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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered terrorism. Massacres more generally are listed chronologically at List of massacres; assassinations are listed by location at List of assassinated people. Incidents of alleged state terrorism have not been included below due to controversy.

Note: there is no single accepted definition of terrorism in common use. Incidents listed here are commonly called terrorism, or meet some of the commonly used criteria.

Contents 1 Pre-11th century 2 11th-18th century 3 19th century 4 1900s-1940s 5 1950s 6 1960s 7 1970s 7.1 1970 7.2 1971 7.3 1972 7.4 1973 7.5 1974 7.6 1975 7.7 1976 7.8 1977 7.9 1978 7.10 1979 8 1980s 8.1 1980 8.2 1981 8.3 1982 8.4 1983 8.5 1984 8.6 1985 8.7 1986 8.8 1987 8.9 1988 8.10 1989 9 1990s 9.1 1990 9.2 1991 9.3 1992 9.4 1993 9.5 1994 9.6 1995 9.7 1996 9.8 1997 9.9 1998 9.10 1999 10 2000s 10.1 2000 10.2 2001 10.3 2002 10.4 2003 10.5 2004 10.6 2005 10.7 2006 11 See also 12 References 13 External links, resources, general references

[edit] Pre-11th century

• 1st century - The Sicarii and other groups generically termed Zealots begin a covert campaign against the Roman occupation of Judea, characterized by assassinations of "collaborators".<ref name="cbs-1">"Terror In The Name Of God", CBS News, 2003-08-20. Retrieved on 2006-07-13.</ref>
• 661 - Ali ibn Abi Talib assassinated by Kharijites.<ref>Yahya, Harun (2002-10-28). Islam is not the Source of Terrorism, but its Solution. Victory News Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-07-13.</ref>
• 680 - Husayn ibn Ali martyred in Karbala after being kept hungry and thirsty for 3 days.

[edit] 11th-18th century

• 11th century, Syria & Iran : The Hasaniyyin, followers of Hasan-i Sabbah, formed a radical group that murdered important enemies. The group is more widely known by the derogatory name of Hashshashin, i.e. partakers of hashish. Many say that their name is the source for the word 'assassin'.<ref name="cbs-1" />

[edit] 19th century

• Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg 1831, Jan van Speyk detonates his own ship in the harbour of Antwerp.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 1840, Benjamin Lett destroys a monument to British general Sir Isaac Brock
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1856, 1858, 1859, raids by John Brown in his fight against slavery.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1865 President Lincoln is assassinated while listening to a play in Washington D.C. by John Wilkes Booth
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1868 The Ku Klux Klan in Georgia engage in many acts including whipping of black women and assassination of Republican Party members. It is impossible to untangle local vigilante violence from political terrorism by the organized Klan, but it is clear that attacks on blacks became common during 1868. The Freedmen's Bureau agents reported 336 cases of murder or assault with intent to kill on freedmen across the state from January 1 through November 15. In the next three years Black churches and schools were burned, teachers were attacked, and freed people who refused to show proper deference were beaten and killed [1].
• Image:Flag of Canada.svg The Fenian Brotherhood attacked Canadian targets in order to bring pressure on Britain to withdraw from Ireland
• Image:Romanov Flag.svg 1881 Tzar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated by a People's Will (Narodnaya volya) terrorist.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1886 Bomb at Haymarket Square, Chicago during a labor rally kills 12.
• Image:Flag of Japan (bordered).svg 1891, May 11: Assassination attempt on Nicholas II of Russia by a Japanese police officer named Tsuda Sanzo.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 1894 Explosion at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London. Bomb goes off prematurely, killing only the bomber.

