The following is a list of riots and protests involving violent disorder that have occurred in London:
- 1391: Riots break out in Salisbury Place over a baker's loaf
- 1517: Evil May Day riot against foreigners takes place
- 1668: Bawdy House Riots took place following repression of a series of attacks against brothels
- 1710: Sacheverell riots, following the trial of the preacher, Henry Sacheverell
- 1719: Spitalfields weavers rioted, attacking women wearing Indian clothing and then attempting to rescue their arrested comrades
- 1743: Riots against Gin Taxes and other legislation to control the Gin Craze, principally the Gin Act 1736; rioting was fuelled by consumption of the drink itself
- 1768: The Massacre of St George's Fields after the imprisonment of John Wilkes for criticising the King
- 1769: The Spitalfield riots when silk weavers attempted to maintain their rate of pay
- 1780: Gordon riots against Catholics
- 1788: The notorious Westminster by-election held in the summer of 1788 resulting in 2 deaths and more than 40 injured.
- 1809: Old Price Riots, following a rise in the price of theatre tickets
- 1816: Spa Fields riots, Spenceans met in support of the common ownership of land
- 1830: Attacks against the Duke of Wellington in his carriage and on his home, for his opposition to electoral reform (which had been seen partly as a solution to rioting by rural workers).
- 1866: a riot took place in Hyde Park after a meeting of the Reform League was declared illegal
- 1886: The West End Riots followed a counter-demonstration by the Social Democratic Federation against a meeting of the Fair Trade League.
- 1887: Bloody Sunday, a demonstration against coercion in Ireland and to demand the release from prison the MP William O'Brien
- 1907: The Brown Dog riots, medical students attempt to tear down an anti-vivisection statue.
- 1919: The Battle of Bow Street, Australian, American and Canadian servicemen rioted against the Metropolitan Police
- 1919: Some of that year's race riots took place in the East End
- 1932: The National Hunger March ended in rioting after the police confiscated the petition of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement
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