on Cornhill, 1769.

9

2015: Harmondsworth
immigration detention centre inmates protest over fast track deportations.

10

Camberwell Art College, occupied by students 1999

11

Ranter
Jacob Bothumley court-martialled 1650 for heresy.

12

Anti poll tax riot outside Islington
Town Hall, 1990.

13

Whether to stand
in elections & affilitate to
Labour splits 'Communist
Unity
Convention',
1920.

14

Seditious Meetings Act
revived, 1817, during
upsurge in reform agitation.

15

Greenwich
& Deptford
Chartists hold mass rally
on Blackheath, 1846.

16

'Oval 4' black
activists nicked by racist
cops at Oval tube, 1972.

17

1741: failed
breakout
from Newgate Prison.

18

Refuse workers
strike, Barking
& Dagenham, 2015.

19

House of
Lords abolished, 1649.

20

Ian Ball tries to
kidnap Princess Ann
and shoots at her car, 1974.

21

Richard
Overton & Army Levellers
attack army leaders in The
Hunting of the Foxes, 1649.

22

Library workers strike against privatisation and cuts, Lambeth, 2015.

23

Wembley Park
sports ground
occupied by local
anti-academies
alliance, 2007.

24

Public inquiry
into racist murder of
Stephen Lawrence opened
at Elephant & Castle. 1998.

25

Socialist pioneer
of nursery education
Rachel MacMillan
dies, Deptford, 1917.

26

Sixth Radical Black &
Third World Book Fair
opens, 1985, Kings Cross.

27

Suffragette Janie
Allan sentenced
to 4 months in Holloway for
window smashing, 1912.

28

24-hour transport strike against GLC abolition paralyses capital, 1984.

29

Feminist pacifist
author Vera Brittain
dies, Wimbledon,
1970.

31

Rally celebrating Russian Bolshevik Revolution, Albert Hall, 1918.