* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

Talks between Kabila and the rebel leaders, held in Sun City, lasted a full six weeks, beginning in April 2002.

Iran supported the cause of the Afghan resistance and provided limited assistance to the ethnic Hazara rebel leaders who pledged loyalty to the Iranian Revolution.

* 1999 – Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.

General Carías and a variety of other rebel leaders controlled most of the countryside but failed to coordinate their activities effectively enough to seize the capital.

After the battle of Culloden the leaders were declared to be traitors, with Jacobite officers executed and many of the rebel soldiers shipped to the colonies as indentured servants.

Once the 14-year-old king had regained control of the capital and then the whole country, Grindcobbe was tried in the Moot Hall ( on the site of the present-day W H Smith stationery shop, where a plaque commemorates the event ) and adjudged a ' traitor ' alongside John Ball (' the mad priest of Kent ', one of the rebel leaders who had escaped from Smithfield, London to Coventry ) and more than a dozen others.

* 1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75, 000.

De Roches was a powerful Anjou noble, but John largely ignored him, causing considerable offence, whilst the king kept the rebel leaders in such bad conditions that twenty-two of them died.

John met the rebel leaders at Runnymede, near Windsor Castle, on 15 June 1215.

However, with increasing bonhomie between the Indian government and the Burma junta and KIA becoming the main source of training and weapons for all northeastern rebel groups, R & AW initiated Operation Leech, with the help of Army and paramilitary forces, to assassinate the leaders of the Burmese rebels as an example to other groups.

** Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders.

* January 16 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign a pact in Mexico City ending a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75, 000 lives.

The rebel leaders, concerned that during battle it would become impossible to tell friend from foe, order that their men color their eyebrows red – and this is where the name Chimei (" The Red Eyebrows ") comes from.

* Isaurian War: Anastasius I regains control of the Isauria region ( Asia Minor ) and has the rebel leaders executed.

The Han Dynasty began when Liu Bang defeated the Qin army and other rebel leaders in 206 BC.

The rebel leaders are eventually captured and executed and Richard II revokes his concessions.

The ensuing breakdown of authority and people's livelihoods allowed rebel leaders such as Li Zicheng to challenge Ming authority.

Two former rebel leaders, Xiang Yu ( d. 202 BCE ) of Chu and Liu Bang ( d. 195 BCE ) of Han, engaged in a war to decide who would become hegemon of China, which had fissured into 18 kingdoms, each claiming allegiance to either Xiang Yu or Liu Bang.

Ferdinand, who did not accept this, reconquered Bohemia with the assistance of Bavaria in 1620, executed the rebel leaders, confiscated their estates and outlawed Protestantism in Bohemia.

Colonel Thomas Horton defeated the Royalist rebels at the battle of St. Fagans in May and the rebel leaders surrendered to Cromwell on July 11 after the protracted two month siege of Pembroke.

Scrope and other rebel leaders are executed.

* Legions III Gallica and IV Scythica are disbanded by Elagabalus after their leaders, Verus and Gellius Maximus, rebel.

The Arabs of Algeria were said to be excited to rebel against French colonialists by miracles performed by their religious leaders.

Vice President Andrew Johnson had taken a hard line and spoke of hanging rebel Confederates, but when he succeeded Lincoln as President, Johnson took a much softer line, pardoning many Confederate leaders and former Confederates.

Similarly, the rebel position at St Stephen's Green, held by the Citizen Army under Michael Mallin, was made untenable after the British placed snipers and machine guns in the Shelbourne Hotel and surrounding buildings.

Shortly after taking office, President Sarkozy began negotiations with Colombian president Álvaro Uribe and the left-wing guerrilla FARC, regarding the release of hostages held by the rebel group, especially Franco-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt.

The rebel side has not held its promises either, which results in a state of quasi – civil war.

Given the type of warfare that had been carried out in the conflict — wherein highly mobile groups of soldiers and rebels continued to move to and from on the desert terrain, retreating at a time and then suddenly attacking to regain control of small towns and villages in the Eastern rebel held parts of Libya — had led to the technical becoming a vehicle of choice for both sides.

Immediately Mir Muhammad Shah was engaged in hostilities with Jalal ud din Chief of Shighnan who rebelled and held out in fort till Mir Muhammad Shah invested it and rebel submitted.

When the Revolutionary War broke out and taverns were suspected by the British as being hotbeds of rebel activity, the college abandoned the tavern and held classes in private homes.

During the Visigothic period, its citadel, the castrum Libiae, was held by the rebel Paul of Narbonne against King Wamba in 672.

Despite these efforts, the Cossack rebel Stepan Razin held the town in 1667 and 1668.

In 1779, he distinguished himself in action during the Penobscot Expedition in present-day Maine, when a small British detachment held off a much larger rebel American force until reinforcements arrived.

As time began to heal old wounds, Sifton expanded his cabinet to include several of the old adversaries: in February 1912 Cross was re-instated as Attorney-General and rebel leader John R. Boyle was made Minister of Education ( Mitchell, who had previously held both of these posts, was transferred to the Public Works portfolio ).

While he held in check his rebel vassals in France, the loyal barons in England defeated his enemies there.

The footage shows the execution of local men rounded up by Taliban forces reentering the town of Yakawlang, which had been briefly held by rebel forces late in 2000.

In time, Babbitt begins to rebel against all of the standards he formerly held: he jumps into liberal politics with famous socialist litigator Seneca Doane ; conducts an extramarital affair with Tanis ; goes on various vacations ; and cavorts around Zenith with would-be Bohemians and flappers.

As of November 2003, it was one of the two main towns ( the other was Bouaké ) held by the former rebel group Mouvement patriotique de Côte d ' Ivoire ( MPCI ).

France has also been a lead nation, alongside the USA, Great Britain and Italy in implementing the UN sponsored no-fly zone in Libya, deploying 20 fighter aircraft to Benghazi in defense of rebel held positions and the civilian population.

Another Peruvian rebel group, the Tupac Amarú Revolutionary Movement, also responsible for some other terrorist acts, captured the Japanese embassy in Lima in 1996, also under the same excuse and held dozens of diplomats and military personnel hostage for several months, finally the Peruvian government troops successfully ended their actions.

While receiving medical attention, Shaw is told that President Lincoln is on the verge of passing the Emancipation Proclamation ; freeing slaves in rebel held territory.

During the 2011 Libyan civil war in March 2011, British journalists spoke to a man named Omar al-Sodani being held by rebel forces in Benghazi.

Much of the population of Karlovac has changed since the beginning of the 1991-95 Croatian War of Independence, with numerous families of Croatian Serbs leaving and being replaced by people who were themselves displaced from parts of Croatia that were held by rebel Serbs during the war ( such as from the town of Slunj ), as well as by families of Bosnian Croats who started arriving during the war.

Internally the Government seems to be gaining the upper hand even though ' Radio Free Bougainville ' provides a rebel voice and the Catholic owned press initially held BRA sympathies.

The disabled Cosmos, being held prisoner, managed to contact the Autobots, thanks to a Talarian rebel who reactivates his communicator.

In County Wicklow, news of the rising spread panic and fear among loyalists ; they responded by massacring rebel suspects held in custody at Dunlavin Green and in Carnew.

After the defeat of a rebel attack at New Ross, between 100 and 200 prisoners were killed, some by gunshot but the majority were burned alive at Scullabogue when the barn in which they were being held captive was set alight.