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Rangoon bombing
The Rangoon bombing (Rangoon incident) was North Korea's 9 October 1983 assassination attempt on South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan at Rangoon's Martyrs' Mausoleum; 21 died, Chun survived, and Burma severed ties with Pyongyang.
Rani of Jhansi (माणिकर्णिका तांबे)
Rani Lakshmibai, born Manikarnika Tambe (माणिकर्णिका तांबे), was queen of Jhansi whose state was annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse in 1853; she led resistance in the 1857 Rebellion, escaped the 1858 siege of Jhansi, and died in battle near Gwalior on 17 June 1858.
Rape during the Armenian genocide
Sexual violence against Armenian women and girls during the 1915–16 Armenian genocide: rape, abduction, sexual slavery, and forced marriage during deportations, with roughly 50,000 captives in 1919.
Rape during the Bangladesh Liberation War
Mass sexual violence against Bengali women and girls by Pakistani forces and collaborators during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War; survivors honored as Birangona; commonly cited figures around 200,000 rapes, with contested estimates and legal aftermath.
Rape during the Bosnian War
Rape during the Bosnian War (1992–1995): mass wartime sexual violence, chiefly against Bosniak women, in detention and rape camps; 14,000–50,000 estimated victims; landmark ICTY Foča convictions defined rape as torture and crime against humanity.
Rape during the occupation of Germany
Rape during the occupation of Germany: mass sexual violence by Soviet forces in 1945, with estimates up to 2 million victims, plus documented assaults by American, French, and British troops, courts-martial, and postwar silence.
Rape during the occupation of Japan
Rape during the occupation of Japan (1945–1952): sexual violence by Allied servicemen, beginning in Yokosuka on 30 August 1945, with documented Okinawan cases, censorship-obscured records, the RAA "female floodwall," and disputed claims of mass rape.
Rape of Belgium
The Rape of Belgium: German army atrocities against Belgian civilians in the 1914 invasion and occupation of Belgium in World War I, including Louvain's burning, the Bryce Report, forced-labor deportations, and later denial and historiography.
Rationale for the 2026 Iran war
Rationale for the 2026 Iran war: the US and Israeli justifications for Operation Epic Fury, launched February 28, 2026, targeting Iran's missiles, navy, proxies, and nuclear program, and the intelligence, legal, and diplomatic disputes over those aims.
Rationale for the Iraq War
Rationale for the Iraq War: the US and UK justifications for the March 2003 invasion, chiefly Iraqi WMD, terrorism links, and democratization; later inquiries found the intelligence flawed and no stockpiles existed.
Ratlines (World War II)
The Ratlines, also called the Vatican Ratlines, were clandestine escape routes that helped Nazi war criminals flee Europe after World War II, chiefly through Spain and Italy to Argentina.
Ravensbrück concentration camp
Ravensbrück was the largest Nazi concentration camp for women, built by the SS near Fürstenberg, 50 miles north of Berlin, in 1939. An estimated 130,000 women passed through it; as many as 40,000 died. The Red Army liberated it on 30 April 1945.
Rawagede massacre
The Rawagede massacre was the execution of hundreds of male villagers by Dutch soldiers in West Java on 9 December 1947, during the Indonesian War of Independence.
Reactions to the 2026 Iran war
Reactions to the 2026 Iran war, the US-Israel war on Iran that killed Ali Khamenei: European refusal to join, Russian and Chinese UN vetoes, Gulf condemnations, Pakistani mediation, and US midterm backlash.
Reactions to the assassination of Ali Khamenei
Global reactions to the 28 February 2026 assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in joint US-Israeli strikes: Iranian 40-day mourning, Mojtaba Khamenei's succession, Trump's celebration, Russian and Chinese condemnation, and protests in Iraq.
Reactions to the September 11 attacks
Reactions to the September 11 attacks: American public, international, and institutional responses to the 2001 al-Qaeda attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, including NATO's first Article 5 invocation, the rally-round-the-flag effect, and later reassessment.
Rebellion
Rebellion: organized, armed, open resistance to established authority, distinct from revolt and insurgency. Covers causes, dynamics, historical episodes from 66 CE to Chechnya, and post-victory regime outcomes.
Rebellion of Chayanta
The Rebellion of Chayanta (1777–1781) was an Aymara indigenous uprising in northern Potosí, Alto Peru, led by Tomás Katari against abusive colonial authorities and caciques.
Rebellion of Huánuco
The Rebellion of Huánuco was an 1812 uprising in the Viceroyalty of Peru in which indigenous people, creoles, and mestizos briefly seized the city of Huánuco.
Rebellion of Pumacahua
The Rebellion of Pumacahua, also called the Cusco rebellion, was an 1814 insurrection in Cusco, Peru, led by Mateo Pumacahua and the Angulo brothers, and defeated in 1815.
Rebellion of the Encomenderos
The Gonzalo Pizarro rebellion (1544–1548) was an uprising of Peru's encomenderos against the New Laws, led by Gonzalo Pizarro against Viceroy Blasco Núñez Vela and Pedro de La Gasca.
Recapture of Recife
The Siege of Recife (Cerco do Recife) was the encirclement and capture of the Dutch-held port of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, ending Dutch Brazil in 1654.
Reconquest of Buenos Aires
The Reconquest of Buenos Aires (Reconquista de Buenos Aires) was the recapture of the city from a British occupying force led by William Carr Beresford on 12 August 1806.
Recovery of Ssangseong
The recovery of Ssangseong was the 1356 campaign in which Goryeo, under King Gongmin, destroyed the Mongol Ssangseong Chonggwanbu and restored sovereignty over the northeastern peninsula.
Red Army invasion of Armenia
The Red Army invasion of Armenia was the entry of Soviet Russian forces into the First Republic of Armenia in late November 1920, ending its independence.
Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan
The Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan was the entry of Soviet Russia's 11th Red Army into the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on April 27–28, 1920, ending its 23 months of independence.
Red Brigades
The Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse) were an Italian Marxist-Leninist terrorist group founded in 1970 by Renato Curcio, Margherita Cagol, and Alberto Franceschini; they killed about 75 people, including Aldo Moro in 1978, and disbanded in 1988.
Red Cloud
Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota war chief, led the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho to victory in Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) over the Bozeman Trail, and signed the second Treaty of Fort Laramie on November 6, 1868.
Red Cloud's War
Red Cloud's War (1866–1868) was fought by the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho against the United States Army over the Bozeman Trail, ending in American withdrawal.
Red corridor
Red corridor: contiguous forested, mineral-rich tribal belt across central and eastern India, also called the Naxal belt, where the CPI (Maoist) insurgency operated from 2004; shrank from about 220 districts in 2009 to none by March 2026.