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March 1769 | Philadelphia merchants First Continental Congress | Great Britain | Opposition to colonial taxation without representation | Continental Association | |
1848 | Milan | Austria | Austrian state monopolies | Five Days of Milan | |
1880 | Irish Land League | Charles Boycott (origin of the term boycott) | Desired land reform in Ireland | [citation needed] | |
1891 | Iranian Shia | United Kingdom | The Shah's granting of a tobacco monopoly to Britain | Tobacco Protest | |
1891-1950 | Australian unionists and local residents | Local publicans and hotels around Australia | Poor wages and conditions for staff in hotels and the high cost of alcohol, accommodation and food | [1] | |
1902 | Jews in New York City | Kosher meat products | Price increases causing unaffordability | 1902 kosher meat boycott | |
1904–1906 | China | United States | The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1902, an extension of the original Act of 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act | [2][3] | |
1905-1907 | Indian National Congress Indian independence movement | British Raj | Opposition to the partition of Bengal and a desire for Indian economic independence | Swadeshi movement | [4] |
1912 | Tunisia | Compagnie des tramways de Tunis, all Italian businesses in Tunis | Young Tunisians | Tunis Tram Boycott | |
1919 | China | Japan | May Fourth Movement | Chinese boycotts of Japanese products | |
1919-1922 | Indian National Congress | British Raj | Opposition to the Rowlett Act and demands for self-rule | Non-cooperation movement | |
-1927 | American Jews | Ford Motor Company | Antisemitism by Henry Ford in The Dearborn Independent | ||
1930-1934 | Indian National Congress
Mahatma Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru |
British Raj | Demands for Indian independence | Civil disobedience movement | |
March 1933 | American Jewish Congress International critics of Nazism | Nazi Germany | Antisemitism in Nazi Germany | Anti-Nazi boycott of 1933 | |
April 1933 | Nazi Germany | German Jews | Anti-Nazi boycotts | Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses | |
1941–1951 | Iraq | Iraqi Jews | Farhud | [5] | |
1942-1945 | Indian National Congress
Mahatma Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru |
British Raj | Demands for Indian independence | Quit India | |
1948 | Nii Kwabena Bonne III | Association of West African Merchants | Price inflation | 1948 Accra riots | |
1950 | Soviet Union | United Nations | The UN not recognising the People's Republic of China as 'China' | Soviet Union boycott of the United Nations | |
1955–1968 | African Americans | Various | Racial segregation in the United States | Civil Rights Movement Montgomery bus boycott | |
1961–1983 | West Berlin | Berlin S-Bahn | East German operation of the S-Bahn | Berlin S-Bahn | |
United Farm Workers | Grapes and lettuce in retail grocery stores | Labor disputes | Delano grape strike | ||
1960s–1990 | Various academics | South African universities | Apartheid | Academic boycott of South Africa | |
Various | South African produce | Apartheid | Disinvestment from South Africa | [citation needed] | |
1966–1987 | Various | Coors Brewing Company | Anti-LGBT hiring practices
Discrimination towards minorities and women and anti-unionism |
Coors strike and boycott | [6] |
Early April 1973 | Americans | Meat products | Increasing prices | 1973 meat boycott | |
1984–1993 | INFACT | General Electric | Production and promotion of nuclear weapons | Corporate Accountability International | |
1988-1994 | Australian Rainforest Action Groups | Companies importing rainforest timber from Malaysia to Australia | Prevention of the destruction of Indigenous owned rainforests | [7] | |
1989–1998 | Rainforest Action Network | Mitsubishi | Rainforest destruction through its forestry activities | Boycott Mitsubishi Campaign | [8] |
1990-1991 | African Americans in New York | Korean-American businesses | Racial tensions | Family Red Apple boycott | |
1991–1998 | Friends of the Lubicon | Daishowa | Proposed logging of Lubicon Cree territory | [9] | |
1996 | CDU/CSU | Mission: Impossible, Phenomenon and Chick Corea | Association of Corea, Tom Cruise, and John Travolta with Scientology, which is not legally recognized in Germany | Mission Impossible (film) § Marketing | [10] |
1990s–2000 | Andrew Vachss | Thailand | Prostitution of children in Thailand | Don't! Buy! Thai! | |
1998–2003 | American gun owners | Colt Smith & Wesson | Colt and Smith & Wesson's cooperation with Bill Clinton's gun control efforts | [11] | |
2001–2002 | Greenpeace Friends of the Earth People & Planet | Esso/ExxonMobil | Esso's climate change denial and lack of investment in renewable energy | Stop Esso campaign | |
2003 | US conservatives | Various celebrities, such as the Dixie Chicks | Celebrity opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq | Dixie Chicks comments on George W. Bush | |
2005 | Association of University Teachers | Bar-Ilan University University of Haifa | Bar-Ilan's operations in the West Bank Haifa's discipline of a lecturer | Association of University Teachers § Boycott of Israeli universities 2005 | |
2005-2006 | Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd | Nissui Company, Sealord Tuna, Gorton's Seafood | Involvement of parent company in whaling | [12] | |
2005–2013 | International Labor Rights Fund and others | Firestone Tire and Rubber Company | Forced labour and child labour on rubber plantations in Liberia | Firestone Natural Rubber Company | [13][14] |
1 May 2006 | Illegal immigrants in the United States | US businesses and schools | US immigration policy | Great American Boycott | |
2008 | German labor unions | Nokia | Nokia's closing of a German plant | [15] | |
2008 | Stonewall | Heinz | Heinz's pulling of a commercial featuring two men kissing | [16] | |
2009 | Various countries | Durban Review Conference | Scope of the conference | Durban Review Conference#Boycotts | |
2010 | Various | BP | Deepwater Horizon oil spill | Reactions to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill#Public reaction | |
2010 | Various | Arizona | Racial profiling law | [17] | |
2011 | Israelis | Tnuva | Rising food prices and price gouging | Cottage cheese boycott | |
2013-2020 | 350.org | Numerous Australian banks, universities and local governments | Divestment from fossil fuels | [18] | |
2018 | Moroccans | Bottled water and dairy products | Price gouging and corruption | 2018 Moroccan boycott | |
2019 | Residents of Louisiana | National Football League CBS Sports | Negligence in rules enforcement that kept the New Orleans Saints out of Super Bowl LIII | 2018 NFC Championship Game | [19] |
2024 | Social media users, primarily TikTokers | Various celebrities and social media influencers | Support for Israel in, or lack of action over, the Gaza war | Blockout 2024 | |
2025 | David Portnoy (withdrew), Christian McCaffrey, Cheryl Bosa, Bills Mafia | National Football League Fox Sports |
Alleged match fixing and officiating misconduct in favor of the Kansas City Chiefs, particularly in the 2024 AFC Championship Game | Super Bowl LIX boycott | [20] |
2025 | Roblox users | Roblox (The Hatch) | The Hatch's inclusion of TheOfficialTeddy. | [21] |
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Main article: Election boycott § Major instances of electoral boycotts
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