User:Gatoclass/List of battles

(Original title: List of battles and other violent events by death toll).

This page lists mortalities from battles and other individual military operations or acts of violence, sorted by death toll. For wars and events more extensive in scope, see List of wars and disasters by death toll. For natural disasters, see List of natural disasters by death toll.

Battles and sieges
''Many of the entries in this section are currently for total casualties rather than deaths. Until this notice is removed, check the individual links to confirm what the figure represents.''


 * 1,530,000 - Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943) (figure for total casualties)
 * 1,500,000 - Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)
 * 1,425,000 - Brusilov Offensive (4 June-20 September 1916) (total casualties)
 * 1,338,000 - Battle of Kursk (1943) (figure for total casualties)
 * 1,300,000+ - The Merv massacre 1221
 * 1,200,000 - The Urgench massacre 1220
 * 1) 900,000 - Battle of Moscow (1941–1942)
 * 2) 552,000 - Battle of Gallipoli (1916)
 * 3) 500,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1941)
 * 4) 400,000 - Battle of Kiev (1941)
 * 5) 370,000 - Battle of Belarus (1941)
 * 6) 330,000 - First Battle of the Marne (1914)
 * 7) 310,000 - Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC)
 * 8) 302,300 - Battle of Salsu (612)
 * 9) 300,000 - Battle of the Somme (1916)
 * 10) 280,000 - Warsaw Uprising (1944)
 * 11) 280,000 - Second Battle of the Aisne (1917)
 * 12) 270,000 - Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive (1942)
 * 13) 270,000 - Battle of West Ukraine (1944)
 * 14) 260,000 - Battle of Verdun (1916)
 * 15) 260,000 - Battle of the Caucasus (1942)
 * 16) 240,000 - Third Battle of the Aisne (1918)
 * 17) 240,000(est) - Battle of Bibracte (58 BC)
 * 18) 230,000 - Battle of Berlin (1945)
 * 19) 230,000–350,000 - Battle of Kursk (1943)
 * 20) 200,000+ - Battle of Red Cliffs, China (208 AD)
 * 21) 200,000 - Battle of Carthage (c.149 BC) (149 BC–146 BC)
 * 22) 190,000 - Battle of West Ukraine (1941)
 * 23) 180,000 - Battle of France (1940)
 * 24) 175,000–350,000 - Operation Bagration (1944)
 * 25) 170,000 - Battle of the Lower Dnieper (1943)
 * 26) 170,000 - Battle of Königsberg (1945)
 * 27) 165,000–300,000 Battle of Chalons (451)
 * 28) 150,000 - Battle of Rostov (1941)
 * 29) 150,000 - Battle of Okinawa (1945)
 * 30) 150,000 - Battle of Passchendaele (1917)
 * 31) 140,000 - Battle of Vercellae (101 BC)
 * 32) 132,000 - Battle of Normandy (1944)
 * 33) 130,000 - Battle of Budapest (1945)
 * 34) 125,000 - Third Battle of Nanking (1864)
 * 35) 125,000 - Battle of Lemberg (1914)
 * 36) 120,000 - Battle of Arausio (105 BC)
 * 37) 117,000 - Battle for the Liberation of Manila (1945)
 * 38) 115,000 - Battle of the Frontiers (1914)
 * 39) 105,000 - Operation Karbala-5 (1987)
 * 40) 100,000 - Battle of Chernikov-Poltava (1943)
 * 41) 100,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1943)
 * 42) 100,000(est) - Battle of Lugdunum (197)
 * 95,000(est) - Battle of Sarikamish (1915)
 * 90,000+ - Battle of Gwiju (1018)

Air raids

 * 100,000 - Tokyo firebombing by the USAAF, 1945
 * 66,000–237,062 - Atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the USAAF, (Japan, 1945)
 * 50,000 - Bombing of Hamburg in World War II (Germany, July 1943)
 * 43,000 - The Blitz (London, 1940 - 1941)
 * 39,000–108,000 - Atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the USAAF, (Japan, 1945)
 * 24,000–40,000 - Bombing of Dresden in World War II, (in Germany by Allied forces, 1945)
 * 17,000 - Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II (Germany, February 23, 1945)
 * 7,500-8,500 - Bombings of Cap Arcona and Thielbek, (Germany, 1945)
 * 2000–5000 - Bombing of Le Havre by Allied forces (France, 1944)
 * 1500–4000 - Bombing of Caen by Allied forces (France, 1944)
 * 3,000 - Taihoku air raid (Taiwan, 1943-1945)
 * 1,645 - Bombing of Guernica (Spain, 1937)
 * 1,400 - Operation Linebacker 2 'Christmas bombing' (Vietnam), 1972)
 * 800-900 - Terror bombing of Rotterdam by Nazi Germany, 14 May 1940.

