What the records say
- When
- Apr 1788
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 39.83° N, 98.58° W
- Description
- 1788 riot in the United States
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
1788 doctors' riot
1788 riot in New York City
The doctors' riot was an incident that occurred in April 1788 in New York City, where the illegal procurement of corpses from the graves of the recently deceased caused a mass expression of discontent from poorer New Yorkers that was directed primarily at physicians and medical students.
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- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “America's first recorded riot, the 'Doctors' Mob', begins”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Антиврачебный бунт”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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