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This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2010) Gavazzi Riots Alessandro Gavazzi Location Quebec City, Montreal Coordinates 46°48′43″N 71°12′18″W / 46.81194°N 71.205°W / 46.81194; -71.205 45°30′4.1″N 73°33′42.7″W / 45.501139°N 73.561861°W / 45.501139; -73.561861 Date June 6 and June 9, 1853 (EST) Target Halls in which Alessandro Gavazzi was lecturing Attack type forcible entrance Weapon(s) stones, bludgeons Death(s) > 5 Injured tens Victim Protestants Defender(s) Charles Wilson The Gavazzi Riots were disturbances created in Quebec and Montreal, in June 1853, by mobs which attacked halls in which Alessandro Gavazzi was lecturing. Contents 1 Overview 2 Riot in Quebec City 3 Riot in Montreal 4 External links 5 Notes Overview During the spring of 1853 Alessandro Gavazzi, an Italian patriot, visited North America. His lectures at Quebec and Montreal were strongly anti-Roman Catholic; and at both places the soldiers had to be called out to restore order. The riots also caused political repercussions.[1] Riot in Quebec City On the evening of the June 6th, pursuant to previous announcement, Gavazzi proceeded to deliver a discourse in the Free Presbyterian Church, in St. Ursule Street, on the subject of the Inquisition. A large audience assembled to hear him. When he had been speaking for somewhat more than an hour he was interrupted by violent and abusive exclamations. The interruption was the signal for action on the part of other ruffians outside. A volley of stones came crashing through the windows of the church, and immediately afterwards a crowd of persons armed with bludgeons made a forcible entrance into the building. The principal participants were Irish Catholics who reacted violently to Gavazzi's anti-Catholic sentiments. Gavazzi attributed the failure of the Italian national movement of 1848-49 to the defection of Pope Pius IX from the cause, and therefore rejected Catholicism. Gavazzi Riot in Quebec are quelled by military. In February 1854, on the acquittal of the Quebec rioter, Gavazzi's effigy is burnt. Riot in Montreal On June 9, a much more serious affray occurred at Montreal, in consequence of the delivery of a lecture there by Gavazzi. The place of delivery was Zion Church, Haymarket Square. A strong body of police were stationed opposite the church. While the lecture was in progress there was an attempt on the part of a band of Roman Catholic Irish to force their way into the church. A few minutes afterwards the latter returned to the assault, and were again driven back. Charles Wilson, the mayor of the city, ordered the troops to fire upon the crowd. The order was obeyed, and five men fell dead. The firing by the troops put an end to aggression on the part of the mob. It is impossible even to approximate the number of the wounded. Investigation of the riot proceeds at Montreal on June 26. Protestant journalists such as John Dougall of the Montreal Witness persisted in accusing the mayor for the riots. The Montrealer painter James D. Duncan depicts the event in his work "Gavazzi riot" (1853). External links The Gavazzi Riots and their Consequences Extensive resources on the Gavazzi riots Notes ^ W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. III, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 396p., p. 13. v · d · eHistory of Montreal Topics Hochelaga · Fort Ville-Marie · Notre-Dame de Montréal · Governor of Montreal · Hôtel-Dieu · Saint-Sulpice Seminary · Battle of Long Sault · Old Montreal · Great Peace of Montreal · Citadel · Grey Nuns · 1732 earthquake · Capitulation of Montreal · American occupation · North West Company · Bank of Montreal · Lachine Canal · List of Mayors · Burning of the Parliament · Gavazzi Riots · Victoria Bridge · Golden Square Mile · Oldest buildings · Ouimetoscope · St. Lawrence Seaway · Expo 67  · Sir George Williams Computer Riot · Murray-Hill riot · October Crisis  · Montreal Urban Community · 1976 Summer Olympics · Overdale · Montreal Protocol · École Polytechnique massacre · Montreal merger · Dawson College shooting Timeline Pre-European period • 16th Century • 1600s • 1610s • 1620s • 1630s • 1640s • 1650s • 1660s • 1670s • 1680s • 1690s • 1700s • 1710s • 1720s • 1730s • 1740s • 1750s • 1760s • 1770s • 1780s • 1790s • 1800s • 1810s • 1820s • 1830s • 1840s • 1850s • 1860s • 1870s • 1880s • 1890s • 1900s • 1910s • 1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s