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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism. Massacres more generally are listed chronologically at List of massacres; assassinations are listed by location at List of assassinated people.
   There is no single accepted definition of non-state terrorism in common use. Incidents listed here are restricted to those that: (a) are not believed to have been state-sponsored; and (b) are commonly called terrorism or meet some of the commonly used criteria.

1800s

1900s-1940s

  • 1901, September 6: American President William McKinley is 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 is assassinated in Senate House in Helsinki by Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman.
  • 1908, February 1: The Portuguese King Carlos is murdered with his son Prince Luís Filipe, Duke of Braganza, by two man 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 - Turkish nationalists shoot 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 to try and stop the United States entry into World War I against Germany.
  • 1920, September 16: Wall Street Bombing kills 38 people and wounds 300 others.
  • 1925, April 16: St Nedelya Church assault kills 150 people, mostly high-ranked individuals, and wounds 500 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.
  • 1927: The Ku Klux Klan launch a wave of political terror in Alabama.
  • 1933, October 10: A Boeing 247 is destroyed in midflight by a nitroglycerin bomb. All seven people aboard are killed. This incident is 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 of 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. This was the first terrorist attack of the modern era in the Middle East.
  • 1948, January 30: Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse.
  • 1948, September 17: Assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator in Palestine, and his aide by Lehi.

    1950s

  • During this and the next decade The Ku Klux Klan re-emerges. Some of the tactics used are lynching, cross burning and assassination.
  • 1950, November 1: Puerto Rican nationalists fail to assassinate U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
  • 1951, October 16: Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, is assassinated by two gun-shots in 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.
  • 1952, August 22: Hurvamorden in Hurva, Sweden. Tore Hedin killed 7 people.
  • 1954, March 1: U.S. Capitol shooting incident by Puerto Rican nationalists, wounding 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 include 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 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.
  • 1958, October 12: Bombing of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple Atlanta, Georgia suspicion done by white separatists.

    1960s

  • 1960, March 4: Possible bombing of the Belgian ammunition carrier La Coubre in the port of Habana, killing over 30 people
  • 1961, April 8: Omani terrorists blow 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, November 22: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while riding in an open vehicle in Texas.
  • 1965: The Ku Klux Klan murders 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 thwart 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 that destroyed Nelson's Pillar in Dublin
  • 1966: Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the IRA; on June 26 they commit three sectarian murders.
  • 1966: NAACP leader Vernon Dahme assassinated by firebomb exploded by The Ku Klux Klan.
  • 1966, September 22: A bazooka attack on the Cuban embassy in Ottawa is made.
  • 1966, October 5: Anti-Castro forces bomb the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Ottawa.
  • 1967: May - December: In the Hong Kong 1967 riots, evolved from civil disobedience to terrorism. Leftists killed at least 51 people including eleven policemen, a bomb expert of the British forces and a fireman, through murders or bombs.
  • 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, June 6: Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
  • 1968 December 26: Two Palestinian gunmen travel from Beirut to Athens, and attack an El Al jet there, killing one person
  • 1969, February 13: the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) set off a powerful bomb that ripped through the Montreal Stock Exchange causing massive destruction and seriously injuring 27 people.
  • 1969, December 12: Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, killing 16 people.

    1970s-2000s

    1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
    1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
    1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
    2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 

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