List of riots in Leeds

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=February 2025}} {{More citations needed|date=December 2008}} Throughout its history Leeds has had several riots, often recurring in the same areas.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} Below is a list of recorded riots that have taken place.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://fordmaguire.org/res_docs_riots.shtml | title=Riots in Leeds | publisher=Ford Maguire Society}}</ref> The most famous of these is perhaps the [[Chapeltown riot (1981)|1981 Chapeltown riot]],{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} which took place the same time as riots in London ([[1981 Brixton riot|Brixton]]), Birmingham ([[1981 Handsworth riots|Handsworth]]) and Liverpool ([[Toxteth riots|Toxteth]]).

*1735 Corn price riot<ref name="leedslibrary-corn-turnpike" /> *1753 The turnpike riots<ref name="leedslibrary-corn-turnpike">{{cite web |last1=Libraries |first1=Leeds |title=The Corn-price Riot of 1735 and the Turnpike Riot of 1753 |url=https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2019/09/13/the-corn-price-riot-of-1735-and-the-turnpike-riot-of-1753/ |website=The Secret Library {{!}} Leeds Libraries Heritage Blog |access-date=21 July 2024 |language=en |date=12 September 2019}}</ref> *1754 Holbeck Chapel Riot *1800 Corn price riot *1811 Corn price riot *1842 The [[Chartism|Chartist]] and Plug riots in [[Holbeck]] and [[Hunslet]] *1844 The Military riot *1865 [[Leeds dripping riot]] *1890 The Gasworkers riot<ref name="museum&galls-gasworkers">{{cite web |title=Leeds Gas Riots |url=https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/news/leeds-gas-riots/#:~:text=This%20eruption%20of%20violence%20came,and%20a%20strike%20was%20inevitable. |website=Leeds Museums & Galleries |publisher=Leeds City Council |access-date=21 July 2024 |date=14 January 2016}}</ref> *1893 [[Morley, West Yorkshire|Morley]] miners' riot *1908 The [[suffragette]] riot *1917 An anti-Jewish riot, [[Quarry Hill, Leeds|Quarry Hill]] *1936 The [[Battle of Holbeck Moor]] *[[1975 Chapeltown riot]] *[[1981 Chapeltown riots]] *[[1987 Chapeltown riot]] *1995 [[Hyde Park, Leeds|Hyde Park]] Riot *[[2001 Harehills riot]] *2002 [[Leeds Festival]] riots *The [[2011 England riots]] saw "pockets of disorder" in Leeds<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/blog/2011/aug/08/london-riots-third-night-live |title=London riots: the third night – Monday 8 August 2011 |date=8 August 2000 |work=The Guardian |accessdate=11 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/main-section/man_shot_in_face_in_leeds_1_3659816 |title=Man shot in face in Leeds |date=9 August 2008 |work=The Yorkshire Post |accessdate=11 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-14449656 |title=Chapeltown shooting: Police tackle 'pockets of disorder' |date=9 August 2011 |work=BBC News |accessdate=11 August 2011}}</ref> *2019 Harehills Bonfire Riot<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-50313620 |title=Bonfire Night: Riot police injured during Leeds disorder – 6 November 2019 |date=6 November 2019 |work=BBC|accessdate=4 December 2024}}</ref> *[[2024 Harehills riot]] ==References== {{reflist}}

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