For my country, (Ireland), it was probably the Easter Rising.
To put it briefly, the Easter rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during the Easter week of 1916. The rising was an attempt made by Irish republicans to try and gain freedom from the English during the First World war.
16 of the rising’s leaders were executed as a result, and the county of Dublin (where the uprising occurred) was under martial law for a while after the Irish republicans were forced to surrender. About 3,500 people were taken prisoner by the British and about 1,800 of those were sent to internment camps and prisons.
In total, 485 people were killed during the uprising. 260 were civilians, 143 were British police and 82 were Irish rebels (including those executed)
See here for more info if you are interested
The importance of this rising, although it did not directly cause the liberation of most of Ireland, it lead to the agreement that allowed 26 of the 32 counties in Ireland to be liberated from British rule and given their own governing body.
These areas of Ireland have been gifted full freedom to reclaim their culture, with many Gaeltacht areas where Irish is still the main spoken language, as well as many others. Northern Ireland (still under British rule) does not have many (if any) Gaelacht areas. We still have many parts of our culture, including dance, music, farming cultures and some language, but it has been severely limited by English influence compared to the South.
The rising triggered an increasing demand for Home Rule, something we are still hoping for today, even though it is unlikely at this point, for political reasons.
The political reasons in question
Due to the recent Brexit, many Loyalists (Unionist-ish party. Basically an English and pro-separation of the north and south party), have been angry at how the separation of the UK from the EU has distances northern ireland from england, rather than distancing northern Ireland from southern ireland. They “feared” for their safety as english people in a growing irish culture, and began chucking petrol bombs around and kicking up a fuss. Lots of riots and stuff.
Basically most politicians have acknowledged that creating home rule would make this even worse, and generate a lot of hate crimes between the catholics and protestants, as well as a lot of expensive riots.
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