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In 1968, with uprisings sweeping the globe, student protests triggered a wave of demands for greater Kosovar autonomy.
On 10 October 1868 Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, a criollo plantation owner who had already had a brief role in uprisings in Spain, issued a call for independence and liberated slaves from his estate, La Demajagua.
The Jacobite uprisings found little support in such lowland cities as Edinburgh.
The order played a great part in Cretan uprisings against the Turks — monks were hanged in 1821 — and more recently against the Germans in WWII when it was a rallying point for British soldiers and native partisans.
There were notable uprisings in 1828 when its leaders were killed at Frangokástello, and in 1866 when 2,000 people died in a suicide bombing at Arkádi Monastery.