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===20th century=== [[File:The Russian Revolution, 1905 Q81546.jpg|thumb|Artistic impression of the [[Russian battleship Potemkin#Mutiny|mutiny]] by the crew of the battleship Potemkin against the ship's officers on 14 June 1905.]] * Mutiny aboard the [[Russian battleship Potemkin|Russian battleship ''Potemkin'']], a rebellion of the crew against their officers in June 1905 during the [[1905 Russian Revolution|Russian Revolution of 1905]]. It was made famous by the film ''[[Battleship Potemkin|Battleship ''Potemkin'']]''. * The ''[[Revolt of the Lash|Revolta da Chibata]]'' ("Revolt of the Lash") was a Brazilian naval mutiny of 1910, where Afro-Brazilian crewmen rose up against oppressive white officers who frequently beat them. Their goal was to have their living conditions improved and the ''chibata'' (whips or lashes) banned from the navy. * [[First Battle of Topolobampo|Guaymas Mutiny]] On 22 February 1914, [[Mexican Navy]] sailors under Lieutenant {{ill|Hilario Rodríguez Malpica|es}} seized control of gunboat ''Tampico'' off [[Guaymas, Mexico]]. This event led to a [[Fourth Battle of Topolobampo|naval campaign]] off [[Topolobampo]] during the [[Mexican Revolution]]. * [[Curragh Incident]], also known as the Curragh Mutiny of 20 July 1914 occurred in the [[Curragh]], [[Ireland]], where [[British Army|British officers]] threatened to resign rather than enforce the [[Home Rule Act 1914]]. * [[Etaples Mutiny]] by British troops, 1917 * [[French Army Mutinies (1917)|French Army mutinies]] in 1917. The failure of the [[Nivelle Offensive]] in April and May 1917 resulted in widespread mutiny in many units of the French Army. * [[Wilhelmshaven mutiny]] broke out in the [[Imperial Germany|German]] [[High Seas Fleet]] on 29 October 1918. The mutiny led directly to the Kiel mutiny a few days later. * [[Kiel mutiny]]: Major revolt by sailors on 3 November 1918 in response to arrests of suspected Wilhelmshaven ringleaders. It sparked the [[German Revolution of 1918-1919]], which led to the collapse of the [[House of Hohenzollern|monarchy]] and the establishment of the [[Weimar Republic]]. * [[Luxembourg rebellions|Luxembourg Rebellions]]: After two failed communist revolutions in November and after a minor mutiny in December, the [[Luxembourg Armed Forces|Luxembourg Army]] took over the [[Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg)|Chamber of Deputies]], and proclaimed a republic. * [[André Marty#Black Sea mutiny|Black Sea mutiny (1919)]] by crews aboard the French dreadnoughts ''[[French battleship Jean Bart (1911)|Jean Bart]]'' and ''[[French battleship France|France]]'', sent to assist the White Russians in the [[Russian Civil War]]. The ringleaders (including [[André Marty]] and [[Charles Tillon]]) received long prison sentences. * The 1920 mutiny of the mainly Irish unit of [[Connaught Rangers#Mutiny in India, 1920|Connaught Rangers]] in the British Army against [[Irish War of Independence#Martial law|martial law being imposed]] and brutally enforced by the [[Black and Tans]] in Ireland during the [[Irish War of Independence]]. The leader, [[James Daly (mutineer)|Private James Daly]], became the last member of the British Armed Forces to be executed for mutiny when he was shot by [[firing squad]] on 2 November 1920. * [[Kronstadt rebellion]], an unsuccessful uprising of Russian sailors, led by [[Stepan Petrichenko]], against the government of the early [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]] in the first weeks of March in 1921. It proved to be the last large rebellion against [[Bolsheviks|Bolshevik]] rule. * [[Irish Army Mutiny]], a crisis in March 1924 provoked by a proposed reduction in army numbers in the immediate post-[[Irish Civil War|Civil War]] period.<ref name="GFG">[[Garret FitzGerald]] ''[http://generalmichaelcollins.com/Cumann_na_nGael/Garrett_Fitzgerald.html Reflections On The Foundation of the Irish State] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319151530/http://generalmichaelcollins.com/Cumann_na_nGael/Garrett_Fitzgerald.html |date=2011-03-19 }}'', University College Cork, April 2003</ref><ref>[[Irish Times]] ''March 10th, 1924'' 10 Mar 2012</ref> * [[Invergordon Mutiny]], an [[industrial action]] by around a thousand [[sailor]]s in the [[British Atlantic Fleet]], that took place on 15–16 September 1931. For two days, ships of the [[Royal Navy]] at [[Invergordon]] were in open mutiny, in one of the few military strikes in [[United Kingdom|British]] history. * Mutiny aboard the Dutch warship the ''[[HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (1909)|De Zeven Provinciën]]'' as a result of salary cuts in early February 1933. *[[1936 