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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.

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.

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".[1] (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/19/earlyshow/leisure/books/main569179.shtml)
661 - Ali ibn Abi Talib assassinated by Kharijites.[2] (http://www.victorynewsmagazine.com/IslamNotSourceTerrorism.htm)

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'.[3] (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/19/earlyshow/leisure/books/main569179.shtml)
1605 November 5 Failed Gunpowder Plot to blow up English Parliament with James I in attendance.[4] (http://www.bcpl.net/~cbladey/guy/html/review.html)

19th century

1831, Jan van Speyk detonates his own ship in the harbor of Antwerp.
1840, Benjamin Lett destroys a monument to British general Sir Isaac Brock
1856, 1858, 1859, raids by John Brown in his fight against slavery.
1881 Tzar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated by a People's Will (Narodnaya volya) terrorist.
1886 Bomb at Haymarket Square, Chicago during a labor rally kills 12.

1900s-1940s

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.
1916 July 30: Black Tom Explosion, allegedly caused by German saboteurs, causes heavy damage to Jersey City, New Jersey and Ellis Island, but kills only 3 or 4 people.
1920, September 16: Wall Street Bombing kills 40 people and wounding 300 others.
1946, July 22: Bombing of King David Hotel, the British Army HQ in Jerusalem, by the Zionist terrorist group Irgun.

1950s

1950, November 1: Puerto Rican nationalists fail to assassinate President Truman.
1954: Lavon Affair – Mossad agents bomb targets in Egypt, attempting to discredit the Egyptian government.
1954, March 1: U.S. Capitol shooting incident by Puerto Rican nationalists, wounding five Congressmen.
1955, August: Members of the Algerian FLN massacre civilians in the town of Philippeville.
1956, September 30: The FLN sets off bombs at the office of Air France and elsewhere in Algiers.

1960s

1963: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. A member of the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls.
1966: Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the then-quiescent IRA; on June 26 commit three sectarian murders.
1968 December 26: Two Palestinian gunmen travel from Beirut to Athens, and attack an El Al jet there, killing one person.
1969: A bomb in a bank killed 16 people in Milan

1970s

1970

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.
May 8: Avivim school bus massacre by Palestinian PLO members, killing nine children, three adults and crippling 19.
September 6: In an attempted seizure of an Israeli El Al jetplane, Nicaraguan hijacker Sandinista Patrick Arguello was killed and Palestinian Leila Khaled was captured. See also Dawson's Field hijackings, Black September in Jordan.
October 5 – 17: October Crisis (Quebec): FLQ murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross.

1971

December 4: UVF bomb in McGurk's bar in Belfast's North Queen Street kills 15 people.

1972

May 30: Lod Airport Massacre by the Japanese Red Army terrorists, killing 26 and injuring 78.
July 21: Bloody Friday nine are killed and 130 injured as Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) sets off 22 bombs.
July 31: Provisional Irish Republican Army set off three car bombs in Claudy killing six.
September 5: Black September kidnaps and kills 11 Israeli Olympic athletes and one German policeman in the Munich Massacre.

1973

December 17: Pan Am Flight 110: 30 passengers were killed when phosphorus bombs are thrown aboard the aircraft as it prepares for departure.
December 20: Basque ETA group kills Spanish Prime Minister Admiral Carrero Blanco bombing his car in Madrid.

1974

January 31: * JRA–PFLP attack on a Shell Oil facility in Singapore and the simultaneous seizure of the Japanese embassy in Kuwait.
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
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.
May 17: UVF detonates 3 car bombs in Dublin and one in Monaghan; 33 dead – the deadliest toll of any one day in Ireland's 'Troubles'.
September 8: TWA Flight 841: Bomb kills 88 on jetliner.
September 13: Basque ETA group bombs the "Rolando" cafeteria in Madrid and kills 12.
October 5: Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves five dead and 44 injured.
November 21: Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA kills 21, 182 people are injured.

