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A modern mural showing a scene of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919 in Amritsar, India. Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer (1864-1927) had infamously ordered his men to shoot upon an unarmed crowd killing hundreds and wounding over 1,500...

Cheyenne warrior Mochi ("Buffalo Calf", l. c. 1841-1881), pictured on the right, took up arms against US government forces after surviving the Sand Creek Massacre of 29 November 1864. Prior to the massacre, she was among those seeking peaceful...

Before chocolates, roses and letters from your valentine were given on Valentines Day, there was the Ancient Roman Festival of the Lupercalia in honour of both the agricultural god Luperca and the she-wolf who sucked Romulus and Remus, Lupus...

On 6 June 1944, Sergeant Ian Grant was among the thousands of men landing on Sword Beach in Normandy on D Day, armed only with a revolver and a cine camera. He was part of the Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) and captured this incredible...

The Mystic massacre took place on May 26, 1637, during the Pequot War, when English settlers under Captain John Mason, and Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to a fortified Pequot village near the Mystic River. They shot any people...

Map detailing the massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane which took place on 10 June 1944, near Limoges in the south-west of France. During the Second World War (1939-45), 643 innocent men, women and children were killed by soldiers of the 2nd SS...

A monument commemorating the Kentuckians killed in the massacre following the Battle of the River Raisin (23 January 1813) at the battlefield in present-day Monroe, Michigan. Photo by Notorious4life, July 2010.

The massacre of the Paulicians in 843/844 CE. Chronicle of John Skylitzes, cod. Vitr. 26-2, fol. 69, Madrid National Library

Boston Massacre of 5 March 1770, with an emphasis on the death of Crispus Attucks. Chromolithograph by William L. Champney and J. H. Bufford, 1856. The Boston Athenæum.

A 17th-century illustration showing the massacre of the Spanish community at Cumaná on Hispaniola in 1515. The community was an attempt at a more peaceful rule over indigenous peoples.