- 1873 - Cantonal rebellion: The Canton of Valencia is proclaimed.
- 1883 - Barthélemy De Ligt born.
- 1892 - Carlo Cafiero (b. 1846) dies, in a section of Nocera’s asylum. (pictured)
- 1917 - Alexander Berkman is wrongly indicted in absentia in San Francisco for complicity in three murders stemming from the Preparedness Day Bombing.
- 1936 - A military uprising in Spain begins the Spanish Civil War.
- 1951 - Charles Desplanques (b. 1877) dies.
- 1997 - Police raid anarchist centers & homes across Italy. The Italian Anarchist Federation denounces the raids.