there’s an old maxim that says be the
change you wish to see in the world
these people set out to do just that but
they’re debating is nothing less than
high treason total independence from
Britain welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten
notable revolutions throughout world
history for this list we picked the
uprisings and conflicts that have left
the biggest imprint in the world and
ultimately left the pages of history
forever changed number 10 the Arab
Spring this region’s very diverse and
every country is unique but those who
revolted shared a common set of
grievances and have similar demands
today the end of 2010 saw the spurning
of the collective democratic imagination
of entire nations which started in
Tunisia and spread across the Arab world
army defectors have reportedly attacked
targets around the capital Damascus this
soon led to numerous revolts and the
ousting of leaders including Tunisian
President Ben Ali Egyptian President
Mubarak and Libyan leader Gaddafi who
was also killed in the Libyan Civil War
Gaddafi’s destroy our country and now we
can’t test the freedom social media was
used as a mobilisation tool in the
beginning stages of the revolution
however in some countries like Egypt the
government attempted internet censorship
meanwhile military groups began
organizing themselves so they could also
get involved the weapons of the
activists of the so-called Arab Spring
weren’t guns and bombs but the Internet
and the mobile phone number 9 the
Taiping rebellion
this rebellion came in the midst of
several
anti-king demonstrations that helped
lead to the eventual collapse of the
foreign Manchu government that had held
power since 1644 this religious minded
movement was based on the belief that
its leader Huang Shi Quan was the
younger brother of Jesus Christ
transforming into a full-blown Civil War
and necessitating a 1 million plus
strong Imperial Army the failed
rebellion left an estimated 20 million
people dead by its end number 8 the
Chinese Communist revolution the slow
demise of China’s post dynastic period
came from the long struggle of the
Chinese Communist Party Mao became a
revolutionary Marxist and an inaugural
member of the Chinese Communist Party
after intense periods of hiding in the
mountains the CPC eventually gained a
leader in Mao Zedong and overthrew the
Chinese nationalists in armed struggle
after a series of running battles with
government troops Mao’s communist
guerrillas overrun the country and
marched into the capital Beijing prior
to this the Nationalists had to fight
both the CPC and an invading Japanese
force during World War two however it
was the 1949 revolution that ultimately
led to the formation of the People’s
Republic of China on October 1st 1949 in
Beijing gen’l’men Square Mao Zedong
proclaimed the birth of the People’s
Republic of China number 7 the Young
Turk revolution this group of young
reformists pushed for change with
respect to the absolute power of the
Ottoman monarch who had complete control
of the country at the turn of the 20th
century the Young Turks pushed for
constitutional institutions and shifted
their views to accommodate Islam as the
major religion they also changed
authoritarian ideologies to apply them
to what they saw as the greatest
problems holding back what would later
become the Republic of Turkey number 6
the Haitian Revolution the growing fear
of slave uprisings in the American South
was intensified by this
cess of the rebels in the small
Caribbean colony of Haiti one of the few
revolts won by slaves the Haitian
Revolution was born out of the islands
intricate class system and it propelled
the black people of Haiti to freedom
chanting slogans for liberty equality
and brotherhood they sparked a
revolution that would fill history books
for centuries to come
commander – salut Vasu recruited slaves
to fight against their oppressors which
gradually resulted in a newly formed
state his successor Jean Jacques de
Salle in later ordered a mass white
genocide that set the island on the path
to becoming Latin America’s first
independent nation however it also
increased racial tensions for
generations to come
number 5 the Iranian Revolution there’s
no mistaking what this in fact really is
it’s a massive voice of protest against
the rule of the sharp one of the most
well known religious reformative
movements this groundbreaking revolt
overthrew the influence of the pro-west
Shah of Iran and implemented a religion
based state spearheaded by the Grand
Ayatollah Khomeini and a left eye you
cannot munted adding the lacunae Mandela
– man the first Iranian molecular tiny
Quran citing Western influence as
satanic a thorough cultural shift was
established within the country which
made Islam the driving and thriving
pulse it remains to this day it was the
first religious revolution in modern
history and the first televised
revolution ever number for the Cuban
Revolution a laconic eruption really uh
bullshit repression
hit’em if it thanks to Fidel Castro his
younger brother Raul and Che Guevara
Cuba was liberated from us-backed
dictator Fulgencio Batista utilizing
guerrilla tactics while hiding in the
lush Cuban jungles and mountains and
motivated by their hatred of perceived
American imperialism the 26th of July
Movement permitted Castro to transform
the island into a socialist and
communist state this revolution also
encapsulated numerous future events it
sparked worldwide fears including the
Bay of Pigs the spread of communism in
Latin America and the Cuban Missile
Crisis which just sees Kennedy as a
pushover
thinking that this young US president
won’t have the cojones as the Cubans
would say to stand up and resist this
initiative number three the October
Revolution almost overnight an entire
society was destroyed and replaced with
one of the most radical social
experiments ever seen on the heels of a
toppled Czarist aristocracy the Russian
provisional government had power that is
until the uprising of the Bolsheviks led
by Vladimir Lenin he saw the time was
right for the Bolsheviks to seize power
and with 40,000 Petrograd workers now
armed it was only a matter of time with
