User:Philip Baird Shearer/List of massacres

Alexander the Great slaughters the population of the city following a revolt. (Subsequently Alexander massacres at least a quarter of a million city dwellers at Sindimana, Gaza and other locations.)

Macedonian victory over the Persians.

The Kalinga War was fought between the Mauryan Empire under Ashoka the Great and the state of Kalinga, a feudal republic located on the coast of the present-day Indian state of Orissa. slaughters the population of the city following a revolt.

The State of Qin defeats the State of Zhao, killing 400,000 Zhao people. The battle becomes a decisive victory in the establishment of the Qin Dynasty.

Roman troops under Cato the Elder massacre Hispania Citerior citizens

Roman troops under Galba massacre Lusitani citizens after convincing them to surrender.

When the Third Punic War ended, the remaining 50,000 Carthaginians (perhaps a tenth of the original pre-war population) were sold into slavery.

The Romans under Lucius Mummius Achaicus destroyed Corinth after a siege in 146 BCE. All men were put to the sword, and the women and children enslaved.

After conquering western Anatolia in 88 BC, Mithridates VI reportedly ordered the killing of all Romans living there. The massacre of Roman men, women and children is known as the Asiatic Vespers.

Surrendering slaves are crucified along the Via Appia

Julius Caesar's campaign against the Helvetii, the Celtic inhabitants of modern Switzerland: approximately 60% of the tribe was killed, and another 20% taken into slavery.

All boys in the village of Bethlehem are allegedly slaughtered by Herod the Great

The alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius ambushed and annihilated three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

Some 70,000 Romans and pro-Roman Britons were massacred by Celtic Britons.

Jewish King Dhu Nuwas orders the forceful conversion of the Christians (mainly Aksumites) in Najran. The Christians are subsequently massacred.

After a sports rivalry turns into a full-scale riot, Emperor Justinian I locks the rioters in the Hippodrome and has them killed.

Persian invaders, aided by local Jews, massacre up to 90,000 Christians.

Massacre of non-Christian Saxons by Charlemagne; The actual scale of the massacre is subject to debate.

Ethelred II orders the slaughter of an unknown number of Danes.

Hindu Defenders of Somnath massacred by Mahmud of Ghazni.

Jews slaughtered in Fez by Muslim mobs.

Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, crucified Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacred most of the Jewish population of the city.

The "People's Crusade" prior to the First Crusade results in the deaths of thousands of Jews living beside or near the river Rhine (see also Emicho).

Almost all Muslim inhabitants are slaughtered after the fall of the city to the Crusaders.

Almost all Muslim and Jewish inhabitants are slaughtered after the fall of the city to the Crusaders.

A mob attacks Jewish residents; many commit suicide.

Richard the Lionheart slaughters Muslim and Jewish prisoners taken during the siege.

Crusaders slaughter the Cathars. Other civilian slaughters occur in Toulouse and Saint-Nazaire.

After the city's surrender, the Mongols under Genghis Khan drive out and slaughter its population. Over 75,000 men, women and children perish.

Genghis Khan's Mongols destroy the city and massacre the population.

Batu Khan's Mongols destroy the city and massacre the population. Over the three years (1237-1240) the Mongols destroyed and annihilated all of the major cities of Russia with the exceptions of Novgorod and Pskov. Approximately half of the Russian population died during the Mongol invasion of Rus.

Hulagu Khan's Mongols destroy the city and massacre the population.

Sultan Baibars' of Egypt attacks, captures and loots the Christian-held city of Antioch. His armies slaughter or enslave every Christian in the city. This marks the end of Antioch's 1500-year history; the city never recovers.

French followers ot the House of Anjou in Sicily are killed during a revolt.

Muslim conquest of Christian County of Tripoli; virtually the whole Christian population is killed.

Khalil' army destroys the city and massacres the Christian population.

Those Christians unable to leave the city were slaughtered by the Egyptian Mamluks.

