📅 8 Novèmber 1917
The Land Decree sanctioned the seizure of landed estates and the redistribution of land according to local peasant practice. It drew on peasant resolutions and met a long-standing demand against...
📅 12 Sèptèmber 1974
Military officers deposed Emperor Haile Selassie amid popular unrest, peasant demands, labor organizing, and student protest. The USSR was not the author of the revolution; later Soviet alignment with...
📅 Mei 1936
Activists organized a campaign to collect grievances and petition the French Popular Front government. It opened temporary space for political organizing but was constrained by colonial authorities...
📅 1 Òktober 1949
Mao Zedong announced the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing after Communist forces defeated the Nationalist government on the mainland. The new state emerged from a long...
📅 25 April 1936
The Arab Higher Committee called a general strike demanding an end to British rule, an end to Jewish immigration and land purchases, and an independent representative government. The strike became the...
