List of incidents of civil unrest in Baltimore information

This list is about incidents of civil unrest, rioting, violent labor disputes, or minor insurrections or revolts in Baltimore, Maryland.

1835 - Baltimore bank riot, occurred August 6 through 9 following the failure of the Bank of Maryland^[1]
1856 - Know-Nothing Riot of 1856, occurred in the fall of that year following the October municipal election^[2]
1861 - Baltimore Riot of 1861, occurred on April 19 between antiwar Democrats, Confederate sympathizers, and members of the Massachusetts militia^[3]
1877 - Baltimore railroad strike, occurred from June 16 to 29 as part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877^[4]
1968 - Baltimore riot of 1968, occurred from April 6 to 14 following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.^[5]
1974 - Baltimore municipal strike of 1974, occurred June 30 through July 14 and began when waste collector sought higher wages and better working conditions^[6]
2015 - 2015 Baltimore protests, occurred April 12 following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody^[7]

^ Beirne, Francis F. (1984). The Amiable Baltimoreans. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 147–149. ISBN 978-0-8018-2513-2. Retrieved May 1, 2009.
^ Melton, Tracy Matthew. Hanging Henry Gambrill: The Violent Career of Baltimore's Plug Uglies, 1854-1860 (2005)
^ Vogler, Mark E. (April 18, 2009). "Civil War Guard on duty in Baltimore to save President Street Station". eagletribune.com. Eagle Tribune. Archived from the original on April 19, 2009. Retrieved April 28, 2015.
^ McCabe, James Dabney; Edward Winslow Martin (1877). The History of the Great Riots: The Strikes and Riots on the Various Railroads of the United States and in the Mining Regions Together with a Full History of the Molly Maguires. National Publishing Company.
^ Levy, Peter B. (2011). "The Dream Deferred: The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968". In Jessica I. Elfenbein; Thomas L. Hollowak; Elizabeth M. Nix (eds.). Baltimore '68 : riots and rebirth in an American city. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-4399-0662-0.
^ Cook, Louise (15 July 1974). "Workers' unrest interrupts municipal service". St. Petersburg Times. Associated Press. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
^ Valcourt, Derek (April 19, 2015). "Freddie Gray Dies In Hospital One Week After Arrest In Baltimore". WJZ-TV. Retrieved May 5, 2015.

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