List of massacres
Massacres are individual acts of
mass killing of civilians or noncombatants, almost always characterised as having distinct
political significance in shaping subsequent events.
Below is a list of incidents that are commonly referred to as massacres, though other incidents may also qualify yet not be called massacres.
- Massacre of the Innocents - Bethlehem, Palestine, ca. 1 AD (according to the Gospel of Matthew)
- ca. 130 children supposedly killed by The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Germany, 1284 (legend, not clear what really happened)
- St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre - France, August 24, 1572
- Massacre of Glencoe - Scotland, February 13 1692
- Boston Massacre - British North American Colonies, currently US, March 5 1770
- Cherry Valley Massacre 1778 during the American Revolution
- Peterloo massacre - United Kingdom, August 16, 1819
- The Massacre at Wounded Knee, December 29, 1890
- Kishinev (currently Chisinau) - Moldova, 1903
- Amritsar Massacre - India, April 13, 1919
- St. Valentine's Day Massacre - February 14, 1929
- Hebron massacre - Palestine, 1929
- Nanjing Massacre, also called Rape of Nanking - China, 1937
- Pogromnacht, also called Kristallnacht - Germany, 1938
- Katyn Massacre - Soviet Union, (1940) massacre of Polish Intelligentsia, POW reserve officers
- Massacre in Yedwabne - Poland, 1941
- Babi Yar massacre - Ukraine, September 29 and September 30, 1941
- Lidice Massacre - Czechoslovakia, May 29, 1942
- Massacre in Koniuchy - Poland, 1944
- Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre - France, June 10, 1944
- Malmedy massacre - Belgium, December 17, 1944
- Hadassah medical convoy massacre - Palestine, 1948
- Deir Yassin massacre - Palestine, 1948
- Arab al-Mawasi massacre - Palestine, 1948
- Qibya massacre - West Bank, 1953
- Kfar Kassem massacre - Israel, 1956
- Tlatelolco massacre, Mexico, 1968
- My Lai massacre - Vietnam, 1968
- Kent State massacre - Kent State University, Ohio, USA May 4, 1970
- El Mozote massacre - El Salvador, December 11, 1981
- Sabra and Shatila massacre - Beirut, Lebanon, September, 1982
- Hungerford massacre - Hungerford, Berkshire, England, UK, August 19, 1987
- École Polytechnique Massacre (also called Montreal Massacre) - University of Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 6, 1989
- Tiananmen Massacre - Beijing, China, 1989
- Dunblane massacre - Stirling region, Scotland, UK, March 13, 1996
- Port Arthur massacre - Tasmania, Australia, April 29, 1996
- Sanaa massacre - Yemen 1997
- Jonesboro massacre - Arkansas, United States, 1998
- Tajdena massacre - Algeria, 1998
- Columbine High School massacre - Littleton, Colorado, United States, 1999
- Osaka School Massacre - Osaka, Osaka prefecture, Japan, 2001
- Erfurt massacre - Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany, April 26, 2002
- Passover massacre - Israel, March 28, 2002.
Peace activists (particularly
anti-american ones) sometimes refer to the
atomic bombings of
World War II as the
Hiroshima massacre and
Nagasaki massacre.
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