As they invade Scotland, forces under the command of Edward I massacre the population of Berwick.

Several hundred Initial Coalescent men, women and children were slaughtered, mutilated and scalped by the Middle Missouri villagers.

Jews are blamed as the cause of the Black Death, leading to their massacre in Mainz (up to 12,000) and Strasbourg (4,000).

Peasants are massacred in the aftermath of a revolt.

Danish King Valdemar's troops massacred the peasant army of Gotland.

In the city of Isfahan (Persia) Timur Lenk ordered the building of a pyramid of 70,000 human skulls, from those that his army had beheaded.

After the battle, the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I ordered between 3,000 to 10,000 Christian prisoners to be executed, in retaliation for the Rahovo massacre of the Ottoman prisoners by French Crusaders.

Massacre of prisoners under Timur Lenk.

Timur Lenk buried alive 4,000 Christian soldiers of the garrison of Sivas after their capitulation; but the Muslim prisoners he spared.

Timur Lenk sacked Baghdad and massacred at least 20,000.

So that guards may join the fight, Henry V orders the deaths of 5,000 prisoners of war during the Battle of Agincourt.

Vlad the Impaler, also known as Vlad Dracula, voivode of Wallachia in present-day Romania, had 30,000 of the Saxon merchants and officials of the Transylvanian city of Braşov that were breaking his authority impaled.

Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, during his campaign against Wallachia, is “greeted” by the sight of a veritable forest of stakes on which Wallachian ruler Vlad the Impaler has impaled 20,000 Turkish prisoners.

Arab mobs in Fez slaughtered thousands of Jews, leaving only 11 alive.

For the re-consecration of Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs reported that they slaughtered about 80,400 prisoners over the course of four days. According to Ross Hassing, author of Aztec Warfare, "between 10,000 and 80,400 persons" were sacrificed in the ceremony.

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Christopher Columbus leads first organized slaughter of native Americans to “pacify” them in order to enact his hand-amputating, gold-acquiring “tribute system.”

The governor of Hispaniola, Nicolás de Ovando, leads expedition to “improve relations” with remaining unconquered natives of island, and slaughters 300 of the leadership of southwestern Hispaniola.

In a Lisbon riot, Jewish converts to Christianity are slaughtered.

As gold and slaves run low on Hispaniola, an expedition of 300 men to Cuba pursued the survivors of the 1503 Xaraguá Massacre and slaughters the natives.

During Vasco Núñez de Balboa's expedition to discover Pacific Ocean, night attack on sleeping village. Forty men fed to the Spaniards' dogs for the crime of “dressing like women.”

Sultan Selim I ("The Grim") ordered the massacre of 40,000 Shia Muslim "heretics".

On way to Aztec capital, Hernán Cortés was attacked by the Tlaxcalan state and engages in battles for two weeks. After he burns a dozen towns and slaughters thousands of non-combatants – a style of warfare unknown in Mesoamerica – and prevails in several battles against Tlaxcalan warriors, the Tlaxcalans capitulate and become his most faithful allies.

On way to Aztec capital, Hernán Cortés and his 400 men, accompanied by about 6,000 Tlaxcalan warriors, visits religious center of Cholula and slaughters city residents who he accuses of “plotting” against him.

The mass execution of Swedish nobles by the Danish king Christian II.

While Cortés is away battling other Spaniards, Pedro Alvarado with eighty soldiers massacred Aztecs during festival, accusing the natives of plotting against the Spaniards.

After successful conquest of Aztec capital city by 900 Spaniards and as many as 150,000 Cortes’s Tlaxcalan and Texcocan allies, most of the city’s survivors are put to death.

It is estimated that as many as 100,000 German peasants were massacred during the revolt, usually after the battles had ended.

Christian prisoners massacred by the Ottoman Turks after their defeat at Mohács. Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent gave orders to keep no prisoners.