1975

January 24: FALN bomb the Fraunces Tavern, killing four and injuring more than 50
March 5: 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.
July 31: Three members of Ireland's popular Miami Showband killed in UVF gun attack.

1976

February 3: Somali Coast Liberation Front hijack a school bus in Djibouti, killing one girl
February 16: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia assassinate Turkish diplomat Oktay Cerit in Paris.
June 26–July 4: Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 (Tel-Aviv-Paris) and the following Operation Entebbe; 4 hostages and one IDF soldier killed.
September 21: Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington by Chilean government.
October 6: A Cubana aircraft was bombed while flying from Barbados to Havana, killing 73.
December 4: In the Netherlands, members of the RMS movement occupy the Indonesian diplomatic consulate in The Hague. One Indonesian official was killed.
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.

1977

April 7: Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver were shot by two Red Army Faction members.
May 23: In the Netherlands, RMS activists kept 105 children and 5 teachers hostage in a school in Smilde.
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.
July 30: Jürgen Ponto, then head of the Dresdner Bank, was shot and killed by the Red Army Faction in a failed kidnapping.
September 5: Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction. He was executed by the Red Army Faction on October 19, 1977.
October 13: Lufthansa flight LH 181 was kidnapped by a group of four Arabs around the leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud".

1978

1978–1995: The Unabomber kills three and injures 29 in a string of anti-technology bombings.
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.
March: In the Netherlands members of the RMS movement occupy a provincial office in Assen. 67 persons were kept hostage, one official was killed on the spot, another died of injuries a month later.
March 11: Fatah gunmen killed several tourists and hijack a bus near Haifa; 37 Israelis on the bus are killed.
March 16 – May 9: The Red Brigade kidnapping of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and assassinate him 55 days later.

1979

July 29: Basque ETA members bomb two railway stations in Madrid, killing 7.
August 27: Lord Mountbatten and three others are killed by IRA bomb on board his boat off Mullaghmore. 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 Bombers firing from their position inside the border with the Republic of Ireland. One civilian was caught in the crossfire and killed.

1980s

1980

March 24: Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated by death squads in El Salvador.
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.
August 2: Neo-Fascist bomb kills more than 80 people and injures 291 people at the Bologna Central Station
December 2: Four US nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador.
December 11: U.S. trained Salvadoran Army unit executes 800 civilians at the village of El Mozote.

1981

October 6: Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad.

1982

July 20: Two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park, London by the IRA kill 8 members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets. Seven horses are also killed.
August 7: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia set off bomb in Ankara airport, killing 9 people and wounding 70.
September 14: Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Bashir Gemayel and twenty-five others in an car explosion at the Kataeb headquarters.
September 17: Sabra and Shatila Massacre: the murder of hundreds of Palestinian civilians at refugee camps by Israeli-backed Christian Phalangist militiamen.
October 14: Direct Action bombs a Litton Industries factory.

1983

April 18: U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon kills 63.
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.
September 23: Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
October 9: Rangoon bombing by North Koreans targets South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, killing 21 persons and injuring 48.
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.
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.

1984

October 12: IRA bomb in the Grand Hotel Brighton: 5 are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet.
October 31: Two Sikh bodyguards assassinate Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi.

1985

February 28: IRA mortar attack kills nine Police officers in Newry.
June 14: TWA Flight 847 hijacking.
June 22: Air India Flight 182 is blown up by a bomb put onboard the flight from Canada by Sikh nationalists. All 329 people on board are killed. The single most deadly terrorist attack prior to September 11, 2001.
October 7 – October 10: Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer is shot dead.
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.
December 27: Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks.
Investigators associated with the WHO reported that U.S.-funded Contras repeatedly destroyed health-care facilities and murdered health-care workers in Nicaraqua.

