List of terrorist incidents

The following is a list of terrorist incidents that were not carried out by a state or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Assassinations are presented in List of assassinations and unsuccessful attempts at List of people who survived assassination attempts and List of heads of state and government who survived assassination attempts.

Definitions of terrorism vary, so incidents listed here are restricted to those that are notable and described as "terrorism" by a consensus of reliable sources.

Scholars dispute what might be called terrorism in earlier periods. The modern sense of terrorism emerged in the mid-19th century.^[3]

1800–1899

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
7 December 1863	Piracy, murder by shooting	1	3	Cape Cod, United States	Pro-Confederate British subjects from the Maritime Provinces hijacked the American steamer Chesapeake off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, killing a crew member and wounding three others in the ensuing gunfight. The intent of this hijacking was to use the ship as a blockade runner for the Confederacy under belief that they had an official Confederate letter of marque. The perpetrators had planned to re-coal at Saint John, New Brunswick, and head south to Wilmington, North Carolina.[4] Instead, the captors had difficulties at Saint John; so they sailed further east and re-coaled in Halifax, Nova Scotia. U.S. forces responded to the attack by trying to arrest the captors in Nova Scotian waters. All of the Chesapeake hijackers were able to escape extradition through the assistance of William Johnston Almon, a prominent Nova Scotian and Confederate sympathizer.	Pro-Confederate British subjects	American Civil War
1865–1877	Murders	c. 3,000	Several	Southern United States	Approximately 3,000 Freedmen and their Republican Party allies are killed by the Ku Klux Klan and well-organized campaigns of violence by other white supremacists in a campaign of terrorist violence that weakened the reconstructionist governments in the Southern United States and helped re-establish legitimized segregation.[5][6]	Ku Klux Klan	Reconstruction Era
1881–1885	Bombing	0 (+3)	98	United Kingdom	Fenian dynamite campaign.	Irish Republican Brotherhood
4 May 1886	Bombing	7 (+4)	160+	Chicago, United States	Haymarket Affair. A peaceful rally in Haymarket, Chicago, Illinois, was disrupted when a bomb was detonated as police were dispersing the public demonstration.	FOTLU
9 December 1893	Bombing	0	20	Paris, France	French anarchist Auguste Vaillant bombed the French Chamber of Deputies injuring 20 deputies.	Auguste Vaillant
26 August 1896	Hijacking	10+	0	Constantinople, Ottoman Empire	Occupation of the Ottoman Bank by Armenian Revolutionary Federation members in protest of the Hamidian massacres. A resulting anti-Armenian pogrom killed around 6,000 individuals.	Armenian Revolutionary Federation

1900–1929

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
28 April – 1 May 1903	Bombings	0 (+4)		Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire	Members of the Boatmen of Thessaloníki, a Bulgarian anarchist group, carried out a series of bombings in Thessaloniki.	Boatmen of Thessaloníki
18 May 1904	Kidnapping	0	2 kidnapped	Tangier, Morocco	Perdicaris affair: Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley were kidnapped and held for ransom by bandit Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli in Morocco.[7]	Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli
31 May 1906	Bombing	24	Several	Madrid, Spain	Morral affair. 24 people were killed when terrorist bombed the Royal Couple, Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie, on their wedding day.	Mateo del Morral
25 August 1906	Bombing	28	Several	Aptekarsky Island, Russia	28 people were killed when three terrorists bombed a reception in an attempt to assassinate Pyotr Stolypin.	Union of Socialists Revolutionaries Maximalists
11–12 July 1908	Bombing	1	23	Malmö, Sweden	Night between 11 and 12 July: Bombing of the boat Amalthea where British strikebreakers lived by Anton Nilsson One was killed and 23 wounded.	Anton Nilsson
1 October 1910	Bombing	21	105+	Los Angeles, United States	Los Angeles Times bombing killed 21 people and wounded over 100 others.	John J. McNamara and James B. McNamara
28 June 1914	Various	2	16-22	Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary	The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the assassination of the heir presumptive to the Austrian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. As the Archduke's car approached the third assassin after the others failed to act, the bomb bounced off the Archduke's car and exploded the car behind him, injuring 16-20 people. Later, as the Archduke's car turned a wrong corner, assassin Gavrilo Princip shot dead the Archduke and his wife in their car. This resulted in the July Crisis, and World War I.	Black Hand (Serbia)	World War I
22 July 1916	Bombing	10	40	San Francisco, United States	Preparedness Day Bombing was a bombing in San Francisco, California, on 22 July 1916, when the city held a parade in anticipation of the United States' entry into World War I. During the parade, a suitcase bomb was detonated, killing ten and wounding forty.	Galleanist Anarchists (suspected)
30 July 1916	Bombing	4	Hundreds	Jersey City, United States	Black Tom explosion was a planned detonation of a munitions factory at Black Tom Island in the neutral United States by Imperial German Agents that killed four and injured hundreds, as well as causing millions of dollars in damages.	Imperial German Agents	World War I
16 September 1920	Bombing	40	143+	New York City, United States	Wall Street bombing killed 40 people and wounded over 143 others.[8]	Galleanist Anarchists (suspected)	Red Scare
14 October 1920	Bombings	1	10	Trieste, Italy	In Trieste, nationalists threw six bombs at the editorial office of a socialist newspaper, resulting in one death and ten injuries.[9]	Italian Nationalists
15 October 1920	Bombings	0	2	Milan, Italy	In Milan, anarchists were responsible for throwing two bombs at a hotel holding a British delegation attending the Milan International Conference; there were two injuries.[9]	Anarchists
8 December 1920	Bombing	3	3	Bucharest, Romania	A bomb placed by a left-wing terrorist group blows up in the Romanian Senate, killing the Minister of Justice and two other senators. The President of the Senate and two Orthodox bishops were severely injured.	Max Goldstein, Leon Lichtblau and Saul Ozias
31 May 1921	Riot	39–300	800+	Tulsa, United States	The Tulsa race riot killed at least 39 people and injured over 800.[10]	Ku Klux Klan
13 December 1921	Bombing	100		Bolgrad, Romania	The Bolgrad palace bombing occurred when a bomb thrown by Bessarabian separatists at the Bolgrad palace, killed 100 soldiers and police officers.[11]	Bessarabian separatists	Union of Bessarabia with Romania
31 October 1923	Shooting	1	1	Dublin, Irish Free State	Far-right extremists shot two Jewish men as they walked across St. Stephen's Green in Dublin. One of the men was killed.[12]	Far-right extremists
16 April 1925	Bombing	150	~500	Sofia, Bulgaria	St Nedelya Church assault – The Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) blew up the church's roof during the funeral service of General Konstantin Georgiev, who had been killed in a previous Communist assault on 14 April. 150 people, mainly from the country's political and military elite, were killed in the attack and around 500 were injured.[13]	Bulgarian Communist Party

