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Draft:Potato Revolt

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The Potato Revolt is the name given to a social unrest that broke out in Lisbon and Porto, with reverberations in several other Portuguese cities, between May 19 and 21, 1917, in protest against hunger and the rising cost of living. People looted grocery stores and warehouses, and a state of siege was declared in Lisbon and Porto. The confrontations with the authorities that followed resulted in at least forty deaths.[1]

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Category:Revolutions in Portugal Category:Conflicts in 1917 Category:1910s in Lisbon Category:1917 in Portugal