User:Zazaban/Timeline of anarchist history

The history of anarchism is [intro here].

Pre-modern history

• 369 BC – Zhuangzi, Chinese philosopher of the Zhou Dynasty is born in what is now Shangqiu, Henan.
• 334 BC – Zeno of Citium, founder of Cynicism is born in Cyprus.
• 930–1262 – The Icelandic Commonwealth.

16th–19th-century: Modern precursors

• 1532–52 – François Rabelais, in Gargantua and Pantagruel, wrote of the Abby of Thelema (Greek word meaning "will" or "wish"), an imaginary utopia whose motto was "Do as Thou Will."
• 1576 – Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, by the French law student, Etienne de la Boetie, is published posthumously. In it, he argued that tyranny resulted from voluntary submission, and could be abolished by the people refusing to obey the authorities above them.
• 1636 – Religious dissenter Roger Williams founds the colony of Providence, Rhode Island, after being run out of the theocratic Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1681–1690 – Formal government dissolved in Pennsylvania.
• 1703 – First use of of the term "anarchy" in the modern era to mean something other than chaos. Louis-Armand, Baron de Lahontan, in his Nouveaux voyages dans l'Amérique septentrionale, (New voyages in northern America) where he described the indigenous American society, which had no state, laws, prisons, priests or private property, as being in anarchy.
• 1756 – Edmund Burke publishes A Vindication of Natural Society, which advocated the abolition of government, but later recanted.
• 1793 – William Godwin publishes Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, implicitly establishing the philosophical foundations of anarchism.
• 1827 – Josiah Warren opens the Cincinnati Time Store, an early experiment in mutualist economics.

Mid 19th-century: Early anarchist movement

• 1840 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon publishes What Is Property? and becomes history's first self-proclaimed anarchist.
• 1845 – Max Stirner publishes The Ego and Its Own.
• 1864 – International Workingmen's Association founded. Early seeds of split between anarchists and Marxists begin.
• 1871 – Paris Commune takes place. Early anarchists (mutualists) participate.
• 1872 – Followers of Mikhail Bakunin are expelled from The First International.

1870–1918: Golden age

• 1872 – IWA meets at the Hague Congress. Anarchists expelled by Marxist branch, beginning the anarchist/Marxist conflict.
• 1878 – Max Hödel fails in assassination attempt against Kaiser Wilhelm I. Ushers in era of propaganda of the deed.
• 1882 – God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin is published.
• 1886 – Haymarket affair takes place. Origin of May Day as a worker's holiday. Inspires a new generation of anarchists.
• 1892 – The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin published. Establishes anarchist communism.
• 1911 – The High Treason Incident leads to the execution of twelve Japanese anarchists; the first major blow against the Japanese anarchist movement.

Mid 20th-century

• 1917 – The Russian Revolution creates first "socialist state." The combination of a Soviet dictatorship in the east, the Red Scare in the west, and the global Cold War, discourage anarchist revolution throughout the following decades.
• 1919–1921 – The Free Territory, the first major anarchist revolution, is established in the Ukraine.
• 1919–1921 – The Palmer Raids effectively cripple the anarchist movement in the United States.
• 1921 – The Communist Party of China is founded. The anarchist movement in China begins slow decline due to communist repression.
• 1929–1931 – The autonomous Shinmin region, the second major anarchist revolution, is established in Manchuria.
• 1936–1939 – The Spanish Revolution, the third and last major anarchist revolution, is established in Catalonia and surrounding areas.
• 1959 – The Cuban Revolution establishes a communist dictatorship. The Cuban anarchist movement is immediately repressed.

1960–present

• 1968 – Anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist sentiment with a strong anarchist undercurrent spark a wave of protests and wildcat strikes in France. Is viewed as a watershed moment for counterculture and anti-authoritarian radical politics globally.
• 1999 – Anarchists take part in riots which interrupt the WTO conference in Seattle. Is viewed as part of an anarchist resurgence in the United States.
• 2006 – A civil uprising in Oaxaca is supported by many anarchists from the Americas and beyond
• 2008 – Civil unrest erupts in Greece after a youth is shot dead in the anarchist enclave of Exarchia, Athens.