List of massacres

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)
• Massacre of Glencoe - Scotland, February 13, 1692
• Boston Massacre - British North American Colonies, currently US, March 5, 1770
• Peterloo massacre - United Kingdom, August 16, 1819
• Kishinev (currently Chisinau) - Moldova, 1903
• Nanjing Massacre, also called Rape of Nanking - China, 1937
• Katyn Massacre - Poland, (1939?)
• Deir Yassin massacre - Palestine, (1948)
• Massacre in Yedwabne - Poland, 1941
• Babi Yar massacre - Ukraine, September 29 and September 30, 1941
• Massacre in Koniuchy - Poland, 1944
• Malmedy massacre - Belgium, December 17, 1944
• Qibya massacre - West Bank, 1953
• Tlatelolco massacre, Mexico, 1968
• My Lai massacre - Vietnam, 1968
• Kent State massacre - Kent State University, Ohio, USA May 4, 1970
• 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
• Erfurt massacre - Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany, April 26, 2002

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