33 events with tag "massacre"
841 BC
ID: 2759
Jehu's revolution - kills Ahab's dynasty and Jezebel (thrown from window), mentioned on Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
ID: 2759
261 BC
ID: 3678
Kalinga War - 100,000 dead, 150,000 deported, Ashoka horrified by carnage, turns to Buddhism
ID: 3678
200 BC
ID: 3665
Druidic sanctuaries flourishing - centers of learning, law, and ritual, accused of human sacrifice
ID: 3665
169 BC
ID: 2965
Antiochus plunders Temple - returning from Egypt, kills thousands of Jews, takes Temple treasures including golden altar
ID: 2965
168 BC
ID: 2966
Jason attacks Jerusalem - hearing false rumor of Antiochus's death, Jason tries to retake priesthood, civil war erupts
ID: 2966
167 BC
ID: 2967
Antiochus massacres Jerusalem - 40,000 killed in three days, 40,000 sold as slaves, attacks on Sabbath when Jews won't fight
ID: 2967
121 BC
ID: 2676
Death of Gaius Gracchus - 3,000 supporters killed, first senatus consultum ultimum (emergency decree), political violence normalized
ID: 2676
86 BC
ID: 2682
Sulla besieges Athens - massacres population, blood flows to city gates, cultural treasures looted
ID: 2682
52 BC
ID: 5382
Cenabum massacre starts Gallic rebellion - Carnutes kill Roman merchants, signal for general uprising under Vercingetorix
ID: 5382
52 BC
ID: 5383
Siege of Avaricum - Caesar kills 40,000 inhabitants of Celtic oppidum, only 800 escape, Vercingetorix had advised abandoning it
ID: 5383
60
ID: 2524
Boudica's Rebellion begins - Iceni queen leads uprising after Romans flog her and rape daughters, burns Camulodunum, Londinium, and Verulamium
ID: 2524
61
ID: 2525
Battle of Watling Street - Suetonius Paulinus defeats Boudica's 230,000 with 10,000 Romans, 80,000 Britons killed, Boudica takes poison
ID: 2525
66
ID: 3006
Massacre at Caesarea - Greeks kill 20,000 Jews in one day, Florus does nothing, revolt spreads
ID: 3006
390
ID: 3825
St. Ambrose bars Emperor Theodosius from church - forces emperor to do public penance for Thessalonica massacre
ID: 3825
531
ID: 2833
Frankish conquest of Thuringia - Theuderic and Chlothar destroy kingdom, massacre royal family, eastern expansion
ID: 2833
614
ID: 4877
Persian conquest of Jerusalem - Jews help Persians, briefly control city, massacre of Christians reported
ID: 4877
782
ID: 2897
Massacre of Verden - Charlemagne executes 4,500 Saxon nobles in one day for rebellion, brutality shocks contemporaries
ID: 2897
795
ID: 2624
Vikings sack Iona - Columba's monastery destroyed, 68 monks killed, treasures stolen
ID: 2624
1002
ID: 2565
November 13, 1002
St. Brice's Day Massacre - Ethelred orders killing of all Danes in England, Sweyn Forkbeard's sister killed
ID: 2565
1002
ID: 3717
November 13, 1002
St. Brice's Day Massacre - Ethelred orders killing of all Danes in England, triggers massive Viking retaliation
ID: 3717
1099
ID: 177
July 15, 1099
First Crusade captures Jerusalem - Crusaders massacre Muslims and Jews, blood knee-deep in streets
ID: 177
1182
ID: 4779
Massacre of the Latins - Constantinople mob kills thousands of Western merchants, deepens East-West hatred
ID: 4779
1190
ID: 204
March 16, 1190
York Castle massacre - 150 Jews commit suicide rather than forced conversion, worst medieval English pogrom
ID: 204
1209
ID: 5282
July 1209
Massacre at Béziers - 'Kill them all, God will know his own' - troubadour courts annihilated, Occitan culture suppressed
ID: 5282
1209
ID: 5297
July 22, 1209
Massacre at Béziers - Arnaud Amaury orders 'Kill them all, God will know his own' - 20,000 civilians slaughtered including Catholics
ID: 5297
1210
ID: 5299
July 1210
Massacre at Minerve - 140 Cathar perfecti refuse to recant and are burned alive, first mass burning of the crusade
ID: 5299
1211
ID: 5300
May 3, 1211
Massacre at Lavaur - 400 Cathar perfecti burned, Lady Guiraude thrown down well and stoned, 80 knights hanged
ID: 5300
1219
ID: 5311
June 1219
Massacre at Marmande - 5,000 civilians killed by crusaders, Prince Louis (future Louis VIII) present
ID: 5311
1282
ID: 52
March 30, 1282
Sicilian Vespers - massacre of French, Sicily passes to Aragon
ID: 52
1377
ID: 4791
Massacre of Cesena - Hawkwood reluctantly participates in Papal massacre, 3000-5000 civilians killed
ID: 4791
1398
ID: 4751
Timur sacks Delhi - massacres 100,000 Hindu prisoners before battle, builds pyramid of skulls
ID: 4751
1401
ID: 4752
Timur destroys Damascus and Baghdad - depopulates Syria, builds towers of 20,000 skulls
ID: 4752
1572
ID: 5159
August 24, 1572
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre - Catherine de' Medici implicated in killing thousands of Huguenots
ID: 5159