I'm not sure "peasant uprisings" should be included. First, they're probably far too numerous and even poorly documented to count. Heck, there were even peasant uprisings in America. These events are often the precursors to or aspects of revolutions, but not revolutions in and of themselves. I suppose I consider revolutions as things which actually accomplish the overthrowing of the government. (But by that logic, the 1905 Russian revolution or the Paris 68 uprising can't really be included either.)
Hmmm... Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
Just trying to figure out what differentiates an uprising from a revolution. Seems analagous to a battle v. a war. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
Agreed, but I only counted "major" -ones - e.g. ones with a countrywide or at least regional reach. (Of the three I mentioned for Hungary, the first and last engulfed all of Transsylvania, the middle one grew out of a called-off crusade and engulfed most of the central flatland areas of the Carpathian Basin. Britain had at least one such giant uprising, Germany IIRC two, Bohemia and surroundings - e.g. the area of the Czech Republic - had the Hussite wars, and I can't recall in which century but I recall one big one engulfing most of Southeastern Russia, too.)
I suppose I consider revolutions as things which actually accomplish the overthrowing of the government.
Most revolutions didn't, or only did for a short time. The American Revolution and the French Revolution and the October Revolution were exceptions not the rule. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