1930–1949

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
3 March 1940	Arson	5	5	Luleå, Sweden	Politically motivated arson attack targeted at the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman (Northern Flame) by various perpetrators. 5 people were killed, 2 of which were children, along with 5 others injured.	Norrbottens-Kuriren
4 July 1940	Bombing	2	0	New York City, United States	Time bomb is recovered from the British Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, two NYPD policemen were killed.[14]	Unknown
1940–1956	Serial bombings	0	15	New York City, United States	George Metesky, the "Mad Bomber", places over 30 bombs in New York City in public places such as Grand Central Terminal and The Paramount Theater, injuring ten during this period, in protest against the local electric utility. He also sends many threatening letters.[15]	George Metesky
22 July 1946	Bombing	91	46	Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine	The King David Hotel bombing by Zionist paramilitary group Irgun kills 91 and injures 46 non-fatally.[16]	Irgun	Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
25 July 1947	Airliner hijacking	1	0	Romania	Three Romanian terrorists kill an aircrew member aboard a Romanian airliner.[17] This is regarded as the first aircraft hijack resulting in a fatality.[citation needed]	Unknown
22 February 1948	Car bombings	58	123	Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine	Ben Yehuda Street bombings: three British Army trucks led by an armoured car driven by Arab irregulars and British deserters exploded on Ben Yehuda Street killing 58 Jewish civilians and injuring 140.[18][19]	Arab insurgents and rogue British soldiers	1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine
7 May 1949	Airliner bombing	13	0	Philippines	Thirteen people are killed as a Philippine airliner explodes in flight travelling from Daet to Manila. A time bomb detonates 30 minutes after departure near Alabat Island.[20]	Unknown
5 August 1949	Grenade attack	12	~30	Damascus, Syria	12 killed and dozens injured in the Menarsha synagogue attack.	Arab Redemption Suicide Phalange	1948 Palestine war

