* Karykes, the leader of a revolt in Crete.

Between 1594 and 1603, Elizabeth faced her most severe test in Ireland during the Nine Years ' War, a revolt that took place at the height of hostilities with Spain, who backed the rebel leader, Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone.

From 132 to 136, the Jewish leader Simon Bar Kokhba led another major revolt against the Romans, again renaming the country " Israel " ( see Bar Kochba Revolt coinage ).

There, in the spring of 1797, he defended the coastal town of Saint Marc but lost Mirebalais and the Central Plateau to the forces of Toussaint Louverture, leader of the slave revolt.

Thus, fifteen years later, a local leader named Muhammad Thakurufaanu Al-Azam and his two brothers organized a popular revolt and drove the Portuguese out of Maldives.

The leader of this revolt, Gen. José María Moncada, declared that he supported the claim of exiled Liberal vice-president Juan Bautista Sacasa, who arrived in Puerto Cabezas in December, declaring himself president of a " constitutional " government.

* Nils Dacke, leader of a 16th century peasant revolt in southern Sweden.

He was perceived by many Iranians as the spiritual, if not political, leader of revolt.

The kingdom was formed when local leader Íñigo Arista led a revolt against the regional Frankish authority and was elected or declared King in Pamplona ( traditionally in 824 ), establishing a kingdom inextricably linked at this stage to their kinsmen the muwallad Banu Qasi of Tudela.

The execution of Matija Gubec, leader of the Croatian-Slovenian peasant revolt, in 1573.

Simon bar Kokhba () ( died A. D. 135 ) was the Jewish leader of what is known as the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 CE, establishing an independent Jewish state of Israel which he ruled for three years as Nasi (" Ruler ").

The following year, the Blancos led a rural revolt and eight bloody months of fighting ensued before their leader, Aparicio Saravia, was killed in battle.

King was Laurier's chosen successor as leader of the Liberal Party, but it was deeply divided by Quebec's total opposition to conscription and the agrarian revolt in Ontario and the Prairies.

** The Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.

** Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Founder of Azad Kashmir, Guerrilla leader who Led the Kashmir revolt against Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir.

* January 28 – The Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt breaks out against the oppressive nobility ; the revolt is quelled violently by February 15 ; Matija Gubec, leader of the rebellion, is publicly executed in Zagreb.

* Ibrahim the Imam, leader of an Abbasid revolt against the Umayyads, is captured.

* The messianic, charismatic Jewish leader Simon bar Kokhba starts a war of liberation for Judea ( Bar Kokhba revolt ) against the Romans, which is eventually crushed ( in 135 ) by emperor Hadrian.

* Simon bar Kokhba, leader of the Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire

* December 31 – João Batista Gonçalves Campos, Intellectual leader of the Cabanagem, social revolt in the vice-Kingdom of Grão-Pará, Brazil ( b. 1782 )

* Eunus, leader of slave revolt ( 136 – 132 BC ) in Sicily

During the campaign he is killed by Artabanes, leader of the revolt.

William the Silent ( William I ) leader and icon of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish.

Ahmad Shah Massoud ( Aḥmad Šāh Mas ' ūd ; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001 ) was a political and military leader in Afghanistan.

In October 1747 a loya jirga ( grand council ) concluded near the city of Kandahar with Ahmad Shah Durrani being selected as the new leader of the Afghans, thus the Durrani dynasty was founded.

In 1955, Bogra appointed communist leader Abu Hussain Sarkar as Chief Minister and Amiruddin Ahmad as Governor.

While the Persians were contesting each other in Iran, the 25-year-old Ahmad Khan was busy in Afghanistan calling for a loya jirga (" grand assembly ") to select a leader among his people.

* October 1747 — A jirga at Kandahar was attended by Afghan representatives who appointed Ahmad Shah Durrani as their new leader.

In December 2008, an Israeli military court sentenced Ahmad Sa ' adat, leader of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), to 30 years in prison for heading an " illegal terrorist organization " and for his responsibility for all actions carried out by his organization.

In 1881, a religious leader named Muhammad Ahmad proclaimed himself the Mahdi (" guided one ") and began a war to unify the tribes in western and central Sudan.

* 1950 – Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Pakistani spiritual leader

The role of the Pakistani military has been described by international observers as well as by the anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Massoud as a " creeping invasion ".

Ahmad Shah Massoud remained the only major anti-Taliban leader inside Afghanistan who was able to defend vast parts of his territory against the Taliban.

Ahmad Shah Massoud ( right ) with Pashtun anti-Taliban leader Abdul Qadir ( brother of Abdul Haq ) ( left ) as part of the pre 9 / 11 2001 grand Pashtun-Tajik-Hazara-Uzbek alliance against the Taliban

In early 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud with ethnic leader from all of Afghanistan addressed the European Parliament in Brussels asking the international community to provide humanitarian help to the people of Afghanistan.

** Following the capture of Kandahar, Ahmad Shah Durrani is chosen by a Loya jirga as first leader of the Durrani Empire, predecessor of Afghanistan.

** Ahmad Baba al Massufi, Sudanese writer and political leader ( d. 1627 )

* Sheikh Ahmad, final leader of the Great Horde, is last heard of as a Lithuanian prisoner at Vilnius.

With the assistance of the international community, Sierra Leone President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Revolutionary United Front leader Foday Sankoh signed the Peace Accord on July 7, 1999.

Karzai re-enacted the original coronation of Ahmad Shah Durrani at the shrine of Sher-i-Surkh outside of Kandahar where he had leaders of various Afghan tribes, including a descendent of the religious leader ( Sabir Shah ) that originally selected Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747 as key players in this event.

The first King of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Durrani, was the leader of the Sadozais, and the Sadozai lineage continued to rule Afghanistan until 1826 when the Barakzais ascended to the throne.

Tomb of Afghan mujahideen resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley.

Al-Hakim preferred Hamza ibn ' Ali ibn Ahmad over him and Ad-Darazi was executed in 1018, leaving Hamza the sole leader of the new faith

Famous local Sheikhs include Abdirahman bin Isma ' il al-Jabarti, an early Muslim leader in northern Somalia ; Abadir Umar Ar-Rida, the patron saint of Harar ; Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Sheikh of the riwaq in Cairo who recorded the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt ; Abd Al-Rahman bin Ahmad al-Zayla ' i, scholar who played a crucial role in the spread of the Qadiriyyah movement in Somalia and East Africa ; Shaykh Sufi, 19th century scholar, poet, reformist and astrologist ; Abdallah al-Qutbi, polemicist, theologian and philosopher best known for his five-part Al-Majmu ' at al-mubaraka (" The Blessed Collection "); and Muhammad Al-Sumaalee, teacher in the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca who influenced many of the prominent Islamic scholars of today.

Intelligence " whistleblower " Julie Sirrs claimed that anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Massoud told her he had " proof that Unocal had provided money that helped the Taliban take Kabul 1996 ".

250 Iraqis attended this meeting, and five of these Iraqis were selected by Garner ’ s administration as the core leaders of the new Iraqi government: Masood Barzani was appointed as head of the Kudistan Democratic Party, Jalal Talbani as head of the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Abdul Aziz Al Hakim was appointed as the leader of the Supreme Assembly for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi was chosen to represent the Iraqi National Congress and Iyad Allawi was appointed as the leader of the Iraqi National Accord.