Following is a list of sites in London associated
with Riots, Plots and Rebelions
- Cable Street - Riot
- On Sunday 4 October 1936, Sir Oswald Mosleys fascists attempted to march through Jewish areas of the East End. The Police did nothing to prevent this, in fact they seemed to be trying to aid the blackshirts by clearing there route for them. Out of desperation left wings, dockers and locals built baracaded and forced the marchers onto Cable Street, which has also been barracaded at Royal Mint Street. A riot followed. This event marked the begining of the decline of Mosley and his Nazis.
- CATO STREET CONSPIRACY
- Discovered here, 23 February 1820.
- Cato Street Plot - Terrorists
- On the 23-Feb 1820 a plot to kill the entire cabinet, and then parade there head through the City, was planned here.
- Fletcher, Yvonne WPC - Assassination
- On the 17 April 1984 WPC Yvonne Fletcher was killed by a shot dead from the Libyan Embassy.
- George 2 - Assassination
- In 1716 a Mr Freemen shot at but missed George 2 outside the Dury Lane Theatre.
- George 3 - Assassination
- James Hatfield try unsuccessfully to assassinate George 3 in the Dury Lane Theatre, while the king watched a play.
- Gordon Riots
- The Gordon Riot of 2 June 1780, started out as a public meeting against the repeal of anti Catholic Laws. By the time order was restored over 850 people had died, most prisons emptied many destroyed, and many other properties looted. Lord George Gordon was later hanged.
- Gun Powder Plot - Terrorists
- Guy Fawkes and his co plotters, on the 5 Nov 1606, attempted to blow up the House of Commons during the Kings speech, when almost everybody of any importance would be there. The aim was to overthrow the protestant state and bring an Catholic one. Fortunately the plot was discovered and plotter later executed.
- Markov, Georgi - Spys
- Assasinated Bulgarian defector. Was poked in the leg with an umbrella, and died 2 days later. It turns out he had been darted with ricin poison.
- Marlow, Christopher
- Playwrite Marlow was stabbed to death here by Ingram Frezer on the 30 May 1593. Frezer also happened to be Thomas Walsinghams, Elizabeth 1 spy master, servant. The official version tells of the fight, the conspiracy version say Marlows was a silenced by the government. Marlow was a popular playwright.
- Neave Airey - Assassination
- Airey Neave the Minister for Northern Ireland was blown up by an IRA bomb while driving his car out off the car park under Parliament, on the evening of the 30 March 1979.
- Peasants Revolt
- Wat Tyler led a larger group of peasants from Kent to London in June 1381, to protest about poll taxes. They took over large parts of the city, including the Tower. The rebellion was suppressed and Tyler murdered in Smithfield.
- PERCEVAL, The Hon. Spencer (1762-1812),
- Prime Minister, lived here. He is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated while in office.
- Percival, Spencer Prime Minister - Assassination
- On the 11 May 1812 as he was entering the House of Commons, the Prime Minister Spencer Percival was shot dead by John Bellingham. As part of the security clamp down troops sealed off London and all mail was stopped to prevent any potential plot. It later became clear that Bellingham, was unbalanced and acting alone, he executed the following week.
- Thistlewood, Arthur - Assassination
- Bow Street runner, killed by the Cato Street Plotters
- Walsingham, Sir Francis (1532-1590) - Spys
- Died here. He was Elizabeths 1 Secretary of State in succession to Cecil, but is more infamous as the founder of the Ehglish Secret Service. It is no exaggeration to say that, on his skill in unravelling plots, the life of the Queen, and with that life the future of an independent Protestant England, really depended. In particular, it was his skill in tracking out the Babington Conspiracy of 1585 that brought Mary, Queen of Scots, to the block.
- Wilson, Sir Henry - Assassinated
- On 22 June 1922 a senior government advisor on Ireland was shot and killed by 2 IRA terrorists.
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