1950–1969

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
17 March 1954	Shooting	12	2	Scorpions Pass, Israel	Ma'ale Akrabim massacre: an Israeli civilian passenger bus is attacked by unknown assailants at the Scorpions Pass in the Negev, resulting in the deaths of eleven passengers.[21][22]	Palestinian fedayeen	Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency
16 June 1956	Bombing	1	6	Nicosia, British Cyprus	The United States vice consul is killed and six other consulate staff are injured when a terrorist throws 2 bombs in a restaurant in Nicosia.[23]	Unknown	Cyprus Emergency
15 August 1958	Bombing	3	10	Beirut, Lebanon	Three people are killed in a bomb blast in Beirut. The bombing also injures ten more at a grocery store near the Lebanese Parliament.[24]	Unknown	1958 Lebanon crisis
22 November 1962	Riot	2 (+5)	?	Paarl, South Africa	Members of the Pan Africanist Congress' military wing, the Azanian People's Liberation Army (also known as Poqo) targeted the town of Paarl in the Western Cape, when a crowd of over 200 people armed with axes, pangas and other home-made weapons marched from the Mbekweni township into Paarl and attacked the police station, homes and shops. Two white residents and 5 attackers were killed. Poqo directed its activities at the white population in general. It was also Poqo's avowed policy to attack and kill black people who were some way or another linked to the apartheid state.[25]	PAC (APLA)	Internal resistance to apartheid
29 August 1963	Bank robbery	2	3	Buenos Aires, Argentina	The Tacuara Nationalist Movement robbed a bank, stealing almost 100,000 US dollars. 2 people died and 3 were injured.	Tacuara Nationalist Movement
15 September 1963	Bombing	4	22	Birmingham, United States	16th Street Baptist Church bombing – Four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the front steps of the church. The explosion killed 4 girls and wounded 22.[26]	Ku Klux Klan	Civil rights movement
1963–1970	Bombings	8	?	Quebec, Canada	Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) committed frequent bombings targeting English businesses and banks, as well as McGill University. The whole bombing campaign resulted in 8 known deaths and numerous injuries.	Front de libération du Québec	Quebec sovereignty movement
26 June 1965	Bombings	42	80	Saigon, South Vietnam	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.	Viet Cong	Vietnam War
1966	Riots and massacres	8,000 to 30,000	?	Northern Region, Nigeria	The 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom was a series of massacres committed against Igbos and other people of southern Nigerian origin living in northern Nigeria starting in May 1966 and reaching a peak after 29 September 1966. Between 8,000 and 30,000 Igbos and easterners have been estimated to have been killed. A further 1 million Igbos fled the Northern Region into the East. These events led to the secession of the eastern Nigerian region and the declaration of the Republic of Biafra, which ultimately led to the Nigeria-Biafra war.	Racist mobs	1966 Nigerian coup d'état
12 November 1967	Airliner bombing	66	0	Greece	A bomb explodes on board Cyprus Airways Flight 284 near Rhodes killing all 66 people on the aircraft.[27]	Unknown
28–29 September 1966	Airliner hijacking	0	0	Argentina and  Falkland Islands	Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 648 hijacking: a group of militant Argentine nationalists hijacked a civilian Aerolineas Argentinas aircraft while flying over Puerto Santa Cruz and forced the captain at gunpoint to land in the Falkland Islands, where they took several civilians hostage. The crisis was resolved 36 hours later when the hijackers agreed to release their hostages and return to Argentina for trial.[28]	Argentine nationalist militants	Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute
4 September 1968	Bombings	1	51	Tel Aviv, Israel	Three bombs are detonated in Tel Aviv, killing one person and injuring 51 people.[29]	Palestine Liberation Organization	Israeli–Palestinian conflict
21–25 February 1969	Bombings	2	20	Jerusalem, Israel	1969 Jerusalem bombings: Three separate bombings in Jerusalem, one in a supermarket and two in the British Consulate. In the supermarket bombing two Israelis were killed, and in all attacks 20 were injured. One of the bombers involved was Rasmea Odeh.[30][31]	PLO (PFLP)	Israeli–Palestinian conflict
5 August 1969	Bombing	0	0	Dublin, Ireland	A bomb was detonated in Dublin at the main studio of the state broadcaster, RTÉ. The Ulster Volunteer Force was responsible. No one was injured.[32]	Ulster Volunteer Force	The Troubles
1969	Suicide bombing	0 (+1)	0	Ballyshannon, Ireland	A UPV suicide bomber attacked a power station in Ballyshannon, County Donegal. There were no casualties other than the attacker. The UVF issued a statement saying the attempted attack was a protest against the Irish Army units "still massed on the border in County Donegal". The statement added: "so long as the threats from Éire continue, so long will the volunteers of Ulster's people's army strike at targets in Southern Ireland".	Ulster Protestant Volunteers	The Troubles
31 October 1969	Bombing	0	0	Dublin, Ireland	The Ulster Volunteer Force bombed a monument in Bodenstown, Dublin, dedicated to the Irish Republican hero Wolfe Tone. There were no injuries.[33]	Ulster Volunteer Force	The Troubles
12 December 1969	Bombings	17	104	Milan and Rome, Italy	Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan kills at least 17 people and injures at least 88. Three additional blasts occur in Rome, injuring 16 people.[34]	Ordine Nuovo	Years of Lead
26 December 1969	Bombing	0	0	Dublin, Ireland	The Ulster Volunteer Force bombed the Daniel O'Connell monument in Dublin. There were no injuries but buildings were damaged in a half mile radius.	Ulster Volunteer Force	The Troubles
28 December 1969	Bombing	0	0	Dublin, Ireland	The Ulster Volunteer Force detonate a bomb outside the Garda central detective bureau in Dublin. The nearby telephone exchange headquarters is suspected to have been the target.	Ulster Volunteer Force	The Troubles

1970–present

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