Rome is sacked by the mutinous troops of Emperor Charles V. Of 189 Swiss Guards on duty only 42 survived. After the execution of some 1,000 defenders, the pillage began. Nuns and other women were freely raped; men were tortured and killed.

While raping the several hundred nuns of the Sun Temple, Hernando de Soto’s men slaughter the angry residents of Cajas.

In surprise attack, killing 3,000 unarmed retainers and top commanders of the Inca's army, Pizarro’s expedition captures the Incan sovereign, Atahualpa.

Ottoman admiral and Turkish privateer Khair ad Din attacked Mahon, Balearic Islands, killing or enslaving over half the population.

Hernando de Soto's expedition prevails in battle against Timucuan warriors near town of Napituca in what became northern Florida. De Soto violated Charles V's ordinance to treat the natives well. Two hundred captured warriors were taken into Napituca and subsequently slaughtered at Soto’s command, making it the first documented large-scale massacre of natives by Europeans on soil that became the United States.

Hernando de Soto’s expedition ambushed by Choctaws^[86] burns down palisaded town of Mabila and kills in a battle lasting several hours approx. 2,500.

Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's expedition conquers Moho Pueblo, near the Rio Grande River, after a two-month siege. After the pueblo surrenders, the defenders are slaughtered, mostly by being burned at the stake.

Rajput defenders of Chittorgarh massacred by Akbar the Great.

Between 500 and 1000 people were gathered every day by the troops, then tortured and killed in front of the Tsar Ivan the Terrible. According to the Third Novgorod Chronicle, the massacre lasted for five weeks. The First Pskov Chronicle estimates the number of victims at 60,000.

The Turkish forces massacre thousands of Christians (mostly Greeks and Armenians) following the capture of the island.

In May, 1571 the 120-thousand strong Crimean Tatar army led by the Crimean Khan Devlet I Giray invaded Russia, devastated unprotected towns and villages and then sacked Moscow, burning everything but the Kremlin. The Tatars enslaved 150,000 Russians and massacred 170,000 in Moscow alone.

Daimyo Oda Nobunaga burns down the monastery of Enryaku-ji (Enryakuji), at the time a cultural symbol. His target is the disobedient Buddhist Tendai warrior monks.

A wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots.

The Nagashima complex was set alight, and as many as 20,000 men, women, and children were slaughtered by Oda Nobunaga's forces, even after they attempted to surrender.

MacDonnell clans-people massacred by Francis Drake.

Badly paid Spanish soldiers loot Antwerp.

English forces under Elizabeth I behead some 600 Spanish, Italian and Irish men and women during the Desmond Rebellions.

In retaliation for the killing of 11 Spanish soldiers, Juan de Oñate leads punitive expedition to slaughter the natives in a three-day battle at the Acoma mesa. Spain's King later punished Oñate for his excesses.

Powhatans attack the Virginia Colony, destroying virtually all the settlements save the heavily-fortified Jamestown, and kill 347 English men, women and children, almost one-third of the English population of colony.

The English poison the wine at a peace conference with Powhatan leaders, killing ca. 200 in retaliation for the Jamestown Massacre.

John Underhill leads night attack on sleeping village of Fort Mystic, burning the Pequot inhabitants alive and slaughtering the survivors.

Scots-Irish Protestant planters are killed by dispossessed Irish Catholics.

In 1643 an Iroquois tribe, the Mohawks, attacked a band of Wappingers. Wappingers flees to Manhattan Island seeking protection of Dutch governor, who has hired John Underhill. The sleeping village is slaughtered and the group exterminated.

Hired by the Dutch, John Underhill reproduces successful Fort Mystic strategy of burning sleeping village and slaughtering the survivors.

Jews, Polish nobles and Uniates are killed during a Cossack and peasant uprising led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

The New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell besieged Limerick. Ireton reckoned that about 5000 persons had perished ‘by the sword without and the famine and plague within’.

