Deaths from persecutions, wars, political atrocities, and disasters Year Type Location Fatalities
200-450+/- Fall of the Roman Empire 8,000,000
775-781 Lushan Revolt China 36,000,000
600-1800+/- Mid-East Slave trade 19,000,000
1095-1291 The Crusades 2,000,000
1138 Quake Syria 230,000
1200-1300 Wars Mongol Conquests Mid-east;East +/- 40,000,000
1200-1838 Thuggee (Thagai)Cult India 9,000,000
1208-1249 Christian Slaughter of Albigensians 1,000,000
1337-1347 Hundred Years of War France England 1,500,000
1300-1400 Black Death Plague Europe 23,000,000
1350-1450 Christian slaughter of rest. Europe 10,000,000
1366 Mohammedan Conquest India 500,000
1369-1405 Timur Lenk India 17,000,000
1300-1800+/- Atlantic Slave trade 18,000,000
1400-1800+/- Christian witch Hunts Europe 60,000
1455-85 War of the Roses England 105,000
1456-62 Vlad Dracula the Impaler 75,000
1478-1834 The Spanish Inquisition 350,000
1492-1900+/- Native American Genocide/Famines/Wars 25,000,000
1556 Quake China 830,000
1562 France: Catholic vs. Huguenot Wars 3,000,000
1598-1613 Russia: Time of Troubles 5,000,000
1616-44 Manchu Conquests China 36,000,000
1618-48 The Thirty Year War Across Europe 7,000,000
1641-52 British Civil War Britain 100,000
1737 Quake Kolkata 300,000
1803-15 Napoleonic Wars 4,000,000
1879-1900 British Col. Famines India 17,000,000
1815 Eruption Indonesia 90,000
1850-64 Taiping Rebellion China 20,000,000
1883 Eruption/Tsunami Indonesia 36,000
1886-1908 Congo Free State Congo-Africa 8,000,000
1887 Flood China 1,000,000
1893 Quake Iran 150,000
1896 Tsunami Japan 27,000
1899-1902 Insurgency Philippines 220,000
1900 Indian Genocide Brazil 500,000
1900-12 Rubber Co.Work deaths Amazon 250,000
1900-25 Forced Labor Deaths Portuguese Col. 325,000
1900-40 Forced Labor Deaths French Colonies 500,000
1902 Eruption Martinique 40,000
1904-05 Russo-Japan War Russia Japan 130,000
1905 Revolt German E. Africa 175,000
1908 Quake/Floods Italy 100,000
1910 Mexican Revolution Mexico 8,000,000
1911-13 Rest. To Italy Libya 125,000
1912-14 Balkan Wars 140,000
1914-18 First World War Europe 15,000,000
1915-23 Armenian Massacres Armenia 1,500,000
1917-22 Russian Civil War Russia 9,000,000
1917-28 China Warlord Period China 800,000
1919-22 Greek Turkish War Greece Turkey 250,000
1920 Quake China 200,000
1923 Quake Japan 143,000
1924-53 Stalin’s Regime Russia 20,000,000
1925 Kurdish uprising Turkey 100,000
1928-37 Nationalist Period China 3,100,000
1935-41 Ethiopian War Ethiopia 400,000
1936-39 Franco Regime Spain 400,000
1937-45 Second World War World 55,000,000
1939-40 Russo-Fin War Russia Finland 150,000
1943-49 Civil War Greece 160,000
1944-80 Tito Regime Yugoslavia 200,000
1945-47 Post War Expulsions Poland,Cech. 2,100,000
1945-49 Chinese Civil War China 2,500,000
1945-54 1st Indochina War Indochina 400,000
1946-58 Political Columbia 200,000
1947 Civil Unrest India 500,000
1948 Quake Turkmenistan 110,000
1948 Communist Regime Korea 2,000,000
1948-? War Burma/Myanmar 150,000
1948-89 Communist Regime Romania 150,000
1949-75 Mao Zedong’s Regime China 40,000,000
1950 Chinese Occupation Tibet 600,000
1950-53 Korean War Korea 2,800,000
1954-62 Algerian conflict Algeria 680,000
1955-72 Wars Sudan 500,000
1959-95 Massacres Rwanda, Burundi 1,200,000
1960-75 Vietnam War Indochina 3,500,000
1960-96 Polit. Killings War Guatemala 200,000
1962-92 Civil War/unrest Ethiopia 1,400,000
1965-66 Army massacres Indonesia 450,000
1966-70 Un-Civil Brutality Nigeria 1,000,000
1970 Cyclone Bangladesh 500,000
1971 Civil War Bangladesh 1,200,000
1972-79 Idi Amin’s Regime Uganda 300,000
1975 Khmer Rouge Cambodia 1,700,000
1975-? Wars Angola 550,000
1975-93 War Mozambique 1,000,000
1975-99 Conquest War East Timor 200,000
1975-90 War Lebanon 150,000
1976 Quake China 255,000-750,000
1976-? Communist Regime Vietnam 430,000
1978-91 Civil War Cambodia 225,000
1979-2001 Soviet Occupation Afghanistan 1,800,000
1979-2003 Saddam Hussein Regime Iraq 330,000
1979-86 Civil War Uganda 300,000
1980-88 Iran-Iraq War Iran-Iraq 1,000,000
1980-90 Kurdistan War Iraq 300,000
1983 Genocide Sudan 1,900,000
1984-85 Famine Ethiopia 900,000
1988 Quake Armenia 25,000
1989-97 Civil War Liberia 150,000
1990 Iraq Food Embargo Iraq 350,000-750,000
1991 Cyclone Bangladesh 138,000
1991-? War-Starvation Somalia 400,000
1991 Ist Iraq Pummeling Iraq 100,000
1992-95 War Bosnia Herzegovina 175,000
1997 Civil War Zaire(Dem. Congo) 200,000
1998 Hurricane Honduras,Nicar. 10,000
1998 Civil War Congo 3,300,000
2003 2nd Iraq Pummeling Iraq 100,000
2003 Quake Bam, Iran 31,000
2004 Quake/Tsunami Indonesia 154,000