Great Rebellion
The Great Rebellion or Great Revolt is a term that is generally used in English for the following conflicts:
- First Jewish–Roman War in 66–73 CE, also known as the Great Revolt of Judaea
- Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381, also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion
- English Civil War in 1642–1651, also called English Revolution
- Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II in 1780–83, against Bourbon reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru
- Wars of the Three Kingdoms, an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in England, Ireland and Scotland between 1639 and 1651, including the English Civil War
- Indian Rebellion of 1857, against the British East India Company
- In the northern states of the US, an alternate term used in naming the American Civil War (1861–65)
- East Timorese rebellion of 1911–12 against Portuguese colonial authorities
- Arab Revolt or Great Arab Revolt of 1917 (Arabic: الثورة العربية, romanized: al-Thawra al-‘Arabiyya; Turkish: Arap İsyanı), against the Ottoman Empire
- 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, that would come to be known as "the Great Revolt".
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Fiction
- The war against the Evil Horde in She-Ra: Princess of Power
- The Butlerian Jihad, an event in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe
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