What the records say
- When
- 28 Aug 1830
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 51.92° N, 0.25° W
- Description
- uprising by agricultural workers
- Cause
- mechanization, wage, social inequality
Placed at the middle of the 2 places Wikidata lists.
3 sources record it
- 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 “Machine-breaking Swing Riots break out in Kent and spread across southern and eastern England”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “révolte de « Captain Swing » (Swing riots) dans les comtés ruraux du sud-est de l’Angleterre, rapidement étouffée”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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