User:David Kernow/List of massacres involving thousands of people

Ancient and Middle Ages (to 1500)

Date	Name	Deaths	Location	Summary
334 BCE	Destruction of Thebes	c.6,000 to 8,000	Greece	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.)
260 BCE	Battle of Changping	400,000	Jincheng, China	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.
150 BCE	Lusitanian Massacres	c.8,000	Spain	Roman troops under Galba massacre Lusitani citizens after convincing them to surrender.
71 BCE	Third Servile War	c.6,000	Roman Republic	Surrendering slaves are crucified along the Via Appia.
532	Nika riots	c.30,000	Byzantine Empire	After a sports rivalry turns into a full-scale riot, Emperor Justinian I locks the rioters in the Hippodrome and has them killed.
650	Mesopotamian massacres	10,000	Mesopotamia	Arabs conquer Mesopotamia and kill 10,000 Assyrians and other Christians. All others flee to the Iraq's mountains or convert to Islam.
782	Bloody Verdict of Verden	4,500	Verden, Germany	Massacre of non-Christian Saxons by Charlemagne; actual scale subject to debate.
1096	German Crusade	c.10,000	Rhine River	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).
1098	Siege of Antioch	c.20,000	Antioch, Syria	Almost all Muslim inhabitants slaughtered after the fall of the city to the Crusaders.
1099	First Crusade	c.70,000	Jerusalem	Almost all Muslim and Jewish inhabitants slaughtered after the fall of the city to the Crusaders.
1191	Siege of Acre (Akko)	2,750	Akko	Richard the Lionheart slaughters Muslim prisoners taken during the siege.
1209	Albigensian Crusade	20,000 to 100,000	Beziers, France	Crusaders slaughter the Cathars. Other civilian slaughters occur in Toulouse and Saint-Nazaire.
1220	Samarkand massacre	c.75,000	Samarkand, Khwarezm	After the city's surrender, the Mongols under Genghis Khan they drive out and slaughter its population. Over 75,000 men, women and children perish.
1221	Herat massacre	600,000	Herat	Genghis Khan's Mongols destroy the city and massacre the population.
1268	Siege of Antioch	40,000	Antioch, Syria	Baibars' army destroys the city and massacres the population.
1282	Sicilian Vespers	thousands	Italy	French citizens of Sicily killed during a revolt.
1289	Siege of Tripoli	c.10,000	Palestine	Muslim conquest of Crusader state; virtually the whole population killed.
1291	Siege of Tyre	10,000	Tyre, Palestine	Baibars' army destroys the city and massacres the population.
1296	Massacre of Berwick	30,000	Berwick, Scotland	As they invade Scotland, forces under the command of Edward I massacre the population of Berwick.
1358	Jacquerie Revolts	8,000	Meaux, France	Peasants massacred in aftermath of revolt.
1348	Black Death Scapegoats	6,000 to 16,000	Germany	Jews are blamed as the cause of the Black Death, leading to their massacre in Mainz (up to 12,000) and Strasbourg (4,000).
1398	Massacre of Delhi	100,000	Delhi, India	Massacre of prisoners under Timur Lenk. (Total deaths from his conquests eventually exceed 20 million.)
1415	Agincourt	c.5,000	Agincourt, France	So that guards may join the fight, Henry V orders the deaths of 5,000 prisoners of war during the Battle of Agincourt.
1480	Sack of Otranto	12,000	Otranto, Italy

Modern (from 1500)

