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| 1943 | Birth Germany Baader, Andraes |  |
| Birth of Andreas Baader |
| 1968 | Arrest Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| The leader of a "Red Army faction", arrested & forcibly released by a Meinhof campaign |
| 1968 | Arson Germany Esslin, Gudrun | |
| 2nd April Frankfurt Member of group who set fire to a Frankfurt dept store in protest against consumerism |
| 1968 | Frankfurt Arson Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| 2nd April Frankfurt A group of terrorists set fire to a Frankfurt store in protest against consumerism |
| One of the founders of the Red Army Faction in protest against the consumer society |
| Jumps bail & goes underground & takes part in a 1969 bombing campaign |
| Sentenced to 3 yrs imprisonment |
| 1968 | Trial Germany Mahler, Horst | |
| Frankfurt Defends Baader at the Frankfurt arson trial |
| 1969 | Bombing of Berlin Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| 12th Dec Berlin The Baader-Meinhog bomb Berlin |
| 1970 | Arrest Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| 4th April Berlin The leader of a "Red Army faction", arrested |
| 14th May Berlin Meinhof & Mahler shoot their way into the Social Affairs Institute & release Baader |
| 14th May Berlin Foundation of the Baader-Meinhof Group |
| Baader, Ensslin, Mahler, and Meinhof go to Jordan where they train for guerrilla warfare with the PLO |
| 1970 | PLO Germany Ensslin, Gudrun | |
| Baader, Ensslin, Mahler, and Meinhof go to Jordan where they train for guerrilla warfare with the PLO |
| 1970 | PLO Germany Meinhof, Ulrike | |
| Baader, Ensslin, Mahler, and Meinhof go to Jordan where they train for guerrilla warfare with the PLO |
| 1970 | Red Army Faction Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| Begining of the "anti-imperialistic fight", with bank robberies to raise money and explosives, and arson attacks against U.S. military facilities, German police stations, and buildings of the Axel Springer press empire |
| The Red Army Faction is founded by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Mller and others |
| 1970 | Red Army Faction Germany Ensslin, Gudrun | |
| Begining of the "anti-imperialistic fight", with bank robberies to raise money and explosives, and arson attacks against U.S. military facilities, German police stations, and buildings of the Axel Springer press empire |
| The Red Army Faction is founded by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Mller and others |
| 1970 | Red Army Faction Germany Mahler, Horst | |
| The Red Army Faction is founded by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Mller and others |
| 1970 | Red Army Faction Germany Meinhof, Ulrike | |
| Begining of the "anti-imperialistic fight", with bank robberies to raise money and explosives, and arson attacks against U.S. military facilities, German police stations, and buildings of the Axel Springer press empire |
| The Red Army Faction is founded by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Mller and others |
| 1970 | Red Army Faction Germany Mller, Irmgard | |
| The Red Army Faction is founded by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Mller and others |
| 1970 | Terrorism Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| 29th Sep Berlin 3 Berlin Banks are robbed on the same day |
| 29th Sep Berlin Over the next 3 yrs the Red Army Faction steals over DM1.5 |
| 1971 | Manifesto Baader Meinhof Germany Mahler, Horst | |
| Writes the Red Army Faction manifesto, "The Urban Guerrilla Concept" |
| 1972 | Arrest Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| June The leaders are arrested, after 6 murders, 50 attempted murders & numerous bank raids |
| 1972 | Arrest Germany Ensslin, Gudrun | |
| June Stuttgart The Read Army Faction members are jailed individually in solitary confinement in the newly constructed high security Stammheim Prison in the north of Stuttgart |
| 1972 | Arrest Germany Meinhof, Ulrike | |
