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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.
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.
In 1968, with uprisings sweeping the globe, student protests triggered a wave of demands for greater Kosovar autonomy.
The grand square, wholly wiped out by the great earthquake of 1755, has seen its share of watershed political events: King Carlos and his son were felled by assassin’s bullets in the praça in 1908, and one of the first uprisings of the Carnation Revolution of 1974 was staged in this place.
Will points out that the GOP establishment's endorsement of Bush was completely voluntary and that grassroots uprisings, as McCain is attempting to bring about, are not always good for the party--look at what George McGovern did to the Democrats.