1500 to World War II

Date	Name	Deaths	Location	Summary
1571	Enryaku-ji	3,000	Mount Hiei, Japan
1572	St. Bartholomew's Day massacre	70,000	France	A wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots.
1631	Sack of Magdeburg	20,000	Magdeburg, Germany	Troops of the Holy Roman Empire beseige then storm Magdeburg during the Thirty Years' War, massacring nearly all its inhabitants.
1641	Irish Rebellion of 1641	4,000	Ulster, Ireland	English Protestant planters killed by dispossessed Irish Catholics.
1644	Massacre of Bolton	1,500	Bolton, England
1648	Khmelnytsky Uprising	tens of thousands	Poland	Jews, Polish nobles and Uniates killed during a Cossack and peasant uprising led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
1649	Fall of Drogheda	at least 1,000	Drogheda, Ireland	Unarmed civilians massacred by Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army
1794	Praga massacre	10,000 to 20,000	Praga, Warsaw, Poland	Kościuszko Uprising: Russian troops massacre civilians as they loot and burn Praga following their victory in battle.
1822	Chios Massacre	c.42,000	Chios / Psara islands	Reprisals after the Greek Christian population rebel against the Ottoman Empire.
1876	Batak massacre	c.5,000	Batak	As part of the reprisals following the April Uprising, bashi-bazouks (Ottoman army irregulars) massacre Bulgarian men, women and children barricaded in Batak's church. More than 7,000 others are massacred throughout Bulgaria.
1895-1897	Hamidian massacres	80,000 to 300,000	Ottoman Empire	On the orders of Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman forces massacre Armenians living in Anatolia.
1904	Herero and Namaqua Genocide	c.65,000	German South West Africa	German colonial attempt to exterminate the Herero and Namaqua peoples, directed by General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha.
1915-1917	Armenian Genocide	c.400,000 to 1.5 million	Ottoman Empire	Forced evacuation and mass killing of Anatolian Armenians during the Young Turks' government.
1915-1918	Assyrian Genocide	c.275,000	Ottoman Empire	The Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia forcibly relocated and massacred by Ottoman and Kurdish forces.
1916-1919	Pontian Greek Genocide	c.353,000	Ottoman Empire	Massacres of Pontic Greeks by the Young Turks' government.
1918	March Days	3,000 to 12,000	Baku, Azerbaijan	Assuming them to be Ottoman Turks, Dashnak and Bolshevik forces massacre ethnic Azerbaijanis in revenge for the Armenian Genocide.
1918	September Days	10,000 to 20,000	Baku, Azerbaijan	In retalisation for the March Days, Enver Pasha's Army of Islam supported by local Azerbaijani forces recaptures Baku and massacres ethnic Armenians.
1923	Kantō massacre	c.2,700 to 6,415	Kantō region, Japan	Korean and Okinawan immigrants blamed for looting and arson in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake.
1931-1945	Japanese biological warfare program	3,000 to 200,000	East Asia	An official program of medical experimentation on humans that resulted in thousands of deaths during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
1932	La Matanza	c.30,000	El Salvador	Having crushed a peasants' rebellion, the military government sanctions the massacre of indigenous peoples.
1937	Addis Ababa massacre	3,000	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	Massacre by Italian soldiers.
1937-1938	Nanjing Massacre	100,000 to 300,000	Nanjing, China	Massacre of citizens and prisoners committed by the Japanese army following the Battle of Nanking. Estimates of fatalities vary widely.
1937-1938	Great Purge	680,000 to 1.3 million	Soviet Union	Stalinist purges aimed at ethnic minorities and perceived dissidents.

