7. The Massacre of Thessaloniki
One of the earliest recorded incidents of large scale massacre in history is the Massacre of Thessaloniki. It occurred in 390 CE when Gothic troops allegedly massacred 7,000 people. It was a retaliatory action by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I against the people Thessaloniki in Greece who had risen in revolt. The cause of the uprising had been Butherich or Botheric,
a Gothic magister militum in the Emperor's army, ordered to arrest a popular charioteer for trying to seduce and have sex with a servant of the emperor or even the magister militum himself. The charioteer was locked up in prison, but the citizens of Thessaloniki demanded his release. Butherich was murdered in the following turmoil, and so the Emperor intervened and
ordered executions.
8. St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was the worst of the 16th century's religious massacres. It has been estimated that over 5,000 Huguenots were killed in Paris and in the French provinces. This was a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence against the Calvinist Protestants popularly knows as Huguenots, during the French Wars of Religion. It had been traditionally believed to be instigated by Catherine de' Medici, the mother of King Charles IX. The massacre happened 6 days after the wedding of the king's sister to the Protestant Henry III of Navarre, who later became Henry IV. This was an occasion for which many of the most wealthy and prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic Paris. Events began two days after the attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, a Huguenot military leader. Starting on 24 August 1572 (the feast of Bartholomew the Apostle) with the murder of Coligny, the massacres
spread throughout Paris, and later to other cities and the countryside, lasting for several months.
9. The Granada Massacre
On this tragic incident, about 4,000 persons died in one day of the more than 1,500 Jewish families. This incident occurred on December 30, 1066 when a Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada in Spain, assassinated Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacred most of the Jewish population of the city.
10. The Sabra and Shatila Massacre
One of the more recent incidents of massacre that gained worldwide attention took place on September 15 and 16, 1982, the Sabra and Shatila Massacre. The number of victims of the massacre varies according to source: the lowest estimate is 328; the highest is placed at 3,500. It was a massacre carried out by the Lebanese Forces militia group. It is alleged that
Israeli Defense Forces allowed Lebanese Christian Phalangist militiamen to enter two Palestinian refugee camps, and that the militia massacred civilians inside. It was argued that the Israelis should have known that a massacre could occur, considering the assassination of Phalangist leader and prospective president Bachir Gemayel the day before, and given the long history of bad blood between the Palestinians and the Phalangists.
11. The Bolton Massacre
The Bolton Massacre happened on May 28, 1644 when 1,600 of Bolton's defenders and citizens were slaughtered during and after its storm and capture by Royalist forces. This incident is sometimes recorded as the Storming of Bolton, an episode in the English Civil War.
12. September Massacres
Another infamous massacre that occurred in France specifically in the city of Paris is the September Massacres. The incidents took place in late summer of 1792 during the French Revolution. By the time it had subsided, half the prison population of Paris had been executed: some 1,200 trapped prisoners, including many women and young boys. There were almost 1.400 prisoners who were condemned and executed; more than 200 of them were priests. Sporadic violence against the Roman Catholic Church continued throughout France for nearly a decade to come.
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