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| 73 BC |
| | | A rebellion by Spartacus and other slaves from a gladiators' training camp at Capua lasts for two years before it is suppressed | |
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| 60 |
| | | Boudicca launches a devastating attack on Roman soldiers and settlers, destroying their headquarters at Colchester | |
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| 66 |
| | | The Zealots play a prominent part in the uprising which expels the Romans from Jerusalem | |
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| 69 |
| | | A rebellion in Spain prompts such chaos that Rome has four emperors within a year, after the suicide of Nero in 68 | |
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| 73 |
| | | The last of the Jewish insurgents are besieged in the stronghold of Masada, eventually killing each other to end their ordeal | |
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| 130 |
| | | Hadrian, visiting Jerusalem, decides to rebuild it as a Roman city - an act which provokes the final Jewish uprising | |
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| 132 |
| | | Simon Bar-Cochba drives the Romans out of Jerusalem and holds it for three years, until a large Roman army recovers the city | |
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| 532 |
| | | Theodora shows her mettle, as empress, in her response to the anarchy and terror unleashed in Constantinople by the Nika revolt | |
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| 903 |
| | | The leader of a peasant uprising captures and kills the Chinese emperor, bringing to an end the T'ang dynasty | |
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| 1154 |
| | | The inhabitants of Damascus surrender their city to Nur ed-Din, helping him greatly in his campaign against the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem | |
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