List of terrorist incidents, 1980
The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1980.
- January 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
- 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.
- 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
- March 24: Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated by death squads in El Salvador.
- April 30: DRMLA start the Iranian Embassy Siege in London
- 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.
- 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.
- August 2: Strage di Bologna: A bomb attack by the terrorists of the far-right group Nuclei Amrita Rivoluzionari, at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
- September 26: A pipe bomb blast at Oktoberfest fairgrounds, Theresienwiese, Munich, Germany, which kills 13, include on right-wing Wehrsportgruppe Hoffman group's member Gundolf Kohler, and injuring 200.[citation needed]
- October 3: Four passers-by were killed 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.