1986

April 2: TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; 4 Americans, including an infant, are killed.
April 6: the La Belle discotheque in Berlin, a known hangout for U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing three and injuring 230 people, for which Libya is held responsible. In retaliation, the US bombs Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon and tries to kill Colonel Qaddafi.
June 14: ANC bombs Why Not Restaurant and Magoo's Bar in Durban, South Africa, 3 people killed, 73 wounded.
July 15: ETA Basque militant group bombs a Guardia Civil police truck, kills 12.
September 5: Pan Am Flight 73, an American civilian airliner, is hijacked; 22 people die when plane is stormed in Karachi, Pakistan.
December 25: Iraqi Airways Hijacking
December 31: New Year's Eve fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, claimed 97 lives, mainly in the casino area. Fire set by 3 hotel workers, trying to make tourists stay away from Puerto Rico as a protest to their working wages.

1987

June 19: ETA Basque militant group bomb in Hipercor Mall's parking in Barcelona, kills 21, 45 injured.
November 8: Enniskillen massacre. Remembrance Day parade in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh is bombed by the IRA and 11 are killed and 63 injured.
November 29: KAL Flight 858 bombed by North Korea.
December 11: ETA Basque militant group bomb a Guardia Civil police bedrooms in Zaragoza, kills 11, 40 injured.

1988

December 21: Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie. The worst act of terrorism against the United States prior to September 11, 2001.

1989

July 9: Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
September 22: Deal barracks bombing: Ten Royal Marines bandsmen are killed and 22 injured when base in Deal, Kent, is bombed by the IRA.
September 19: UTA Flight UT-772 kills 171 people.
November 27: Avianca Flight 203 bombed over Colombia.

1990s

1990

October 24: A series of car bombings directed by the IRA in Northern Ireland leave 7 people dead and 37 wounded.

1991

May 29: Basque ETA group bombs the Guardia Civil police barracks in Vic (Barcelona), killing 10.
November 15: Two IRA members are killed by their own bomb in St Albans.

1992

January 17: Eight Protestant builders killed by an IRA bomb on their way to work at an Army base near Omagh.
March 17: Israeli Embassy bombing by "Islamic Jihad" in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 29 killed, 242 injured.

1993

January 25: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fires an AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. Two died.
February 26: World Trade Center bombing kills 6 and injures over 1000 people.
March 12: Mumbai car bombings in India
March 20: IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children (Warrington Bomb Attacks)
April 24: IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing two and causing approximately £350m of damage.
June: Failed New York City landmark bomb plot.
June 21: ETA Basque terrorist group bombs a military truck in Madrid, kills 7, 36 injured.
July 5: the IRA detonate a 1500lb car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but massive property damage is caused to the town centre.
October 23: A bomb at a fish and chip shop on the Protestant Shankill Road, Belfast kills 10 people, including two children.
October 30: Seven people killed in a Loyalist UFF gun attack in a bar in Greysteel, Co Derry.

1994

February 25: Baruch Goldstein kills 29 Palestinian civilians in an attack in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
June 18: Six Catholic men shot dead by Loyalists in a pub in Loughinisland, Co Derry.
July 18: Bombing of Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 86 and wounds 300. Attributed by the judge who tried the case, Juan José Galeano, to Hezbollah acting on behalf of Iran.
July 19: Alas Chiricanas bombing kills 21 people. Generally attributed to Hezbollah.
July 26: Israeli Embassy Attack in London and a Jewish charity are car-bombed, wounding 20. Attributed by Britain, Argentina, and Israel to Hezbollah.
December 11: A small bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. Authorities found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for his planned terrorist attack.
December 24: Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked by GIA members who planned to crash the plane on Paris but didn't succeed.

1995

January 6: Operation Bojinka is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after an apartment fire occurred in the apartment.
March 20: Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway by AUM Shinrikyo cultists
April 19: ETA Basque militant group tries to kill José María Aznar (then leader of the Popular Party, later a Spanish Prime Minister) bombing his car, kills a woman.
April 19: Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people, 19 of them children.
Bombings in France by a GIA unit led by Khaled Kelkal kill seven and injure more than 100.
October 9: An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by anti-government saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
November 13: Bombing of military compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 7
December 11: ETA Basque militant group bombs a military truck in Madrid, killing 6 civilian public servants.

