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Black Death
1346–1353 pandemic in Eurasia and North Africa
COVID-19 pandemic
Pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2
HIV/AIDS
Spectrum of conditions caused by HIV infection
The Holocaust
Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
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September 11 attacks
2001 terror attacks in the U.S.
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Chernobyl disaster
1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union
Armenian Genocide
Systematic campaign in the Ottoman Empire
Drought
Period with less precipitation than normal
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Syphilis
Sexually transmitted infection
Rape
Type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse without consent
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Arab Spring
2010s protests and revolutions in the Arab world
1918–1920 flu pandemic
1918–1920 global influenza pandemic
November 2015 Paris attacks
2015 Islamist terror attacks in France
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Megathrust earthquake off Japan's east coast
Holodomor
1932–1933 man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine
2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes
Major earthquakes in the Turkey–Syria border region
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
Student-led demonstrations in China
1994 Genocide against Tutsi
Mass murder campaign in Rwanda
2011 Norway attacks
Domestic terrorist attacks
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania
2024 shooting in Pennsylvania, U.S.
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2010 Haiti earthquake
Magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake
2020 Beirut explosions
Ammonium nitrate explosion in Lebanon
Gaza genocide
Ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip
Boxer Rebellion
1899–1901 anti-foreign uprising in China
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2016 Brussels bombings
Islamic State suicide bombings in Belgium
2016 Nice attack
Islamist terrorist attack in France
Christchurch mosque shootings
2019 terrorist attacks in New Zealand
Hurricane Katrina
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2005
Katyn massacre
Soviet massacre of Polish military officers and intelligentsia in 1940
Charlie Hebdo shooting
2015 terrorist attack in Paris, France
Kristallnacht
1938 anti-Jewish pogroms in Nazi Germany
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
1572 killing of Huguenots in France
April 2015 Nepal earthquake
Magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal
Srebrenica genocide
1995 genocidal killing of Bosniak Muslim men
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
2011 nuclear accident in Japan
Nanjing Massacre
1937–1938 mass murder in China
Crocus City Hall attack
2024 mass shooting and explosion in Krasnogorsk, Russia
Bucha massacre
2022 massacre by Russian forces in Ukraine
2025 Myanmar earthquake
Earthquake impacting Myanmar and Thailand
2026 United States strikes in Venezuela
Airstrikes and capture of Nicolás Maduro
Great Fire of London
1666 conflagration in England
2009 swine flu pandemic
2009–2010 pandemic of swine influenza caused by H1N1 influenza virus
Murder of George Floyd
2020 police murder in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Taiping Rebellion
Major rebellion in China (1850–1864)
Great Irish Famine
1845–1852 mass starvation in Ireland
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
1914 shooting in Sarajevo
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Germanwings Flight 9525
2015 deliberate aircraft crash in France
Chlamydia infection
Sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963 murder in Dallas, Texas
My Lai Massacre
1968 U.S. war crime during the Vietnam War
2017 Manchester Arena bombing
2017 terrorist attack in the United Kingdom
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Boston Marathon bombings
2013 domestic terrorist attack in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
2019 fire at Notre-Dame de Paris
2019 church fire in Paris, France
1556 Shaanxi earthquake
Natural disaster in Huaxian, China
Munich massacre
1972 Summer Olympics terrorist attack
Extermination camp
Nazi death camps established to systematically murder
Western African Ebola virus epidemic
2013–2016 major disease outbreak
Titan submersible implosion
2023 maritime disaster
2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake
Earthquake in Morocco
Final Solution
Nazi plan for the genocide of Jews
1755 Lisbon earthquake
Catastrophic earthquake that primarily affected Lisbon, Portugal
Orlando nightclub shooting
2016 mass shooting in Florida, U.S.