Massacres
See also List of massacres


 * 1,300,000+ - Merv massacre, by Mongol Empire (ordered by Tolui khan), located in Merv (present Mary) in Turkestan.
 * 1,200,000 - Kunya Urgench massacre, by Mongol Empire (ordered by Ögedei Khan), located in Kunya Urgench (then Guranj) in Uzbekistan
 * 1) 500,000+ - The genocide in the time of transition from Soekarno Era to Soeharto Era. the side  effect of G30S or September, 30 Movement incident in Indonesia
 * 2) 250,000–800,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan (1258)
 * 3) 220,000 - Massacre of the Helvetii (by Roman Empire 58 BC)
 * 4) 200,000+ - Sack of Moscow (by Crimean Tatars, 1571)
 * 5) 200,000–400,000 - Rape of Nanking (by Imperial Japan, in China, 1937)
 * 6) 150,000 - 300,000 - Kalmyks from east of the Volga set out to return to China but two-thirds of them were massacred on the way by theirs Kazakh enemies (Central Asia, 1770-1771)
 * 7) 100,000 - Ponary massacre of Jews, Poles and Russians by German SD and SS (Lithuania 1941-1944)
 * 8) 100,000–500,000 - Massacres of Poles in Volhynia by Ukrainian nationalists from Ukrainian Insurgent Army during the German occupation of Ukraine between 1942 and 1944
 * 9) 100,000–300,000 - Jews massacred in Poland by the Cossacks led by Chmielnicki, (1648 - 1649). During the Deluge, series of wars between 1648 and 1660, Poland lost an estimated one-third of its population.
 * 10) 100,000 - Massacre of Romans by Mithridates VI Eupator (Anatolia, 88 BC)
 * 11) 100,000 - Manila Massacre (Manila, Philippines, 1945)
 * 12) 100,000-150,000 - Sack of Carthage, (146BC)
 * 13) 100,000 - Siege of Antioch (1268)
 * 14) 100,000 - Hindu captives executed by Timur (1398)
 * 70,000 - Sack of Merv by Genghis Khan (1221)
 * 70,000 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (France, 1572)
 * 60,000–100,000 - Sack of Jerusalem, First Crusade (1099)
 * 50,000-150,000 - Harki Algerians massacred by the National Liberation Front (Algeria) (1962)
 * 50,000-100,000 - Sook Ching massacre (Singapore, 1942)
 * 50,000 - Defenders of Somnath massacred by Mahmud of Ghazni (1026)
 * 50,000 - Wola massacre in Warsaw (1944)
 * 42,000 - Chios Massacre (Greek War of Independence, 1822)
 * 36,000 - Odessa massacre (1941)
 * 30,000 - Babi Yar Yom Kippur Jewish Massacre (Kiev, Ukraine, 1941)
 * 30,000 - Massacre of Greeks in Constantinople (1821)
 * 26,000 - Katyn Massacre (1940)
 * 25,000 - Sack of Magdeburg (Thirty Years' War, Germany, 1631)
 * 25,000 - Rumbula Forest massacre of the Riga Jews (1941)
 * 20,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Timur (1401)
 * 20,000 - Massacre of Praga (Poland, 1794)
 * 14,000 - Haitians massacred by Rafael Leónidas Trujillo's government. (Dominican Republic, 1937)
 * 12,000 - Massacre of Elphinstone's army (Afghanistan, 1842)
 * 12,000 - La matanza (El Salvador, 1931)
 * 10,000-30,000 228 Incident, (Republic of China (Taiwan), 1947)
 * 10,000 Bataan Death March, (Philippines, 1942)
 * 10,000 - Sack of Béziers (Albigensian Crusade, France, 1209)
 * 8,000 - Sack of Antwerp (1576)
 * 7,000-8,100 - Srebrenica massacre (Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995)
 * 7,000 - Kragujevac massacre, (Kragujevac, Serbia, 1941)
 * 7,000 - Massacre in Thessalonika by Theodosius I (Byzantine Empire, 390)
 * 7,000 - Zulus killed at the death of Nandi, mother of Shaka (1827)
 * 5,000-17,000 - Massacre and ethnic cleansing of Indians and Arabs by the descendants of black African slaves during the Zanzibar Revolution (Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1964)
 * 5,000-7,000 - Halabja poison gas attack (Halabjah, Iraq, 1988)
 * 5,000 - Batak massacre of Bulgarian civilians by bashi-bazouk Ottoman army irregulars (1876)
 * 5,000 - Siege of Limerick (Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, 1651)
 * 5,000 - Massacre of Mamluks (Egypt, 1811)
 * 4,500 - Massacre of Saxons in Verden by Charlemagne (Lower Saxony, 782)
 * 4,000 - Prebilovci massacre 1941, NDH

