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Number of terrorist incidents worldwide[1][2]
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Terrorism deaths per year by country

The following is a list of terrorist incidents that have not been carried out by a state or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Assassinations are listed at List of assassinated people.

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.

Pre-1800

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

Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
5 November 1605 Attempted bombing 0 0 Template:Flag Gunpowder Plot: A group of English Catholics led by Robert Catesby plotted to bomb the House of Lords in order to kill King James I, with the goal of installing his nine-year-old daughter Princess Elizabeth as the Catholic head of state. The explosives beneath the House of Lords were discovered a day before their planned detonation, and the conspirators were either killed in a battle at Holbeche House or executed for treason. Robert Catesby and co-conspirators (including Guy Fawkes, who is the namesake for the celebration held once every 5th of November).

1800–1899

Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
Template:Dts Shooting 18 22 (+1) Template:Flag Giuseppe Marco Fieschi used a volley gun to attack the royal entourage of King Louis-Philippe of France during the annual review of the National Guard as part of a revolutionary plot. Fieschi was badly injured when four of the weapon's barrels exploded and was captured soon after. He was executed with co-conspirators Pierre Morey and Theodore Pépin on 19 February 1836. Giuseppe Marco Fieschi
Template:Dts Murder, pillage 150+ N/A Template:Flag The Confederate guerilla group led by William Quantrill ransacked the town of Lawrence and murdered about 190 civilians because of the town's anti-slavery sentiment.[4] William Quantrill and his raiders American Civil War
Template:Dts Piracy, murder by shooting 1 3 Template:Flag 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.[5] 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
Template:Dts Robbery, murder by shooting, hostage-taking, attempted arson 1 2 Template:Flag On October 19, 1864, non-properly uniformed Confederate soldiers led by Bennett H. Young raided the border town of St. Albans, Vermont from Canada, robbing $200,000 from three banks, holding hostages, killing a civilian, attempting to burn the entire town with Greek fire, then escaping back to Canada.[6] The raiders were then arrested by British authorities under an extradition request from the U.S. government, but were later freed by a Canadian court on the grounds that they were considered combatants rather than criminals.[7][8] Bennett H. Young and his co-conspirators American Civil War
Template:Dts Assassination by shooting 1 8 (+1) Template:Flag President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. Booth's co-conspirators were to launch simultaneous attacks on Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward, but Seward's attacker failed to kill him and Johnson's lost his nerve. Booth was killed after a 12-day manhunt, and several of his co-conspirators were later arrested and executed. John Wilkes Booth and co-conspirators American Civil War
Template:Dts–1877 Murders c. 3,000 Several Template:Flag 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.[9][10] Ku Klux Klan Reconstruction Era
Template:Dts Prison escape 12 120 Template:Flag The "Clerkenwell Outrage": A bomb exploded next to a wall of Clerkenwell Prison as an attempt to abet the escape of an arms dealer. Fenian Society
Template:Dts Attempted assassination 1 0 Template:Flag Attack to General Juan Prim, Prime Minister of Spain. He died two days later after the injuries. Political adversaries
Template:Dts Attempted assassination 0 0 Template:Flag Attempted assassination of General Mikhail Loris-Melikov. Anarchists (suspected)
Template:Dts Assassination by bombing 2 12 Template:Flagicon St.Petersburg, Russia Assassination of Alexander II of Russia. Narodnaya Volya
Template:Dts–1885 Bombing 0 (+3) 98 Template:Flag Fenian dynamite campaign. Irish Republican Brotherhood
Template:Dts Assassination 2 0 Template:Flag Assassination of Colonel Soudekine, Chief of Police. Nihilist movement
Template:Dts Bombing 7 (+4) 160+ Template:Flagicon Chicago Haymarket Affair. A peaceful rally in Haymarket, Chicago, Illinois, was disrupted when a bomb was detonated as police were dispersing the public demonstration. FOTLU
Template:Dts Assassination attempt 0 1 (+1) Template:Flagicon Pittsburgh Alexander Berkman, a Russian expatriate, attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick, an American industrialist, financier, and art patron, in Pittsburgh. Berkman was arrested and Frick survived. Berkman claims inspiration from the Haymarket Affair. Alexander Berkman
Template:Dts Attempted assassination 1 0 Template:Flag Assassination of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain. Anarchists led by the Italian Michele Angiolillo
Template:Dts Bombing 0 20 Template:Flagicon Paris French anarchist Auguste Vaillant bombed the French Chamber of Deputies injuring 20 deputies. Auguste Vaillant
Template:Dts Assassination 1 0 Template:Flagicon Lyon French president Marie François Sadi Carnot is fatally stabbed by Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio. Sante Geronimo Caserio
Template:Dts Hijacking 10+ 0 Template:FlagiconConstantinople, 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
Template:Dts Assassination 1 0 Template:Flagicon Monza, Italy Gaetano Bresci, an Italian-American Anarchist, assassinated Umberto I of Italy. Gaetano Bresci
Template:Dts Assassination 1 1 Template:Flagicon Buffalo, New York, United States President of the United States, William McKinley, was shot twice by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition, dying eight days later from the injuries. Immediately after the shooting, Czolgosz was assaulted by the crowd. Leon Czolgosz
Template:Dts Assassination 1 0 Template:Flagicon St. Petersburg, Russia Minister of the Interior Dmitry Sipyagin was assassinated in the Marinsky Theatre. Stepan Balmashov
28 April – 1 May 1903 Bombings 0 (+4) Template:Flagicon Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire Members of the Boatmen of Thessaloníki, a Bulgarian anarchist group, carried out a series of bombings in Thessaloniki. Boatmen of Thessaloníki
Template:Dts Kidnapping 0 2 kidnapped Template:Flagicon Morocco Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley were kidnapped and held for ransom by bandit Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli in Morocco.[11] Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli
Template:Dts Bombing 2 1+ Template:Flagicon Russia Assassination of Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich Romanov by Socialist-revolutionaries. His coach driver Andrei Rudinkin was also killed. Ivan Kalyayev
Template:Dts Bombing 26 58 Template:Flagicon Ottoman Empire Yıldız assassination attempt: Attempted assassination targeting Abdul Hamid II of Ottoman Empire
 Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Template:Dts Bombing 24 Several Template:Flagicon 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
Template:Dts Bombing 28 Several Template:Flagicon 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 Template:Flagicon 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
Template:Dts Bombing 21 105+ Template:Flagicon Los Angeles, United States Los Angeles Times bombing killed 21 people and wounded over 100 others. Lone wolf (terrorism)
Template:Dts Shooting 1 0 Template:Flagicon Kiev, Russia Assassination of Pyotyr Stolypin, Russian Prime Minister. Dmitri Bogrov
Template:Dts–1914 Various 2 (+2) 27+ (+1) Template:Flagicon United Kingdom Protest campaign by militant suffragettes campaigning for women's right to vote, including acts of disruption and violence aimed at property and the public. Also included a possible second suffragette assassination attempt on the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith.[12] Women's Social and Political Union
Template:Dts Assassination by shooting 2 1 Template:Flagicon Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were fatally shot by the Yugoslav nationalist assassin Gavrilo Princip. Gavrilo Princip (with the Black Hand) Prelude to World War I
Template:Dts Bombing 10 40 Template:Flagicon 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)
Template:Dts Bombing 4 Hundreds Template:Flagicon 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
Template:Dts Bombing 40 143+ Template:Flagicon New York City, United States Wall Street bombing killed 40 people and wounded over 143 others.[13] Galleanist Anarchists (suspected) Red Scare
Template:Dts Bombings 1 10 Template:Flagicon Trieste, Italy In Trieste, nationalists threw six bombs at the editorial office of a Socialist newspaper, resulting in one death and ten injuries.[14] Italian Nationalists
Template:Dts Bombings 0 2 Template:Flagicon 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.[14] Anarchists
Template:Dts Bombing 3 3 Template:Flagicon 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. Likewise, President of the Senate and two Orthodox bishops were severely injured. Max Goldstein, Leon Lichtblau and Saul Ozias
Template:Dts Riot 39–300 800+ Template:Flagicon Tulsa, United States The Tulsa race riot killed at least 39 people and injured over 800.[15] Ku Klux Klan
Template:Dts Bombing 100 Template:Flagicon Bolgrad, Romania The Bolgrad palace bombing occurred when a bomb thrown by Bessarabian separatists at the Bolgrad palace, killed 100 soldiers and police officers.[16] Bessarabian separatists Union of Bessarabia with Romania
Template:Dts Shooting 1 1 Template:Flagicon 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.[17] Far-right extremists
Template:Dts Bombing 150 ~500 Template:Flagicon 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.[18] Bulgarian Communist Party