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
1919 massacre of Indian protesters
20 July plot
1944 attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler
Assassination of Shinzō Abe
2022 shooting in Nara, Japan
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October 7 attacks
2023 armed incursions and massacres in Israel
Metrojet Flight 9268
2015 aircraft bombing over Egypt
Great Fire of Rome
Conflagration in Ancient Rome (AD 64)
26/11 Mumbai attacks
Islamist terror attacks in India
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
2012 mass shooting in Connecticut, US
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2010 Chile earthquake
Magnitude 8.8 earthquake and tsunami off the coast of central Chile
Reichstag fire
1933 arson attack in Berlin, Germany
Bloody Sunday
1905 protest in St. Petersburg, Russia
Arab Revolt
1916–1918 uprising against the Ottoman Turks
Gunpowder Plot
1605 failed attempt to kill King James I of England
Columbine High School massacre
1999 mass shooting in Colorado, U.S.
2008 Sichuan earthquake
Magnitude 8.0 earthquake in China
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Khojaly Massacre
1992 mass killing of Azerbaijanis during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War
Hurricane Sandy
Category 3 Atlantic hurricane in 2012
2019 Sri Lanka bombings
Series of suicide bombings
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Darvaza gas crater
Burning natural gas field in Turkmenistan
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Beslan school siege
2004 Russian hostage crisis and massacre
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2016 Berlin attack
2016 truck attack in Berlin, Germany
1960 Valdivia earthquake
9.4–9.6 magnitude earthquake in Chile
Sayfo
Genocide of Assyrians (1914–1924)
Porajmos
Genocide of the Romani in Europe during World War II
2005 Kashmir earthquake
Earthquake in South Asia
2017 Istanbul nightclub attack
2017 nightclub shooting in Ortaköy, Istanbul, Turkey
1976 Tangshan earthquake
Mw 7.6 earthquake in Hebei, China
Bloody Sunday
Mass shooting in Derry, Northern Ireland, 1972
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Great Chinese Famine
Famine killing millions (1959–1961)
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1923 Great Kantō Earthquake
1923 megathrust earthquake in Japan
2
2017 Las Vegas shooting
Deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history
Plague of Justinian
541–549 AD in the Byzantine Empire, later northern Europe
Wounded Knee Massacre
1890 South Dakota massacre of Lakota
Robb Elementary School shooting
2022 mass shooting in Texas, US
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Earthquake in California
Oklahoma City bombing
1995 terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City
2016 Istanbul airport attack
Terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Saint Petersburg Metro attack
Terrorist attack by the Islamist militant group in Saint Petersburg, Russia
2017 Catalonia attacks
Terrorist attacks in Spain in August 2017
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Nika riots
532 Byzantine revolt against Justinian I
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2004 Madrid train bombings
Terrorist attack on Madrid's suburban trains
2016 Munich shooting
Mass shooting in Munich, Germany
Cambodian genocide
1970s mass killing of Cambodians
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June 2017 London attack
Terror attack in London
2021 European floods
July 2021 flooding in Europe
Moscow theater hostage crisis
2002 terrorist attack and hostage crisis in Moscow
2019–20 Australian bushfire season
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Killing of Osama bin Laden
2011 U.S. military operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan
Pan Am Flight 103
1988 aircraft bombing over Scotland
August 2016 Central Italy earthquake
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2011 England riots
6–11 August 2011 riots in cities and towns across England
Hurricane Irma
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2017
Iran hostage crisis
Occupation of Tehran's U.S. embassy (1979–1981)
American Airlines Flight 11
9/11 hijacked passenger flight
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2024 Lebanon electronic device attacks
Explosive device attacks in Lebanon and Syria
Great Hanshin Earthquake
Earthquake in Japan on January 17, 1995
Peasants' Revolt of 1381
1381 uprising in England
Bengal famine of 1943
Famine in British India during World War II
Population transfer in the Soviet Union
