Astor Place Riot

When

10 May 1849

Kind

Riot

Coordinates

40.73° N, 73.99° W

Description

19th century theatre-related riot in Manhattan

1849 theatre-related riot in Manhattan

The Astor Place Riot occurred on May 10, 1849, at the now-demolished Astor Opera House in Manhattan and left between 22 and 31 rioters dead, and more than 120 people injured. It was the deadliest to that date of a number of civic disturbances in Manhattan, which generally pitted immigrants and nativists against each other, or together against the wealthy who controlled the city's police and the state militia.

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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 “The Astor Place Riot takes place in Manhattan, over a dispute between two Shakespearean actors; over 20 people are killed when troops fire on the rioters”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Anlässlich einer Aufführung des Theaterstücks Macbeth von William Shakespeare in New York entzündet sich der Astor Place Riot”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “une foule composée majoritairement d’Irlandais dévaste l’Astor Place Opera House à New York”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Nueva York, tienen lugar los disturbios de Astor Place en Manhattan, ante la Astor Opera House, entre los seguidores del actor estadounidense Edwin Forrest,…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page