[edit] 1900s-1940s

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1901, September 6: American President William McKinley is assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
• Image:Flag of Morocco.svg 1904, May 18: Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley kidnapped and ransomed by bandit Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli in Morocco.
• Image:Flag of Finland (bordered).svg 1904, June 16: Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov is assassinated in Senate House in Helsinki by Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman.
• Image:Flag of Japan (bordered).svg 1909, October 26: Assassination of Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi by Korean independence activist An Jung-geun.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1910, October 1: A bomb at the Los Angeles Times newspaper building in Los Angeles, California, United States, killed 21 workers.
• Image:Flag of Austria-Hungary.svg 1914, June 28: Assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, precipitating World War I.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1920, September 16: Wall Street Bombing kills 40 people and wounds 300 others.
• Image:Flag of Bulgaria (bordered).svg 1925, April 16: St Nedelya Church assault kills 150 people, mostly high-ranked individuals, and wounds 500 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1927 The Ku Klux Klan launch a wave of political terror in Alabama.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of France.svg 1934, October 9: Assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou in Marseille by Ustashas and IMRO
• Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg 1946, July 22: Bombing of King David Hotel, the British Military HQ in Jerusalem, by the Zionist group Irgun, with 91 deaths - a mix of military and civilian
• Image:Flag of India.svg, 1948, January 30: Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse
• Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg 1948, 17 September: Assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator in Palestine, and his aide by the Stern Gang

[edit] 1950s

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg During this and the next decade The Ku Klux Klan re-emerges. Some of the tactics used are lynching, cross burning and assassination.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1950, November 1: Puerto Rican nationalists fail to assassinate President Truman.
• Image:Flag of Egypt.svg 1954: Lavon Affair – Mossad agents bomb targets in Egypt, attempting to discredit the Egyptian government.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1954, March 1: U.S. Capitol shooting incident by Puerto Rican nationalists, wounding five Congressmen.
• Image:Flag of Indonesia (bordered).svg 1955, April 11: Air India "Kashmir Princess" (Lockheed Constellation) went down on the sea near Natuna Island, 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1955, August 28: Lynching of Emmett Louis Till in Mississippi.
• Image:Flag of Algeria.svg 1955, August: Members of the Algerian FLN massacre civilians in the town of Philippeville.
• Image:Flag of Algeria.svg 1956, September 30: The FLN sets off bombs at the office of Air France and elsewhere in Algiers.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg October 12 1958: Bombing of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple Atlanta, Georgia suspicion done by white racists.

[edit] 1960s

• Image:Flag of Cuba.svg 1960 March 4: Bombing of the Belgian ammunition carrier La Coubre in the port of Habana, killing over 30 people
• Image:Flag of Oman (bordered).svg 1961 April 8: Omani terrorists blow up the passenger liner MV Dara, killing 238 people
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1963: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. A member of the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1963, November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while at a rally in Texas.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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[2].
• Image:Flag of Ireland (bordered).svg 1966 March 8: A group of former IRA men planted a bomb that destroyed Nelson's Pillar in Dublin
• Image:Flag of Northern Ireland (bordered).svg 1966 Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the IRA; on June 26 they commit three sectarian murders.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1966 NAACP leader Vernon Dahme assassinated by firebomb exploded by The Ku Klux Klan.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svgSeptember 22, 1966 - A bazooka attack on the Cuban embassy in Ottawa is made.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svgOctober 5, 1966 - Anti-Castro forces bomb the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Ottawa.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1968 Spring 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 and end to both military research on campus and construction of a gymnasium in nearby Harlem[3].
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1968 June 6: Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1968 August: Prior to Democratic Convention that year in Chicago Yippie party cofounder Abbie Hoffman threatened to spike the water of that city with LSD [4].
• Image:Flag of Greece.svg1968 December 26: Two Palestinian gunmen travel from Beirut to Athens, and attack an El Al jet there, killing one person
• Image:Flag of Canada.svgFebruary 13, 1969 - 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 twenty-seven people.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg 1969 December 12: Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, killing 16 people.

[edit] 1970s

[edit] 1970

• Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg February 21: A bomb explodes in the rear of Swissair Flight 330, causing it to crash near Zürich, Switzerland, killing 38 passengers and all 9 crew members.The attack was carried out by Palestinian group PFLP
• Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg May 8: Avivim school bus massacre by Palestinian PLO members, killing nine children, three adults and crippling 19.

