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The following is a list of events for which one of the commonly accepted names includes the word "massacre
A massacre is the killing of a large number of people or animals, especially those who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves. A massacre is generally considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when per ...
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Definition
''Massacre
A massacre is the killing of a large number of people or animals, especially those who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves. A massacre is generally considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when per ...
'' is defined in the ''Oxford English Dictionary
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'' as "the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers". It also states that the term is used "in the names of certain massacres of history".Oxford English Dictionary
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Massacre, n.
The first recorded use in English of the word ''massacre'' in the name of an event is due to Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (; baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the ...
, who in c. 1600 referred to what is now known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (french: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French War ...
as "The massacre at Paris"."Marlowe (c. 1600) (''title'') The massacre at Paris". Oxford English Dictionary
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Massacre, n.
''Massacre'' can also be used as a verb, as "To kill (people or, less commonly, animals) in numbers, esp. brutally and indiscriminately".Oxford English Dictionary
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Massacre, v. The first usage of which was "(c. 1588) Men which make no conscience for gaine sake, to breake the law of the æternall, and massaker soules (...) are dangerous subjects", and this usage is not recorded in this list.
There are many alternative terms with similar connotations, such as butchery
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, carnage, bloodbath
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, mass killing
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, atrocity
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* ''Atrocities'' (album), the fourth album by Christian Death
* Mass atrocity crimes, international crimes of genocide, war crimes, and crimes agains ...
, etc. as well as euphemisms such as ''Vespers
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'', ''Blutgericht
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Low just ...
'' or "attack", "incident", "tragedy" (etc.), use of which are outside the scope of this list.
''Massacre'' is also used figuratively to describe dramatic events that did not involve any deaths, such as the "Hilo massacre
The Hilo massacre, also known as Bloody Monday, was an incident that occurred on 1 August 1938, in Hilo, Hawaii, when over 70 police officers attempted to disband 200 unarmed protesters during a strike, injuring 50 of the demonstrators. In their ...
" and the "Saturday Night Massacre
The Saturday Night Massacre was a series of events that took place in the United States on the evening of Saturday, October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal. U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire ...
"; this usage is also outside of the scope of this list.
Before or in 1945
After 1945
See also
* :Massacres ** :Lists of massacres by country *Genocides in history
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* List of battles and other violent events by death toll
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People
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Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
* List of events named pogrom
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* List of genocides by death toll
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* List of massacres at sea
List of events
See also
* Mass grave
* List of riots
This is a chronological list of known riots.
Seventeenth century and earlier
* 44 BC – Assassination of Julius Caesar (Rome, Roman Republic). During Caesar's cremation in the Forum, ...
* List of massacres in the United States
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:*For single-perpetrator events and shooting sprees, see List of rampage killers in the United States, Mass shootings in the United States, :Spree shooti ...
* List of terrorist incidents
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Definitions of terroris ...
* List of mass car bombings
This is a list of car bomb attacks (including bombs stowed in vans, trucks, buses etc.) that resulted in at least two deaths.
Mass car bombings (by date)
2020s
2010s
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1990s
1980s
1970s
1900–1969
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* Crimes against humanity
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References
External links
* * World History Database,Alphabetic Listing of Battles
' Index of World battles. * Radford, Robert,
'. An extensive list of important battles and influential leaders, from −490 BC to present times. {{DEFAULTSORT:Events Named Massacres
Massacres
A massacre is the killing of a large number of people or animals, especially those who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves. A massacre is generally considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when per ...
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Massacres
A massacre is the killing of a large number of people or animals, especially those who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves. A massacre is generally considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when per ...
Massacres
A massacre is the killing of a large number of people or animals, especially those who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves. A massacre is generally considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when per ...