Transfer and deportation of people in the Soviet Union
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1865 murder in Washington, D.C., US
Tokyo subway sarin attack
1995 terrorist attack by Aum Shinrikyo
Itaewon Halloween crowd crush
2022 crowd crush in South Korea
1931 China floods
Series of devastating floods
2024 Noto earthquake
Earthquake in Japan
2025 Kamchatka earthquake
Megathrust earthquake in Russia
2026 Crans-Montana bar fire
Deadly nightclub fire in Switzerland
2014 Peshawar school attack
Terrorist attack in Peshawar, Pakistan
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Virginia Tech shooting
2007 mass shooting in Blacksburg, Virginia, US
Hamidian massacres
1894–1897 massacres of Armenians and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire
2015 Mina stampede
Crowd crush incident in Saudi Arabia
Basmachi movement
1916–1934 Central Asian uprising
Circassian genocide
Mass murder of Circassians by the Russian Empire
2017 Stockholm attack
Terrorist attack in Sweden
Heysel Stadium disaster
Fatal spectator riot in Brussels, Belgium in 1985
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Great Smog of London
1952 air pollution event
Storm Daniel
2023 storm in the Mediterranean Sea
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2024 Hualien earthquake
7.4 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan
2025 Pahalgam attack
Islamist terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir
Execution of the Romanov family
1918 murder in Yekaterinburg, Russia
2025 Bondi Beach shooting
Terrorist attack in Sydney, Australia
Hurricane Irene
Category 3 Atlantic hurricane in 2011
Sabra and Shatila massacre
1982 mass murder of civilians in Beirut, Lebanon
2017 Westminster attack
Terrorist attack in London
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Dust Bowl
1930s period of severe dust storms in North America
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1988 Spitak earthquake
Devastating earthquake in Armenian SSR, USSR
Stockholm Bloodbath
1520 trial and executions
Persecution of Uyghurs in China
January 2025 Southern California wildfires
Series of wildfires in California, United States
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2010 Copiapó mining accident
Cave-in and miner rescue in Atacama Region, Chile
Sharpeville massacre
1960 South African Police killing of protestors
United Airlines Flight 93
9/11 hijacked passenger flight
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
Massacres of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II
2024 Spain floods
2024 weather disaster in Spain
Hillsborough disaster
Fatal crowd crush during 1989 FA Cup semi-final
Grenfell Tower fire
2017 fatal fire in West London
Antonine Plague
Disease outbreak (165–180 CE)
Murder of Samuel Paty
2020 murder in Éragny-sur-Oise, France
2021 Suez Canal obstruction
Maritime incident caused by grounded vessel
Sinking of the MV Sewol
2014 ferry sinking disaster in South Korea
Boston Massacre
1770 shooting deaths of five colonists by British soldiers
Aegean Sea earthquake of 2020
7.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami affecting Turkey and Greece
2021 Kabul airport attack
Suicide bombing at Kabul airport, Afghanistan
Deir Yassin massacre
1948 mass killing by Zionist militants
2025 Tibet earthquake
Earthquake in Asia
Wang Fuk Court fire
2025 apartment fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong
February 2011 Christchurch earthquake
February 2011 earthquake in New Zealand
Operation Reinhard
Code name for the creation of German extermination camps in Poland in World War II
Great Famine of 1315–1317
Famine of medieval Europe
2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull
Volcanic events in Iceland
Assassination of Andrei Karlov
2016 murder in Ankara, Turkey
Herero and Nama genocide
1904–1908 genocide by the German Empire
American Airlines Flight 77
9/11 hijacked passenger flight
Halifax explosion
1917 maritime disaster in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Great Chicago Fire
1871 conflagration in Illinois, US
Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
2020 assassination in Baghdad, Iraq
Great Plague of London
Epidemic of bubonic plague, 1665–66
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Ryanair Flight 4978
2021 aviation incident in Belarus
United Airlines Flight 175
9/11 hijacked passenger flight
Assassination of Ali Khamenei
2026 assassination in Tehran, Iran
Van earthquake of 2011
2011 earthquakes in eastern Turkey
2012 Aurora shooting
Mass shooting in Colorado, U.S.
