List of terrorist incidents

The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism. Assassinations are listed by location at List of assassinated people.

There is no single accepted definition of non-state terrorism in common use. Incidents listed here are restricted to those that: (a) are not believed to have been state-sponsored; and (b) are commonly called terrorism or meet some of the commonly used criteria.

19th century

*flagicon|France 1800: Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise, assassination attempt on Napoleon Bonaparte, in Paris on 24 December 1800.
*flagicon|United States|1858 1838: The Haun's Mill massacre - 30 October 1838. Massacre of 18 Mormon men, women and children by the Missouri Militia.
*flagicon|United States|1851 flagicon|United States|1858 flagicon|United States|1859 1856, 1858, 1859: raids by John Brown in his fight against slavery [ [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/brownchronology.html John Brown Chronology ] ]
*flagicon|France 1858 Felice Orsini tried to kill the Emperor Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, and failed, killing 8 people and wounding 142 others.
*flagicon|United States|1861 flagicon|United States|1863 1863: Morgan's Raid led by John Hunt Morgan [ [http://www.lawrence.com/news/2006/aug/14/morgan_walker_raid/ The Morgan Walker Raid | lawrence.com ] ]
*flagicon|United Kingdom 1867 5 March: Attempt to blow up Clerkenwell Prison by Fenian agents. Dynamite charges demolish nearby tenements killing six people and causing 120 casualties "including 15 permanently injured with loss of eyes, legs, arms etc." [http://www.booksulster.com/library/soi/storyofireland12.php The Story of Ireland by Justin McCarthy ] ]
*flagicon|United States 1865-1877: Over 3000 Freedmen and their Republican Party allies are 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 reestablished segregation. [Jonathan M. Bryant: [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-694 Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era] , "The New Georgia Encyclopedia", October 3, 2002] [ [http://www.nypost.com/seven/01202008/postopinion/postopbooks/they_didnt_give_a_damn_111633.htm?page=0 The Bloody Shirt Terror After Appomattox by Stephen Budiansky Viking Press] ]
*flagicon|New South Wales|1867 1868: Attempted assassination of Prince Alfred in Sydney. [ [http://www.shoalhaven.net.au/~cathyd/history/prince.html Prince Alfred visit to Australia in 1868 ] ]
*flagicon|Canada The Fenian Brotherhood attacked Canadian targets in order to bring pressure on Britain to withdraw from Ireland. [ [http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/ireland/1852-68.htm Ireland 1852-1868 ] ]
*flagicon|United Kingdom 1881 14 January: Fenian attempt to blow up Salford Infantry Barracks kills one
*flagicon|France 1882 22 october A bomb exploded in Théâtre Bellecour restaurant, in Lyon, killing one employee.
*flagicon|United Kingdom 1884 30 May: Fenian dynamite explosions demolish part of Scotland Yard and part of the Carlton Club; unexploded device found at the foot of Nelson's Column. [ [http://www.met.police.uk/history/fenians.htm Metropolitan Police Service - History of the Metropolitan Police Service ] ]