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg August 24: the Army Mathematics Research Center on the University of Wisconsin campus was blown up resulting in one death
• Image:Flag of Jordan.svg September 6: Coordinated hijacking of four airliners. One hijacking is foiled in midair and two planes are diverted to Jordan’s Dawson Field. Nicaraguan hijacker Sandinista Patrick Arguello was killed and all passengers were freed after negotiated release of captured hijacker Leila Khaled and three PFLP prisoners. The following day a fifth aircraft was also hijacked. See Dawson's Field hijackings, Black September in Jordan.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svg October 5 – 17: October Crisis (Quebec): FLQ murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg October 22 An antipersonnel time bomb explodes outside a San Francisco church, showering steel shrapnel on mourners of a patrolman slain in a bank holdup; no one is injured. The Black Liberation Army is suspected [5].
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1970-1972 The Jewish Defense League was linked with a bomb explosion outside of Aeroflot's New York City office, and a detonation outside of Soviet cultural offices in Washington. Also a JDL member allegedly fired a rifle into the Soviet Union's mission office at the United Nations. Two JDL members were convicted of bomb possession and burglary in a conspiracy to blow up the Long Island residence of the Soviet Mission to the UN.

[edit] 1971

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg During this year The Black Liberation Army is suspected of killing three policemen one at his desk,shooting four others and opening fire on three patrol cars and rolling a grenade which heavily damages a police car and injures two officers. An attempt is made to bomb a police station.These incidents happen in varoius cities around the country. In August the group runs a one month long guerrilla warfare school in Fayetteville, Georgia[6].
• Image:Flag of Northern Ireland (bordered).svg December 4: In the McGurk's Bar bombing, a UVF bomb in Belfast's North Queen Street kills 15 people.

[edit] 1972

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg January 27: Two policemen, Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie, are shot in the back by at least three persons; four suspects in the case are members of the Black Liberation Army; one suspect is later killed in a street battle with St. Louis police; the recovered pistol matches Laurie's[7].
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 22: The Official Irish Republican Army kills seven civilians in the Aldershot bombing.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svgApril 4, 1972: Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate at Montreal.
• Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg May 30: Lod Airport Massacre by the Japanese Red Army terrorists, killing 26 and injuring 78.
• Image:Flag of Northern Ireland (bordered).svg July 21: Bloody Friday nine are killed and 130 injured as Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) sets off 22 bombs.
• Four PLO terrorists hijacked a Sabena airliner carrying 99 passengers and 10 crew members on route from Brussels to Tel Aviv. In a mission entitled Operation Isotope, 16 members of Sayeret Matkal posed as refueling and technical personnel and stormed the plane, killing the terrorists and releasing the passengers.
• Image:Flag of Northern Ireland (bordered).svg July 31: Claudy bombings; the Provisional Irish Republican Army sets off three car bombs in Claudy killing nine.
• Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg Image:Flag of Germany.svg September 5: Black September kidnaps and kills 11 Israeli Olympic athletes and one German policeman in the Munich Massacre.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg October 27: Police car bombing in Los Angeles claimed by Afro American Liberation Army[8].
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg December 28 A Brooklyn, New York bartender is held for $12000 ransom by the Black Liberation Army[9].

[edit] 1973

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg A New York City transit detective is killed and ten law enforcement personnel are shot four by machine gun during the year mostly in and around New York City by the Black Liberation Army. Also two members of that organization are arrested with a car full of explosives. In the next few years there are a number of violent incidents involving this organization but they are more criminal in nature. [10].
• Image:Flag of Sudan.svg March 1: Black September takes ten hostages (five of them diplomats) at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. Three western diplomats are killed.
• Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg September 1: A man blows himself up inside Lenin Mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square. Two women standing next to him also died. <ref> Oberg, James E. Uncovering Soviet Disasters: Exploring the Limits of Glasnost. New York: Random House, 1988: 104. </ref>
• Image:Flag of Austria.svg September 28: Chopin-Express: Two Arab terrorists hijack the Chopin-Express from Moscow to Vienna at the East-West border in Marchegg. The train is often used by Jewish exilants from the USSR. The terrorists demand the closure of an Austrian transit camp for Jews on their way to Israel. Chancellor Kreisky (Jewish himself) complies and allows the terrorists to evade to Libya.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg December 17: Pan Am Flight 110: 30 passengers were killed when phosphorus bombs are thrown aboard the aircraft as it prepares for departure.
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg December 30: Prime Minister Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated in Madrid by ETA.