1930–1949

Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
Template:Dts Assassination by shooting 2 (+1) Template:Flagicon Marseille, France During a state visit to France, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was fatally shot by the Bulgarian IMRO assassin Vlado Chernozemski. In the ensuing scuffle with local police, French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou was accidentally killed by a stray bullet, while Chernozemski was beaten and later died from his injuries. Vlado Chernozemski (on behalf of IMRO)

1950–1969

1970–present

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References

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  2. ↑ National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. (2018). Global Terrorism Database (gtd1993_0718dist.xlsx Template:Webarchive). Retrieved from https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd University of Maryland
  3. ↑ BBC – History – The Changing Faces of Terrorism. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
  4. ↑ THE LAWRENCE MASSACRE: QUANTRILL'S RAID ON LAWRENCE, KANSAS (1863). BlackPast.org(February 8, 2022).
  5. ↑ Hoy, p. 180
  6. ↑ The Raid: The Northernmost Land Action of the Civil War. www.stalbansraid.com.
  7. ↑ The St. Albans Raid – The Confederate 'Invasion' of Vermont. Military History Now(May 14, 2014).
  8. ↑ The Aftermath. www.stalbansraid.com.
  9. ↑ Jonathan M. Bryant: Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era Template:Webarchive, The New Georgia Encyclopedia, 3 October 2002
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  11. ↑ PERDICARIS AND VARLEY ARE IN GRAVE DANGER; An American Resident of Tangier Tells of the Situation. The New York Times(22 May 1904). Retrieved 2015-03-05.
  12. ↑ Suffragettes, violence and militancy. The British Library. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  13. ↑ History News Service. H-net.org. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 BOMB WARFARE RAGING IN ITALY. The New York Times(15 October 1920). Retrieved 2014-12-13.
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