List of terrorist incidents
Acts generally referred to as terrorism.
- 1946 Bombing of King David Hotel, the British HQ, by the Jewish underground.
- 1970 October Crisis (Quebec): FLQ murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross
- 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre
- 1972 Bloody Friday bombings by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)
- 1974 Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA
- 1976 Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington by Chilean government
- 1976 UVF let off a bomb in Monaghan
- 1976 UVF let off a car bomb in Dublin
- 1979 Lord Mountbatten killed by IRA
- 1980 4 US nuns killed by Death Squads in El Salvador
- 1984 IRA bomb in the Grand Hotel Brighton attempts to kill members of the British cabinet.
- 1985 TWA 847 hijacking
- 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front
- 1988 1988 Pan Am 103 (Lockerbie)
- 1993 World Trade Center bombing
- 1993 IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children.
- 1993 IRA detonate a huge bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, causing approximately £350m of damage.
- 1994 Flight AF 8969 Alger-Paris hijacked by Muslims they planned to crash the plane on Paris but didn't succeed.
- 1995 1995 Tokyo Sarin Attack
- 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
- 1996 Centennial Olympic Park Bombing
- 1996 IRA break their cease-fire and kill two in a bomb at the Canary Wharf towers in London.
- 1996 Manchester bombing by IRA
- 1997 Khobar Towers bombing
- 1998 U.S. embassy bombings
- 1998 Omagh bombing by the so-called "Real IRA"
- 2000 USS Cole bombing
- 2001 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
- 2002 June 14 terrorist attack outside US Consulate in Karachi
- October 2002 Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen
- October 2002 Bali car bombing
- October 2002 Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines
- October 2002 Moscow theatre siege
See also: aircraft hijacking, Palestinian terrorism, Israeli terrorism, suicide bombing, assasinations