International incident

18th century • Battle of Jumonville Glen (1754) • Hanging of Joshua Huddy (1782) • XYZ affair (1797–1798) 19th century • Caroline Affair, which had a great effect on the development of international law (1837–1842) • Trent affair (1861) • María Luz Incident (1872) • Fashoda Incident, encounter of British and French forces whilst the countries vied for imperial influence in Africa (1898) • USS Maine, which exploded in Havana 20th century • Dogger Bank incident - Russian ships mistook a British trawler fleet with the Japanese Fleet (1904) • Tampico Affair (1914) • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand - Set off the First World War (1914) • Sinking of the RMS Lusitania - Moved the US closer to WW1 involvement (1915) • Zimmermann Telegram - Proposed alliance between Germany and Mexico in WW1 (1917) • Bodyline Ashes (1932–33) • USS Panay incident (1937) • Tientsin incident (1939) • Gleiwitz incident - False-flag attack by Germany on itself to justify the invasion of Poland (1939) • Zoot Suit Riots - Naval pogrom against Mexican-Americans that resulted in a formal complaint from the Mexican government (1943) • Amethyst Incident (1949) • Lavon Affair (1954) • Hungarian Revolution of 1956 • Parking violations at a Filipino diplomatic mission (1959) • Garden of Eden ballet - scene in Can-Can that famously scandalized Nikita Khrushchev during his state visit to the United States (1959) • U-2 Crisis of 1960 • Erection of Berlin Wall (1961) • Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964) • USS Liberty incident (1967) • USS Pueblo incident (1968) • Dagmar Hagelin (1977) • Iran Hostage Crisis (1979–1981) • Korean Air Flight 007 (1983) • The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior (1985) • 1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing • USS Stark incident (1987) • Shooting-down of Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988 • Pan Am Flight 103 (1988) • Yinhe incident (1993) • Cavalese cable car disaster (1998) • United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade (1999) • Elián González (1999) 21st century • Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision (2001) • Hainan Island incident (2001) • September 11 attacks (2001) • The May 2006 execution in Texas of Mexican national Jesús Ledesma Aguilar • The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London (2006) • 2007 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel • ¿Por qué no te callas?, response given by King Juan Carlos I of Spain to Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, at the 2007 Ibero-American Summit (Santiago, Chile) • ROKS Cheonan sinking (2010) • 2010 Gaza flotilla raid • 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash • Shelling of Yeonpyeong (2010) • 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan (2011) • 2012 Italian shooting of unarmed Indian fishermen in the Arabian sea • Scarborough Shoal standoff (2012) • Retention of the Argentinian frigate Libertad in Ghana (2012) • Devyani Khobragade incident (2013) • 2013 Lahad Datu standoff • 2014 Panama–Venezuela diplomatic crisis • The shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (2014) • 2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran • Lu Yan Yuan Yu 010 (2016) • Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal (2018) • Killing of Jamal Khashoggi (2018) • Kerch Strait incident (2018) • Carlos Ghosn securities scandal (2018) • Detention of Paul Whelan (2018–2024) • 2018 Panama–Venezuela diplomatic crisis • Venezuelan presidential crisis (2019) • 2019 El Paso shooting • 2019 Bolivian political crisis • Blitzchung controversy (2019) • 2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike • Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 (2020) • Arrest of Alex Saab (2020) • 2021 Suez Canal obstruction • Ryanair Flight 4978 and the arrest of Roman Protasevich (2021) • AUKUS (2021) • Novak Djokovic COVID-19 scandal (2022) • Detention of Brittney Griner (2022) • 2023 Chinese balloon incident • 2023 Black Sea drone incident • 2023 Nigerien crisis • Detention of Evan Gershkovich (2023–2024) • Assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar (2023) • 2023 Guayana Esequiba crisis • Rio Grande barrier (2023) • Southeast Asia exclusivity controversy of The Eras Tour (2024) • Arrest of Jorge Glas (2024) • Jordan Chiles bronze medal dispute (2024) • Greenland crisis (2025–present) • Tariffs on Canada (2025) • Volodymyr Zelenskyy's White House visit (2025) • 2025 stock market crash • Cyril Ramaphosa's White House visit (2025) • Operation Rising Lion (2025) • American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites (2025) • Donald Trump's visit to Scotland (2025) • 2025 United States strikes on Venezuelan boats • 2025 Georgia Hyundai plant immigration raid • 2025 China–Japan diplomatic crisis • Seizure of the Skipper (2025) • Capture of Nicolás Maduro (2026) • Detention of Tucker Carlson (2026) • 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran • Pearl Harbor remark to Sanae Takaichi (2026) • Avignon Papacy threat by the Pentagon (2026) ==See also==