100 Years of Unrest is an interactive map that has:
tried to gather information on social unrest throghout last century. Protests, uprisings, rebellions and revolts, civil wars, wars for independence, revolutions were mapped. Mapping events in time has enabled to follow hotspots or temporal trends of civil disobedience across the globe.
It’s based on information from Wikipedia.
Thanks to Google Maps Mania for the tip.
I was very interested inthe100 years of unrest map. However, I would like to know the definitions used for the various categories. I wonder ir Matewan, WV should be on the list in the USA. This is from the website of the city, but little is in Wikepedia.
The Matewan Massacre, as it is now called, on May 19,1920 was the beginning of the modern day coal mining industry. It has gone down in history as possibly one of the deadliest single shootout’s in the United States, and the turning point for the modern day United Mine Workers of America. The coal company’s hired the Baldwin-Felt’s Security Agency to evict local miner’s, who had joined the newly formed Local of the UMWA, from their company homes. The miner’s got word of this, and met the team at the Matewan Train Depot. There ensued a shoot-out that left nine men dead and changed the future of coal mining forever.
Mary E. Haas notice that there are very few if any unrest related to labor and the large strikes.