The First Liberian Civil War, instigated by Charles Taylor and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) on December 24, 1989, eventually spread to neighboring Sierra Leone in 1991 when dissidents of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), led by Foday Sankoh, began using Liberia as a staging ground for NPFL backed military assaults on border towns in Sierra Leone.

The first true serial truck production at Tatra was instigated by the beginning of World War I.

In 1980, while on a day-release from prison, he fled again to Brazil to escape the brewing Mafia War instigated by Totò Riina that subsequently led to the deaths of many of Buscetta's allies, including Stefano Bontade.

The disputed territories of the Falkland Islands, which are a British overseas territory but are claimed by Argentina, were invaded by Argentina on 2 April 1982, an event that instigated the Falklands War.

He instigated the Castellammarese War to seize control of the American Mafia operations, and briefly became the Mafia's " Boss of Bosses ".

After the 1493 treaty, Ivan III of Russia imprisoned all Hanseatic merchants trading in Novgorod and instigated the Russo-Swedish War ( 1496 – 1499 ).

The Russo – Swedish War of 1741 – 1743, known as the Hats ' Russian War in Sweden and the Hats ' War in Finland, which resulted in the Lesser Wrath ( Finnish: Pikkuviha, Swedish: Lilla ofreden ), or the occupation of Finland, was instigated by the Hats, a Swedish political party that aspired to regain the territories lost to Russia during the Great Northern War, and by French diplomacy, which sought to divert Russia's attention from supporting its long-standing ally, the Habsburg monarchy, in the War of the Austrian Succession.

It was the encroachment of British colonial laws over Māori autonomy, that instigated an armed protest, the response to which became known as ' The Dog Tax War '.

However, he was taken captive in Ingelheim-he escaped and instigated a revolt in Bavaria, but was defeated in 976 and stripped of his Duchy, and, following the War of the Three Henries in 978, was placed under the custody of the Bishop of Utrecht.

In July 1936, Francisco Franco and other conservative / monarchist generals instigated a coup d ' état which started the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ).

The Great Hyperspace War was instigated when two Republic hyperspace explorers accidentally crash-landed on the Sith graveyard planet Korriban during the funeral procession of Marka Ragnos.

* Russo-Swedish War ( 1590 – 1595 ), instigated by Boris Godunov in the hope of gaining the territory of the Duchy of Estonia

Parkman also believed that Pontiac's War had been secretly instigated by French colonists who were stirring up the Native Americans in order to make trouble for the British.

The War of the Oranges (; ; ) was a brief conflict in 1801 in which Spanish forces, instigated by the government of France, and ultimately supported by the French military, invaded Portugal.

In the geopolitical context of the US – USSR Cold War ( 1945 – 1991 ), the secret intelligence agencies of the US deemed such liberal land-reform nationalization as government communism in Latin America, instigated by the USSR.

Before World War I, he instigated the idea of a national Russian sports competition, the very beginning of what under Soviet rule became the Spartakiad.

As a counterattack, Charles instigated a rebellion against Fleming, the Cudgel War, among the farmers in Ostrobothnia.

Dudley describes two rival attempts to smelt iron with coal instigated by supporters of Parliament during the Civil War and the Interregnum.

The Māori forces were led by Te Ruki Kawiti and Hone Heke, who instigated the war when he who chopped down the flagpole at Kororāreka to commence what is sometimes called the Flagstaff War.

Rudimentary education in gemology for jewelers and gemologists began in the nineteenth century, but the first qualifications were instigated after the National Association of Goldsmiths of Great Britain ( NAG ) set up a Gemmological Committee for this purpose in 1908.

The construction of Masson Mill in Matlock Bath began in 1783, instigated by Arkwright.

Dissatisfied with his father and instigated by his own wife and Reinbern, Sviatopolk began preparations for war against Vladimir, probably counting on support from his father-in-law.

At this point internal strife began, instigated by the nobility, primarily the House of Lara.

