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Massacres, genocides, pogroms, expulsions and deportations recorded in Wikidata, more than 3,800 in all, each placed where it happened and dated as closely as the record allows, with the number killed where it is given.
What you see
- Each one as a conflict mark sized by the number killed, which nearly three in four records give.
- A page for each, with its date, the toll and its Wikipedia summary.
- Opened from this page, the map plays 1900 to today.
Where the data comes from
- WikidataItems that are massacres, genocides or pogroms, with a date, a place and, for most, a death toll; 95% have a Wikipedia article.
- WikidataAbout 150 expulsions, deportations and forced displacements, with a date and a place.
Taken from Wikidata when the sets are imported; an entry added or corrected there since appears after the next import.
Good to know
- More than four in five are from 1900 or later: the record follows what Wikipedia’s editors have written about.
- Whether an event is called a massacre, a genocide or a pogrom follows Wikidata’s classification, not a court’s ruling.
- A toll is the figure Wikidata holds, and many are disputed; the article gives the context.
- About half are placed only at an area, not an exact site.
The deadliest recorded here
- genocide of Indigenous peoples of the Americas1492 · Genocide · Deaths 100,000,000
- The Holocaust1933 · Genocide · Deaths 6,000,000
- Native American genocide in the United States1610 · Genocide · Deaths 5,000,000
- Holodomor1932 · Genocide · Deaths 4,500,000
- The Holocaust in Poland1940s · Genocide · Deaths 3,000,000
- crushing The Rebellions of 1965–1966Oct 1965 · Genocide · Deaths 3,000,000
- Bangladesh genocide26 Mar 1971 · Genocide · Deaths 3,000,000
- Genocost2 Aug 1998 · Genocide · Deaths 1,500,000
- Armenian Genocide24 Apr 1915 · Genocide · Deaths 1,200,000
- Cambodian genocide17 Apr 1975 · Genocide · Deaths 1,200,000
The first recorded here in each century
- Heyin IncidentApr 528 · Massacre · Deaths 2,000
- Siege of Banu QurayzaJan 627 · Genocide
- massacre de Talkan7th century · Massacre · Deaths 40,000
- Guangzhou massacre878 · Pogrom · Deaths 120,000
- Massacre of Slavník dynasty3 Oct 995 · Massacre
- St. Brice's Day massacre19 Nov 1002 · Massacre
- massacre de Vršovce5 Oct 1108 · Massacre · Deaths 3,000
- Bloody Wedding of Nidaros29 Apr 1206 · Massacre
- Massacre of the GenoeseSep 1303 · Massacre
- Crow Creek massacre14th century · Massacre
- Massacre of Senigallia10 Jan 1503 · Massacre · Deaths 4
- Abmeierung16th century · Expulsion or deportation
- Sichuan massacre17th century · Massacre
- Circassian genocide1800s · Genocide · Deaths 1,000,000
- Anti-Jewish Odessa pogroms1900s · Pogrom
- Afsar massacre2000 · Massacre · Deaths 12
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