Terrorist attacks
See also List of terrorist incidents and List of assassins


 * 2,983 - September 11, 2001 attacks, (New York City, NY, Arlington, VA, Shanksville, PA, United States, 2001)
 * 1) 796 - 2007 Qahtaniya bombings, (Qahtaniya, Iraq, 2007)
 * 2) 438 - Cinema Rex fire, (Abadan, Iran, 1978)
 * 3) 365 - Beslan School Siege, (Beslan, Russia, 2004)
 * 4) 329 - Air India Flight 182 (Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, 1985)
 * 5) 307 - 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
 * 6) 290- Persian Gulf Iranian Commercial Airline hit by US naval ship
 * 7) 270 - Pan Am Flight 103, (Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988)
 * 8) 257 - 1993 Mumbai bombings (Mumbai, India, 1993)
 * 9) 257 - 1998 United States embassy bombings (Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1998)
 * 10) 215 - Sadr City bombings, (Sadr City, Iraq, 2006)
 * 11) 209 - Mumbai train bombings, (Mumbai, India, 2006)
 * 12) 202 - 2002 Bali bombings, (Bali, Indonesia, 2002)
 * 13) 198 - 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Iraq, 2007)
 * 14) 191 - 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings, (Spain, 2004)
 * 15) 181 - Kerbala and Baghdad attacks, (2004, see Ashoura Massacre)
 * 16) 171 - UTA Flight UT-772, (Niger, 1989)
 * 17) 170 - Moscow Theatre Siege, (Russia, 2002)
 * 18) 168 - Oklahoma City bombing, (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 1995)
 * 19) 152 - 2007 Tal Afar bombings and massacre (Tal Afar, Iraq, 2007)
 * 20) 136 - 2007 Karachi bombing (Karachi, Pakistan, 2007)
 * 21) 135 - 3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
 * 22) 127 - 2005 Al Hillah bombing (Al Hillah, Iraq, 2005)
 * 23) 120 - 2007 Al Hillah bombings (Al Hillah, Iraq, 2007)
 * 24) 117 - 2004 Irbil bombings, (Irbil, Iraq, 2004)
 * 25) 116 - Superferry 14 bombing, (Philippines, 2004)
 * 26) 112 - 14 September 2005 Baghdad bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2004)
 * 27) 112 - Avianca Flight 203, (Colombia, 1989)
 * 28) 98 - Musayyib fuel tanker bombing, (Musayyib, Iraq, 2005) (see Triangle of Death (Iraq))
 * 29) 91 - King David Hotel bombing, (Jerusalem, 1946)
 * 30) 90 - Central Bank Bombing, (Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1996)
 * 31) 90 - 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks, (Egypt, 2005)
 * 32) 89 - Russian airplane bombings, (Russia, 2004)
 * 33) 88 - TWA Flight 841, (Ionian Sea, 1974)
 * 34) 88 - 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
 * 35) 86 - AMIA Bombing, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994)
 * 36) 85 - Buratha Mosque bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2006)
 * 37) 85 - Stazione Centrale bombing, (Bologna, Italy, 1980)
 * 38) 83 - Imam Ali Mosque bombing, (Najaf, Iraq, 2003)
 * 39) 76 - 12 February 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
 * 40) 74 - 2005 Khanaqin bombings, (Khanaqin, Iraq, 2005)
 * 41) 74 - 21 April 2004 Basra bombings, (Basra, Iraq, 2004)
 * 42) 74 - 2004 Kufa shelling, (Kufa, Iraq, 2004)
 * 43) 70 - 2007 Baghdad Mustansiriya University bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
 * 44) 68 - 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, (India, 2007)
 * 45) 63 - 18 February 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
 * 46) 63 - DAS Building bombing, (Bogotá, Colombia, 1989)
 * 47) 63 - April 1983 US Embassy bombing, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
 * 48) 62 - 1 July 2006 Sadr City bombing, (Sadr City, Iraq, 2006)
 * 49) 61 - 29 October 2005 New Delhi bombings, (New Delhi, 2005)
 * 50) 60 - 2005 Amman bombings, (Amman, 2005)
 * 51) 57 - 2003 Istanbul Bombings, (Turkey, 2003)
 * 52) 52 - 7 July 2005 London bombings (London, 2005)
 * 53) 52 - 2003 Mumbai bombings, (Mumbai, India, 2003)
 * 54) 46 - Casablanca Attacks, (Morocco, 2003)
 * 55) 42 - 2004 Moscow metro bombing, Russia, 2004)
 * 56) 38 - Wall Street bombing, (New York City, 1920)
 * 57) 34 - 2004 Sinai bombings, Taba and Nuweiba, Egypt, 2004
 * 58) 33 - Pan Am Flight 110, (Italy, 1973)
 * 59) 33 - Coimbatore blasts, (India, 1998)
 * 60) 33 - Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, (Ireland, 1974)
 * 61) 30 - Passover massacre, (Israel, 2002)

