<Table> <Tr> <Th> Dates </Th> <Th> Region </Th> <Th> Main Article </Th> <Th> Summary </Th> <Th> Refs </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> BC 470 -- 391 </Td> <Td> China </Td> <Td> Mohism </Td> <Td> The Mohist philosophical school disapproved of war . However , since they lived in a time of warring polities , they cultivated the science of fortification . </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> around AD 26 -- 36 </Td> <Td> Judea </Td> <Td> Pontius Pilate </Td> <Td> Jews demonstrated in Caesarea to try to convince Pontius Pilate not to set up Roman standards , with images of the Roman emperor and the eagle of Jupiter , in Jerusalem ( both images were considered idolatrous by religious Jews ) . Pilate surrounded the Jewish protesters with soldiers and threatened them with death , to which they replied that they were willing to die rather than see the laws of the Torah violated . </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Before 1500 -- 1835 </Td> <Td> Chatham Islands , New Zealand </Td> <Td> Moriori </Td> <Td> The Moriori were a branch of the New Zealand Māori that colonized the Chatham Islands and eventually became hunter - gatherers . Their lack of resources and small population made conventional war unsustainable , so it became customary to resolve disputes nonviolently or ritually . Due to this tradition of nonviolence , the entire population of 2000 people was enslaved , killed or cannibalized when 900 Māori invaded the island in 1835 . </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1848 - 1920 </Td> <Td> US </Td> <Td> Women 's Suffrage in the United States </Td> <Td> A political movement that spanned over a century , where women protested in order to receive the right to suffrage in the United States . </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1819 </Td> <Td> England </Td> <Td> Peterloo massacre </Td> <Td> Famine and chronic unemployment , coupled with the lack of suffrage in northern England , led to a peaceful demonstration of 60,000 -- 80,000 persons , including women and children . The demonstration was organized and rehearsed , with a `` prohibition of all weapons of offence or defence '' and exhortations to come `` armed with no other weapon but that of a self - approving conscience '' . Cavalry charged into the crowd , with sabres drawn , and in the ensuing confusion , 15 people were killed and 400 -- 700 were injured . Newspapers expressed horror , and Percy Shelley glorified nonviolent resistance in the poem The Masque of Anarchy . However , the British government cracked down on reform , with the passing of what became known as the Six Acts . </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1823 - 1829 </Td> <Td> Ireland </Td> <Td> Catholic Association </Td> <Td> One of the first mass - membership political movements of Europe , the Catholic Association was founded by Daniel O'Connell to use non-violent means to push the British government to pass Catholic emancipation , which culminated in the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 by the government of the Duke of Wellington </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1834 -- 38 </Td> <Td> Trinidad </Td> <Td> End of Slavery in Trinidad </Td> <Td> The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , then the colonial power in Trinidad , first announced in 1833 the impending total liberation of slaves by 1840 . In 1834 at an address by the Governor at Government House about the new laws , an unarmed group of mainly elderly people of African descent began chanting : `` Pas de six ans . Point de six ans '' ( `` No six years . Not at all six years '' ) , drowning out the voice of the Governor . Peaceful protests continued until the passing of a resolution to abolish apprenticeship and the achievement of de facto freedom . </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1838 </Td> <Td> US </Td> <Td> Cherokee removal </Td> <Td> The Cherokee refused to recognize the fraudulent Treaty of New Echota and therefore did not sell their livestock or goods , and did not pack anything to travel to the west before the soldiers came and forcibly removed them . That ended tragically in the Cherokee trail of tears . </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1849 - 1867 </Td> <Td> Austrian Empire </Td> <Td> Passive Resistance ( Hungary ) </Td> <Td> In the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1848 , the Hungarians tried to regain independence , and were defeated by the Austrian Empire only with the aid of the Russian Empire . After 1848 , the empire instituted several constitutional reforms , trying to resolve the problem , but without success . The resistance was instrumental in keeping
who was the first to be known for using methods of nonviolent civil disobedience in protest
The Mohist philosophical school