*flagicon|United Kingdom 1885 25 January: Fenian bombs explode at the Tower of London, London Bridge and two more at the House of Commons. [Robin Fell. [http://www.alphadeltaplus.20m.com/contact.html Fenians in Parliament 1885] , on [http://www.alphadeltaplus.20m.com/index.html ALPHA DELTA PLUS] a web site for officers who served at Cannon Row Police Station]
*flagicon|United Kingdom 1887 21 June: The Jubilee Plot: A British-paid Fenian "agent provocateur" comes close to blowing up Westminster Abbey and killing Queen Victoria. [Roy Hattersley. [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,722150,00.html Victoria and the big-bang theory] , The Observer, Sunday May 26, 2002. reviewing a "Fenian Fire: The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria" by Christy Campbell, HarperCollins.]
*flagicon|United States|1877 1881, July 2: American President James Garfield is assassinated by religious fanatic Charles J. Guiteau. [ [http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jg20.html Biography of James Garfield ] ]
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*flagicon|United States|1877 1886: Bomb at Haymarket Square, Chicago during a labor rally causes the Haymarket Riot that kills twelve people. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A627662 BBC - h2g2 - How May Day Became a Workers' Holiday ] ]
*flagicon|Japan 1891, May 11: Assassination attempt on Nicholas II of Russia by a Japanese police officer named Tsuda Sanzo. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20A1FFD355B17738DDDA80894D0405B868DF1D3 ASSAULT ON CZAREVITCH.; Japanese Writer Recalls an International Trage... - Article Preview - The New York Times ] ]
*flagicon|France 1893, 3 February Auguste Vaillant threw the home-made device from the public gallery of the French Chamber of Deputies in order to avenge the Ravachol execution. The weakness of the device meant that the explosion only wounded one deputy.
*flagicon|France 1893, 25 April The day before Ravachol judgment, a bomb exploded in Very restaurant, the place where Ravachol was arrested. The owner and one other man were killed. Théodule Meunier was later arrested in London in 1894 for the bombing
*flagicon|United Kingdom 1894: Explosion at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London. The bomb goes off prematurely, killing only the bomber. [ [http://res.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/XVIII/72/412.pdf Review of English Studies - Sign In Page ] ]
*flagicon|France 1894, 12 February One week after the execution of Auguste Vaillant, Emile Henry threw a bomb in the "Terminus" café, in Saint Lazare train station. 1 killed, 20 wounded. Ravachol, Vaillant and Henry were all anarchist militants.
*flagicon|France 1894, 20 February. 2 bombs exploded in two hotels, in 69 rue Saint-Jacques] , wounded a women, and 47 rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin, without casualties.
*flagicon|France 1894, 4 April A bomb exploded in Foyot restaurant. The writer Laurent Tailhade lost an eye in the explosion.
*flagicon|France 1894, 24 June An Italian anarchist, Sante Geronimo Caserio stabbed to death the French president Sadi Carnot in order to avenge Auguste Vaillant and Emile Henry.
*flagicon|Switzerland 1898, September 10: Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria of Austria-Hungary (commonly called "Sissi") is stabbed to death by a young Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni, in Geneva.Fact|date=January 2008