Pueblo warriors killed 380 Spanish settlers and drove the other Spaniards from New Mexico. By 1690s, certain Pueblo groups wanted the Spanish to come back to protect them against Apache and Navajo raiders.

Iroquois warriors burn the small village of Lachine, kill 24 civilians and take many prisoners, 44 of them are tortured to death.

Unarmed civilians including women and children are massacred by French and Indians.

Approximately 100 British colonists, including women and children, massacred by Abenaki Indians, and another 80 taken into captivity and walked to Quebec City, during King William's War.

The Deerfield massacre occurred during the Queen Anne's War when joint French and Native American forces attacked the English Puritan settlement at Deerfield, Massachusetts killing fifty-six colonists.

Members of the Tuscarora tribe kill an unknown number of settlers along the Chowan and Roanoke Rivers in northeastern North Carolina, prompting the abandonment of New Bern and the beginning of the Tuscarora War.

Assisted by the Spanish, the Yamassee kill several hundred South Carolinian settlers, triggering the Yamassee War.

Persian troops under Nader Shah sack and plunder Delhi, massacring thousands.

Manchu army (Manchu, Chahar and Khalha-Mongol soldiers) killing Oirat (Kalmyk - western Mongol) people.

Massacre of Poles and Jews in Uman during the Koliyivschyna rebellion.

Kalmyks from east of the Volga set out to return to China but two-thirds of them were massacred on the way by theirs Kazakh enemies.

Iroquois warriors raid a village, killing and scalping civilians.

Ali Burzi Pasha murdered hundreds of Jews in Libya.

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, first ruler of an independent Haiti, declared Haiti an all black nation, slaughters all the remaining whites on the island and forbids whites from ever again owning property or land there.

Some 5,000 Spanish civilians are executed between May 2 and May 3 by Napoleon's troops after the popular uprising in Madrid.

All but four passengers on convict ship are murdered by Maori, after the mistreatment of the son of a Maori chief working on board the ship. Many of the slain are cooked and eaten.

Reprisals are committed after the Greek Christian population rebels against the Ottoman occupation. An additional 50,000 are enslaved and shipped off to slave markets of Istanbul, Egypt and Barbary in "The most horrible massacre recorded in modern history".

Reprisals are committed after the Greek Christian population rebels against the Ottoman Empire; the island is burnt to the ground.

Reprisals are committed after the Greek Christian population rebels against the Ottoman Empire; the island is burnt to the ground.

President Fructuoso Rivera oversees the slaughter of Charrua chiefs; the Charruas are subsequently exterminated.

Some 300 Moriori men, women and children are massacred and the remaining 1,200 to 1,300 survivors enslaved by mainland Māori.

Aborigines are murdered by white stockmen as revenge for lost cattle.

Mormon men and boys are killed by over 200 militia.

Zulus massacre Voortrekker men, women and children.

All survivors of the shipwrecked brig Maria are murdered by members of the Ngarrindjeri, resulting in a punitive police expedition from Adelaide. Henry Reynolds, and other historians, estimate up to 3,000 white people killed by Indigenous Australians in the frontier violence.

Police and volunteers from Adelaide kill a number of Maraura people after a two day conflict.

The Assyrian Christians eventually lose their autonomy when the region is conquered, after which 30,000 Assyrians are massacred.

The Cayuse attack a medical mission established by Marcus Whitman.

Polish peasants massacre nobles.^[162]

A posse from Weaverville attacks an undefended Wintu village.

An exploration party led by John W. Gunnison is massacred by Pahavant Utes.

Nanjing is captured and 30,000 massacred by Taiping rebels.

Amaresh Misra estimates that the number of people who died as a result of the British retaliation for Indian Rebellion of 1857 was 10 million. Other historians have questioned these figures.

A wagon train of farming families from Arkansas is killed by Mormon militia and local Paiute tribesmen.

An uprising results in the destruction of the Christian quarter and the massacre of many Maronite Christians.

In a burst of sectarian violence in 1860, the Druze massacre more than 10,000 Christians, mostly Maronites.

