when | where | name | what was conflict about | outcome | sources |
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1876 | USA | 1876 US presidential election | widespread allegations of electoral fraud and threats of election violence | the end of Reconstruction | (TODO) |
1824 | USA | 1824 US presidential election | none of the candidates won a majority of the electoral vote | the end of the Era of Good Feelings and the First Party System | (TODO) |
2019 | Bolivia | 2019 Bolivian political crisis | dispute over who won the election, with one side labeling it a "coup d'état" | two massacres, 33 killed, 715 injured | [1] |
2016-present | Israel | Trial of Benjamin Netanyahu | prosecution of the then-current prime minister (whose politics align pretty closely with Trump's) | protests and political crisis | [1] |
1960s-1998 | Northern Ireland | The Troubles | an ethno-political conflict, partly involving the decision of whether Northern Ireland should continue being part of the United Kingdom or whether it should unify with the rest of Ireland | 3532 killed, 47,000 injured | [1] |
1973 | Chile | 1973 Chilean coup d'état | a military coup brought an end to decades of democratic governance | thousands killed | [1] |
1854-1958 | Kansas Territory | Bleeding Kansas | whether the new state of Kansas would be admitted as a slave state or free state | several violent skirmishes, 20-30 killed, ~180 injured | [1] |
See also my website's section on a potential civil war in the US.