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Open the live mapRevolutions in history
Revolutions recorded in Wikidata, from antiquity to this decade. Four in five fall in the 19th and 20th centuries.
What you see
- Each revolution as a pink politics mark that stays on the map while it lasts.
- A page for each, with its dates and its Wikipedia summary.
- Opened from this page, the map plays 1789 to 1922.
Where the data comes from
- WikidataItems that are revolutions, with a date and a place; nearly all have a Wikipedia article.
Taken from Wikidata when the set is imported; it grows as Wikidata does.
Good to know
- A small set: what Wikidata classes as a revolution, not every upheaval called one.
- Nearly all are placed at an area or a country, not a single spot.
- No country has more than about one in twenty of them.
The deadliest recorded here
- consolidation of the Iranian Revolution14 Feb 1979 · Revolution · Deaths 10,000
- Iranian RevolutionJan 1978 · Revolution · Deaths 2,781
- February Revolution8 Mar 1917 · Revolution · Deaths 1,443
- Romanian Revolution (1989)15 Dec 1989 · Revolution · Deaths 1,104
- French Revolution of 184822 Feb 1848 · Revolution · Deaths 350
- Kyrgyz Revolution of 20106 Apr 2010 · Revolution · Deaths 85
The first recorded here in each century
- Zaydi Revolt740 · Revolution
- ثورة يحيى بن عمر864 · Revolution
- ثورة باغاي968 · Revolution
- Revolución catalana de 1460-14611460 · Revolution
- Odjak of Algiers RevolutionJun 1659 · Revolution
- American Revolution22 Mar 1763 · Revolution
- Serbian Revolution15 Feb 1804 · Revolution
- Uruguayan revolution of 19041904 · Revolution
- Rose Revolution2003 · Revolution
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