List of Revolutions and Rebellions - 1980s

1980s

• 1980: National Socialist Council of Nagaland launches its struggle against Indian administration and the establishment of the greater Nagaland.
• 1980: The Santo Rebellion in the Anglo-French condominium of New Hebrides
• 1980–2000: The Communist Party of Peru launched the internal conflict in Peru.
• 1981: Assassination of Ziaur Rahman in Bangladesh sparks protests and riots.
• 1982: General Hussain Muhammad Ershad seizes power through a bloodless coup, deposing president Abdus Sattar in Bangladesh.
• 1983: Overthrow of the ruling Conseil de Salut du peuple (CSP) by Marxist forces led by Thomas Sankara in Upper Volta, renamed Burkina Faso in the following year.
• 1983: Prime Minister of Grenada, Maurice Bishop, overthrown and subsequently executed by high-ranking government officials.
• 1983 Beginning on July 23, 1983, there was an on-and-off insurgency against the Government of Sri Lanka by the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers.
• 1983–2005: The Second Sudanese Civil War was largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War, and one of the longest lasting and deadliest wars of the later 20th century.
• 1984–1999: Kurdish uprising for independence from the Republic of Turkey
• 1984–1985: Pro-independence FLNKS forces in New Caledonia revolt following an election boycott and occupy the town of Thio from November 1984 to January 1985. Thio is retaken by the French after the assassination of Éloi Machoro, the security minister in the FLNKS provisional government and the primary leader of the occupation.
• 1985: Soviet and Afghanistan P.O.W.s rose against their captors at Badaber base.
• 1986: The People Power Revolution peacefully overthrows Ferdinand Marcos after his two decade rule in the Philippines.
• 1986: Khalistan Commando Force started armed movement for the establishment of Khalistan, an independent Sikh homeland. The movement, as is the case with other Sikh nationalistic movements, was fueled in part by the Indian army's Operation Blue Star. The armed struggle resulted in thousands of mostly civilian deaths.
• 1987–1991: The First Intifada, or the Palestinian uprising, a series of violent incidents between Palestinians and Israelis.
• 1988–1991: The Pan-Armenian National Movement frees Armenia from Soviet rule.
• 1988: The 8888 Uprising In Burma or Myanmar.
• 1989: Armed resistance breaks out in the Kashmir valley against Indian administration.
• 1989: The Singing Revolution, bloodless overthrow of communist rule in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• 1989: The violent Caracazo riots in Venezuela. In the next few years, there are two attempted coups and President Carlos Andrés Pérez is impeached.
• 1989: The Tiananmen Square protests, a series of street demonstrations led by students, intellectuals and labour activists in the People's Republic of China between 15 April and 4 June 1989, ended in a violent crackdown by the People's Liberation Army.
• 1989: The bloodless Velvet Revolution overthrows the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
• 1989: The Romanian Revolution kills the dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife, Elena Ceauşescu in the Socialist Republic of Romania.
• 1989: Demonstrations in East Germany led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.