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Gordon Riots. The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. They began with a large and orderly protest against the Papists Act 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics enacted by the Popery Act 1698.
Los disturbios de Gordon (en inglés: Gordon Riots) de 1780 comenzaron como una protesta anticatólica en Londres contra la Ley de Papistas de 1778, que tenía por objeto reducir la discriminación oficial contra los católicos británicos. La protesta derivó en disturbios y saqueos.
Gordon Riots. John Wilkes (born October 17, 1725, London—died December 26, 1797, London) was an outspoken 18th-century journalist and popular London politician who came to be regarded as a victim of persecution and as a champion of liberty because he was repeatedly expelled from Parliament.
Barnaby Rudge is largely set during the Gordon Riots of 1780. Barnaby Rudge was the fifth of Dickens's novels to be published. It had initially been planned to appear as his first, but changes of publisher led to many delays, and it first appeared in serial form in the Clock from February to November 1841.
Los disturbios de Gordon (en inglés: Gordon Riots) de 1780 comenzaron como una protesta anticatólica en Londres contra la Ley de Papistas de 1778, que tenía por objeto reducir la discriminación oficial contra los católicos británicos. La protesta derivó en disturbios y saqueos.
Hace 4 días · For seven days London was at the mercy of the rioters and, on the night of June 7th, 1780, it seemed that the whole of the City and Southwark were ablaze. For the Government the riots were the culmination of a long series of disasters at home and abroad.
4 de jun. de 2021 · It was the morning of June 7 th, 1780. In parts of London the embers were still smouldering from a night of feral tumult. Lord George Gordon was en-route to St James Palace hoping to seek an audience with the King. Tradition permitted that as the son of a duke it was his divine right to be allowed this request.
