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Newgate prison burning during the Gordon Riots of 1780, several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. They began with a large and orderly protest against the Papists Act of 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics enacted by the Popery Act 1698. Violence started on 2 June 1780, with the looting and burning of Catholic chapels in foreign embassies. The Government finally sent in the Army, resulting in an estimated 300-700 deaths
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