European settlers massacred throughout Minnesota as part of the Sioux Uprising.

Quantrill’s Bushwhackers raid the anti-slavery town of Lawrence, Kansas, burning the town and murdering some 200 men and boys.

United States Cavalry troops attack an undefended Cheyenne/Arapaho village.

As Qing Imperial troops retake the Nanjing in 1864, massive slaughtering occurs in the city.

Several massacres of native encampments by American settlers exterminate the Yahi tribe, such as the first in 1865 (74 killed), the 1866 Three Knolls (40 killed) and Dry Camp (33 killed) massacres, ending with the Kingsley Cave/Morgan Camp massacre (30 killed) in 1871. The Yahi were Ishi’s tribe.

Imagining a huge conspiracy against himself, Paraguay's dictator Francisco Solano López begins executing people wholesale. Prominent Paraguayan citizens are seized and executed by his order, including his brothers and brothers-in-law, cabinet ministers, judges, military officers, bishops, and nine-tenths of the civil officers, together with 500 foreigners, including some diplomats.

George Custer leads dawn attack on sleeping Cheyenne tribe led by Black Kettle, who survived the Sand Creek Massacre.

Military campaign directed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca in the 1870s, which established Argentine dominance over Patagonia, inhabited by indigenous peoples, mainly Mapuche.

Led by ex-Tucson mayor, William Oury, vigilante band from Tucson slaughter Apache women and children while the men are doing their spring planting.

People who took part in the Paris Commune are slaughtered by the French government

Assiniboine (Nakoda) people are killed by wolf hunters; one hunter is killed.

Ottoman army irregulars massacre Bulgarian men, women and children barricaded in Batak's church as reprisal for the April Uprising.

On the orders of Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman forces massacre Armenians living in Anatolia.

Turkish forces massacre Greeks living on Crete after a rebellion.

Three day anti-Jewish riot, fed by false blood libel charges, kills 49 and injures 500. There is no police or military intervention.

German colonial troops attempt to exterminate the Herero and Namaqua peoples, directed by General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha.

Inhabitants of Vathy massacre and mutilate unarmed Ottoman Turkish soldiers.

Forced evacuation and mass killing of Anatolian Armenians during the Young Turks' government.

The Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia are forcibly relocated and massacred by Ottoman and Kurdish forces.

Massacres of Pontic Greeks by the Young Turks' government.

Massacre of the Turkish population of Menemen by the Greek Army of occupation.

British troops led by Brigadier General Reginald Dyer fire 1650 rounds of ammunition into a crowd of 20,000.

According to historian Michael Kort, "During 1919 and 1920, out of a population of approximately 1.5 million Don Cossacks, the Bolshevik regime killed or deported an estimated 300,000 to 500,000".

1,200 to 2,168 rebels executed after the unsuccessful uprising of Soviet sailors against the Bolshevik government.

The Greek army systematically burns and destroys Turkish villages after its defeat in the Greco–Turkish War of 1919–1922. On its retreat route, the Greek army massacres Turkish inhabitants.

This African-American town is burned and residents are killed by white mobs.

Korean and Okinawan immigrants, blamed for looting and arson in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake, are killed by mobs

An uprising of Toba Indians, due to poor treatment by the authorities and European colonizers, is savagely put down by police and white farmers

Chilean government's response, then headed by Arturo Alessandri, to a strike by the workers of a saltpeter mine, that ended with more than 500 deaths.

Kwaio attack on the British Solomon Islands Protectorate authority William R. Bell and deputies, and subsequent punitive expedition

An Arab mob wipes out Hebron's old Jewish settlement.

An official program of medical experimentation on humans that results in thousands of deaths during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.^[190]

Having crushed a peasants' rebellion, the military government sanctions the massacre of indigenous peoples.

As a result of collectivization policy in the Soviet Union, many peasants died of famine, and many were killed as the governmental troops prevented them from escaping to cities.

