Disasters

1346–1353 pandemic in Eurasia and North Africa

Pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2

Spectrum of conditions caused by HIV infection

Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany

2001 terror attacks in the U.S.

British passenger liner that sank in 1912

1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union

Systematic campaign in the Ottoman Empire

Period with less precipitation than normal

Sexually transmitted infection

Type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse without consent

2010s protests and revolutions in the Arab world

1918–1920 global influenza pandemic

2015 Islamist terror attacks in France

Major stock market crash in the United States

Megathrust earthquake off Japan's east coast

1932–1933 man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine

Major earthquakes in the Turkey–Syria border region

Student-led demonstrations in China

Mass murder campaign in Rwanda

Domestic terrorist attacks

2024 shooting in Pennsylvania, U.S.

Magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake

Ammonium nitrate explosion in Lebanon

Ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip

1899–1901 anti-foreign uprising in China

Islamic State suicide bombings in Belgium

Islamist terrorist attack in France

2019 terrorist attacks in New Zealand

Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2005

Soviet massacre of Polish military officers and intelligentsia in 1940

2015 terrorist attack in Paris, France

1938 anti-Jewish pogroms in Nazi Germany

1572 killing of Huguenots in France

Magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal

1995 genocidal killing of Bosniak Muslim men

2011 nuclear accident in Japan

1937–1938 mass murder in China

2024 mass shooting and explosion in Krasnogorsk, Russia

2022 massacre by Russian forces in Ukraine

Earthquake impacting Myanmar and Thailand

Airstrikes and capture of Nicolás Maduro

1666 conflagration in England

2009–2010 pandemic of swine influenza caused by H1N1 influenza virus

2020 police murder in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Major rebellion in China (1850–1864)

1845–1852 mass starvation in Ireland

1914 shooting in Sarajevo

2015 deliberate aircraft crash in France

Sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis

1963 murder in Dallas, Texas

1968 U.S. war crime during the Vietnam War

2017 terrorist attack in the United Kingdom

2013 domestic terrorist attack in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

2019 church fire in Paris, France

Natural disaster in Huaxian, China

1972 Summer Olympics terrorist attack

Nazi death camps established to systematically murder

2013–2016 major disease outbreak

2023 maritime disaster

Earthquake in Morocco

Nazi plan for the genocide of Jews

German battleship of World War II

Catastrophic earthquake that primarily affected Lisbon, Portugal

2016 mass shooting in Florida, U.S.

1919 massacre of Indian protesters

1944 attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler

2022 shooting in Nara, Japan

2023 armed incursions and massacres in Israel

2015 aircraft bombing over Egypt

Conflagration in Ancient Rome (AD 64)

Islamist terror attacks in India

2012 mass shooting in Connecticut, US

Magnitude 8.8 earthquake and tsunami off the coast of central Chile

1933 arson attack in Berlin, Germany

1905 protest in St. Petersburg, Russia

1916–1918 uprising against the Ottoman Turks

1605 failed attempt to kill King James I of England

1999 mass shooting in Colorado, U.S.

Magnitude 8.0 earthquake in China

1992 mass killing of Azerbaijanis during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War

Category 3 Atlantic hurricane in 2012

Series of suicide bombings

Burning natural gas field in Turkmenistan

2004 Russian hostage crisis and massacre

2016 truck attack in Berlin, Germany

10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy; notably carried Charles Darwin

9.4–9.6 magnitude earthquake in Chile

Genocide of Assyrians (1914–1924)

Genocide of the Romani in Europe during World War II

Earthquake in South Asia

2017 nightclub shooting in Ortaköy, Istanbul, Turkey

Guided missile cruiser in service from 1983 to 2022

Mw 7.6 earthquake in Hebei, China

Cruise ship that ran aground in a 2012 maritime accident

Mass shooting in Derry, Northern Ireland, 1972

Famine killing millions (1959–1961)

1923 megathrust earthquake in Japan

Deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history

541–549 AD in the Byzantine Empire, later northern Europe

1890 South Dakota massacre of Lakota

2022 mass shooting in Texas, US

Earthquake in California

Imperial Japanese Navy ship

1995 terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City

Terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Turkey

Terrorist attack by the Islamist militant group in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Terrorist attacks in Spain in August 2017

532 Byzantine revolt against Justinian I

Terrorist attack on Madrid's suburban trains

Mass shooting in Munich, Germany

1970s mass killing of Cambodians

Terror attack in London

July 2021 flooding in Europe

2002 terrorist attack and hostage crisis in Moscow

2011 U.S. military operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan

1988 aircraft bombing over Scotland

6–11 August 2011 riots in cities and towns across England

Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2017

Occupation of Tehran's U.S. embassy (1979–1981)