Domodedovo International Airport bombing
2011 suicide bombing in a Moscow airport
2009 L'Aquila earthquake
Earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy
Sinking of the RMS Titanic
1912 maritime disaster
2021 Haiti earthquake
7.2-magnitude earthquake in Tiburon Peninsula, Haiti
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2023 Prague shooting
Mass murder in the Czech Republic
2024 Kerman bombings
Suicide bombings in Iran
Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
2024 murder of Hamas leader in Tehran, Iran
Assassination of Charlie Kirk
2025 assassination in Orem, Utah, U.S.
410 sack of Rome
Siege and sack of Rome by the Visigoths
Tulsa Race Massacre
1921 mass violence in Oklahoma, US
2010 Moscow Metro bombings
Islamist terror attacks
1999 İzmit earthquake
Earthquake in Kocaeli Province, Turkey
Kyoto Animation arson attack
2019 mass murder in Kyoto, Japan
Peterloo Massacre
1819 massacre by government troops in Manchester
Istanbul pogrom
1955 state-sanctioned violence against minorities in Turkey
2020 Vienna attacks
Islamist terrorist attack in Vienna
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Ukrainian refugee crisis
Ongoing refugee crisis in Europe
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Re'im music festival massacre
2023 massacre in southern Israel
Soweto uprising
1976 student-led anti-apartheid protests in South Africa
2015 Tianjin explosions
Explosions at the Binhai New Area of Tianjin, China
2015 Ankara bombings
2015 terror attack during a protest movement in Ankara, Turkey
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2016 Kumamoto earthquakes
Earthquake in Japan
Sack of Rome, 1527
Habsburg siege and subsequent sack of Papal Rome
Nepalese royal massacre
2001 mass shooting in Kathmandu
Halabja massacre
1988 chemical attack in Iraqi Kurdistan
2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires
Wildfires in Brazil
2020 Zagreb earthquake
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Rape of the Sabine women
Incident in Roman mythology
1993 World Trade Center bombing
Terrorist attack in the United States
2022 Istanbul bombing
Terrorist attack in Turkey
1908 Messina earthquake
Earthquake in southern Italy
Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
2007 murder in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Gaza flotilla raid
2010 Israeli military operation against a humanitarian ship convoy
2007 Peru earthquake
Extreme earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Peru
2016 Lahore suicide bombing
Anti-Christian terrorist attack by the Taliban in Lahore, Pakistan
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79
Volcanic eruption in Italy
Rohingya genocide
Genocide in Myanmar
2017 Iran–Iraq earthquake
Fatal 7.3 Mw earthquake near the Iran–Iraq border
National Reorganization Process
1976–1983 Argentine military dictatorship
Hama Massacre
Anti-Sunni massacre in Hama, Syria
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Death of Michael Jackson
2009 death of American singer in Los Angeles, California, US
Grand Mosque Seizure
1979 radical Islamic insurgency in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
2020 Petrinja earthquake
Earthquake in Croatia
2022 Crimean Bridge explosion
2022 explosion on the Crimean Bridge
Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam
2023 dam breach in Ukraine
Costa Concordia disaster
2012 cruise ship sinking off the Italian coast
2025 Risbergska school shooting
School shooting in Örebro, Sweden
1957–1958 influenza pandemic
Hurricane Patricia
Category 5 Pacific hurricane in 2015
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2016 Ecuador earthquake
228 Incident
1947 uprising in Taiwan
Ajka alumina plant accident
Ajka alumina 2010 industrial accident in Hungary
2017 Oaxaca and Chiapas Earthquake
8.2 Mw earthquake and tsunami off of Mexico and Guatemala
2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami
7 Mw earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia
1963 Skopje earthquake
Earthquake in SR Macedonia
2018 Sunda Strait tsunami
Tsunami in coastal regions of Banten and Lampung, Indonesia
Jokela school shooting
2007 school shooting in Tuusula, Finland
Stolen Generations
Indigenous Australian children forcibly acculturated into White Australian society
Elazığ–Sivrice earthquake of 2020
Earthquake in Turkey
2002 Bali bombings