1996

January: In Kizlyar, 350 Chechen militants took 3,000 hostages in a hospital. The attempt to free them kills 65 civilians and soldiers.
January: Provisional Irish Republican Army plants a bomb that police defuse at the Canary Wharf towers in London.
January 31: Central Bank Bombing in Sri Lanka kills 90 and wounds 1,400.
February 9: IRA bombs the South Quay DLR station, killing two people.
June 15: Manchester bombing by IRA.
June 25: Khobar Towers bombing.
July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing, killing one and wounding 111.
A series of four suicide bombings in Israel leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within 10 days.

1997

February 24: An armed man opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine".
November 17: Islamic gunmen attack tourists in Luxor, Egypt, killing 71 people, most of them European and Japanese vacationers.
December 22: Acteal massacre – 46 killed while praying in Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico. A paramilitary group associated with ex-president Salinas is held responsible.

1998

January : Wandhama Massacre - 24 Kashmiri Pandits are massacred by Pakistan-backed insurgents in Indian controlled Kashmir city of Wandhama .
August 7: U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000.
August 15: Omagh bombing by the so-called "Real IRA" kills 29.

1999

January 3: Gunmen open fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people injuring 25.
April: David Copeland's nail bomb attacks against ethnic minorities and gays in London kill three people and injure over 160.
August 31 – September 22: Russian Apartment Bombings kills about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War.
December: Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US and Israeli tourists in Jordan and pick up 28 suspects as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots
December 14: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States–Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots
December 24: Indian Airlines Flight 814from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi, India is hijacked. One passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released.

2000s

2000

Terrorism against Israel in 2000.
The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.
German police foil Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot.
June 8: Stephen Saunders, a British Defense Attaché, was assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November in Athens.
October 12: USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors.

2001

Terrorism against Israel in 2001.
February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya metro station injures 15 people.
August 9: A suicide bomber in Jerusalem kills seven and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.
"9/11": The attacks on September 11 kill almost 3,000 in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
Paris embassy attack plot foiled.
Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloid.
December 13: Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
Jewish Defense League plot to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, foiled.
Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb.

2002

Terrorism against Israel in 2002.
Singapore embassies attack plot foiled.
January: Kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl.
March 24: Twenty people die and 93 are injured in three bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya.
March 27: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 and injures 140 during Passover festivities in a hotel in Netanya, Israel in the Netanya suicide attack.
March 31: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 15 and injures over 40 in Haifa, Israel, in the Matza restaurant massacre.
April 11: A natural gas truck fitted with explosives is driven into a synagogue in Tunisia by an al-Qaeda member, killing 21 and wounding more than 30 in the Ghriba Synagogue Attack.
May 8: Bus Attack in Karachi.
May 9: A bomb explosion in Kaspiisk in Dagestan kills at least 42 people and injures 130 or more during Victory Day festivities.
June 14: Attack outside U.S. Consulate in Karachi.
July 4: An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing 2 Israelis before being killed himself.
October 2002: Beltway Sniper Attacks around the Washington metropolitan area kill 10 people and leave the region paranoid for weeks, caused by domestic terrorists.
October 6: Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen.
October 12: Bali car bombing of holidaymakers kills 202.
October 17: Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines kill six and wounds about 150.
October 18: A bus bomb in Manila kills three people and wounds 22.
October 19: A car bomb explodes outside a McDonald's Corp. restaurant in Moscow, killing one person and wounding five.
October 23: Moscow theater hostage crisis begins; 120 hostages and 40 terrorists killed in rescue three days later.
November 28: Kenyan hotel bombing.

