List of Revolutions and Rebellions - 1960s

1960s

• 1960: A group of disaffected Ethiopian officers make an unsuccessful attempt to depose Emperor Haile Selassie and replace him with a more progressive government, but are defeated by the rest of the Ethiopian military.
• 1961–1970: First Kurdish Iraqi War erupts as a result of Barzanji clan uprising.
• 1961–1991: The Eritrean War of Independence led by Isaias Afewerki against Ethiopia.

• 1961–1975: The Angolan War of Independence began as an uprising against forced cotton harvesting, and became a multi-faction struggle for control of Portugal's Overseas Province of Angola.
• 1962–1974: The leftist African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) wages a revolutionary war of independence in Portuguese Guinea. In 1973, the independent Republic of Guinea-Bissau is proclaimed, and the next year the republic's independence is recognized by the reformist military junta in Lisbon.
• 1962: The military coup of 1962 in Burma, led by General Ne Win, who became the country's strongman.
• 1962: A revolution in northern Yemen overthrew the imam and established the Yemen Arab Republic.
• 1962–1975: Dhofar Rebellion in Oman.
• 1963: White Revolution in Iran.
• 1963–1969: The Bale revolt in southern Ethiopia, was a guerrilla war by local Somali and Oromo against Amhara settlers.
• 1964: Simba Rebellion in the Congo.
• 1964: The Zanzibar Revolution overthrew the 157-year-old Arab monarchy, declared the People's Republic of Zanzibar, and began the process of unification with Julius Nyerere's Tanganyika.
• 1964–1979: The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Second Chimurenga or the Liberation Struggle, was a guerrilla war which lasted from July 1964 to 1979 and led to universal suffrage, the end of white-rule in Zimbabwe Rhodesia, and the creation of the Republic of Zimbabwe.
• 1964: The October Revolution in Sudan, driven by a general strike and rioting, forced President Ibrahim Abboud to transfer executive power to a transitional civilian government, and eventually to resign.
• 1964–1975: The Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO), formed in 1962, commenced a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonialism. Independence was granted on June 25, 1975; however, the Mozambican Civil War complicated the political situation and frustrated FRELIMO's attempts at radical change. The war continued into the early 1990s after the government dropped Marxism as the state ideology.
• 1964–present: The Colombian Armed Conflict.
• 1965: The March Intifada in Bahrain: a Leftist uprising demanding an end to the British presence in Bahrain.
• 1966: Kwame Nkrumah is removed from power in Ghana by coup d'état.
• 1966–1993: A guerrilla warfare was conducted against the government of François Tombalbaye from the Sudan-based group FROLINAT.
• 1966–1998: The Ulster Volunteer Force was recreated by militant Protestant British loyalists in Northern Ireland to wage war against the Irish Republican Army and the Roman Catholic community at large.
• 1967–1968 Iraqi communists launched an insurgency in southern Iraq.
• 1967–1970: Biafra: The former eastern Nigeria unsuccessfully fought for a breakaway republic of Biafra, after the mainly Ibo people of the region suffered pogroms in northern Nigeria the previous year.
• 1967: The Naxalite Movement begins in India, led by the AICCCR.
• 1967: Anguillans resentful of Kittitian domination of the island expelled the Kittitian police and declared independence from the British colony of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla. British forces retook the island in 1969 and made Anguilla a separate dependency in 1980. There was no bloodshed in the entire episode.
• 1968: The revolution in the Republic of Congo.
• 1968: The May 1968 revolt: students' and workers' revolt against the government of Charles de Gaulle in France.
• 1968: A coup by Juan Velasco Alvarado in Peru, followed by radical social and economic reforms.
• 1968: A failed attempt by leader Alexander Dubček to liberalise Czechoslovakia in defiance of the Soviet-supported communist state culminates in the Prague Spring.
• 1969–1998: The Troubles: the Provisional Irish Republican Army and other Republican Paramilitaries waged an armed campaign against British Security forces and Loyalist Paramilitaries in an attempt to bring about a United Ireland.
• 1969: A mass movement of workers, students, and peasants in Pakistan forced the resignation of President Mohammad Ayub Khan.