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| 1865 |
| | | The southern states pass new Black Codes, designed to limit the freedom granted to African-Americans by the victorious north | |
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| 1876 |
| | | William Gladstone's pamphlet Bulgarian Horrors, protesting at massacre by the Turks, sells 200,000 copies within a month | |
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| 1881 |
| | | The first pogroms, or officially sanctioned attacks on Jews and their property, take place in Russia | |
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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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