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| 1890 |
| | Hundreds of Sioux Indians are killed by US troops in a massacre at Wounded Knee Creek | |
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| 1893 |
| | Mahatma Gandhi, travelling with a first-class ticket, is forcibly ejected from the carriage at Pietermaritzburg because of his colour | |
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| 1917 March 11 |
| | Crowds demonstrating in Petrograd are fired on after tsar Nicholas II sanctions the use of force | |
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| 1918 October 30 |
| | A mutiny in Germany's fleet in Kiel sparks uprisings in several German cities | |
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| 1919 |
| | The Soviet system of Gulag slave labour camps is introduced, under the control of the secret service, the Cheka | |
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| 1919 |
| | Mussolini's Fascist party rapidly acquires an aggressive presence, thanks to his gangs of armed thugs in their blackshirt uniforms | |
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| 1921 |
| | With massive force, and huge casualties, Lenin puts an end to a naval mutiny at Kronstadt | |
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| 1921 |
| | Some 50,000 peasants are herded into Russia's first concentration camps | |
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| 1921 |
| | Italian immigrant anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are convicted of murder in a US trial flawed by prejudice | |
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| 1921 |
| | Tulsa race riots cap previous levels of violence, with more than eighty-five blacks killed | |
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