The next day on May 29, 1941, the strike began, instigated by Sorrell and led by Babbit.

What was initially a mild deflationary process began to snowball when the banking and currency crises of 1931 instigated an international " scramble for gold ".

These conflicts began in 1648 when Bohdan Khmelnytsky instigated the Khmelnytsky Uprising against the Polish aristocracy and the Jews who administered their estates.

Confident of political support, the general began provoking the Germans: he ordered military facilities to be built in the border region of Belfort, forbade the export of horses to German markets, and even instigated a ban on representations of Lohengrin.

Then, on May 14, in a revolt instigated by members of the Democratic Party, elements of civil reactionary groups and supported by elements of the Navy began what was essentially a civil war ; there were many deaths and injuries on both sides.

Cosimo instigated naval reforms: the duchy began the development and construction of a large, well-equipped and powerful naval base on Elba.

When first contemplating a sequel, Flint decided to throw open the universe — perhaps instigated by reception of fan-fiction on 1632 Tech Manual — and invited other authors to help shape the series milieu and fictional canon and began putting together the anthology Ring of Fire.

After the games were over old, anti-syndicalist laws began to be revived to maintain the security policy instigated by the Olympic games and mass arrests of youth become more common, even though the overwhelming numbers of people arrested were never charged.

The first armed conflict following the independence and unification of the former British and Italian colonies, known collectively as the Somali Republic, began in 1963 in an ethnic Oromo and Somali district, Elekere, then part of Bale province, instigated by the Oromo founder of the United Liberation Forces of Oromia, Waqo Gutu.

Following a substantial fall off of revenues as Y2K came and passed, and due to the failure of the company before this date to invest in its general consultancy, security, system engineering and escrow business during the Y2k period, the Group began to make monthly losses before the benefits of the changes to the Escrow business instigated by Rob Cotton were felt and the company returned to profitability.

In 2000, Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, founders of the stuckism art movement instigated remodernism, with a manifesto, Remodernism in an attempt to introduce a period of new spirituality into art, culture and society to replace postmodernism, which they said was cynical and spiritually bankrupt.

Henry of Trastámara instigated pogroms beginning a period of anti-Jewish riots and forced conversions in Castile that lasted approximately from 1370 to 1390.

During his / her period in office, he / she may not arrested, and no criminal proceedings may be instigated against him / her.

After a period of stagnation instigated by the wars of the 17th and 18th cc., the city's fortunes improved rapidly.

He instigated a Labour Party inquiry into the structure of London government for the post-war period, which was an attempt to settle and justify his preferred policy of creating a Greater London Authority covering a much wider area.

Modern historians have suspected that Mas ' ud instigated the murder although the two most important historians of the period Ibn al-Athir and Ibn al-Jawzi did not speculate on this matter.

Instead, the bounty system that had been instigated in 1923 was continued, and this proved to be effective: 57, 034 bounties were claimed over a six month period in 1934.

According to Romanian-born historian Radu Ioanid, in 1990-1991 Adevărul and its opponent Dreptatea of the anti-FSN National Peasants ' Party both " joined the anti-Semitic barrage " of the period, a trend he believes was instigated by the publications of Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Iosif Constantin Drăgan and Eugen Barbu ( all of them affiliated with România Mare magazine ).

The death of Valois ' John II in English captivity during 1364 instigated the rise of Charles V of France with his capable allies, and the second period of the Hundred Years ' War known as the Caroline War broke out.

The performance of the Second Symphony ( which was awarded a prize at the 1953 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels ) during the 1956 Holland Festival instigated a new period of creativity.

The appointment, however, provoked resentment from the Muslim clergy, and after Arghun's death in 1291, al-Daula was murdered and Persian Jews suffered a period of violent persecutions from the Muslim populace instigated by the clergy.

Horemheb instigated a policy of damnatio memoriae, against everyone associated with the Amarna period.

Japanese emergence from her period of native primitive arts was instigated mainly by the introduction of Buddhism from the mainland Asian continent about the middle of the 6th century.