What the records say
- When
- 15 Apr 1856
- Kind
- Riot
- Deaths
- 17
- Coordinates
- 8.97° N, 79.53° W
- Description
- 1856 riot in Panama City
- Cause
- watermelon
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Watermelon Riot
1856 riot in Panama City
The Watermelon Riot was a riot that occurred on the evening of April 15, 1856, in Panama City, then the capital of the State of Panama in the Republic of New Granada. After an American took a slice of watermelon from a street vendor and refused to pay for it, a verbal altercation ensued and then quickly escalated when shots were fired.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Panamá ocurre el incidente de la tajada de sandía, que dará lugar a la primera intervención estadounidense”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page