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Terror, Reign of

Phase of the French Revolution when the Jacobins were in power (October 1793 to July 1794) under Robespierre and began systematically to murder their political opponents. The Terror was at its height in the early months of 1794. Across France, it is thought that between 17,000 and 40,000 people were executed, mainly by guillotine, until public indignation rose and Robespierre was overthrown and guillotined in July 1794.

The Reign of Terror began with the Jacobin seizure of power from the more moderate Girondins in June 1793. The Committee of Public Safety, with Robespierre at the helm, assumed dictatorial powers and liquidated anyone regarded as a threat to the state. One of the most prominent of the Terror's victims was the revolutionary minister of justice Georges Danton.


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9 January 1998
Northern Ireland Secretary Dr Mo Mowlam makes a controversial visit to the Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland to talk to Loyalist and Republican terrorists.
31 January 2004

British Airways and Air France cancel five flights to Washington DC and Miami in America, due to fears that terrorists are targeting the flights.

9 February 2005
Hours before Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia were due to visit a conference centre in Madrid a car bomb explodes near the centre. The Basque terrorists ETA are blamed for the attack. 
15 February 2005

The singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, wins damages from two UK newspapers which falsely claimed he supported terrorism.

1 March 1973
Gunmen from the Palestinian terrorist group, Black September, storm the Saudi Arabian embassy in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, taking a number of diplomats hostage.
2 April 1986
A bomb believed to have been planted by Palestinian terrorists explodes on a TWA plane flying over Greece, killing four people.
5 April 1988
25 hostages are released from a Kuwait Airways plane in Iran, which had been hijacked by Arab terrorists whilst the plane was on its way to Kuwait from Thailand. 
11 April 2002
In Tunisia, terrorist linked to al-Qaeda bomb the El Ghriba Synagogue on the island of Djerba, killing 21 people.
14 April 1986
The U.S. launches air strikes against Libya in retaliation against Libyan sponsorship of terrorist attacks against U.S. troops and citizens.
20 April 1871
Congress authorises American President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan.
24 April 1975
The left-wing German terrorist organisation, the Baader-Meinhof Gang, blow up the West German embassy in Stockholm.
28 April 1977
In West Germany, the leaders of the terrorist Baader-Meinhof Gang are sentenced to life in prison for murder.
3 May 2006
In Virginia, America Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison for his part in the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.
5 May 1980
In Britain, the SAS storm the terrorist-occupied Iranian embassy in London. Four gunmen are killed in the attack as all 19 hostages are rescued.
8 May 1794
During the reign of terror in France, prominent chemist and tax collector Antoine Lavoisier, is branded a traitor and guillotined on the same day.
12 May 2003
Terrorists linked to al-Qaeda launch a suicide attack against compounds housing western workers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 26 people are killed.
13 May 1989
A British Second World War hero, Jackie Mann, is kidnapped by Islamic terrorist in Beirut, Lebanon. He is released over two years later.
16 May 2003
Islamic terrorists launch a series of fatal suicide attacks against western targets in Casablanca, Morocco.
23 May 1977
Terrorists the South Moluccan Islands, formerly part of the Dutch East Indies, hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage after hi-jacking a train in the Netherlands. The children are released on 27th May, and the siege ends on 11th June when the train is stormed by Dutch police.
29 May 2004
22 people are killed as Islamic terrorists attack two oil installations and a compound housing foreign workers in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
2 June 1994
25 senior British intelligence officers involved in counter terrorism in Northern Ireland are killed when their Chinook helicopter crashes on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland.
14 June 1985
TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome is hijacked by Hezbollah terrorists.
16 June 1972
In Hanover, West German police capture Ulrike Meinhof - co-founder of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group.
25 June 1996
Islamic terrorists attack the Khobar Towers, a building which housed foreign military personnel, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
27 June 1976
Palestinian terrorists hijack an Air France Airbus flying from Athens and force it to fly to Entebbe in Uganda.
28 June 1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated in the Bosnian town of Sarajevo by terrorist Gavrillo Princip.