[edit] 1974

• Image:Flag of Japan (bordered).svg January 31: Laju incident: JRA–PFLP attack on a Shell facility in Singapore and the simultaneous seizure of the Japanese embassy in Kuwait.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 4: Twelve people are killed by the IRA in the M62 Coach Bombing.
• Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg April 11: Kiryat Shmona massacre at an apartment building by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members, killing 18 people, 9 of whom were children
• Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg May 15: Ma'alot massacre at the Ma'alot High School in Northern Israel by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members: 26 of the hostages were killed, 66 wounded.
• Image:Flag of Ireland (bordered).svg May 17: Ulster Volunteer Force detonate 3 car bombs in Dublin and one in Monaghan; 35 dead – killing 35 civilians, the deadliest toll of any one day in Ireland's 'Troubles'.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg May 28: 8 people are killed and at least 90 wounded when a bomb placed in a rubbish bin explodes in the Piazza della Loggia bombing.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg August 4: Italicus Expressen between Roma and Brennero explodes, killing 12 and injuring 44. Attributed to far-right terrorism.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg September 8: TWA Flight 841: Bomb kills 88 on jetliner.
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg September 13: Basque ETA group bombs the "Rolando" cafeteria in Madrid and kills 12.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg October 5: Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves five dead and 44 injured.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg November 21: Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA kills 21, 182 people are injured.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg December 11: A bomb set off by the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in East Harlem,New York permanently disables a police officer while causing him to lose an eye.

[edit] 1975

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg January 24: FALN bomb the Fraunces Tavern, killing four and injuring more than 50
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 26: London police officer Stephen Tibble, 22, is shot dead as he chases an IRA gunman escaping from a bomb factory.
• Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg March 5: In the Savoy Operation PLO gunmen from Lebanon take dozens of hostages at the Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel eventually killing eight hostages and three IDF soldiers, and wounding 11 hostages.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg April 19: FALN sets off four bombs within a forty minute period in Manhattan,New York injuring at least five people.
• Image:Flag of Sweden.svg ;24 April: RAF occupies the West Germany's embassy in Stockolm, Sweden,and blows up the building before surrendering to the Swedish police.
• Image:Flag of Northern Ireland (bordered).svg July 31: Three members of Ireland's popular Miami Showband killed in UVF gun attack in Co. Down.
• Image:Flag of Austria.svg December 1975: Carlos the Jackal and his rebels attack OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria and take over 60 hostages - mostly they were OPEC countries' leaders. On December 22 the hostages and rebels are transported in a DC-9 to Algiers where 30 hostages were freed; the plane was then flown to Tripoli, Libya where more hostages were freed before flying back to Algiers where the remaining hostages were freed and the rebels were granted asylum.
• Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg December 14: In the Netherlands, near Beilen, a passenger train was hijacked by members of the RMS movement, passengers were kept hostage. Three passengers were killed by the hijackers.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg December 29: Bomb explodes at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 and injuring 75. No arrests ever made in this case and the reason for this attack remains unknown.