World War II

Date	Name	Deaths	Location	Summary
1939	Bromberg Bloody Sunday	up to 8,000	Bydgoszcz, Poland	A combination of the 350 to 5,000 ethnic Germans killed during the Polish Defensive War and the subsequent massacre of c.3,000 Polish civilians in reprisal.
1939-1940	Palmiry massacre	c.2,000	Poland	Systematic murder by the Gestapo of Poles deemed to be dissident, including politicians, sportspeople and members of the intelligentsia.
1940	Katyn massacre	14,000 to 28,000	Poland	Massacre of Polish POWs, reserve officers and members of the intelligentsia by Soviet forces.
1941	Białystok Massacre	2,200	Poland	In one of the first massacres of Jews during World War II, the German reserve Police Battalion 309 herd the Jews of Białystok into the city's central synagogue and set fire to it. Those trying to flee are shot.
	Jedwabne Pogrom	380 to 1,600	Poland	Jewish residents of Jedwabane 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.
	Babi Yar	33,771	Ukraine	As reprisal for acts of sabotage they did not commit, the Jewish population of Kiev was marched in small groups to a ditch at Babi Yar and machine-gunned.
	Ponaren	c.100,000	Lithuania	Jewish and Polish citizens of Vilnius marched to Ponary Woods and shot by Lithuanian police units (the "Ponary Rifles") under German supervision. 40,000 were killed in 1941 alone.
	Dnipropetrovsk	12,000	Ukraine	Most of the remaining Jews in the city are marched to a ravine and massacred by Einsatzkommando 6.
	Odessa massacre	36,000	Ukraine	Mass shootings of the Jews of Odessa.
	Ninth Fort	9,000	Lithuania	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.)
	Rumbula Forest	25,000	Latvia	Over the course of a week, the Jews of Riga are taken to Rumbula Forest and shot.
	Simferopol	10,000	Crimea	Mass shooting of Jews. Thereafter, Jews in the region are transported to extermination camps rather than shot.
	Kragujevac massacre	4,000	Kragujevac, Serbia	Reprisal killings by German forces following the death of ten soldiers at the hands of partisans.
1942-1944	Warsaw Concentration Camp	200,000	Warsaw, Poland	Non-Jewish population of Warsaw systematically shot or gassed in provisional gas chambers.
1942	Pinsk	16,000	Belarus	Mass executions of Jews.
	Sook Ching massacre	c.50,000 to 100,000	Malaya and Singapore	Japanese troops execute ethnic Chinese Malayans and Singaporeans suspected of resistance.
	Bataan Death March	5,650	Philippines	American and Philippine POWs are marched to prison camps. Any that fall behind are killed.
1943	Massacres of Poles in Volhynia	c.100,000	Volhynia, Ukraine	Ukrainian nationalists massacre Poles.
1943-1947	Foiba massacre	5,000 to 10,000	Istria and Dalmatia	Communist troops commanded by Josip Tito purge Italian fascists and colloborators.
1944	Manila massacre	at&least 100,000	Philippines	Retreating Japanese troops slaughter Filipino civilians and raze Manila.
	Wola massacre	up to 50,000	Warsaw, Poland	As the Warsaw Uprising takes root, German troops systematically slaughter most of the civilians living in the Warsaw borough of Wola.
	Meligala massacre	1,500	Greece	Communist ELAS fighters attack the village of Meligala and massacre many of its inhabitants. Many were known to have collaborated with the occupying German forces.
	Vojvodina massacre	c.34,500	Serbia	Mass executions of Hungarian civilians by Serbian communist partisans.
1944-1945	Chameria issue	c.2,000	Chameria	Greek royalist militias battle Pro-German Muslims during the liberation from the Nazi German occupation. Over 25,000 Muslims flee to Albania.
1945	Sandakan Death March	2,431	Malaysia	Australian POWs are forced to march great distances, combined with torture and forced labor.
	Bleiburg massacre	55,000 to 300,000	Yugoslavia	Partisans retaliate against Ustashe, [[Domobrani] and Croat civilians.

Contemporary (post-World War II)

Date	Name	Deaths	Location	Summary
Sétif massacre	up to 45,000	Sétif, Algeria	Colonial French soldiers massacre Algerian protesters.
1947	228 Incident	10,000 to 30,000	Taiwan	Kuomintang forces massacre Taiwanese civilians after an uprising.
1950	Capture of Seoul	c.100,000	Seoul, Korea	Communist forces summarily execute civilians after capturing Seoul during the Korean War.
1962	Oran massacre	c.2,000 to 3,500	Algeria	Arabs lynch European and Jewish civilians.
1968	Massacre at Huế	2,500+	Huế, South Vietnam	NVA and Việt Cộng forces summarily execute civilians in the city of Huế.
1976	Karantina Massacre	c.1,000	Beirut, Lebanon	Lebanese Christian militia massacre the inhabitants of Karantina district, Beirut (mostly Kurds and Armenians) during the Lebanese Civil War.
1982	Sabra and Shatila massacre	800 to 3,000	Beirut, Lebanon	Lebanese Christian militia massacre Palestinian refugees.
1984	Anti-Sikh Riots	c.2,733 to 4,000	Delhi, India	Mobs massacre Sikhs following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
1993	Sukhumi Massacre	c.1,200	Abkhazia, Georgia	After storming Sukhumi, Abkhaz separatists and their allies massacre the city's remaining Georgian population.
1994	Rwandan Genocide	937,000	Rwanda	Hutus massacre Tutsis.
1995	Srebrenica massacre	8,000	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Massacre of male Bosniaks primarily by the Army of Republika Srpska; the largest massacre in Europe since World War II.
2001	Dasht-i-Leili massacre	250 to 3,000	Afghanistan	Taliban prisoners shot or suffocated while being transferred between prisons by Northern Alliance soldiers during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
2002	Gujarat violence	c.800 to 2,000	Gujarat, India	Sectarian violence following a train fire in Godhra.
2003 to date	Darfur conflict	c.400,000	Sudan	Ongoing massacre and forced displacement of the Fur people of Western Sudan by government-sponsored Janjaweed militia.