Throughout its history Leeds has had several riots, often recurring in the same areas. Below is a list of recorded riots that have taken place.^[1] The most famous of these is perhaps the 1981 Chapeltown riot, which took place the same time as riots in London (Brixton), Birmingham (Handsworth) and Liverpool (Toxteth).

• 1735 Corn price riot
• 1753 The turnpike riots
• 1754 Holbeck Chapel Riot
• 1800 Corn price riot
• 1811 Corn price riot
• 1842 The Chartist and Plug riots in Holbeck and Hunslet
• 1844 The Military riot
• 1865 Leeds dripping riot
• 1890 The Gasworkers riot
• 1893 Morley miners' riot
• 1908 The suffragette riot
• 1917 An anti-Jewish riot, Quarry Hill
• 27 September 1936 The Battle of Holbeck Moor
• 1975 Chapeltown riot (1975)
• 11 July 1981 Chapeltown riot (1981)
• 22 June 1987 Chapeltown riot (1987)
• 1995 Hyde Park Riot
• 2001 Harehills riot
• 2002 Leeds Festival riots
• The 2011 England riots saw "pockets of disorder" in Leeds^[2][3][4]

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