[edit] 1976

• Image:Flag of Djibouti.svg February 3: Somali Coast Liberation Front hijack a school bus in Djibouti, killing one girl.
• Image:Flag of France.svg February 16: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia assassinate Turkish diplomat Oktay Cerit in Paris.
• Image:Flag of Uganda.svg Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg: June 26–July 4: Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 by Palestinian PFLP and German Revolutionäre Zellen(Tel Aviv-Paris); Operation Entebbe: 4 hostages, one Sayeret Matkal soldier and 45 Ugandian soldiers killed.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg Image:Flag of Canada.svg,Image:Flag of France.svg September 10,September 11 Croatian Freedom Fighters hijack a TWA airliner diverting it to Gander, Newfoundland,and then Paris demanding a manifesto be printed. One police officer was killed and three injured during an attempt to defuse a bomb that contained their communiques in a New York City train station locker [11].
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg September 21: Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington by Chilean government.
• Image:Flag of Cuba.svg October 6: Cubana Flight 455 was bombed while flying from Barbados to Havana, killing 73. Anti-Castro exiles are involved, among them Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles.
• Image:Flag of Indonesia (bordered).svg December 4: In the Netherlands, members of the RMS movement occupy the Indonesian diplomatic consulate in The Hague. One Indonesian official is killed.

[edit] 1977

• Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg January 8: A bomb goes off on a Moscow subway train as it rolls into Kurskaya station. Seven die and 33 are seriously injured in the incident, attributed to Armenian terrorists. <ref> Oberg, James E. Uncovering Soviet Disasters: Exploring the Limits of Glasnost. New York: Random House, 1988: 104. </ref>
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg March 9: Three buildings in Washington, DC are seized by members of the militant African-American Muslim Hanafi sect and over 100 hostages taken. One bystander is shot and killed, and Washington city councilman Marion Barry is shot in the chest. After a two-day standoff all hostages are released from the District Building (city hall), B'nai B'rith headquarters, and the Islamic Center.
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg April 7: Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver were shot by two Red Army Faction members.
• Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg May 23: In the Netherlands, RMS activists kept 105 children and 5 teachers hostage in a school in Smilde.
• Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg June 11: In the Netherlands, near Groningen, a passenger train was hijacked by members of the RMS, 55 passengers were kept hostage. In an army attack six hijackers and two passengers were killed.
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg July 30: Jürgen Ponto, then head of the Dresdner Bank, was shot and killed by the Red Army Faction in a failed kidnapping.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg August 3 Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in Manhattan, New York bombs the offices of Mobil and a building containing Defense Department security personal killing one and injuring eight in the Mobil offices. In addition the group warned that bombs were located in thirteen other buildings, including the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center resulting in the evacuation of one hundred thousand. Five days later a bomb attributed to the group was found in the AMEX building [12].
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg September 5: Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction. He was executed by the Red Army Faction on October 19, 1977.
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg October 13: Lufthansa flight LH 181 was kidnapped by a group of four PFLP to Mogadishu it was freed by GSG-9 commando group.

[edit] 1978

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1978–1995: The Unabomber kills three and injures 29 in a string of anti-technology bombings.
• Image:Flag of Australia.svg February 13: Hilton bombing: A bomb is detonated outside the CHOGM meeting in Sydney, Australia, killing 2 people. 3 Ananda Marga members are later arrested and jailed for the attack, but later released due to lack of proof.
• Image:Flag of Northern Ireland (bordered).svg February 17: The IRA kill 12 people in the La Mon Restaurant Bombing.
• Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg March: In the Netherlands members of the RMS movement occupy a provincial office in Assen. 67 persons were held hostage, one official was killed on the spot, another died of injuries a month later.
• Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg March 11: Coastal Road massacre: Fatah gunmen killed several tourists and hijack a bus near Haifa; 37 Israelis on the bus are killed.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg March 16 – May 9: The Red Brigade kidnap Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and assassinate him 55 days later.

