Comunero Rebellion

Colombian history
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Also known as: Commoners’ Rebellion, Comunero Revolt, Insurrección de los Comuneros
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Also called:
Comunero Revolt or Commoners’ Rebellion
Spanish:
Insurrección de los Comuneros
Date:
1780 - 1781

Comunero Rebellion, popular uprising in 1780–81 in the Viceroyalty of New Granada. In response to new tobacco and polling taxes imposed in 1780 by the Spanish government, insurgents led by Manuela Beltrán in Socorro, Colombia, sparked a revolt that soon spread to neighbouring towns north of Bogotá. The rebels, in addition to demanding the cancellation of taxes, urged such wide-ranging reforms as protection of Indian lands and an increase in the number of Creoles appointed to administrative posts. A combined force of peasants and artisans, with some Creole leaders, marched on Bogotá to deliver the list of demands, which were ...(100 of 269 words)