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This is a list of events named Massacre. The term suggests mass murder and its usage may be controversial.
The word massacre was loaned into English from Middle French, derived from Old French maçacre (and variants) "slaughterhouse, butcher's shop". The term maçacre was already used in Anglo-Norman in the sense of "slaughter of many people" in the 12th century. The word's ultimate origin is from late Latin mazacrium "slaughter". The first recorded use in English of the word massacre dates to the late 16th century, in reference to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. The Oxford English Dictionary records: ť 1578 (R. Lindsay, Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 291): "The xxiiij day of August..the grytt..murther and massecar of Paris wes committit."

1593 (Marlowe) "The massacre at Paris" ť 1617, (F. Moryson Itinerary I. 131) "I wondered to see the Massacre of Paris painted upon the wall."

Massacre can also be used as a verb, (the OED records 1588 as earliest attestation).

List of events called massacres

Date	Location	Name	Deaths	Description
1002, November 13	Kingdom of England	St. Brice's Day massacre	unknown	Anglo-Saxon king Ethelred II ordered the killing of all Danes living in England.
1066	Granada, Al-Andalus	Granada massacre	c.4,000	A Muslim mob crucified Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and killed most of the Jewish population of the city.
1325	South Dakota	Crow Creek Massacre	c.500
1572	Paris, France	St. Bartholomew's Day massacre	c.3,000 over several days.
1622, March 22	Virginia, North America	Jamestown Massacre	347	The Powhatans killed 347 settlers, almost one-third of the English population of the Virginia colony.
1644, 28 May	Bolton, England	Bolton Massacre	up to 1,600	Royalist forces killed many of the town's defenders and citizens.
1692, February 13	Scotland	Massacre of Glencoe	38	Government soldiers, mainly from Clan Campbell, killed members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe.
1770, March 5	Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay	Boston Massacre	5	British troops fired at a mob of colonists. This helped spark the American Revolution even though an all-colonist jury found the soldiers innocent.
1771, July 17	Kugluktuk, Nunavut	Bloody Falls Massacre	20	Chipewyan warriors attacked an Inuit camp, killing men, women and children.
1780, May 29	South Carolina, United States	Waxhaw Massacre	113	After the American defeat at the Battle of Waxhaws British General Sir Banastre Tarleton and his men slaughtered many of the surrendered soldiers.
1792	France	September Massacres	c. 1440	Popular courts in the French Revolution sentenced prisoners to death, including around 240 priests.
1819	Manchester, England	Peterloo Massacre	11 killed, over 500 injured	Armed cavalry charged a peaceful pro-democracy meeting of 60,000 people.	100–300	Aboriginal Australians killed.
1838, June 10	Myall Creek, Australia	Myall Creek massacre	28	A white posse killed Aboriginal Australians. For the first time, the perpetrators were convicted and sentenced to death.
1838, October 30	Caldwell County, Missouri, United States	Haun's Mill massacre	19	About 240 Livingston County Missouri Regulators militiamen and volunteers killed 18 Mormons and one ally.
1842	Afghanistan	Massacre of Elphinstone's army	16,000	Afghan tribes massacred Elphinstone's British army including some 12,000 civilians.
1857, September 11	Mountain Meadows, Utah, United States	Mountain Meadows massacre	100-140	Mormon militia and Paiute tribesmen killed unarmed members of the Fancher-Baker emigrant wagon train.
1863, August 21	Kansas, USA	Lawrence Massacre	c.150	Pro-Confederate bushwhackers attacked the town of Lawrence, Kansas during the American Civil War.
1864, 29 November	Kiowa County, Colorado	Sand Creek massacre	c. 200	Colorado Territory militia destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho on the eastern plains.
1876	Ottoman Empire	Batak massacre	5,000	Ottoman army irregulars killed Bulgarian civilians barricaded in Batak's church.
1890, 29 December	Wounded Knee, South Dakota	Wounded Knee Massacre	178	500 U.S. 7th Cavalry arrived to escort Lakota Sioux people to Nebraska, but fighting broke out.
1894-1896	Anatolia, Ottoman Empire	Hamidian massacres	80,000 to 300,000	Ordered by Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman forces killed Armenians.
