The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts which 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, so incidents listed here are restricted to those which:
- (a) are not believed to have been state-sponsored.
- (b) are either commonly called terrorism, or meet at least some of the commonly
used criteria.
19th century
- 1800:
Plot of the Rue
Saint-Nicaise, assassination attempt on Napoleon Bonaparte, in Paris
on 24
December 1800.
- 1838:
The Haun's Mill
massacre
- 30 October 1838. Massacre of 18 Mormon
men, women and children by the Missouri Militia.
- 1856, 1858, 1859: raids by John Brown in his fight against
slavery
- 1858 Felice Orsini tried to kill
the Emperor Louis Napoléon
Bonaparte, and failed, killing 8 people and wounding 142
others.
- 1867 5 March: Attempt to blow up
Clerkenwell Prison by Fenian agents. Dynamite charges demolished nearby
tenements, killing six people and causing 120 casualties "including
15 permanently injured with loss of eyes, legs, arms etc".
- 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 which
overthrew the reconstructionist
governments in the American South and re-established
segregation.
- 1868:
Attempted assassination of Prince Alfred in
Sydney
.
- 1870: General Juan Prim, President of
the Council, was shot by political enemies in his carriage after
leaving the Spanish Parliament, and died due to wound complications
two days later.
- The
Fenian Brotherhood attacked
Canadian
targets in
order to pressure Britain into withdrawing from
Ireland.
- 1881 14 January: Fenian attempt to
blow up Salford Infantry Barracks killed one
- 1882 22 october A bomb exploded in Théâtre Bellecour
restaurant, in Lyon
, killing one
employee.
- 1884
30 May: Fenian dynamite explosions demolished
part of Scotland
Yard
and part of the Carlton Club
; an unexploded device was found at the foot of
Nelson's
Column
.
- 1885
25 January: Fenian bombs exploded at the
Tower of
London
, London
Bridge
and two more at the House of
Commons
.
- 1887
21 June: The Jubilee
Plot: A British-paid Fenian agent provocateur came close to
blowing up Westminster
Abbey
and killing Queen
Victoria.
- 1881, July 2: American President
James Garfield was assassinated
by religious fanatic Charles J. Guiteau.
1881: Tzar Alexander II of Russia was
assassinated by a People's Will (Narodnaya volya) terrorist. ".
- 1886:
Bomb at Haymarket Square, Chicago
during a labor rally caused the Haymarket
Riot
which killed twelve people.
- 1891, May 11: Ōtsu
incident -- assassination attempt
on Nicholas II of Russia
by a
Japanese police officer named Tsuda Sanzo.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1893:
Anarchist Santiago Salvador threw two bombs into the stalls of the
Liceu
Opera House in Barcelona, the only exploding bomb
killing about twenty and causing many injured.
- 1894:
Explosion at the Royal Greenwich Observatory
in London
. The
bomb went off prematurely, killing only the bomber.
- 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.
- 1894, 20
February. 2 bombs exploded in two hotels, in 69 rue
Saint-Jacques]], wounded a woman, and 47 rue du Faubourg
Saint-Martin, without casualties.
- 1894, 4 April A bomb
exploded in Foyot restaurant. The writer Laurent Tailhade lost an eye in the
explosion.
- 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..
- 1897: President of the Council Antonio Cánovas del
Castillo, was shot dead by anarchist Michele Angiolillo in a thermal bath
resort.
- 1898, September 10: Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria of Austria-Hungary (commonly called "Sissi")
was stabbed to death by a young Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni, in Geneva
.
1900s–1940s

- 1901, September 6: American President William McKinley was assassinated
by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
- 1904, May 18: Ion Perdicaris
and Cromwell Varley kidnapped and
ransomed by bandit Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli in Morocco
.
- 1904, June 16: Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov was
assassinated in Senate House in Helsinki
by Finnish
nationalist Eugen
Schauman.
- 1906: Anarchist Mateu Morral, threw
a bomb concealed in a bouquet to the passing carriage of King
Alfonso XIII of Spain and his
wife Victoria Eugenie of
Battenberg on the day they were married. The royal couple were
unharmed, but 24 people died in the incident.
- 1908, February 1:
The Portuguese King
Carlos was murdered with his
son Prince Luís Filipe,
Duke of Braganza, by two men
connected with Carbonária, a
terrorist organisation linked with the Portuguese Republican
Party.
- 1908, July 13: The
Amalthea Bombing. 1
killed and 23 injured in attack on strikebreakers by the young socialist activist Anton
Nilsson.
1909,
October 26: Assassination of Japanese
Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi by Korean
independence
activist An Jung-geun.
