March First Movement demands Korean independence

Caribbean soldiers waiting in Taranto to return home protested unequal pay and degrading labor assignments, including latrine work. The revolt was suppressed and its leaders punished. The episode...

Right-wing paramilitaries killed socialist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht after the January uprising in Berlin. Their deaths became a symbol of the violent suppression of revolutionary...

The victorious powers opened the conference to negotiate treaties and borders. Delegations from smaller states and activists from colonized societies sought a voice, but the Great Powers controlled...

Irish Volunteers attacked a Royal Irish Constabulary escort at Soloheadbeg, killing two officers and seizing explosives. The action marked the opening of the Irish War of Independence, following years...

Delegates from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States met in Paris alongside the peace conference. They called for African participation in government and challenged the transfer of...

British authorities arrested nationalist leaders seeking to present Egypt’s case at the Paris peace conference. Protests, strikes, and rural resistance followed across Egypt, involving students,...

The Imperial Legislative Council passed the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act despite opposition from Indian members. The measure extended wartime emergency powers, including detention without...

A revolutionary government led by Béla Kun declared a Soviet republic after the collapse of the liberal government and amid Allied territorial pressure. It drew support from workers and soldiers but...

Gandhi called for a nationwide hartal against the Rowlatt Act, bringing shops, workplaces, students, and public meetings into a new form of mass anticolonial protest. The day marked a shift from elite...

Korean activists established a provisional government in exile after the March First uprising. Its founders sought to coordinate independence work across Korea and diaspora communities. The government...