a majority when within Soviet circles
the Bolsheviks then proceeded to obtain
government buildings through armed
insurrection not an impulsive
spontaneous absurd feeling
but a planned armed revolution despite
their declaration of the Russian
socialist Federative Soviet republic the
Russian Civil War broke out though
allied World War one forces attempted to
aid the anti-bolshevik fighters against
Lenin’s Red Army the war ultimately
cleared the path for the creation of the
Soviet Union the Civil War had grown
into a power struggle between the
Bolshevik Reds and conservative white
generals
number two the American Revolution and
the militias are certain that they can
defeat the British Army because they
have this revolutionary fire and spirit
and they argue that one male with that
sort of spirit is worth a hundred
British regulars with the help of the
French and the Spanish the 13 American
colonies liberated themselves from their
British overlords with armed struggle
and guerrilla warfare
without leadership the British lose a
thousand men twice as many as the
Patriots with famous incidents like the
Boston Tea Party revolt and the
attempted seizure of Quebec to rally
Canadians support this long war was
eventually won thanks to numerous
factors an important one being knowledge
of the terrain the sharpshooters know
the land and have technology on their
side following the Treaty of Paris in
1783 the United States of America was
born on April 30th 1789 Washington is
inaugurated first president of the
United States of America under the new
constitution before we unveil our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
in 1948 the State of Israel was
proclaimed Palestine was lost
sixteen years later in 1964 the
Palestine Liberation Organization or the
PLO was founded
in a bitter conflict that is pitted
brother against brother the South is
determined to defend its independence
and its system of slavery but the North
will not allow it to leave the union of
states
number one the French Revolution at the
end of the 18th century the most
glorious kingdom in Europe would face a
mighty foe the power of its own people
with france’s inclusion in many previous
Wars the time was ripe for a revolution
during the late 18th century during the
18th century new thinkers began to use
reason and science to challenge all such
traditions a new intellectual spirit of
the age brings everything under fresh
scrutiny thanks to financial trouble and
a rigorous class system
the French eventually revolted against
the monarchy in a rebellion that brought
much bloodshed including the storming of
the Bastille the trick Allah is born
from the feverish crowd a voice cries
out to the Bastille the result was a
Democratic Republic and beheading of
king louis xvi which set the stage for
the rise of one of the world’s most
famous conquerors napoleon bonaparte he
said i love power like a musician who
else is music do you agree with our list
any other notable uprisings we missed
for more memorable top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
change you wish to see in the world
these people set out to do just that but
they’re debating is nothing less than
high treason total independence from
Britain welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten
notable revolutions throughout world
history for this list we picked the
uprisings and conflicts that have left
the biggest imprint in the world and
ultimately left the pages of history
forever changed number 10 the Arab
Spring this region’s very diverse and
every country is unique but those who
revolted shared a common set of
grievances and have similar demands
today the end of 2010 saw the spurning
of the collective democratic imagination
of entire nations which started in
Tunisia and spread across the Arab world
army defectors have reportedly attacked
targets around the capital Damascus this
soon led to numerous revolts and the
ousting of leaders including Tunisian
President Ben Ali Egyptian President
Mubarak and Libyan leader Gaddafi who
was also killed in the Libyan Civil War
Gaddafi’s destroy our country and now we
can’t test the freedom social media was
used as a mobilisation tool in the
beginning stages of the revolution
however in some countries like Egypt the
government attempted internet censorship
meanwhile military groups began
organizing themselves so they could also
get involved the weapons of the
activists of the so-called Arab Spring
weren’t guns and bombs but the Internet
and the mobile phone number 9 the
Taiping rebellion
this rebellion came in the midst of
several
anti-king demonstrations that helped
lead to the eventual collapse of the
foreign Manchu government that had held
power since 1644 this religious minded
movement was based on the belief that
its leader Huang Shi Quan was the
younger brother of Jesus Christ
transforming into a full-blown Civil War
and necessitating a 1 million plus
strong Imperial Army the failed
rebellion left an estimated 20 million
people dead by its end number 8 the
Chinese Communist revolution the slow
demise of China’s post dynastic period
came from the long struggle of the
Chinese Communist Party Mao became a
revolutionary Marxist and an inaugural
member of the Chinese Communist Party
after intense periods of hiding in the
mountains the CPC eventually gained a
leader in Mao Zedong and overthrew the
Chinese nationalists in armed struggle
after a series of running battles with
government troops Mao’s communist
guerrillas overrun the country and
marched into the capital Beijing prior
to this the Nationalists had to fight
both the CPC and an invading Japanese
force during World War two however it
was the 1949 revolution that ultimately
led to the formation of the People’s
Republic of China on October 1st 1949 in
Beijing gen’l’men Square Mao Zedong
proclaimed the birth of the People’s
Republic of China number 7 the Young
Turk revolution this group of young
reformists pushed for change with
respect to the absolute power of the
Ottoman monarch who had complete control
of the country at the turn of the 20th
century the Young Turks pushed for
constitutional institutions and shifted
