Jallianwala Bagh massacre

When

13 Apr 1919

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

379

Coordinates

31.62° N, 74.88° E

Description

British Indian Army troops fire their rifles into crowd of unarmed Indian civilians (1919)

1919 massacre of Indian protesters

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, British India, during the annual Baisakhi fair to protest against the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of pro-Indian independence activists Saifuddin Kitchlew and Satyapal.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Amritsar Massacre: Under the command of Reginald Dyer, detachments of the 9th Gorkha Rifles and the 59th Scinde Rifles massacre 379 Sikh civilians at…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Britische Kolonialtruppen begehen das Amritsar-Massaker an Sikhs, Muslimen und Hindus, die für die Unabhängigkeit Indiens plädieren”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les autorités britanniques ripostent à l’éveil du nationalisme indien par le massacre d'Amritsar, au Pendjab (ville des Sikhs)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Амритсарская бойня: британские войска расстреляли митинг протеста на площади Джалианвала-Багх в Амритсаре (Британская Индия)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Amritsar (India) las fuerzas invasoras británicas al mando de Reginald Dyer perpetran la masacre de Amritsar: ametrallan a una multitud de miles de hombres”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “阿姆利則慘案：英国军队开枪屠杀印度人，其中包括妇女和儿童。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “インドでイギリス軍が発砲しインド民衆に数百人の死傷者がでる（アムリットサル事件）”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page