Wat Tyler and John Ball were involved in the peasants revolt of 1381 .
But the person who started was actually Wat Tyler
Wat Tyler (pronounced = What Tiler)
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Wat Tylor was the leader of the peasant revolt until he got killed.He was from Kent.
In 1381 the peasants revolted
Walter "Wat" Tyler (4 January 1341 - 15 June 1381) was the leader of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381
The Peasants' Revolt took place in England in 1381. They were upset when the nobles instituted another poll tax for them to pay. The peasants were also forced to work for free on church land, sometimes two days a week. This didn't leave them enough time to work their own land and their families often went hungry as a result.
The result of what is known as the German Peasants' War was a crushing of the revolt. Tens of thousands of peasants were killed.
The peasants did not succeed, but the revolt set the stage for future uprisings like the Protestant reformation and the French Revolution.