2003

Terrorism against Israel in 2003.
March 4: Bomb attack in an airport in Davao kills 21.
May 12: Bombings of United States expat housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160 in the Riyadh Compound Bombings. Al-Qaeda blamed.
May 12: A truck bomb attack on a government building in the Chechen town of Znamenskoye kills 59.
May 14: As many as 16 die in a suicide bombing at a religious festival in southeastern Chechnya.
May 16: Casablanca Attacks by 12 bombers on five "Western and Jewish" targets in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 41 dead and over 100 injured. Attack attributed to a Moroccan al-Qaeda-linked group.
July 5: 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival in Moscow.
August 1: An explosion at the Russian hospital in Mozdok in North Ossetia kills at least 50 people and injures 76.
August 19: Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 22 people (including the top UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello) and wounds over 100.
August 29: Car bomb outside Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq, kills more than 80 people, including SCIRI leader Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim.
September 3: A bomb blast on a passenger train near Kislovodsk in southern Russia kills seven people and injures 90.
October 4: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 21 and wounds 51 in a Haifa restaurant in the Maxim restaurant massacre.
October 15: A bomb is detonated by Palestinians against a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip, killing three Americans.
November 15 and November 20: Truck bombs go off at two synagogues, the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 57 and wounding 700 in the 2003 Istanbul Bombings.
December 5: Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia
December 9: A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds at least 11.

2004

Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2004.
February 1: 109 Kurds are killed in 2 suicide bombings in Arbil, Iraq.
February 6: Bomb on Moscow Metro kills 41.
February 27: Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116.
March 2: Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500 during the Ashura. See: Ashoura Massacre.
March 2: Attack on procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan kills 43 and wounds 160.
March 9: Attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey.
March 11: Coordinated bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500.
April 21: Basra bombs in Iraq kill 74 and injure hundreds.
April 21: Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 5.
May 29: Al-Khobar massacres, in which Islamist militants kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.
August 24: Russian airplane bombings kill 90.
August 31: A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused by a suicide bomber, kills 10 people and injures 33.
September 1 – 3: Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia, results in 344 dead.
September 9: Jakarta embassy bombing, in which the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed, killing eight people.
October 7: Three car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 32 and wounding 114, most of them Israeli tourists.
December 6: Suspected al Qaeda-linked group attacks U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 5 local employees.
December 12: A bombing at the Christmas market in General Santos, Philippines, kills 15.

2005

February 28: About 125 Iraqis killed by a suicide car bomb outside a medical centre in Hilla, south of Baghdad.
March 19: Car bomb attack on theatre in Doha, Qatar, kills one Briton and wounds 12 others.
April: April 2005 terrorist attacks in Cairo – On April 7 a suicide bomber blows himself up in Cairo's Khan al Khalili market, killing three foreign tourists and wounding 17 others. In two further attacks on 30 April, suspected accomplices detonate a bomb and spray a tourist coach with gunfire.
June 1: A suicide bomber blows up in a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing 20 people.

External links, resources, references

MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (http://www.tkb.org)
Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel since the Declaration of Principles (September 1993) to September 2000 (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0cc40)
US State Department's List of Significant Terrorist Incidents (1961 - 2003) (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm)
Dmoz.org's Society Issues - Terrorism Incidents (http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Terrorism/Incidents/)
Terrorism Time Line (http://www.disaster-timeline.com/ttl.html)
History of Terrorism (http://www.crimsonbird.com/terrorism/timeline.htm) : Timeline of Terrorist Acts - Chronology
Thinkquest : Timeline of Terror (http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212088/tertime.htm)
Time.com: A Timeline of Terrorism (http://www.time.com/time/2001/underthreat/timeline/) - Hits and Misses
Infoplease : Terrorist Attacks on Americans (http://www.infoplease.com/spot/terrorism6.html)
Infoplease : Terrorist Attacks (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001454.html) (within the United States or against Americans abroad)
Frontline : Terrorist Attacks on Americans (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html)

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