The first ever massacre conducted by the Iraqi government takes place in the North, targeting Assyrian Christians.

A massacre of forestry workers made by the Chilean Army in the upper Bio-Bio River in 1934. The worked had previously rebelled and killed the lumbermill administrators they worked for.

On November 11, during the Siege of Madrid in the Spanish Civil War, Republican troops took Nationalist prisoners from Madrid and killed them in the Jarama valley, outside the city.

Stalinist purges aimed at ethnic minorities and perceived dissidents.

The major pre-war anti-Jewish pogrom.

As the revenge for death of up to 350 ethnic Germans killed during military action against Polish army in the Polish Defensive War Germans massacred of c.3,000 Polish civilians.

Mass killing by Soviets of Polish prisoners of war.

In one of the first massacres of Jews during World War II, the German reserve Police Battalion 309 herds the Jews of Białystok into the city's central synagogue and sets fire to it. Those trying to flee are shot.

Before Red Army left the cities occupied in Poland and Lithuania, all prisoners waiting in the NKVD prisons were killed, including arrested for light charges.

Jewish residents of Jedwabne and its environs are marched into the center of the village, where they are beaten and killed by a number of their fellow townsmen. Some sources suggest German police and/or military involvement.

Jewish residents of Wąsosz (Lomza voivodeship)are systematically killed by the Polish police force formed by the Germans after the German invasion.

In reprisals for acts of sabotage they did not commit, the Jewish population of Kiev is marched in small groups to a ditch at Babi Yar and machine-gunned.

Jewish and Polish citizens of Vilnius are marched to Ponary Woods and shot by Lithuanian police units (the "Ponary Rifles") are under German supervision. 40,000 are killed in 1941 alone.

Most of the remaining Jews in the city are marched to a ravine and massacred by Einsatzkommando 6.

Mass shootings of the Jews of Odessa.

Those Jews of Kaunas unable to work – including women and children – are marched to the Ninth Fort and shot. (Over 40,000 Jews will eventually be killed there.)

Over the course of a week, the Jews of Riga are taken to Rumbula forest and shot.

Mass shooting of Jews. Thereafter, Jews in the region are transported to extermination camps rather than shot.

Pro-Nazi Ustaša movement conducts a wide-scale planned extermination of Serbs, Jews, Roms and political opponents. Most notably at Jasenovac concentration camp.

German SS soldiers annihilate the whole village.

Mass executions of Serb, Jewish and Roma civilians are carried out by Hungarian fascist troops.

Poles are systematically shot or gassed in provisional gas chambers by German Nazis.

Mass killing of Chinese civilians and mass rape of women.

Mass executions of Jews.

The village of Khatyn was totally burnt with its inhabitants by SS people from Oscar Dierlewanger's group with participation of Schutzmannschaft; later this and the next year tens of other Belarussian villages were annihilated together with their inhabitants.

On the night of July 27, shortly before midnight, 739 aircraft attacked Hamburg. The effects of the massive raids using a combination of Blockbuster bombs and incendiaries created firestorms in some cites. The most extreme example was caused by the bombing of Hamburg.

Greek royalist militias battle Pro-German Muslims during the liberation from the Nazi German occupation. Over 25,000 Muslims flee to Albania.

As retaliation for an Italian Resistance roadside bomb, S.S. soldier Erich Priebke and his men rounded up and killed 330 innocent civilians, stacking the bodies in the Ardeatine caves. Five men had witnessed the event, so Priebke killed them as well since there were to be no witnesses ^[196]

Mass executions of Hungarian civilians by Yugoslav communist partisans.

One fifth of the population is killed in an air raid that destroys 83% of the town's buildings.

German soldiers torture innocent villagers to death at the end of the war.

Czech soldiers lynch ethnic Germans.

Filipino civilians were massacred by Japanese troops.

Hutus massacre Tutsis and other Hutus.