[edit] 1979

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg Puerto Rican nationalist organization FALN exploded a bomb outside of the Shubert Theatre in Chicago, injuring five people.
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg July 29: Basque ETA members bomb two railway stations in Madrid, killing 7.
• Image:Flag of Ireland (bordered).svg Image:Flag of Northern Ireland (bordered).svg August 27: Lord Mountbatten and three others are killed by IRA bomb on board his boat off Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo. The same day two IRA bombs kill 18 British soldiers near Warrenpoint. After the explosions a heavy gun battle ensued between the soldiers and the attackers firing from their position inside the border with the Republic of Ireland. One British civilian was accidentally fired upon by British forces and killed.
• Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg 2 November: Sunni militant group of 1, 300 to 1,500 men seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca Saudi Arabia.
• Image:Flag of Iran.svg November 4: Iran hostage crisis, a 444-day standoff during which student proxies of the new Iranian regime held hostage 66 diplomats and citizens of the United States inside the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg November 15: American Airlines Flight 444 is attacked by the Unabomber - his bomb gives off large quantities of smoke but fails to detonate.

[edit] 1980s

[edit] 1980

• Image:Flag of Canada.svgJanuary 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg February 27: Dominican embassy siege: Guerrillas from M-19 take diplomats hostage at the Dominican embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. After 61 days, all are released on April 27.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg March 15: armed members of FALN raided the campaign headquarters of President Jimmy Carter in Chicago and the campaign headquarters of George H. W. Bush in New York City. Seven people in Chicago and ten people in New York were tied up as the offices were vandalized before the FALN members fled. A few days later, Carter delegates in Chicago received threatening letters from FALN.
• Image:Flag of El Salvador.svg March 24: Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated by death squads in El Salvador.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg April 30: Iranian Embassy siege: Iraqi agents take over the Iranian Embassy in London, gaining hostages. After a number of days, one hostage was killed by the Iraqis, and the Special Air Service assaulted the building to rescue the remaining hostages. One hostage died during the assault.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg June 3 A bomb destroys most of the exhibits in the Statue of Liberty story room. No one is arrested, but Croatian separatists are suspected [13].
• Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg 27 July: A member of the Abu Nidal Organization carried out a grenade attack on a group of Jews waiting for a bus in Antwerp, Belgium, killing a child and wounding twenty others. Said Al Nasr will be convicted for this act.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg August 2: Strage di Bologna: A terrorist bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
• Image:Flag of France.svg October 3: Four congregants were killed and twelve others injured in a bomb attack on the rue Copernic synagogue in Paris, France. Responsibility was claimed by the National European Fascists (FNE), but the police investigation concluded that Palestinian terrorists were involved.

[edit] 1981

• Image:Flag of Austria.svg August 29: Machine gun and grenade attack on the Stadttempel synagogue in Vienna, killing 2 and wounding 23. Marwan Hasan and Hesham Mohammed Rajeh were convicted.
• Image:Flag of Egypt.svg October 6: Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad.
• Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg October 20: Attack on a synagogue in Antwerp, Belgium, killing three and wounding sixty.

[edit] 1982

• Image:Flag of France.svg March 29: A bomb on board the Paris-Toulouse train, kills 5 injures 27. Carlos usually assumed to be responsible.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg July 20: The Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings in London by the IRA kill eleven members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets.
• Image:Flag of Turkey.svg August 7: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia set off a bomb in Ankara airport, killing 9 people and wounding 70.
• Image:Flag of France.svg August 9: Rue des Rosiers, Paris gunning and bombing of Goldenberg restaurant : 6 killed 22 wounded - Fatah - the Revolutionary Council
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg August 11: A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, enroute from Tokyo to Honolulu, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg September 14: Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Bashir Gemayel and twenty-five others in a car explosion at the Kataeb headquarters.
• Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg September 18: Four people are wounded when a synagogue in Brussels is attacked in a "shoot and run" incident. Guards were taken by surprise and the gunman, believed to be from the Abu Nidal Organization, escaped.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg October 9: Attack with grenades and machine guns on the central synagogue in Rome, Italy. A child dies, 10 people are injured.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svg October 14: Direct Action bombs a Litton Industries factory.
• Image:Flag of Northern Ireland (bordered).svg December 6: Ballykelly disco bombing in which Irish National Liberation Army kills seventeen civilians and soldiers in Northern Ireland.

