| Date | Name | Deaths | Location | Description
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| 1 AD | Massacre of the Innocents | 8-30 | Bethlehem, Palestine | (according to the Gospel of Matthew)
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| 1096 | Part of the First Crusade | Thousands | Along the Rhine | "People's Crusade" prior to the First Crusade killed thousands of Jews along the Rhine; see Emich of Leiningen
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| 1282 | Sicilian Vespers | ? | Italy |
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| 1284 | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | 130 | | Children supposedly lured away and killed. Legend, not clear what really happened.
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| August 24, 1572 | St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre | 70,000 | France |
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| May 10, 1631 | Massacre of Magdeburg | 20,000 | Germany |
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| 1648-1649 | ? | 100,000 | | Jews and Poles killed by Cossacks under Bohdan Chmielnicki
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| 1689 | Massacre of Palatinate | ? | Germany |
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| February 13, 1692 | Massacre of Glencoe | 78 | Scotland |
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| 1768 | Koliwszczyzna | ? | | massacre of Poles and Jews in Human, Ukraine
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| March 5, 1770 | Boston Massacre | 5 | British North American Colonies, currently US |
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| 1778 | Cherry Valley Massacre | ? | | during the American Revolution
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| 1794 | ? | ? | Praga, Poland | Raze of Praga - Poland
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| January, 1813 | River Raisin massacre | 30-60 | Monroe, Michigan | prisoners scalped during the War of 1812
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| August 16, 1819 | Peterloo massacre | 11 | United Kingdom |
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| 1848 | Rabacja | ? | Galicia | massacre of Polish nobles by peasants
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| September 11, 1857 | Mountain Meadows Massacre | 120 | Utah, United States |
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| November 29, 1864 | Sand Creek Massacre | ~150 | Colorado Territory | United States cavalry troops kill Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples in an undefended Native American village.
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| April 13, 1873 | Colfax Massacre | 100 | Colfax, Louisiana |
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| June 1, 1873 | Cypress Hills Massacre | 16-23 | Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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| December 29, 1890 | Wounded Knee Massacre | 153-300 | Wounded Knee, South Dakota |
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| 1903 | Kishinev pogrom | ? | (Chisinau) - Moldova |
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| April 20, 1914 | Ludlow Massacre | 20 | Ludlow, Colorado | Suppression of a strike by twelve thousand Colorado coal miners.
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| April 13, 1919 | Amritsar Massacre | 379 | India |
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| February 14, 1929 | St. Valentine's Day Massacre | 7 | Chicago | Bugs Moran's gang is murdered by Al Capone's men
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| 1929 | Hebron massacre | ? | Palestine |
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| 1937 | Nanjing Massacre | 200,000- 300,000 | China | also called Rape of Nanking
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| 1938 | Kristallnacht | 36-200 | Germany | also called Pogromnacht
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| September 1939 | Bromberg Bloody Sunday | up to 8000 | Bydgoszcz, Poland | Killing of between 358 and 5,000 ethnic Germans during the Polish Defence War of 1939 and subsequent massacre of ~3,000 Polish civilians as a reprisal.
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| 1939 | Polish victims of Nazi initial occupation of Poland | ~??? | Poland | Imprisonment and execution of Polish citizens and soldiers immediately after German invasion.
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| 1940 | Katyn Massacre | 25,700 | Soviet Union | massacre of Polish Intelligentsia, POW reserve officers
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| July 1941 | Massacre of Lwów professors | 45 | Lwów, Poland | Part of the AB Action
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| 1941 | Massacre in Jedwabne | 380-1600 | Poland |
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| September 29-30, 1941 | Babi Yar massacre | 33,771 | Ukraine |
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| July 1941- August 1944 | Ponary | ~100,000 | Lithuania |
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| May 29, 1942 | Lidice Massacre | 250 | Czechoslovakia | Massacre of an entire village as a reprisal for the assasination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague
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| 1943 | Massacres of Poles in Volhynia | ~100,000 | Ukraine |
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| July 14, 1943 | Biscari Massacre | 73 | Sicily | US Troops kill German and Italian POWs.
