Labor History

Irish Rebellion of 1798 Today in Labor History May 24, 1798: The Irish Rebellion of 1798 began. The uprising was organized by the United Irishmen, a Republican revolutionary group that was influenced by both the American and French Revolutions. They were fighting for independence from Britain. The United Irishmen was started primarily by Protestant Dissenters […]

1820s-1830s Today in Labor History May 23, 1827: The first American nursery school was established in New York City. It was created in order to “relieve parents of the laboring classes” and offer their children “protection from idleness” and other evils that typically infected the rabble.  May 23, 1832: The authorities executed Jamaican national hero

1300s-1500s Today in Labor History May 22, 1370: Mobs murdered hundreds of Jews during the Brussels Massacre for allegedly desecrating the Host. And they banished the survivors, virtually the entire Jewish community. May 22, 1520: The Alvarado Massacre, Tenochtitlan, Mexico. Spanish conquistadores, under the command of Pedro de Alvarado, slaughtered unarmed Aztec warriors and noblemen

1600s Today in Labor History May 21, 1660: the Iroquois Confederacy defeated the French colonial militia in the Battle of Long Sault. Today in Writing History May 21, 1688: Poet and satirist Alexander Pope was born. Some of his more well-known pieces include The Rape of the Lock, The Duncia, and An Essay on Criticism.

1600s-1700s Today in Labor History May 20, 1645: The Yangzhou Massacre began in Yanzhou, China. Over the course of ten days, Manchu soldiers, under the leadership of General Dodo, slaughtered 800,000 civilians. May 20, 1776: The Mohawks, under Joseph Brandt, defeated Americans at the Battle of the Cedars. 1800s Today in Labor History May 20,