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Revolt of Amin Khan and Ikhtiyar al-Din against Tughluq authority in Bengal

The revolt of Amin Khan and Ikhtiyar al-Din (بغاوت بنگال) was Bengal's breakaway from the Delhi Sultanate under Muhammad bin Tughluq, ending in an independent sultanate under Shams-ud-din Iliyas Shah.

Revolt of Amyrtaeus

The Revolt of Amyrtaeus was the Egyptian insurrection of 405/4–404 BC in which Amyrtaeus of Sais ended the First Persian Period and restored native rule.

Revolt of Arrapha

The Revolt of Arrapha was an uprising in the Assyrian provincial city of Arrapha, modern Kirkuk, recorded for 761 and 760 BC under King Ashur-dan III.

Revolt of Ashur-danin-apla

The Revolt of Ashur-danin-apla, the Assyrian civil war of 827–824 BC, was a six-year succession war in which the prince fought his brother Shamshi-Adad V.

Revolt of Assur

The Revolt of Assur was a rebellion in the Assyrian city of Aššur in 763 BCE, under King Aššur-dān III, recorded alongside a solar eclipse.

Revolt of Atsiz against Sanjar

The Revolt of Atsiz against Sanjar was the Khwarazmshah Atsiz's break with his Seljuk suzerain Sultan Sanjar, first rebelled openly in 1138 and defeated near Gurganj that year with about ten thousand casualties.

Revolt of Babak Khorramdin

The Revolt of Babak Khorramdin (ثورة بابك خرم‌دین) was a Khurramite rising against the Abbasid caliphate in Adharbayjan, led by Babak Khorramdin from 816 until its crushing in 837.

Revolt of Babylon (626 BC)

The Revolt of Babylon in 626 BC was the Babylonian uprising against Assyrian rule that brought Nabopolassar to the throne in Babylon and, with the Medes, ended the Neo-Assyrian Empire at Nineveh in 612 BC.

Revolt of Bomilcar

The Revolt of Bomilcar was a failed coup in Carthage by the general Bomilcar during Agathocles' invasion of North Africa, crushed in street fighting around 308 BC.

Revolt of Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani

The Revolt of Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani (ثورة الدحاك بن قيس الشيباني) was a Kharijite uprising in Upper Mesopotamia and Iraq against the Umayyad caliph Marwan II, beginning in 744.

Revolt of Dionysius Petosarapis

The revolt of Dionysius Petosarapis was an uprising in Alexandria against Ptolemy VI in 168 BC, led by an Egyptian courtier who was defeated at Eleusis.

Revolt of Eset Kotibaruly

The Revolt of Eset Kotibaruly (Есет Көтібарұлы) was a Kazakh uprising of the Junior Zhuz against Russian imperial rule in western Kazakhstan, led from 1847 to 1858.

Revolt of Guzana

The Revolt of Guzana was an uprising at Guzana, biblical Gozan and modern Tell Halaf, against Assyrian rule in 758 BC, recorded in the Eponym Chronicle under Ashur-dan III.

Revolt of Hanigalbat against Assyria

The revolt of Hanigalbat, also called the Hanigalbat revolt, was an uprising in the former Mitanni heartland against Assyrian rule under Tukulti-Ninurta I, reportedly backed by Hittites and Ahlamu.

Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan

The Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan (Răscoala lui Horea, Cloșca și Crișan) was a peasant uprising of Romanian serfs in Transylvania that began on 31 October 1784.

Revolt of Ibn Hafsun

The Revolt of Ibn Hafsun (ثورة عمر بن حفصون) was a decades-long insurrection led by Umar ibn Hafsun against the Umayyad Emirate of Cordoba from his stronghold of Bobastro in southern al-Andalus, beginning in 880.

Revolt of Ibn Hud

The Revolt of Ibn Hud (ثورة ابن هود) was a rebellion against Almohad rule in al-Andalus, proclaimed at Murcia in 1228 and ended by Ibn Hud's death in 1237.

Revolt of Ilu-bi'di of Hamath

The Revolt of Ilu-bi'di of Hamath, led by Yau-bi'di, was an uprising against the Assyrian king Sargon II, crushed in 720 BC after a battle near Qarqar.

Revolt of Kashtaritu

The Revolt of Kashtaritu, or Kashtariti revolt, was an anti-Assyrian rising around 675 BCE led by Kaštaritu, a city lord of Karkaššî in the Zagros, against Esarhaddon of Assyria.

Revolt of Magas

The Revolt of Magas, or Cyrene revolt of Magas, was the secession of Cyrenaica from Ptolemaic Egypt under Magas, half-brother of Ptolemy II, in the 270s BC.

Revolt of Mazyar

The Revolt of Mazyar was an uprising in Tabaristan led by the Qarinid ruler Mazyar ibn Karin against the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim, beginning in 838.

Revolt of Megabyzus

The Revolt of Megabyzus (مگابیزوس) was a rebellion in Syria by the Persian commander Megabyzus against King Artaxerxes I, from around 449 BC to his pardon around 447 BC.

Revolt of Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya

The Revolt of Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya (ثورة النفس الزكية) was a 762–763 uprising in Medina by the Hasanid Muhammad, "the Pure Soul," against the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur.

Revolt of Nabopolassar against Assyria

The Revolt of Nabopolassar against Assyria was the Babylonian uprising from the 620s BC in which Nabopolassar seized the throne of Babylon, founding the Neo-Babylonian dynasty.

Revolt of Oruro

The Revolt of Oruro was a 1781 uprising in Oruro, Upper Peru, where creoles and mestizos rose against peninsular Spaniards during the Great Andean Uprising.

Revolt of Panehesy

The Revolt of Panehesy, also called the Rebellion of Panehesy, was the takeover of Thebes by the Viceroy of Kush Panehsy under Ramesses XI, around 1089 BC.

Revolt of Pedubast I against Takelot II

The revolt of Pedubast I against Takelot II was a civil war at Thebes in ancient Egypt, beginning in Takelot II's regnal year 11 when Pedubast proclaimed himself king.

Revolt of Prince Salim

The Revolt of Prince Salim was the rebellion of Akbar's son Salim against his father, beginning in 1600 at Allahabad; Salim later reigned as Emperor Jahangir.

Revolt of Rim-Anum

The Revolt of Rim-Anum was the secession of Uruk from Babylon under Samsu-iluna around 1741 BC, part of a wider southern revolt, making Rim-Anum king of Uruk for three years.

Revolt of Shamash-shum-ukin

The Revolt of Shamash-shum-ukin was a civil war of 652 to 648 BC in which Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, king of Babylon, rose against his brother Ashurbanipal of Assyria.