| SHAYS | Rebellion of 1786-87 |
| FIGARO | 'The Marriage of ---', 1786 opera by Mozart (6) |
| LUCIFER | Leader of the rebellion of the angels (7) |
| SPARTACUS | Leader of the 73BCE rebellion of slaves against the Romans |
| SEPOYS | Troops in the service of the British East India Company, who instigated the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (6) |
| BLACKWATCH | The 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, created after the first Jacobite rebellion of 1715 (5,5) |
| LUCKNOW | City of Uttar Pradesh, besieged during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (7) |
| SAMURAI | Warrior in the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877 |
| SEPOY | _____ Rebellion of 1857-59 |
| INSURGENCE | Rebellion of restless gunners during frost (10) |
| BOXER | Chinese rebellion of 1900 (5) |
| ASSIZES | The Bloody ___, trials that followed the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 (7) |
| MUTINY | Rebellion of small proportions I'm doubtful about leading |
| JOHNBROWN | US abolitionist leader hanged in 1859 after leading an unsuccessful rebellion of slaves at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia |
| NAT | Turner who led an 1831 rebellion of enslaved people |
| REVOLUTIONARIES | Zodiac sign supports rebellion of those advocating for political change |
| HESTERLYNCHTHRALE | English writer, author of Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) |
| SHELLEY | Poet whose Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson, written with Thomas Jefferson Hogg, remembers said seamstress who attempted the life of George III in 1786 (7) |
| BEAR | ? Symphony, nickname of a 1786 work in C major by Joseph Haydn (4) |
| HUNAU | City in central Germany noted as the birthplace of Jakob (1785) and Wilhelm (1786) Grimm (5) |