Massacre of male Bosniaks primarily by the Army of Republika Srpska; the largest massacre in Europe since World War II.

Ongoing massacre and forced displacement of the Fur people of Western Sudan by government-sponsored Janjaweed militia.

Following Rashid Ali's pro-Axis coup, the Farhud ("violent dispossession") pogrom of June 1 and 2, 1941, broke out in Baghdad. Armed Muslim mobs slaughtered 180 Jews and wounded almost 1,000.

Anti-Jewish riots by Muslims break out in Tripoli.

Jewish residents of Kielce, most of them returning survivors of the Holocaust, are killed by their Polish neighbors, prompting an exodus of the Jewish population from Poland.

Riots are perpetrated by the Muslim League against Hindus in Calcutta which spread to other regions and are followed by the Noakhali Massacre.

After the partition of United India and the British withdrawal, about 1 million to 4 million Muslims and Hindus are killed in the aftermath.

Arabs lynch European, Jewish and pro-French Algeria Harkis Muslim civilians.

The Zanzibar Revolution of January 12, 1964 put an end to the local Arab dynasty. As many as 20,000 Arabs were massacred by the descendants of black African slaves.

Farm laborers and their families are burnt alive by their higher-caste landlords.

Mobs massacre Sikhs following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.

Egyptian policeman machine-gun 12 Israeli tourists, including 9 children.

Azerbaijanis launch a three-day pogrom against Armenians in the city of Sumgait. 26 Armenians and 6 Azeris perish.

35 Alevis were incinerated in Turkey

Indonesia-born ethnic Chinese killed in riots

Massacre by Serbian forces

The Taliban executes civilian members of the Shia Sadat and Hazara clans.

31 civilians and military personnel are killed by Islamic terrorists from Pakistan.

A Muslim mob burns alive Hindu men, women, and children traveling in the S-6 compartment of a Sabarmati Express train.

Sectarian violence occurs following the Godhra Train Burning.

Muslim nomads are killed by Christians during ongoing violence in Nigeria.

Ethnic Albanians go on a rampage against ethnic Serbs

Congolese Tutsis are shot, hacked and burned to death during an attack on a refugee camp by Hutu extremists.

Gunmen, believed to be Borana, open fire on Gabra children making their way to the village's primary school.

Danish forces invading Sweden under the command of Christian II decapitate around 100 people, mostly nobility and clergy.

Civil population of Kazan was massacred just after the fall of the city.

The Turkish forces massacre thousands of Christians (mostly Greeks and Armenians) following the capture of the island.

English forces under Elizabeth I behead some 600 Spanish, Italian and Irish men and women during the Desmond Rebellions.

Troops of the Holy Roman Empire besiege then storm Magdeburg during the Thirty Years' War, massacring nearly all its inhabitants.

Royalist troops under Montrose kill civilians after the fall of the city.

Royalist troops under Montrose kill civilians across the area.

Oliver Cromwell's army under the command of George Monck sack the city.

Charles XI of Sweden orders the parish burnt to ground in order to deal with rebels (snapphane)

British soldiers clashed with angry supporters of John Wilkes, a popular member of Parliament who had just received a prison sentence for seditious libel. Six Wilkes supporters were killed and fifteen wounded in the carnage.

An encounter between Patriot and Loyalist Americans, after which thirty or more Patriots are massacred by Iroquois mercenaries.

Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest assaults Fort Pillow, continuing to fire after a white flag is flown by the Union defenders.

The bombing of Dresden was led by Royal Air Force (RAF) and followed by the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) between February 13 and February 15. Overall, Anglo-American bombing of German cities claimed up to 600,000 civilian lives.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki follow six months of intense firebombing of 67 other Japanese cities. On August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" is dropped on the city of Hiroshima, followed on August 9, 1945 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. These are the only officially acknowledged uses of nuclear weapons in warfare.

The order is signed by King William III

13 people are tortured and killed by order of Arturo Durazo Moreno