1906, March 10	Bud Dajo, Jolo Island, Philippines	Moro Crater massacre	800 to 1,000	Forces of the U.S. Army under the command of Major General Leonard Wood, a naval detachment comprising 540 soldiers, along with a detachment of native constabulary, armed with artillery and small firearms, attacked a village hidden in the crater of a dormant volcano.
1919, April 13	India	Amritsar massacre	379	British Indian Army soldiers, led by Brigadier Reginald Dyer fired at unarmed civilians.
1928, August-September	Coniston, Australia	Coniston massacre	31-110	Police-led posses killed Aboriginal Australians.
1929, February 14	Chicago	Saint Valentine's Day massacre	7	Al Capone's gang shot rival gang members and their associates.
1930, April 23	Peshawar, British Raj	Qissa Khwani bazaar massacre	200-250	Soldiers of the British Raj fired on unarmed non-violent protestors of the Khudai Khidmatgar with machine guns during the Indian independence movement (Rape of Nanking)	42,000–400,000, median: 260,000	The Japanese Imperial Army pillaged Nanking for six weeks
1940	Soviet Union	Katyn massacre	21,857-25,700	Soviet NKVD executed Polish intelligentsia, POWs and reserve officers.
1941	Soviet Union	NKVD prisoner massacres	c.100,000	The Soviet NKVD executed tens of thousands of political prisoners in the initial stages of Operation Barbarossa.
1941, 29–30 September	Ukraine	Babi Yar massacre	more than 30,000
1942	Laha Airfield, Ambon Island	Laha massacre	~300	The Japanese killed surrendered Australian soldiers.
1942, 10 June	Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia	Lidice massacre	340
1944	Italy	Marzabotto massacre	c.700-1,800
1944, December	the Battle of the Bulge, Belgium	Malmedy massacre	88	German soldiers shot American POWs (43 escaped).
1953, March 26	Lari near Nairobi, Kenya	Lari Massacre	~150	About 150 Kikuyu were killed by fellow tribesmen.
1960, March 21	Sharpeville, South Africa	Sharpeville massacre	72-90	South African police shot down black protesters.
1962	Novocherkassk, Soviet Union	Novocherkassk massacre	23-70 killed, over 40 wounded	The MVD open fire on a crowd of protesters demonstrating against inflation.
1968	South Vietnam	My Lai massacre	504	US soldiers killed 504 unarmed South Vietnamese villagers ranging in ages from 1 to 81 years, mostly women and children.
1968	Mexico City, Mexico	Tlatelolco massacre	25-350	Government troops massacred between 25 (officially) and 350 (according to human rights activists) students on the eve of the 1968 Summer Olympics taking place in Mexico City, and then tried to wash the blood away, along with evidence of the massacre.
1970	Kent State University, Ohio, USA	Kent State massacre	4	29 members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students protesting the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on the Kent State University college campus, killing 4 and wounding 9, one of whom was permanently paralyzed.
1972	Munich, Germany	Munich massacre	11	Members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and killed by the Palestinian Black September group.
1975, July 31	Northern Ireland	Miami Showband massacre	5	Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) killed three members of pop group the Miami Showband in a gun and bomb attack. Two UVF members also died when the bomb exploded prematurely.
1976	Northern Ireland	Kingsmill massacre	10
1978 March 11	Israel	Coastal Road massacre	35	Palestinian Fatah members based in Lebanon land on a beach north of Tel Aviv, kill an American photographer, and hijack an inter-city bus driving along Israel's Coastal Highway. 35 civilians are killed and 80 wounded.
1982	Iraq	Dujail Massacre	148
1982	Lebanon	Sabra and Shatila massacre	700-3,500	Refugees are killed by the Christian Lebanese Forces militia in refugee camps surrounded by Israeli Defence Forces. The United Nations General Assembly condemned the massacre and declared it to be an act of genocide.
14 August 1985	Peru	Accomarca massacre	47, 69 or 74	An army massacre of campesinos (including six children) in Accomarca, Ayacucho.
1987, August 19	Hungerford, England	Hungerford massacre	17	A gunman armed with semi-automatic rifles and a handgun killed 16 people before committing suicide.
1988, March 16	Northern Ireland	Milltown massacre	3	Ulster Freedom Fighters member Michael Stone kills three people and injures 60 others in a gun and grenade attack at the funeral of three IRA members being held in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast.