| June Stuttgart The Read Army Faction members are jailed individually in solitary confinement in the newly constructed high security Stammheim Prison in the north of Stuttgart |
| 1972 | Bombing of Augsburg Germany Weissbecker, Tommy | |
| 12th May Augsburg Bombing of a police station in Augsburg and the Bavarian State Criminal Investigations Agency in Munich, claimed by Tommy Weissbecker |
| 1972 | Bombing of Axel Springer Verlag Germany Stachowiak, Ilse | |
| 19th May Bombing of the Axel Springer Verlag, Ilse Stachowiak is involved in the bombing |
| 1972 | Bombing of Frankfurt Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| 11th May Frankfurt The Baader-Meinhof bomb a USAArmy base in Frankfurt killing 1 & injuring 14 |
| 1972 | Bombing of Karlsruhe Germany Grashof, Manfred | |
| 12th May Karlsruhe Bombing of the car of the Federal Judge Buddenberg |
| 1972 | Bombing of Munich Germany Weissbecker, Tommy | |
| 12th May Munich Bombing of a police station in Augsburg and the Bavarian State Criminal Investigations Agency in Munich, claimed by Tommy Weissbecker |
| 1972 | Bombing of USAREUR HQ Germany Moeller, Irmgard | |
| 24th May Bombing outside of Military Intelligence (G-2), Headquarters, U.S. Army in Europe (HQ USAREUR) at Campbell Barracks, claimed by the 15th July Commando (in honour of Petra Schelm), executed by Irmgard Moeller |
| 1972 | Bombing of USAREUR HQ Germany Schelm, Petra | |
| 24th May Bombing outside of Military Intelligence (G-2), Headquarters, U.S. Army in Europe (HQ USAREUR) at Campbell Barracks, claimed by the 15th July Commando (in honour of Petra Schelm), executed by Irmgard Moeller |
| 1972 | Red Army Faction Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| June After an intense manhunt, Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, Holger Meins , and Jan-Carl Raspe are arrested |
| June Stuttgart The Read Army Faction members are jailed individually in solitary confinement in the newly constructed high security Stammheim Prison in the north of Stuttgart |
| 1972 | Red Army Faction Germany Ensslin, Gudrun | |
| June After an intense manhunt, Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, Holger Meins , and Jan-Carl Raspe are arrested |
| June Stuttgart The Read Army Faction members are jailed individually in solitary confinement in the newly constructed high security Stammheim Prison in the north of Stuttgart |
| 1972 | Red Army Faction Germany Meinhof, Ulrike | |
| June After an intense manhunt, Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, Holger Meins , and Jan-Carl Raspe are arrested |
| June Stuttgart The Read Army Faction members are jailed individually in solitary confinement in the newly constructed high security Stammheim Prison in the north of Stuttgart |
| 1972 | Red Army Faction Germany Meins, Holger | |
| June After an intense manhunt, Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, Holger Meins , and Jan-Carl Raspe are arrested |
| 1972 | Red Army Faction Germany Raspe, Jan-Carl | |
| June After an intense manhunt, Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, Holger Meins , and Jan-Carl Raspe are arrested |
| 1974 | Death Germany Meins, Holger | |
| 9th Nov Stuttgart Death of Holger Meins , dies of self-induced starvation |
| 9th Nov Stuttgart Death of Holger Meins , dies of self-induced starvation |
| 1975 | Assassination Germany Hillegaart, Heinz | |
| 24th April Stockholm Occupation of the West German embassy & murder of Andreas von Mirbach and Dr. Heinz Hillegaart |
| 1975 | Assassination Germany Mirbach, Andreas von | |
| 24th April Stockholm Occupation of the West German embassy & murder of Andreas von Mirbach and Dr. Heinz Hillegaart |
| 1975 | Trial Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| 21st May Opening day of the Stammheim trial of Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, and Jan-Carl Raspe began, named after a city district of Stuttgart where it takes place |
| 1975 | Trial Germany Ensslin, Gudrun | |
| 21st May Opening day of the Stammheim trial of Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, and Jan-Carl Raspe began, named after a city district of Stuttgart where it takes place |