Human sacrifice and mass suicide
''This section lists notable individual episodes of mass suicide or human sacrifice. For tolls arising from the systematic practice of suicide or sacrifice, see Human sacrifice and ritual suicide.''

Riot or political demonstration

 * 30,000 - Nika riots (Constantinople, 532)
 * 30,000 - La semaine sanglante (Paris, 1871)
 * 30,000 - 228 Incident, (Taiwan, 1947)
 * 11,000 - Romanian Peasants' Revolt, 1907
 * 7,500 - March 1st Movement (Seoul, Korea, 1919)
 * 3,000 - Burma 1988 demonstrations (Yangon, (a.o.) Myanmar, 1988)
 * 2,000 - Santa María School massacre (Iquique, Chile, 1907)
 * 1,000 - Bloody Sunday (1905) (St. Petersburg, Russia, 1905)
 * 1) 400 - Iranian pilgrim riot (Mecca, 1987)
 * 2) 300–3,000 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (China, 1989)
 * 3) 285 - Gordon Riots (England, 1780)
 * 4) 249 - Riots in Palestine of 1929, (Mandate of Palestine, 1929)
 * 5) 200–300 - Tlatelolco massacre (Mexico, 1968)
 * 6) 184 - May 13 Incident (Kuala Lumpur, 1969)
 * 7) 139 - Cartoon Riots (2006)
 * 8) 100 - Napoleon's "whiff of grapeshot" (Paris, 1795)
 * 9) 100 - New York Draft Riots (New York City, 1863)
 * 10) 95 - Riots in Palestine of May, 1921 (Tel Aviv, 1921)
 * 11) 94 - Jerusalem Riots of 1947
 * 12) 84 - Riot and crushing during mass arrests (Narathiwat province, Thailand, 2004)
 * 13) 69 - Sharpeville Massacre (South Africa, 1960)
 * 14) 53 - 1992 Los Angeles riots (1992)
 * 15) 50 - Champ de Mars massacre (Paris, 1791)
 * 16) 46 - Boipatong Massacre (South Africa, 1992)
 * 17) 43 - Attica Prison riots (New York, 1971)
 * 18) 43 - 12th Street Riot (Detroit, 1967)
 * 19) 40–50 - Newton Rebellion  (Newton, Northamptonshire, UK, 1607)
 * 20) 39+ - Tulsa Race Riot, Tulsa, Oklahoma,USA, the official death toll is 39, although recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
 * 21) 36 - 1964 Race Riots (Singapore, 1964)
 * 22) 34 - Watts Riot (Los Angeles, 1965)
 * 23) 25 - Palingoproer (Amsterdam, 1886)
 * 24) 25 - Corpus Christi Massacre (Mexico City, 1971)
 * 25) 22 - Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Australia, 1854)
 * 26) 20 - Ludlow Massacre (Ludlow, Colorado, 1914)
 * 27) 18 - Maria Hertogh riots (Singapore, 1950)
 * 28) 14 - Bloody Sunday (1972) (Derry, Northern Ireland)
 * 29) 13 - Socialist riot (1932) (Geneva, Switzerland)
 * 30) 13 - Chinese Middle School riots (Singapore, 1956)
 * 31) 13 - Mendiola Massacre (Philippines, 1987)
 * 32) 9 - Riots in Palestine of 1920 (Jerusalem, 1920)
 * 33) 11 - Peterloo massacre (England, 1819)
 * 34) 7–60 - Massacre in Côte d'Ivoire by French troops (Côte d'Ivoire, 2004)
 * 35) 5 - Greensboro massacre (Greensboro, North Carolina, 1979)
 * 36) 5 - Ådalen shootings (Sweden, 1931)
 * 37) 4 - Kent State shootings (Kent, Ohio, 1970)
 * 38) 4 - Hock Lee bus riots (Singapore, 1955)