March 16, 1988	Halabja, Iraq	Halabja poison gas attack	5000+	Saddam Hussein orders Iraqi aircraft to drop a mix of nerve agents on the rebellious city of Halabja, in northern Iraq.
1989, June 4	Tiananmen Square, Beijing, People's Republic of China	Tiananmen Square Massacre	400-800	Student pro-democracy protestors were killed by the Chinese military.
1991	Croatia	Vukovar massacre	264	Members of the Serb militias, aided by the Yugoslav People's Army, killed Croat civilians and POWs.
1991, December	Croatia	Voćin massacre	32	Croatian civilians killed by Serb paramilitary units during the Croatian War of Independence.
1991, November 18	Croatia	Škabrnja massacre	86	Serb paramilitaries, supported by the JNA, captured the village of Škabrnja and killed 25 Prisoners of war and 61 civilians over the next several days..
1992, 26 February	Khojaly, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan	Khojaly massacre	613	Armenian armed forces, reportedly with help of the Russian 366th Motor Rifle Regiment, captured the village of Khojaly and killed 613 civilians, of whom 106 were women and 83 were children
1993, 30 October	Greysteel, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland	Greysteel massacre	8	Ulster Freedom Fighters opened fire in a crowded bar using an AK-47 and automatic pistol.
1993	Brazil	Yanomami Massacre	c.16-73	Garimpeiros (illegal gold miners) killed Yanomami people.
1994, April 22	Haiti	Raboteau Massacre	15 (possibly 50)	FRAPH military/paramilitary forces raided the Raboteau, a neighborhood of Gonaives, Haiti as part of a nation wide policy to clamp down on pro-democracy and Aristide supporters.
1994	Israel	Cave of the Patriarchs massacre/Ibrahimi Mosque massacre	29	Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an assault rifle killing 29 Muslims and wounding 150 at prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque before being subdued and beaten to death.
1995, January 22	Israel	Beit Lid massacre	21	First suicide attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, killing 21 and wounding 69. Carried out by two bombers; the second waited until emergency crews arrived to assist the wounded and dying before detonating his bomb.
1995	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Srebrenica massacre/Srebrenica Genocide	c.8,000
1996, March 13	Scotland	Dunblane massacre	18	A gunman opened fire in a primary school, killing sixteen children and one teacher before killing himself.
1996	Lebanon	1996 shelling of Qana, AKA: Qana Massacre	106	Israeli artillery struck the Unifil Headquarters in Qana which was providing shelter to approximately five hundred Lebanese civilians. UN concluded that the Israeli forces had deliberately targeted the shelter.
1996, 28 April	Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia	Port Arthur massacre	35	Martin Bryant killed 35 people and wounded two-dozen others mainly at a popular tourist site in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. The event led to gun law reform in Australia.
April 20, 1999	Jefferson County, Colorado	Columbine High School massacre	15	Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold assail their Columbine High School, killing 12 students and one teacher, and wounding 24 others. The attack ended when the two assailants committed suicide.
2000, 27 July	West Bengal, India	Nanoor massacre	11	Killing of 11 landless labourers allegedly by activists of Communist Party of India (Marxist), a political party in India, in Suchpur, near Nanoor and under Nanoor police station, in Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
2002, 27 March	Netanya, Israel	Passover massacre	30	Killing of 30 guests at the Park Hotel in Netanya, Israel, sitting down to the traditional Passover Seder meal. Another 143 were injured. Hamas claimed responsibility.
2004, September 1	Beslan, Russian Federation	Beslan School Massacre	334 civilians killed	Armed Chechen separatists took more than 1,200 people hostage at a school. 334 civilians were killed, including 186 school children, and hundreds wounded.
April 16, 2007	Blacksburg, Virginia, United States	Virginia Tech massacre	33	Cho Seung-Hui shoots and kills 32 people, and wounds 25 others, in two separate shootings on the campus of Virginia Tech. Cho later committed suicide.

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