This is a timeline of incidents in 1999 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).
| Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrators | Part of | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16 | Car bombings | 16 | 120 | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 1999 Tashkent bombings Six car bombs targeting government buildings and President Islam Karimov exploded over the course of an hour and a half. | IMU | Islamic terrorism | |
| Mar 6 | Bombing | 10 | 150 | Jessore, Bangladesh | 1999 Jessore bombings Islamist group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami used two time bombs to attack Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi, killing 10 people and injuring another 150. | Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami | Terrorism in Bangladesh | |
| Mar 13 & 14 | Arson, bombing | 13 | 6 (+1) | Istanbul, Turkey | 1999 Istanbul bombings Two bombings at a shopping centre (Blue Market massacre) and one under a car killed 13 and wounded seven others. The PKK was blamed. | PKK | Kurdish–Turkish conflict | |
| Mar 19 | Bombing | 62 | 168 | Vladikavkaz, Russia | 1999 Vladikavkaz bombing Four young Chechen men of the Chechen Repiublic of Ichkeria detonated a bomb in a crowded market, killing 62 people. They also committed two other bombings of a Russian military housing complex and a train station and also kidnapped four Russian soldiers later in 1999. | CRI | Terrorism in Russia | |
| Apr 17-30 | Bombings | 3 | 140 | London, United Kingdom | 1999 London nail bombings Neo-Nazi David Copeland detonated three nail bombs. The first bombing occurred on 17 April in Brixton and targeted black people. 48 people were injured. The second bombing, on April 24, targeted Bengalis on Brick Lane and wounded 13. The final bombing occurred on 30 April in Soho at a gay bar called the Admiral Duncan. Three people, including a pregnant woman, were killed and 79 were injured. Copeland told police he hoped the bombings would spark a race war. | David Copeland | Terrorism in United Kingdom | |
| Aug 10 | Mass shooting | 1 | 5 | Los Angeles, United States | Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting Aryan Nations member Buford O. Furrow opened fire on a Jewish community center, wounding an elderly secretary, a teenage counselor and three young boys. After fleeing, Furrow murdered a Filipino-American mail carrier and then took a taxi to Las Vegas, where he surrendered to authorities. | Aryan Nations | Terrorism in the United States | |
| Aug 31 | Bombing | 1 | 40 | Moscow, Russia | Russian apartment bombings#Manzhnaya Square, Moscow A bomb exploded at a mall, killing one person and injuring 40 others. | Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan | War of Dagestan | |
| Sep 4-16 | Bombings | 293 | 1,000+ | Russia | Russian apartment bombings A series of bombings at apartment buildings. The first occurred on 4 September in Buynaksk, Dagestan, the next bombings occurred in Moscow on the 9th and 13th. The final bombing occurred on the 16th in Volgodonsk. Overall, 293 people were killed and over 1,000 more were wounded. The government blamed the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria for the blasts, however, many Chechen separatists as well several Russian journalists have accused the Federal Security Service of Russia of staging these bombings as a false flag in order in bring Vladimir Putin into power and garner support for the Second Chechen War, which had just commenced. | Disputed | Second Chechen War | |
| Sep 18 | Massacre | 54 | Ampara District, Sri Lanka | Gonagala massacre LTTE cadres massacre at least 50 Sinhalese civilians in Gonagala.[1] [2] | LTTE | Sri Lankan Civil War | ||
| Oct 7 | Hostage taking | 0 | 0 | Bangkok, Thailand | 1999 Myanmar Embassy siege A group of militants from the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors took 89 people hostage at the Myanmar embassy. The attackers released all of the hostages and escaped without bloodshed. | VBSW | Internal conflict in Myanmar |