Terrorist attacks in Indonesia
Greek genocide
Genocide campaign in the Ottoman Empire
2021 Kazan school attack
2021 school shooting in Russia
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
1929 gang shooting in Chicago
Attempted assassination of Robert Fico
2024 shooting in Handlová, Slovakia
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August 2025 Afghanistan earthquake
Earthquake in Kunar Province, Afghanistan
Adana massacre
1909 massacres of Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek civilians by Ottoman Muslims
Russian famine of 1921
Famine in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
2011 East Africa drought
Natural disaster
Murder of John Lennon
1980 murder in New York City, US
London Beer Flood
1814 brewery disaster in London
2017 Pedrógão Grande Wildfire
Four deadly fires in Leiria, Portugal
Air India Flight 182
1985 aircraft bombing over the Atlantic Ocean
North Sea flood of 1953
31 January–1 February storm surge
Bologna massacre
1980 terrorist bombing of train station in Bologna, Italy
2018 Strasbourg attack
Terrorist attack in Strasbourg, France
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Port Said Stadium riot
February 2012 football stadium riot in Port Said, Egypt
Tambov Rebellion
1920–1922 peasant revolt in the Russian Civil War
September Massacres
1792 killings of prisoners in Paris
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2020 Nova Scotia shooting
Series of murders in Canada
Minoan eruption
Major volcanic eruption around 1600 BC
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
1968 shooting in Los Angeles, California
2023 Hawaii wildfires
Natural disasters in the USA
2024 Magdeburg car attack
Vehicle-ramming attack in Germany
2025 New Orleans truck attack
Terrorist attack in Louisiana, U.S.
Killing of Iryna Zarutska
2025 stabbing in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
Great Hurricane of 1780
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane
Mecca crane collapse
2015 structural failure in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
2015 Hindu Kush earthquake
Earthquake in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India
2016 Istanbul bombing
ISIL suicide bombing in Turkey
Hurricane Gustav
Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 2008
2017 Tehran attacks
Series of terrorist attacks in Tehran, Iran
2010 Pakistan flood
2010 natural disaster in Pakistan
Hurricane Harvey
Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 2017
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Sutherland Springs church shooting
2017 mass shooting in Texas, U.S.
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2017 Sinai mosque attack
Terrorist bombing in a Sinai mosque, Egypt
Rhineland massacres
Pogroms of 1096
1964 Alaska great earthquake and tsunami
Second most powerful earthquake in recorded history
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Hong Kong flu
1968–70 flu pandemic
June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
Earthquake in Afghanistan and Pakistan
2023 Herat earthquakes
Earthquakes in western Afghanistan
Kočani nightclub fire
2025 fire in North Macedonia
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2026 Iran massacres
Mass killing of protesters in Iran
Killing of Renée Good
2026 shooting by a US immigration agent
Westgate shopping mall shooting
2013 terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya
Malmedy massacre
1944 German war crime
Soma mine disaster
2014 mine fire in Turkey
2015 Bamako hotel attack
2015 terrorist attack in Radisson Blu, Bamako
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2015 San Bernardino shooting
Mass shooting in California, U.S.
2016 Kaohsiung earthquake
Deadly earthquake centered north of Pingtung City, Taiwan
Hurricane Matthew
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2016
Hurricane Mitch
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 1998
Hurricane Ike
Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 2008
Hurricane Maria
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2017
2017 Central Mexico earthquake
Magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Mexico
Kazakh famine of 1930–1933
October 2017 Mogadishu bombings
Terrorist attacks in Somalia
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
2018 mass shooting in Florida, U.S.
2019 El Paso shooting
Mass shooting in Texas, U.S.
