Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest playwrights in history.

Homer is traditionally credited with writing *The Odyssey*.

Occupy Wall Street was a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, against economic inequality.

The Arab Spring was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s.

The Reformation was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church, leading to the rise of Protestantism.

The Luddites were a secret oath-based organization of English textile workers in the 19th century who destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest against industrialization.

The May Fourth Movement was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on May 4, 1919.

Dada was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. It rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest.

The Black Arts Movement promoted cultural and political empowerment.

The Yippies mixed theater and protest to challenge authority.