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30 apr 2024 · Peasants’ Revolt (1381), first great popular rebellion in English history. Its immediate cause was the imposition of the poll tax of 1380, which brought to a head the economic unrest that had been growing since the middle of the century.
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The Twelve Articles (German Zwölf Artikel) were part of the peasants' demands of the Swabian League during the German Peasants' War of 1525. They are considered the first draft of human rights and civil liberties in continental Europe after the Roman Empire.
The peasants refused to pay the poll tax and their opposition spread to surrounding villages in Essex and Kent. Peasants gathered together and started to march towards London, led by a man...
7th to 12th June 1381 The Peasants Revolt was a march through Kent and from Suffolk towards London. It was not a march just of peasants though. Local priests, reeves, smaller landowners were among the rebels. Word was spread quickly throughout the South East and into East Anglia.
3 mar 2021 · But what exactly forced the 14th century peasantry of England to breaking point? Matt Lewis investigates the real people behind the revolutionary peasants revolt of 1381. Watch Now. 1. The Black Death (1346-53)
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21 lug 2010 · Peasant army marches into London. During the Peasants’ Revolt, a large mob of English peasants led by Wat Tyler marches into London and begins burning and looting the city. Several government...
The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381. The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred ...