their views to accommodate Islam as the
major religion they also changed
authoritarian ideologies to apply them
to what they saw as the greatest
problems holding back what would later
become the Republic of Turkey number 6
the Haitian Revolution the growing fear
of slave uprisings in the American South
was intensified by this
cess of the rebels in the small
Caribbean colony of Haiti one of the few
revolts won by slaves the Haitian
Revolution was born out of the islands
intricate class system and it propelled
the black people of Haiti to freedom
chanting slogans for liberty equality
and brotherhood they sparked a
revolution that would fill history books
for centuries to come
commander – salut Vasu recruited slaves
to fight against their oppressors which
gradually resulted in a newly formed
state his successor Jean Jacques de
Salle in later ordered a mass white
genocide that set the island on the path
to becoming Latin America’s first
independent nation however it also
increased racial tensions for
generations to come
number 5 the Iranian Revolution there’s
no mistaking what this in fact really is
it’s a massive voice of protest against
the rule of the sharp one of the most
well known religious reformative
movements this groundbreaking revolt
overthrew the influence of the pro-west
Shah of Iran and implemented a religion
based state spearheaded by the Grand
Ayatollah Khomeini and a left eye you
cannot munted adding the lacunae Mandela
– man the first Iranian molecular tiny
Quran citing Western influence as
satanic a thorough cultural shift was
established within the country which
made Islam the driving and thriving
pulse it remains to this day it was the
first religious revolution in modern
history and the first televised
revolution ever number for the Cuban
Revolution a laconic eruption really uh
bullshit repression
hit’em if it thanks to Fidel Castro his
younger brother Raul and Che Guevara
Cuba was liberated from us-backed
dictator Fulgencio Batista utilizing
guerrilla tactics while hiding in the
lush Cuban jungles and mountains and
motivated by their hatred of perceived
American imperialism the 26th of July
Movement permitted Castro to transform
the island into a socialist and
communist state this revolution also
encapsulated numerous future events it
sparked worldwide fears including the
Bay of Pigs the spread of communism in
Latin America and the Cuban Missile
Crisis which just sees Kennedy as a
pushover
thinking that this young US president
won’t have the cojones as the Cubans
would say to stand up and resist this
initiative number three the October
Revolution almost overnight an entire
society was destroyed and replaced with
one of the most radical social
experiments ever seen on the heels of a
toppled Czarist aristocracy the Russian
provisional government had power that is
until the uprising of the Bolsheviks led
by Vladimir Lenin he saw the time was
right for the Bolsheviks to seize power
and with 40,000 Petrograd workers now
armed it was only a matter of time with
a majority when within Soviet circles
the Bolsheviks then proceeded to obtain
government buildings through armed
insurrection not an impulsive
spontaneous absurd feeling
but a planned armed revolution despite
their declaration of the Russian
socialist Federative Soviet republic the
Russian Civil War broke out though
allied World War one forces attempted to
aid the anti-bolshevik fighters against
Lenin’s Red Army the war ultimately
cleared the path for the creation of the
Soviet Union the Civil War had grown
into a power struggle between the
Bolshevik Reds and conservative white
generals
number two the American Revolution and
the militias are certain that they can
defeat the British Army because they
have this revolutionary fire and spirit
and they argue that one male with that
sort of spirit is worth a hundred
British regulars with the help of the
French and the Spanish the 13 American
colonies liberated themselves from their
British overlords with armed struggle
and guerrilla warfare
without leadership the British lose a
thousand men twice as many as the
Patriots with famous incidents like the
Boston Tea Party revolt and the
attempted seizure of Quebec to rally
Canadians support this long war was
eventually won thanks to numerous
factors an important one being knowledge
of the terrain the sharpshooters know
the land and have technology on their
side following the Treaty of Paris in
1783 the United States of America was
born on April 30th 1789 Washington is
inaugurated first president of the
United States of America under the new
constitution before we unveil our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
in 1948 the State of Israel was
proclaimed Palestine was lost
sixteen years later in 1964 the
Palestine Liberation Organization or the
PLO was founded
in a bitter conflict that is pitted
brother against brother the South is
determined to defend its independence
and its system of slavery but the North
will not allow it to leave the union of
states
number one the French Revolution at the
end of the 18th century the most
glorious kingdom in Europe would face a
mighty foe the power of its own people
with france’s inclusion in many previous
Wars the time was ripe for a revolution
during the late 18th century during the
18th century new thinkers began to use
reason and science to challenge all such
traditions a new intellectual spirit of
the age brings everything under fresh
scrutiny thanks to financial trouble and
a rigorous class system
the French eventually revolted against
the monarchy in a rebellion that brought
much bloodshed including the storming of
the Bastille the trick Allah is born
from the feverish crowd a voice cries
out to the Bastille the result was a
Democratic Republic and beheading of
king louis xvi which set the stage for
the rise of one of the world’s most
famous conquerors napoleon bonaparte he
said i love power like a musician who
else is music do you agree with our list
any other notable uprisings we missed
for more memorable top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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