9/11 hijacked passenger flight

Explosive device attacks in Lebanon and Syria

Earthquake in Japan on January 17, 1995

1381 uprising in England

Famine in British India during World War II

Transfer and deportation of people in the Soviet Union

1865 murder in Washington, D.C., US

1995 terrorist attack by Aum Shinrikyo

2022 crowd crush in South Korea

Series of devastating floods

Earthquake in Japan

Megathrust earthquake in Russia

Deadly nightclub fire in Switzerland

Terrorist attack in Peshawar, Pakistan

2007 mass shooting in Blacksburg, Virginia, US

1894–1897 massacres of Armenians and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire

Crowd crush incident in Saudi Arabia

Oscar-II class cruise missile submarine

Admiral-class battlecruiser

1916–1934 Central Asian uprising

Mass murder of Circassians by the Russian Empire

Terrorist attack in Sweden

Fatal spectator riot in Brussels, Belgium in 1985

1952 air pollution event

2023 storm in the Mediterranean Sea

7.4 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan

Islamist terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir

1918 murder in Yekaterinburg, Russia

Terrorist attack in Sydney, Australia

Nazi German WWII Deutschland-class cruiser

Category 3 Atlantic hurricane in 2011

1982 mass murder of civilians in Beirut, Lebanon

Olympic-class ocean liner and WWI hospital ship

Terrorist attack in London

2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

1930s period of severe dust storms in North America

Devastating earthquake in Armenian SSR, USSR

1520 trial and executions

Series of wildfires in California, United States

Cave-in and miner rescue in Atacama Region, Chile

Ocean liner known for rescuing survivors of RMS Titanic

1960 South African Police killing of protestors

9/11 hijacked passenger flight

Massacres of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II

2024 weather disaster in Spain

Fatal crowd crush during 1989 FA Cup semi-final

2017 fatal fire in West London

Disease outbreak (165–180 CE)

2020 murder in Éragny-sur-Oise, France

Maritime incident caused by grounded vessel

2014 ferry sinking disaster in South Korea

1770 shooting deaths of five colonists by British soldiers

7.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami affecting Turkey and Greece

Suicide bombing at Kabul airport, Afghanistan

1948 mass killing by Zionist militants

Earthquake in Asia

2025 apartment fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong

February 2011 earthquake in New Zealand

Code name for the creation of German extermination camps in Poland in World War II

Famine of medieval Europe

Volcanic events in Iceland

2016 murder in Ankara, Turkey

1904–1908 genocide by the German Empire

9/11 hijacked passenger flight

1917 maritime disaster in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

1871 conflagration in Illinois, US

2020 assassination in Baghdad, Iraq

Epidemic of bubonic plague, 1665–66

2021 aviation incident in Belarus

9/11 hijacked passenger flight

2026 assassination in Tehran, Iran

2011 earthquakes in eastern Turkey

Mass shooting in Colorado, U.S.

2011 suicide bombing in a Moscow airport

Earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy

1912 maritime disaster

7.2-magnitude earthquake in Tiburon Peninsula, Haiti

Yamato-class battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy

Mass murder in the Czech Republic

Suicide bombings in Iran

2024 murder of Hamas leader in Tehran, Iran

2025 assassination in Orem, Utah, U.S.

Siege and sack of Rome by the Visigoths

1921 mass violence in Oklahoma, US

Islamist terror attacks

Earthquake in Kocaeli Province, Turkey

2019 mass murder in Kyoto, Japan

1819 massacre by government troops in Manchester

1955 state-sanctioned violence against minorities in Turkey

Islamist terrorist attack in Vienna

Ongoing refugee crisis in Europe

2023 massacre in southern Israel

1976 student-led anti-apartheid protests in South Africa

Scharnhorst-class battleship of Nazi Germany

Explosions at the Binhai New Area of Tianjin, China

2015 terror attack during a protest movement in Ankara, Turkey

Earthquake in Japan

Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy

Habsburg siege and subsequent sack of Papal Rome

2001 mass shooting in Kathmandu

1988 chemical attack in Iraqi Kurdistan

Wildfires in Brazil

Incident in Roman mythology

Terrorist attack in the United States

Terrorist attack in Turkey

Earthquake in southern Italy

2007 murder in Rawalpindi, Pakistan

2010 Israeli military operation against a humanitarian ship convoy

Extreme earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Peru

Anti-Christian terrorist attack by the Taliban in Lahore, Pakistan

Volcanic eruption in Italy

Genocide in Myanmar

Fatal 7.3 Mw earthquake near the Iran–Iraq border

1976–1983 Argentine military dictatorship

Anti-Sunni massacre in Hama, Syria