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ICE and New York City during the second Trump presidency
ICE enforcement in New York City under the second Trump administration: 2025 arrest surges, 26 Federal Plaza courthouse arrests, Adams' Rikers Executive Order 50, and court rulings against it.
Idlib offensive (2018–2020)
The Idlib offensive (2018–2020) was a Syrian government and allied campaign against the rebel-held Greater Idlib area, capturing about 2,700 sq km before a March 2020 ceasefire.
Idrisid–Mutawakkilite war
Idrisid–Mutawakkilite war: armed conflict between the Idrisid Emirate of Asir under Sayyid Muhammad al-Idrisi and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen under Imam Yahya Hamid al-Din, former Ottoman-era allies who became rivals, ending with Saudi absorption of Asir.
Ifni War
The Ifni War, which Spanish historians call the Forgotten War, was fought from late 1957 to mid-1958 between Spain and Moroccan irregular forces over the enclave of Ifni.
Igala–Benin wars
The Igala–Benin wars were pre-colonial conflicts between the Kingdom of Igala at Idah and the Kingdom of Benin, best documented in the Idah war of 1515–1516.
Igbo Landing
Igbo Landing, also Ibo, Ebo, or Ebos Landing, is a Dunbar Creek site on St. Simons Island, Georgia, where 75 enslaved Igbo captives rebelled and drowned themselves in May 1803, inspiring the Gullah Geechee flying Africans legend.
Ignacio Agramonte
Ignacio Agramonte (1841–1873) was a Cuban lawyer and major general who led the Camagüey insurgents in the Ten Years' War and coauthored the 1869 Guáimaro constitution.
Ikedaya incident
The Ikedaya incident (池田屋事件), also called the Ikedaya affair, was a night raid in Kyoto on 8 July 1864 in which the Shinsengumi attacked pro-imperial activists gathered at the Ikedaya inn.
Ikiza
Ikiza, Kirundi for "the catastrophe," is the name used in Burundi for the mass killings of 1972, when the Tutsi-dominated army of Michel Micombero killed large numbers of Hutu civilians.
Ikkō-ikki (一向一揆)
The Ikkō-ikki, also called Ikkō rebels, were armed uprisings of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist followers in Japan from the 1460s to the 1580s, best known for ruling Kaga province as the Kingdom of Peasants.
Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising
The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising was a revolt against Ottoman rule in Macedonia and Thrace, organized by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in 1903 and crushed in about two months at the cost of thousands of civilian lives.
Ilse Koch
Ilse Koch, born Margarete Ilse Köhler and known as the Witch of Buchenwald, was the wife of the Buchenwald camp commandant and a convicted Nazi war criminal.
Ilya Ponomarev (Илья Владимирович Пономарёв)
Ilya Ponomarev (Илья Владимирович Пономарёв), also Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev, is a Russian opposition politician exiled in Ukraine since 2016 who was the only State Duma deputy to vote against the 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Im Kkeokjeong Rebellion
The Im Kkeokjeong Rebellion (임꺽정의 난) was a peasant uprising led by Im Kkeokjeong in Joseon Korea's Hwanghae Province, the era's largest, lasting from 1559 to 1562.
Imam Shamil (Шамил)
Imam Shamil (Шамил), also Sheikh Shamil or the Caucasian Eagle, was the third imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1834–1859), an Avar Naqshbandi leader who united Dagestan and Chechnya in a 25-year resistance against Russia, surrendered at Gunib in 1859, and died in Medina in 1871.
Imjin War (임진왜란)
Imjin War (임진왜란), 1592–1598: Japan's Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Joseon Korea to conquer Ming China; Korean, Ming, and guerrilla forces repelled both invasions, ending at Noryang in 1598.
Immelmann turn
The Immelmann turn is an aerobatic maneuver in which a plane pulls up into a half loop, then rolls half a turn to upright on the opposite heading.
Impact of the 2026 Iran war on Iran
Impact of the 2026 Iran war on Iran: the February 28, 2026 US-Israeli strikes, killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and succession by Mojtaba Khamenei, Hormuz closure, mass displacement, 84% inflation, sanctions, and repression.
Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II
The Imperial Japanese Navy (Nihon Kaigun) in World War II: the Pacific War fleet of 1941-1945, third largest by 1922, built on decisive-battle doctrine, victorious until Midway in June 1942, then worn down to near-total destruction by 1945.
Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War
The Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War, also called Shūsen no Shōsho, is the 1945 rescript by which Emperor Shōwa announced Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
Imperial War Museums
Imperial War Museums is a British national museum organization founded in 1917, operating five branches including IWM London, IWM Duxford, HMS Belfast, and Churchill War Rooms.
In Amenas hostage crisis
The In Amenas hostage crisis was a four-day siege at a gas facility in southeastern Algeria in January 2013, ended when Algerian special forces stormed the plant.
Inata attack
The Inata attack was a jihadist assault on a gendarmerie post guarding the Inata gold mine in northern Burkina Faso on 14 November 2021, killing at least 53.
Inca conquest of Chinchaysuyu
The Inca conquest of Chinchaysuyu was the 15th-century campaign by which the Inca absorbed the northern quarter of their empire, including the kingdom of Chimor.
Inca conquest of the Cañari
The Inca–Cañari war was the conflict beginning around 1450 in which the Inca Empire conquered the Cañari of southern Ecuador, who in 1532 allied with the Spanish conquistadors against the Inca.
Inca conquest of the Caranqui
The Inca conquest of the Caranqui was the prolonged Inca campaign that subdued the Caranqui and Cayambe peoples of northern highland Ecuador, ending only after 1500.
Inca–Chiriguano wars
The Inca–Chiriguano wars were conflicts fought from the late 15th century into the 1530s between the Inca Empire and Guaraní-speaking Chiriguano raiders on Bolivia's southeastern frontier.
Inca–Mapuche conflict
The Inca–Mapuche conflict was a late 15th-century confrontation in which Mapuche resistance halted Inca southward expansion in Chile, fixing the empire's southern frontier at the Maule River.
Incident on Hill 192
Incident on Hill 192, also called Casualties of War: the 1966 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Phan Thi Mao by four US soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam, exposed by a fellow soldier and recounted in Daniel Lang's 1970 book and De Palma's 1989 film.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Harriet Jacobs's autobiography under the pseudonym Linda Brent, edited by Lydia Maria Child; the most widely read female antebellum slave narrative, documenting sexual exploitation, seven years hiding, and authenticated by Yellin.