1900s-1940s

*flagicon|United States 1901, September 6: American President William McKinley is assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. [ [http://www.mckinley.lib.oh.us/McKinley/biography.htm Biography of William McKinley ] ]
*flagicon|Morocco 1904, May 18: Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley kidnapped and ransomed by bandit Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli in Morocco. [ [http://www.capitalcentury.com/1904.html 1904: Teddy's Big Stick ] ]
*flagicon|Russia 1904, June 16: Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov is assassinated in Senate House in Helsinki by Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman. [ [http://www.hs.fi/english/article/1076153076611 Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Home ] ]
*flagicon|Portugal 1908, February 1: The Portuguese King Carlos is murdered with his son Prince Luís Filipe, Duke of Braganza, by two man connected with Carbonária, a terrorist organisation linked with the Portuguese Republican Party.
*flagicon|Sweden 1908, July 13: The Amalthea Bombing. 1 killed and 23 injured in attack on strikebreakers by the young socialist activist Anton Nilsson. [ [http://www2.malmo.stadsbibliotek.org/nivelo/normal.po?sida=1148 Malmö stadsbibliotek ] ]
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*flagicon|United States 1910, October 1: A bomb at the Los Angeles Times newspaper building in Los Angeles, California, United States, killed 21 workers.
*flagicon|Austria-Hungary 1914, June 28: Assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, precipitating World War I. [Dedijer, Vladimir. The Road to Sarajevo, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1966]
*flagicon|Australia 1915, January 1: Battle of Broken Hill - Turkish nationalists shoot at civilians in the Australian town, killing six. [ [http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/history/Transcripts/s1051016.htm Battle Of Broken Hill: ] ]
* 1915 July 2 Frank Holt, (a.k.a. Erich Muenter) a German professor exploded a bomb in the reception room of the U.S. Senate. The next morning he tried to assassinate J.P. Morgan, Jr., son of the financier whose company served as Great Britain’s principal U.S. purchasing agent for munitions and other war supplies to try and stop the United States entry into World War I against Germany. [Richard A. Baker: [http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/senate/notabledays/chap4.pdf 200 Notable Days: Senate Stories, 1787 to 2002 - Chapter IV: Origins of the modern senate] , GPO, Washington D.C., p. 112]
*flagicon|United States 1920, September 16: Wall Street Bombing kills 38 people and wounds 300 others. [ [http://www.h-net.org/~hns/articles/2001/091701a.html History News Service ] ]
*flagicon|Bulgaria 1925, April 16: St Nedelya Church assault kills 150 people, mostly high-ranked individuals, and wounds 500 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. [Markov, Georgi. Pokusheniya, nasilie i politika v Balgariya 1878-1947. Voenno izdatelstvo, Sofia, 2003. ISBN 954-509-239-4] [ Peshev, Petar. Istoricheski sabitiya i deyateli, 3rd edition. Izdatelstvo na BAN, 1993. ISBN 954-430-155-0 ]
*flagicon|United States 1927: The Ku Klux Klan launch a wave of political terror in Alabama.
*flagicon|United States 1933, October 10: A Boeing 247 is destroyed in midflight by a nitroglycerin bomb. All seven people aboard are killed. This incident is the first proven case of air sabotage in the history of aviation. [http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1933/1933-16.htm]
*flagicon|France 1934, October 9: Assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou in Marseille by Ustashas and IMRO
* 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 of the local electric utility. He also sent many threatening letters. [ [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40815FF385D127A93C1A81789D95F478785F9 Mad Bomber,' Now 70, Goes Free Today; Mad Bomber,' Now 70, Goes Free T... - Free Preview - The New York Times ] ]
*, with 91 deaths - a mix of military and civilian. [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2277717,00.html British anger at terror celebration - Times Online ] ]
*flagicon|India 1948, January 30: Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse. [ [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/30/world/main2415455.shtml Mahatma Gandhi & My Grandfather, Young Journalist Tells How Grandfather Witnessed Gandhi Assassination - CBS News ] ]

1950s

*flagicon|United States During this and the next decade The Ku Klux Klan re-emerges. Some of the tactics used are lynching, cross burning and assassination.
*flagicon|United States 1950, November 1: Puerto Rican nationalists fail to assassinate U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
*flagicon|Pakistan 1951, October 16: Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, is assassinated by two gun-shots in the chest in a public meeting of the Muslim City League at Municipal Park, Rawalpindi by Saad Akbar Babrak, an Afghan from the Zadran tribe Pacha Khan Zadran.
*flagicon|Sweden 1952, August 22: Hurvamorden in Hurva, Sweden. Tore Hedin killed 7 people.
*flagicon|United States 1954, March 1: U.S. Capitol shooting incident by Puerto Rican nationalists, wounding five Congressmen. [ [http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/022904/fea_022904040.shtml HollandSentinel.com -No one expected attack on Congress in 1954 02/29/04 ] ]
*flagicon|Indonesia 1955, April 11: Air India "Kashmir Princess" (Lockheed Constellation) went down on the sea near Natuna Islands, Indonesia after a bomb explosion, killing 16 people. The plane was chartered by the People's Republic of China (PRC) government for carrying an official delegation to Bandung Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. Possible suspects include a Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) secret agent who put the bomb in the aircraft during transit in Hong Kong intending to kill PRC Prime Minister Zhou Enlai. [ [http://www.airwhiners.net/whine_cheez/20040726.htm Whine And Cheez @ www.airwhiners.net ] ]
*flagicon|United States 1955, August 28: Lynching of Emmett Louis Till in Mississippi. [ [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/ American Experience | The Murder of Emmett Till ] ]
*flagicon|Algeria 1955, August: Members of the Algerian FLN massacre civilians in the town of Philippeville.
*flagicon|Algeria 1956, September 30: The FLN sets off bombs at the office of Air France and elsewhere in Algiers.
*flagicon|United States 1958, October 12: Bombing of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple Atlanta, Georgia suspicion done by white separatists. [Greene, Melissa Faye, The Temple Bombing.]

