The British Parliament earlier imposed a series of taxes such as the Stamp Act of 1765 and later on, the Tea Act of 1773, of which an angry mob of colonists protested about in the Boston Tea Party by dumping chests of tea into Boston Harbor.

Even in the capital, Jakarta, not long ago, a mob protested outside the offices of Tempo, the nation's leading magazine, vandalizing vehicles.

The mob was protesting alleged American injustices in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine.

In 1766, 1782, 1795, and 1800 mobs protested high food prices.

The mobs were protesting about two Protestant Christian brothers arrested on 2 July and charged with writing a booklet containing blasphemous words.

Originally, the mob protested against the crimes of the head of the capital's prison (the praetorium), John Lagos, but soon it turned into a full-scale rebellion against Alexios III, which had to be bloodily suppressed.

The mob had been protesting a checkpoint conflict that took place in Chaghcharan in which government troops killed two local militiamen.

On March 1, 2013 in Skopje, a mob of ethnic Macedonians protested against the decision to appoint Talat Xhaferi, an ethnic Albanian politician, as Minister of Defence.

Russian officials have railed against the Western alliance in terms that recall the tensest days of the cold war, and an unruly mob protested at the American Embassy here today, screaming obscenities and pelting the building with bottles and paint.