List of terrorist incidents

The following is a timeline of acts and attempted acts that have been labeled as terrorism and believed to have not been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Assassinations are listed at List of assassinated people.

There is no single accepted definition of non-state terrorism in common use, so incidents listed here are restricted to those that:

Are believed to not have been state-sponsored

Are either commonly called terrorism, or meet at least some of the commonly used criteria

1800–1899

1865-1877: Over 3000 Freedmen and their Republican Party allies were killed by a combination of the Ku Klux Klan and well-organized campaigns of violence by local whites in a campaign of terrorist violence that overthrew the reconstructionist governments in the American South and re-established segregation. 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated by a People's Will (Narodnaya Volya) terrorist. ". 1898, 10 September: Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria of Austria-Hungary (commonly called "Sisi") was stabbed to death by a young Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni, in Geneva.

1900–1969

1904, 18 May: Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley kidnapped and ransomed by bandit Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli in Morocco. 1904, 16 June: Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov was assassinated in Senate House in Helsinki by Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman. 1914, 28 June: Assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, precipitating World War I. 1920, 16 September: Wall Street Bombing killed 38 people and wounded 300 others. 1920-1948: Palestinian Arabs terror attacks and Zionist terror attacks 1940 - 1956: George Metesky, the "Mad Bomber", placed over 30 bombs in New York City in public places such as Grand Central Station and The Paramount Theater, injuring ten during this period in protest against the local electric utility. He also sent many threatening letters. 1946, 22 July: Bombing of King David Hotel, the British Military HQ in Jerusalem, by the Irgun, with 91 military and civilian deaths. 1949, 5 August: 12 killed and dozens injured in the Menarsha synagogue attack, Damascus. 1956, 16 June: One man was killed and six others injured when a bomb exploded in Nicosia. 1958, 15 August: Three people were killed in a bomb blast Beirut. The bombing also injured ten more and on the day that United Nations General Assembly was pondering ways to end violence in the Middle East. 1965, 26 June : Two simultaneous explosions took place near a restaurant in the 1965 Saigon bombing during the Vietnam War. The attack killed 42 people and 80 were wounded. 1967, 12 November: A bomb exploded on board British European Airways Flight 284 near Rhodes killing all 66 people on the aircraft.

1970–present

See also

List of terrorist incidents by death toll

List of aircraft hijackings

List of assassinated persons

List of designated terrorist organizations

List of events named massacres

List of incidents of political violence in Washington, D.C.

List of mass car bombings

Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents

References

External links

U.S. National Counterterrorism Center's Worldwide Incidents Tracking System

Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel since the Declaration of Principles (September 1993) to September 2000

Assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan: Documents from the U.S. National Archives

History of Terrorism : Timeline of Terrorist Acts - Chronology

Thinkquest: Timeline of Terror

Time.com: A Timeline of Terrorism - Hits and Misses

Infoplease: Terrorist Attacks on Americans

Infoplease: Terrorist Attacks (within the United States or against Americans abroad)

Frontline : Terrorist Attacks on Americans

PBS FRONTLINE/New York Times "Al Qaeda's New Front" Chronology of significant plots uncovered in Europe both before and after 9/11. January 2004

"Ephéméride Anarchiste" Listing anarchist terrorist incidents in France, or others countries. In French.

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