The Broad Street Riot, which occurs in…
June 1837 CE
The Broad Street Riot, which occurs in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 11, 1837, begins when a company of English-American firefighters meet with an Irish-American funeral procession on Broad Street.
Fighting breaks out, and eventually a thousand people are included in the melee, though no one is killed.
Several houses are broken into and vandalized, and the rioters launch rocks and other missiles at each other.
The fight is eventually broken up by the military, and seventeen people are forced to pay reparations.
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Northern North America
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