[edit] 1983

• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg April 18: U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon kills 63.
• Image:Flag of France.svg July 15: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia bombed a Turkish airline counter in the Orly Airport, killing eight people and wounding over 50.
• Image:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg September 23: Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
• Image:Flag of Myanmar.svg October 9: Rangoon bombing by North Koreans targets South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, killing 21 persons and injuring 48.
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg October 23: Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut kills 241 U.S. Marines. 58 French troops from the multinational force are also killed in a separate attack.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg November 9: U.S. Senate bombing. A time bomb consisting of several sticks of dynamite explodes at the United States Senate in response to the U.S. invasion of Grenada. No one was injured, a group known as the Armed Resistance Unit claims responsibility.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg December 17: Harrods bomb by the IRA. Six are killed (including three police officers) and 90 wounded during Christmas shopping at the West London department store.
• Image:Flag of France.svg December 31: On the way to New Year's Eve 7 persons are killed and 70 wounded by bombs on the Marseille to Paris TGV and at the St-Charles station in Marseille. The attack is attributed to Carlos on behalf of the O.L.A.

[edit] 1984

• Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg March 7: 3 killed and 9 injured in the bombing of a civilian bus in Ashdod.
• Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg April 2: 48 people are wounded by a machine gun attack on a crowded shopping mall in Jerusalem.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg October 12: Brighton hotel bombing by the IRA: 5 are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet.
• Image:Flag of India.svg October 31: Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. The killing was in retaliation for the Indian army's entry into the Golden Temple at Amritsar to flush out Sikh extremists who were using the temple as a base for their operations.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg December 23: A bomb placed on the Naples-Milan Express train 904 explodes in the same tunnel as the Italicus Expressen massacre, killing 17 and wounding 250. The attack is attributed to mafia.

[edit] 1985

• Image:Flag of France.svg February 23: Paris Marks & Spencer shop, 1 bomb, 1 dead, 18 wounded, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hizbollah
• Image:Flag of Northern Ireland (bordered).svg February 28: IRA mortar attack kills nine Police officers in Newry.
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg March 8: Car bomb explodes in Beirut, killing 80, injuring 175; reportedly planned and executed by the United States CIA.<ref>

“Some American press reports said the CIA was behind the attack, which was meant to kill Sheikh Fadlallah.” [14] “Operatives allegedly trained by the CIA set off a car bomb in an attempt to kill Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah ... President Reagan and the CIA call off covert operations.” [15] </ref>

• Image:Flag of France.svg March 9: Paris, Cinema Rivoli, 18 injured, pro-Iranian Lebanese Hizbollah
• Image:Flag of Greece.svg June 14: TWA Flight 847 skyjacking, Hezbollah, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists. Terrorists take passengers of an Athens-Rome flight hostage and fly all over the Mediterranian for two weeks.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svg June 22: Air India Flight 182 is blown up by a bomb put onboard the flight from Canada by unknown terrorists. All 329 people on board are killed. At the time, the deadliest terrorist attack ever, and still the deadliest act of terrorism in Canadian history. A second Air India flight from Canada was targeted on the same day, but the bomb exploded at the Tokyo airport, in the luggage outside the aircraft, killing two baggage handlers, bringing the total death toll of the act to 331.
• Image:Flag of New Zealand.svg July 10: Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior bombed in Auckland harbour by operatives from the French foreign intelligence agency (DGSE), killing 1.
• Image:Flag of Egypt.svg and Image:Flag of Italy.svg October 7 – October 10: Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer is shot dead.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg October 11: Arab anti-discrimination group leader Alex Odeh is killed when a bomb explodes in his Santa Ana, California office.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg November 6: Palace of Justice siege: M-19 guerrillas seize the Supreme Court building in Bogotá, Colombia. The next day, an operation to free the hostages leaves some 100 people dead.
• Image:Flag of Malta (bordered).svg November 23: EgyptAir Flight 648 hijacked by Abu Nidal group, flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
• Image:Flag of France.svg December 7: Paris, Galeries Lafayette and Printemps shops, two