| 1975 | Trial Germany Meinhof, Ulrike | |
| 21st May Opening day of the Stammheim trial of Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, and Jan-Carl Raspe began, named after a city district of Stuttgart where it takes place |
| 1975 | Trial Germany Raspe, Jan-Carl | |
| 21st May Opening day of the Stammheim trial of Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, and Jan-Carl Raspe began, named after a city district of Stuttgart where it takes place |
| 1976 | Arrest Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| Baader is arrested |
| 1976 | Beider Meinhof Group Germany Meinhof, Ulrike | |
| 9th May Stuttgart An enquiry finds suicide the cause, extremists claim otherwise & make her a martyr |
| 9th May Stuttgart Death of Ulrike Meinhof. found dead in her cell |
| 21st May Death of Ulrike Meinhof, found dead in her cell, hanging from a rope made from jail towels, an investigation concludes that she had hanged herself, a result hotly contested at the time, spurring conspiracy theories |
| 1977 | Assassination Germany Albrecht, Susanne | |
| 28th April Oberursel Jrgen Ponto, Head of Dresdner Bank, is shot and killed in front of his house in Oberursel in a kidnapping that went wrong, those involved are Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Chris tian Klar, and Susanne Albrecht, the last bei |
| 1977 | Assassination Germany Buback, Siegfried | |
| 7th April Assassination of the federal prosecutor-general Siegfried Buback, claimed by the Ulrike Meinhof Commando, in revenge for the suicide of Ulrike Meinhof |
| 1977 | Assassination Germany Klar, Christian | |
| 28th April Oberursel Jrgen Ponto, Head of Dresdner Bank, is shot and killed in front of his house in Oberursel in a kidnapping that went wrong, those involved are Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Chris tian Klar, and Susanne Albrecht, the last bei |
| 1977 | Assassination Germany Mohnhaupt, Brigitte | |
| 28th April Oberursel Jrgen Ponto, Head of Dresdner Bank, is shot and killed in front of his house in Oberursel in a kidnapping that went wrong, those involved are Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Chris tian Klar, and Susanne Albrecht, the last bei |
| 1977 | Assassination Germany Ponto, Jrgen | |
| 28th April Oberursel Jrgen Ponto, Head of Dresdner Bank, is shot and killed in front of his house in Oberursel in a kidnapping that went wrong, those involved are Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Chris tian Klar, and Susanne Albrecht, the last bei |
| 1977 | Assassination Germany Schleyer, Hanns-Martin | |
| Cologne Hanns-Martin Schleyer, chairman of the German Employers' Organisation, is kidnapped and later shot |
| 1977 | Death Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| 20th Oct Stammheim Death of Andreas Baader, suicide in gaol |
| 1977 | Death Germany Esslin, Gudrun | |
| 20th Oct Stammheim Death of Gudrun Esslin, commits suicide in Stammheim jail |
| 1977 | Death Germany Schleyer, Hanns-Martin | |
| Sep Cologne Death of Hans Martin Schleyer, assassinated by Baader-Meinhof |
| 1977 | Hostages Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| Mogadishu An attempt to free Baader fails when commandoes free hostages at Mogadishu |
| 1977 | Kidnap Germany Schleyer, Hanns-Martin | |
| 9th Sep Cologne Kidnapped in Cologne with 3 of his bodyguards killed by Baader-Meinhof |
| 1977 | Sucide of Baader Germany Baader, Andraes | |
| 20th Oct Stammheim Suicide, after failure of the Schleyer kidnapping & Mogadisu rescue attempt |
| 28th April On the trial's 192nd day, the three remaining defendants are convicted of several murders, more attempted murders, and of forming a terrorist organization; they are sentenced to life imprisonment |
| 1977 | Trial Germany Raspe, Jan-Carl | |
| 28th April On the trial's 192nd day, the three remaining defendants are convicted of several murders, more attempted murders, and of forming a terrorist organization; they are sentenced to life imprisonment |