- 1910, October 1: A bomb at the Los Angeles Times newspaper building in
Los
Angeles
, California
, United
States
, killed 21 workers.
- 1914, June 28: Assassination in Sarajevo
of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke
of Austria and his wife,
precipitating World War I.
- 1915, January 1:
Battle of Broken Hill -
Terrorists from the British colony of India (modern day Pakistan)
shot at civilians in the Australian town, killing six.
- 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), in a bid to stop the United States entering
World War I against Germany.
- 1920, September
16: Wall Street Bombing
killed 38 people and wounded 300 others.
- 1925, April 16: St
Nedelya Church assault killed 150 people, mostly high-ranked
individuals, and wounded 500 in the Bulgarian
capital Sofia
.
- 1921, March: A bomb attack by anarchic activists kills 21
people and wounded 80, in a theatre in Milan, Italy
.
- 1927: The Ku Klux Klan launched a wave of political
terror in Alabama
.
- 1927, May 18:
Andrew Kehoe wires the Bath
Consolidated school with explosives. The resulting explosion killed
41 people. Kehoe then fired a round from his rifle into the front
seat of his vehicle which was wired with dynamite. Kehoe and two
other people were killed by the explosion.
- 1933, October 10:
A Boeing 247 was destroyed in midflight
by a nitroglycerin bomb. All seven
people aboard were killed. This incident was the first
proven case of air sabotage in the history of aviation.
- 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 against
the local electric utility. He also sent many threatening
letters.
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.
- 1948 - Mahatma Gandhi
assassinated by a Hindu extremist.
1950s
- During this and the next decade, the Ku
Klux Klan re-emerged. Some of the tactics used were lynching, cross
burning and assassination.
- 1950, November 1:
Puerto Rican nationalists failed to
assassinate U.S. President Harry S.
Truman.
- 1951, October 16: Liaquat
Ali Khan, Prime Minister
of Pakistan, was assassinated by
two gunshots to 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.
- 1954, March 1:
U.S. Capitol shooting
incident by Puerto Rican nationalists wounded five Congressmen.
- 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 included 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.
- 1955, August 28: Lynching of Emmett Louis Till in Mississippi
.
- 1955,
August: Members of the Algerian
FLN massacred civilians
in the town of Philippeville
.
- 1956, September 30: The FLN set off bombs at the
office of Air France and elsewhere in
Algiers
.
- 1958, October 12: Bombing of
the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple in Atlanta,
Georgia
, suspected to have been done by white
separatists.
1960s
- 1960, March 4: Bombing of the Belgian ammunition carrier
La Coubre in the port of
Habana
, over 30
people dead. Most historians believe that the CIA was
responsible for the attack, although there was not enough evidence
to firmly prove so.
- 1961, April 8: Omani
terrorists
blew up the passenger liner MV Dara
, killing 238 people.
- 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.
- 1963: President John F. Kennedy
assasinated in Dallas, Texas durring a motorcade.
- 1965:
The Ku Klux Klan murdered 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.
- 1965:
The Monumental Plot - New York Police thwarted 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.
- 1966, March 8: A group of former IRA men planted a bomb
which destroyed Nelson's
Pillar
in Dublin.
- 1966,
April 20: A Tinsukia
-Jalpaiguri
passenger train blast in Lumding
railroad station, Assam
, India,
kills 55 and injures 127. Which responsible for Nationalist Socialist
Council of Nagaland tribesmen group.
- 1966, April 23: A bomb explode in Diphu railroad station,
Mikir, Assam, India, which blame on
NSCN
tribesmen group. Kills 30 and injures 65.
- 1966: Ulster Volunteer
Force declared war on the IRA; on June 26, they committed three sectarian
murders.
- 1966: NAACP leader Vernon Dahme was
assassinated by a firebomb, exploded by the
Ku Klux Klan.
- 1966, September
22: A bazooka attack on the Cuban
embassy in Ottawa was made.
- 1966, October 5:
Anti-Castro forces bombed the offices
of the Cuban trade delegation in Ottawa.
- 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
.
- 1968
December 26: Two Palestinian gunmen travelled from Beirut
to
Athens
and
attacked an El Al jet there, killing one
person.
- 1969, February
13: the Front de Libération du
Québec (FLQ) set off a powerful bomb which ripped through the
Montreal Stock Exchange,
causing massive destruction and seriously injuring 27 people.
- 1969, December 12: The Piazza
Fontana bombing
in Milan
killed 16
people.
1970s–2000s

Number of Terrorist Incidents
See also
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