Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

ChronologyA.D. 66–70 Jewish nationalist Zealot (Sicarii) movement createsmass insurrection in Roman province of Judea, leading to Roman destructionof Jerusalem and Second Temple and mass suicide of Zealotsbesieged at Masada fortress.A.D. 1090–1256 The Isma‘ili Fedayeen cult of “assassins” conductsa terror campaign against the Abbasid Islamic empire until the cult isexterminated by the Mongol invad ers.1793 May: French revolutionary Committee of Public Safety undertakespurge of real and suspected enemies of the revolution, leading to300,000 arbitrary arrests and 17,000 executions.1794 July: “Great Terror” ends when Robespierre is executed.1865 24 December: Ku Klux Klan is founded in Pulaski, Tennessee,by Confederate Civil War veterans.1869 Catechism of the Revolutionist by Sergey Nechayev pro videsan idealized model of a terrorist, inspiring later terrorist theorists andactors.1878 January–1881 March Narodnaya Volya (People’s Will) Russianterrorists conduct bombing campaign against Tsarist government,culmi nating in assassination of Tsar Alexander II on sixth attempt.1886 4 May: In Haymarket Square, Chicago, while 180 police confront1,300 workers protesting for an eight-hour work day, a bombexplodes, killing eight and injuring many others.1901 September–1902 March An American, Ellen M. Stone, iskidnapped by the Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization andheld for ransom of $66,000. After the U.S. government refuses toxxix