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| 1944 | Massacre in Koniuchy | ~130 | Poland |
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| June 10, 1944 | Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre | 642 | France |
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| August 1944 | Wola Massacre | up to 50,000 | Warsaw | German troops slaughter most of civilians in the borough of Wola during the early stage of the Warsaw Uprising
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| December 17, 1944 | Malmedy massacre | 80 | Belgium | Massacre of American POWs
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| May 8, 1945 | Setif Massacre | 150 pied-noirs
1,500-45,000 Algerians | Algeria |
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| 1948 | Hadassah medical convoy massacre | ~77 | Palestine |
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| 1948 | Deir Yassin massacre | 107 | Palestine |
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| 1948 | Arab al-Mawasi massacre | 14 | Palestine |
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| April 31948 | Jeju_Massacre | 30,000 | Korea |
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| July 26-29, 1950 | Nogun-ri massacre | 121-? | Korea |
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| 1953 | Qibya massacre | ~50 | West Bank |
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| 1956 | Kafr Qasim massacre | 49 | Israel |
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| October 17, 1961 | Paris, France | Killing of Algerian demonstrators
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| 1968 | Tlatelolco massacre | 200-300 | Mexico |
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| 1968 | My Lai massacre | 347-504 | Vietnam |
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| February 8, 1968 | Orangeburg Massacre | ? | South Carolina State University, USA |
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| January, 1969 | Massacre at Hue | ~2500 | Hue, Vietnam |
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| May 4, 1970 | Kent State massacre | 4 | Kent State University, Ohio, USA |
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| December 11, 1981 | El Mozote massacre | ~900 | El Salvador |
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| February 2, 1982 | Hama Massacre | ~20,000 | Syria |
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| September, 1982 | Sabra and Shatila massacre | 300-3,000 | Beirut, Lebanon |
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| August 19, 1987 | Hungerford massacre | 18 | Hungerford, Berkshire, England, UK |
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| December 6, 1989 | École Polytechnique Massacre | 15 | University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | also called Montreal Massacre
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| 1989 | Tiananmen Massacre | up to 2,600 | Beijing, China |
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| November 13, 1990 | Aramoana Massacre | ? | Aramoana, New Zealand |
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| November 12, 1991 | Dili Massacre | 271 | Dili, East Timor | Timorese protesting Indonesian rule are killed by Indonesian soldiers.
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| July 11, 1995 | Srebrenica Massacre | ~8000 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Considered the largest massacre in Europe since World War II
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| 1994 | Rwandan Massacre | 800,000 | Rwanda | Hutus massacre Tutsis for 3 months
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| March 13, 1996 | Dunblane massacre | 18 | Stirling region, Scotland, UK |
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| April 18, 1996 | Qana Massacre | 102 | Qana, South of Lebanon |
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| April 29, 1996 | Port Arthur massacre | 35 | Tasmania, Australia |
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| 1997 | Sanaa massacre | 8 | Yemen |
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| August 28, 1997 | Sidi Rais massacre | ~200 | Sidi Rais, Algeria |
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| September 22, 1997 | Bentalha massacre | >200 | Bentalha, Algeria |
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| December 22, 1997 | Acteal massacre | 45 | Acteal, Mexico | Allegedly government-linked paramilitaries attack a prayer meeting professing support for the goals of EZLN rebels
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| January 10, 1998 | Sidi Hamed massacre | 103 | Sidi Hamed, Algeria |
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| March 24, 1998 | Jonesboro massacre | 5 | Arkansas, United States |
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| December 9, 1998 | Tadjena massacre | 42 | Algeria |
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| April 20, 1999 | Columbine High School massacre | 15 | Littleton, Colorado, United States |
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| June 8, 2001 | Osaka School Massacre | 8 | Ikeda, Osaka prefecture, Japan |
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| September 11, 2001 | September 11, 2001 attacks | ~3,000 | New York, Washington DC, Pennsylvania (United States) | Al-Qaida hijacks 4 U.S. commercial airliners for use in a suicide bombing attack on major American targets. Two planes struck the World Trade Center towers in New York, causing the majority of the deaths; one plane hit the Pentagon; one plane was downed in a Pennsylvania field by its passengers (all of whom were killed.)
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| December, 2001 | Dasht-i-Leili massacre | 250-3000 | Afghanistan | Taliban prisoners were shot and/or suffocated to death in metal truck containers while being transferred between prisons by Northern Alliance soldiers during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
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| April 26, 2002 | Erfurt massacre | 17 | Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany |
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| March 28, 2002 | Passover massacre | 30 | Netanya, Israel |
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| October 4, 2003 | Maxim restaurant massacre | 21 | Haifa, Israel |
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| May 2, 2004 | Yelwa massacre | ~630 | Nigeria |
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