1960s

*flagicon|Cuba 1960, March 4: Possible bombing of the Belgian ammunition carrier La Coubre in the port of Habana, killing over 30 people
*flagicon|Oman 1961, April 8: Omani terrorists blow up the passenger liner MV Dara, killing 238 people
*flagicon|United States 1963: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. A member of the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls aged 11-14.
*flagicon|United States 1965: The Ku Klux Klan murders Viola Liuzzo, a Southern-raised white mother of five who was visiting the South from her home in Detroit to attend a civil rights march. At the time of her murder Liuzzo was transporting Civil Rights Marchers.
*flagicon|United States 1965: The Monumental Plot - New York Police thwart an attempt to dynamite the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell, and the Washington Monument by three members of the pro Castro Black Liberation Front and a Quebec Separatist. [Time Magazine: [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,833472,00.html The Monumental Plot] , February 26, 1965]
*flagicon|Ireland 1966, March 8: A group of former IRA men planted a bomb that destroyed Nelson's Pillar in Dublin
*flagicon|United Kingdom 1966: Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the IRA; on June 26 they commit three sectarian murders.
*flagicon|United States 1966: NAACP leader Vernon Dahme assassinated by firebomb exploded by The Ku Klux Klan.
*flagicon|Canada 1966, September 22: A bazooka attack on the Cuban embassy in Ottawa is made.
*flagicon|Canada 1966, October 5: Anti-Castro forces bomb the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Ottawa.
*flagicon|Hong Kong|colonial 1967: May - December: In the Hong Kong 1967 riots, evolved from civil disobedience to terrorism. Leftists killed at least 51 people including eleven policemen, a bomb expert of the British forces and a fireman, through murders or bombs.
*flagicon|United States 1968: During a student rebellion at Columbia University members of the Students for a Democratic Society and Student Afro-American Society held a Dean hostage demanding an end to both military research on campus and construction of a gymnasium in nearby Harlem. [Columbia University—Barnard Electronic Archive and Teaching Laboratory: [http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/columbia68/time2.htm EIGHT DAYS IN APRIL (1968)] , April 1, 1999]
*flagicon|Greece 1968 December 26: Two Palestinian gunmen travel from Beirut to Athens, and attack an El Al jet there, killing one person
*flagicon|Canada 1969, February 13: the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) set off a powerful bomb that ripped through the Montreal Stock Exchange causing massive destruction and seriously injuring 27 people.
*flagicon|Italy 1969, December 12: Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, killing 16 people.

1970s-2000s

ee also

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*Terrorist organizations
*List of assassinated persons
*Aircraft hijacking
*List of events named massacres

References

External links

* [http://wits.nctc.gov U.S. National Counterterrorism Center's Worldwide Incidents Tracking System]
* [http://www.start.umd.edu/data/gtd/ Global Terrorism Database, successor to the Terrorism Knowledge Base]
* [http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0cc40 Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel since the Declaration of Principles (September 1993) to September 2000]
* [http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/pakistan/pakintrigue.htm#liaquat Assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan: Documents from the U.S. National Archives]
* [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm US State Department's List of Significant Terrorist Incidents (1961 - 2003)]
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* [http://www.disaster-timeline.com/ttl.html Terrorism Time Line]
* [http://www.crimsonbird.com/terrorism/timeline.htm History of Terrorism] : Timeline of Terrorist Acts - Chronology
* Thinkquest: [http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212088/tertime.htm Timeline of Terror]
* Time.com: [http://www.time.com/time/2001/underthreat/timeline/ A Timeline of Terrorism] - Hits and Misses
* Infoplease: [http://www.infoplease.com/spot/terrorism6.html Terrorist Attacks on Americans]
* Infoplease: [http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001454.html Terrorist Attacks] (within the United States or against Americans abroad)
* Frontline : [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html Terrorist Attacks on Americans]
* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/front/special/cron.html 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
* [http://ytak.club.fr/noms.html "Ephéméride Anarchiste"] Listing anarchist terrorist incidents in France, or others countries. In French.