Naval Revolt (Portugal)|1936 Naval Revolt]] in Portugal, also known as the Mutiny on the Tagus ships. Sailors aboard two Portuguese ships imprisoned their officers and attempted to sail out into the open sea. Coastal artillery disabled both ships and the [[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Estado Novo]] shortly thereafter founded the [[Legião Portuguesa (Estado Novo)|Legião Portuguesa]]. * [[Cocos Islands Mutiny]], a failed mutiny by [[Sri Lanka]]n servicemen on the [[British Empire|then-British]] [[Cocos (Keeling) Islands]] during the [[Second World War]]. * [[Battle of Bamber Bridge]] on 24–25 June 1943, a racially motivated mutiny by African American soldiers in a segregated U.S. Army truck unit stationed in [[Bamber Bridge]], [[Lancashire]], [[United Kingdom]]. * [[Townsville mutiny]] on 22 May 1942, a mutiny by about 600 African American servicemen of the [[96th Engineer Battalion (United States)|96th Engineer Battalion]] of the United States Army while serving in Townsville, Australia, during World War II. See also [[African-American mutinies in the United States armed forces]]. * [[Port Chicago mutiny]] on August 9, 1944, three weeks after the Port Chicago disaster. 258 out of the 320 African-American sailors in the ordnance battalion refused to load any ammunition.<ref>Though 50 sailors were convicted of mutiny after the [[Port Chicago disaster]], there is some question as to whether there was a conspiracy, a prerequisite of mutiny, rather than simple refusal to obey a lawful order. All of the sailors were willing to do any other task except load ammunition under unsafe conditions.</ref> * [[Terrace Mutiny|Terrace mutiny]], a mutiny by French-Canadian soldiers in Terrace, British Columbia, in November 1944. ====After World War II==== * [[Post–World War II demobilization strikes]] occurred within [[Allies of World War II|Allied military forces]] stationed across the [[Middle East]], [[India]] and [[Southeast Asia]] in the months and years following the Second World War. * [[The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny]] encompasses a total strike and subsequent mutiny by the Indian sailors of the [[Royal Indian Navy]] on board ship and shore establishments at [[Bombay]] Harbour on 18 February 1946. * [[SS Columbia Eagle incident|SS ''Columbia Eagle'' incident]] occurred on 14 March 1970 during the [[Vietnam War]] when sailors aboard an American merchant ship mutinied and hijacked the ship to [[Cambodia]]. * The [[East Bengal Regiment]] switched sides from the [[Pakistan Army]] to the [[Mukti Bahini|Bangladesh Forces]] during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]. * The [[Unit 684#Mutiny|Unit 684 mutiny]] occurred in 23 August 1971 when members of [[Republic of Korea Air Force]] black ops Unit 684 mutinied for unclear reasons. * The [[Soviet frigate Storozhevoy#Mutiny|''Storozhevoy'' mutiny]] occurred on 9 November 1975 in [[Riga]], [[Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic|Latvian SSR]], Soviet Union. The [[Political commissar|political officer]] locked up the [[Soviet Navy]] captain and sailed the ship toward [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]]. * [[Greek junta#Velos mutiny|The ''Velos'' mutiny]]: On 23 May 1973, the captain of [[USS Charrette|''Velos'']] destroyer refused to return to [[Greece]] after a [[NATO]] exercise to protest against the [[Greek junta|dictatorship in Greece]]. * [[1977 Bangladesh Air Force mutiny|1977 Bangladesh Air Force Mutiny]], during which 11 officers of the [[Bangladesh Air Force]] were killed by mutineers. * The [[Coup d'état of December Twelfth]] in 1979, where a [[Hanahoe|secret society of military officers]] in [[South Korea]] led by Major General [[Chun Doo-hwan]] mutinied against the [[Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Army]] General [[Jeong Seung-hwa]]. * Following [[Operation Blue Star]] against Sikh militants holed in the [[Harmandir Sahib|Golden Temple]] in the Sikh [[holy city]] of [[Amritsar]], many soldiers and officers of [[Indian Army]]'s [[Sikh Regiment]] mutinied or resigned.<ref>{{cite web|author=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/02/world/general-promises-to-punish-sikh-mutineers.html |title=General Promises To Punish Sikh Mutineers |location=India; Amritsar (India); Punjab State (India) |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1984-07-02 |access-date=2012-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sikhmuseum.com/bluestar/newsreports/840611_6.html |title=Operation Blue Star 1984 Golden Temple Attack Sikhs |publisher=Sikhmuseum.com |date=1984-06-11 |access-date=2012-06-10}}</ref>
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