List of terrorist incidents, 1980
- List of terrorist incidents, 1980
The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1980.
*flagicon|Canada January 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
*flagicon|Colombia February 27: Dominican embassy siege: Guerrillas from M-19 take diplomats hostage at the Dominican embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. After 61 days, all are released on April 27.
*flagicon|United States March 15: armed members of FALN raided the campaign headquarters of President Jimmy Carter in Chicago and the campaign headquarters of George H. W. Bush in New York City. Seven people in Chicago and ten people in New York were tied up as the offices were vandalized before the FALN members fled. A few days later, Carter delegates in Chicago received threatening letters from FALN.
*flagicon|El Salvador March 24: Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated by death squads in El Salvador.
*flagicon|United Kingdom April 30: DRMLA start the Iranian Embassy Siege in London
*flagicon|United States June 3: A bomb destroys most of the exhibits in the Statue of Liberty story room. No one is arrested, but Croatian separatists are suspected.
*flagicon|Belgium July 27: A member of the Abu Nidal Organization carried out a grenade attack on a group of Jews waiting for a bus in Antwerp, Belgium, killing a child and wounding twenty others. Said Al Nasr will be convicted for this act.
*flagicon|Italy August 2: Strage di Bologna: Terrorists of the far-right group NAR at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
*flagicon|France October 3: Four congregants were killed and twelve others injured in a bomb attack on the rue Copernic synagogue in Paris, France. Responsibility was claimed by the National European Fascists (FNE), but the police investigation concluded that Palestinian terrorists were involved.
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*List of terrorist incidents
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