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Tadamon massacre
Tadamon massacre: 16 April 2013 mass killing of at least 41 to an estimated 288 civilians by Syrian Military Intelligence Branch 227 in Damascus's Tadamon neighborhood, filmed by perpetrators, revealed via leaked videos by Amsterdam researchers, and followed by sanctions and arrests.
Tagalog Republic
The Tagalog Republic (Republika ng Katagalugan) was the Katipunan's independent government during the Philippine Revolution against Spain, proclaimed in 1896 under Andrés Bonifacio, who was executed in 1897.
Tailhook scandal
The Tailhook scandal followed the 1991 Tailhook Association symposium in Las Vegas, where naval aviators sexually assaulted dozens of women; failed Navy investigations, Garrett's resignation, and censured admirals made it a watershed for women in the military.
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (太平天國, Taiping Tianguo), the rebel state of Hong Xiuquan, who claimed to be Jesus's younger brother, ruling from Nanjing 1853-1864 during the Taiping Rebellion/civil war; one of history's deadliest conflicts, with disputed death-toll estimates of 20 to 70 million.
Taiping Rebellion (太平天国运动)
Taiping Rebellion (太平天国运动), 1851–1864 peasant war against the Qing led by Hong Xiuquan's God Worshipping Society from Guangxi; held Nanjing 11 years, killed 20–70 million, and reshaped late Qing politics.
Taiwan under Japanese rule
Taiwan under Japanese rule (日本統治時代の台湾, 1895–1945): the fifty-year Japanese colonial period beginning with the Treaty of Shimonoseki, military government under Governor-General Kabayama Sukenori, and ending with the 1945 handover to the Republic of China.
Tajbeg Palace assault
Tajbeg Palace assault, also called Operation Storm-333 (Шторм-333), the 27 December 1979 Soviet KGB and Spetsnaz raid on Amin's Kabul palace that killed the Afghan leader and opened the Soviet-Afghan War.
Tajikistani Civil War (Ҷанги шаҳрвандии Тоҷикистон)
The Tajikistani Civil War (Ҷанги шаҳрвандии Тоҷикистон), also known as the Tajik Civil War, was fought in Tajikistan from 1992 to 1997, killing an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 people.
Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen (طالب بن جواد بن حسين العبدالمحسن)
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen (طالب بن جواد بن حسين العبدالمحسن), Saudi-born doctor in Germany since 2006, drove a rented SUV into the Magdeburg Christmas market on 20 December 2024, killing six and injuring over 300; an anti-Islam, far-right sympathizer of the AfD, on trial for sixfold murder.
Taliban insurgency
Taliban insurgency: the 2001–2021 armed campaign by the Taliban, ousted in 2001, against the U.S.-backed Afghan government and NATO forces, ending with the Taliban's return to power in August 2021.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev (Тамерлан Анзорович Царнаев)
Tamerlan Tsarnaev (Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev) was a Chechen-American boxer who, with his brother Dzhokhar, planted bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three; he died days later in a Watertown, Massachusetts, shootout.
Tamil Eelam (தமிழ் ஈழம்)
Tamil Eelam (தமிழ் ஈழம்), the proposed independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka's north-east, demanded since the 1976 Vaddukoddai Resolution and administered de facto by the LTTE until its May 2009 military defeat.
Tamil genocide
Tamil genocide is the contested framing of systematic violence against Sri Lanka's Tamil minority from 1956 through the 2009 civil war's end as genocide; advocates and some bodies support the label, while Sri Lanka's government rejects it.
Tanba campaign
The Tanba campaign (丹波攻め), also called the Pacification of Tamba, was the conquest of Tamba Province by Oda general Akechi Mitsuhide between 1575 and 1579.
Taranaki Wars
The Taranaki Wars were armed conflicts between Māori of the Taranaki region of New Zealand's North Island and Crown forces, fought from 1860 to 1881 over the sale and confiscation of land.
Tarascan-Aztec wars
The Tarascan-Aztec wars were the sustained conflicts between the Tarascan (Purépecha) empire of western Mexico and the Aztec empire, ending when the Spanish arrived in 1519.
Tarata bombing
The Tarata bombing was a car bomb attack by Shining Path on Tarata street in Miraflores, Lima, on 16 July 1992, killing 25 people and wounding 155.
Tatya Tope (तात्या टोपे)
Tatya Tope, also spelled Tantia Tope, born Ramachandra Pandurang Tope, was a Maratha general of the 1857 Indian Rebellion, captured and hanged in April 1859.
Taylor Swift Vienna concert terror plot
The Taylor Swift Vienna concert terror plot was a foiled Islamic State-inspired plan to attack her Eras Tour concerts at Vienna's Ernst-Happel-Stadion in August 2024, leading to their cancellation.
Tchintabaraden massacre
The Tchintabaraden massacre was a mass killing of Tuareg civilians by Niger's armed forces in May 1990, triggering the Tuareg rebellion of 1990 to 1995.
Te Kooti's War
Te Kooti's War (1868–1872) was a guerrilla conflict in New Zealand between the Māori leader Te Kooti and colonial forces, ending with sanctuary from King Tāwhiao.
Te Puea Hērangi
Te Puea Hērangi, known as Princess Te Puea, was a Māori leader of the Kīngitanga who led Waikato opposition to conscription and rebuilt Tūrangawaewae marae.
Technology during World War I
Technology during World War I (1914–1918) spanned machine guns, heavy artillery, poison gas, SONAR, aircraft, and the British Mark I tank, first used in 1916, involving 70 million personnel.
Tecumseh's Confederacy
Tecumseh's Confederacy was a pan-Indian alliance led by the Shawnee Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa, based at Prophetstown in Indiana and dedicated to halting American expansion.
Tecumseh's War
Tecumseh's War was the 1811 to 1813 conflict between the United States and Tecumseh's pan-tribal confederacy in the Old Northwest, ending at the Battle of the Thames.
Teller Amendment
Teller Amendment: 1898 U.S. congressional amendment, proposed by Senator Henry M. Teller of Colorado, disclaiming any intent to annex Cuba after the Spanish-American War; later superseded by the Platt Amendment.
Ten Great Campaigns
Ten Great Campaigns (十全武功, Shiquan Wugong): ten Qing military operations of the Qianlong Emperor, 1755–1792, covering the Dzungar wars, Xinjiang, Jinchuan, Taiwan, Burma, Vietnam, and Nepal.
Ten Years' War
Ten Years' War (Guerra de los Diez Años), Cuba's first war of independence from Spain, 1868-1878, begun with Céspedes' Grito de Yara and ended by the Pact of Zanjón.
Ten-Day War
Ten-Day War (desetdnevna vojna), the Slovenian War of Independence: 27 June to 7 July 1991 conflict between Slovenian Territorial Defence and the Yugoslav People's Army after Slovenia's 25 June 1991 independence declaration, ended by the EC-brokered Brioni Agreement.
Tenente revolts
The Tenente revolts were a series of military uprisings in Brazil between 1922 and 1927, led by junior army officers against the oligarchic First Republic.