4 July 1976
Israeli commandos free more than 100 hostages being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda following a mid-air hi-jack by Arab terrorists.
20 July 1982
An IRA terrorist bomb in Hyde Park, London kills 3 members of the Blues and Royals during the Changing of the Guard ceremony. Two hours later 8 bandsmen are killed by an IRA bomb planted at the bandstand in Regent's Park.
21 July 1976
The British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, is killed by a terrorist car bomb in Dublin.
2 August 1980
Right-wing terrorists explode a bomb at Bologna Railway Station in northern Italy which kills 84 people and injures another 100.
7 August 1998
Two terrorist bombs exploded outside the American Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania kill more than 200 and injure a further 5,000. The Islamic Army for the Liberation of Holy Places claims responsibility.
8 August 1991
Islamic Jihad terrorists release British journalist John McCarthy - 5 years and 3 months after being kidnapped in Beirut. He had been held hostage since April 17, 1986 - a total of 1,943 days.
15 August 1998
A terrorist bomb explodes in the centre of Omagh, County Tyrone killing 28 and injuring more than 200 others. It's the biggest single incident death toll in recent Northern Ireland history. A splinter group of the IRA, calling itself the Real IRA, claims responsibility.
20 August 1998
US President Bill Clinton launches missile attacks on terrorist camps in Afghanistan and a chemical weapons factory in Sudan in retaliation for recent American Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
22 August 1998
Republican terrorist group the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) announces a 'complete ceasefire'.
5 September 1986
Pakistani troops storm a hi-jacked Pan Am Boeing 747. 22 people are killed -including several of the hostages. The hi-jacking began 16 hours earlier when 4 Palestinian terrorists boarded the plane at Karachi.
12 September 1992
In Peru, the leader of the Maoist insurgents the “Shinning Path”, Abimael Guzman, is arrested. He is later tried and convicted on charges of terrorism and sentenced to life in prison.
15 September 1978
Astrid Proll, a member of the West German terrorist group the Baader-Meinhof gang, is arrested in London.
19 September 1972
A letter bomb sent to the Israeli embassy in London by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September kills one diplomat in the embassy. 
7 October 2004
The Iraq War: British hostage Ken Bigley, a British construction worker, is executed by the Islamic terrorists that kidnapped him.
9 October 1934
King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and the French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou are assassinated by Croatian terrorists in Marseilles, France.
13 October 1977
Palestinian terrorists’ hi-jack a Lufthansa jet beginning a four day siege in which the plane is forced to land and take off from a number of airports in the Middle East before stopping at Mogadishu, Somali, where German security forces storm theplane and end the hi-jacking. 
24 October 1986
Britain cuts off diplomatic relations with Syria as it emerges that the country is sponsoring terrorism. 
9 November 1938
German Nazis launch a campaign of terror against Jewish people and their homes and businesses in Germany and Austria. The violence, which continued through to 10th November is known as Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass).
10 November 2001
In the wake of the 9th September terrorist attacks in America, President George W. Bush address the general assembly of the United Nations asking support in his war on terror.  
17 November 1997
68 tourists killed when they are attacked by Muslim terrorists in the Valley of the Queens at Luxor in Egypt.
27 November 1975
Ross McWhirter, co-editor with his twin brother Norris of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot dead by Irish terrorists outside his home in London, England.
8 December 2003
In Greece, 15 members of the left-wing terrorist organisation ‘November 17’ are convicted of various offences by a court in Athens. The group were responsible for the assassination of Brigadier Stephen Saunders the British defence attaché to Greece in June 2000.
17 December 1981
James Dozier, Chief of Staff of NATO’s Southern European land forces, is kidnapped from his home in Verona, Italy by the left-wing terrorist group the Red Brigade. Dozier is later rescued by the Italian authorities. 
21 December 2001
British police storm the cargo ship MV Nisha in the English Channel after intelligence suggested that it may contain terrorist materials. They subsequently find nothing illegal onboard.  
27 December 1985
Palestinian terrorists launch two separate attacks at airports in Rome and Vienna against passengers queuing for Israel’s national airline El AL. A total of 18 people are killed in both assaults.    
 

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