Background In March 1848, the city of Milan launched an uprising against Austrian occupation.

A civilian uprising against the Nazi garrison took place in Prague in May 1945.

In November 2000, Ollanta Humala led a small scale military uprising against Fujimori s dying regime.

Things began to change after the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein at the end of the Persian Gulf War.

The Second Servile War was an unsuccessful slave uprising against the Roman Republic on the island of Sicily.

The FLN (National Liberation Front) uprising against French rule in Algeria started in 1954 with assassinations of policemen.

December 27 Great Poland Uprising The Poles in Greater Poland (or Grand Duchy of Poznań) rise up against the Germans.

It has called on Palestinians there to launch a new intifada against Israel, even while insisting on calm in the Gaza Strip.

It turned into a widespread uprising against the German Democratic Republic government the next day.

In 1343, the people of northern Estonia and Saaremaa rebelled against German rule in the St. George's Night Uprising, which was put down by 1345.

Internet or Intifada?

In 1990, a popular uprising against an entrenched military dictatorship brought the first real push towards sustained democracy.

Malagasy Uprising During the Malagasy Uprising of 1947, in Mananjary hundreds of Malagasy were killed, among them 18 women and a group of prisoners thrown from aircraft.

In 1948, massive violent protests, known as the Al Wathbah uprising broke out across Baghdad as a popular demand against the government treaty with the British, and with communist part support.

This is the most important step yet taken by the fragmented forces that have been trying since May to lead a peaceful uprising against President Bashar al Assad s regime.

Aware of the lasting impact of the uprising (intifada) of the Palestinian people,

This came five years after the failed Guangzhou uprising.

Their arrival in Rome was to coincide with an uprising inside the city.

During the Paris Commune uprising of 1871 the bakery was burnt down.

In 2011, Bahrain was criticised for its crackdown on the Arab spring uprising.

Most of them were destroyed in the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.

The uprising in 1952 is particularly revealing, because it was widespread and intensely popular, for it was directed against the much hated British.

But, with the 1987 uprising (Intifada), Yasin s supporters announced the creation of the Islamic Resistance Movement.

Their arrival in Rome was to coincide with an uprising inside the city.

Instead, Hamas has turned its attention to the West Bank, where it has no political authority. It has called on Palestinians there to launch a new intifada against Israel, even while insisting on calm in the Gaza Strip.

Hopes that a popular uprising might topple the regime have fizzled.

Thus, on 1 August 1944, as the Red Army was nearing the city, the Warsaw Uprising began.

However, after the armed uprising in the south, Nepali was dropped from the curriculum.

It seems likely that Milošević saw Rugova as being useful in averting an uprising in Kosovo.

In February, a revolt broke out in the city of Gonaïves, which was soon under rebel control.

These are countries where it sometimes seems easier to start an uprising than to start a business.

I understand people in Tunisia are saying 'This is not the second uprising.

On 27 March 2006, more than 12,000 troops marched in the new capital in its first public event a massive military parade to mark Armed Forces Day which is the anniversary of then Burma's 1945 uprising against the Japanese occupation of Burma.

The Uprising of 1953 in East Germany started with a strike by East Berlin construction workers on 16 June 1953.

That is why I am not at all sure that the street uprisings in Egypt, following those in Tunisia, and now spreading to other Muslim majority countries, can be interpreted simply as traditional forms of protest against bad rulers.

Fatah, which runs the West Bank, wants no part of another Palestinian uprising.

Syrian photographers from around the country are revealing, sharing, and archiving Syria's uprising through photographs which showcase destruction.

One famous incident was the Banat Uprising in 1595, which was part of the Long War between the Ottomans and the Habsburgs.

The 1793 partition led to the Kościuszko Uprising in Poland, which ended with the third partition in 1795.

For the West, the timing of the Syrian rebels uprising could not have been worse.

Saudi Arabia s Shia, an economically and politically marginalized community, staged an unprecedented intifada in the towns of Qatif, Saihat, Safwa, and Awamiyya.

If so, Tunisia s uprising could be a game changing event for the entire region.

Iran s recent election saw blatant manipulation in favor of the incumbent president incite a democratic mass uprising.

Then, on October 23, 1956, a demonstration by students of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics escalated into an uprising against the Soviet puppet government in Budapest.

On 20 August, a large uprising broke out in Tripoli, with rebel forces speeding towards the capital from the west and the east.