Rice Riots of 1918
1918 riots in Japan
1883 eruption of Krakatoa
Large volcanic eruption in the Sunda Strait
Seveso disaster
Toxic chemical leak in Italy in 1976
1999 Russian apartment bombings
Terrorist bombings in Russia
2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami
Volcanic event in the South Pacific Ocean
2023 Peshawar mosque bombing
Suicide attack in Pakistan
Belgrade school shooting
2023 mass shooting in Serbia
Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
2024 bridge collapse near Baltimore, Maryland, US
Firefight at the O.K. Corral
1881 shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, United States
1985 Mexico City earthquake
Earthquake in Mexico
King David Hotel bombing
1946 terrorist attack in Jerusalem
Plague of Cyprian
Pandemic in the Roman Empire (AD 249–262)
Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181
1977 aircraft hijacking
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2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes
2012 earthquake near Aceh Province, Indonesia
2017 Lower Manhattan attack
Vehicle-ramming attack in Manhattan, US
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Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
2018 attempted murder in Salisbury, England
Kerch Polytechnic College massacre
2018 school shooting in Crimea
Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
1981 shooting in Washington, D.C., U.S.
Plague of Athens
430 BC epidemic in Athens, Greece
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2019 Albania earthquake
Earthquake in Northwestern Albania
Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane
642 civilians massacred by a German Waffen-SS company in 1944
Nakhon Ratchasima shootings
2020 mass shooting in Thailand
COVID-19 pandemic in Israel
Kramatorsk railway station attack
2022 Russian missile attack in Ukraine
Great Molasses Flood
1919 accident in Massachusetts, United States
2022 Pakistan floods
Disaster in Pakistan
Kanjuruhan Stadium disaster
2022 association football match disaster
2022 Cianjur earthquake
Earthquake in Indonesia
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2024 Wayanad landslide
Landslides in Kerala, India
Hurricane Milton
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2024
Dersim massacre
Turkish military operations, 1937–1938
2025 Graz school shooting
2025 mass shooting in Styria, Austria
Kyshtym disaster
1957 radiological contamination disaster in the Soviet Union
Vinnytsia massacre
1937–38 mass execution in Ukraine
2014 Sydney hostage crisis
Terror hostage-taking in 2014 in Sydney, Australia
2015 Charleston, South Carolina shooting
2015 mass shooting in South Carolina, U.S.
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2015 Sousse attack
Mass shooting at a Tunisian tourist resort on 26 June 2015
2015 Bangkok bombing
2015 terrorist attack in Thailand
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2015 Beirut bombings
Suicide bombings in Beirut, Lebanon
Great Bengal famine of 1770
Famine affecting lower regions of India in 1770
Pontic Greek genocide
1914–1923 genocide in the Ottoman Empire
2010 Yushu earthquake
2010 earthquake centered in Yushu, Qinghai, China
Kent State shootings
1970 shootings in Kent, Ohio, US
Operation Valkyrie
German plan for putting down civil unrest, repurposed for planned coup, WW2
Genesis flood narrative
Biblical flood myth
2
2011 Lorca earthquake
Moderate 5.1 Mw earthquake in Spain
2
2019 Pulwama attack
Terrorist attack in India
Hurricane Dean
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2007
1960 Agadir earthquake
Earthquake in Morocco
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North Korean famine
1994–1999 famine in North Korea
Jedwabne pogrom
1941 massacre of Jews in Poland
Crushing The Rebellions of 1965–1966
Anti-communist killings and unrest in Indonesia
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Bagaudae
Groups of peasant insurgents in the later Roman Empire
COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
May 2006 Java earthquake
Earthquake in Java, Indonesia
Yanar Dag
Place in Azerbaijan
Assassination of Julius Caesar
44 BC murder in Rome
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
Major earthquake in Northern California
2021 Meron crowd crush
Multi-casualty crush incident in Israel at public religious event
Assassination of Jovenel Moïse
2021 murder in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
2022 Buffalo shooting
Mass shooting in New York, U.S.
Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian war
Forced Russian adoption of Ukrainian children
Sumgait pogrom
1988 anti-Armenian riots in Azerbaijan SSR
Burning of Smyrna
1922 fire during the Greco-Turkish War
80 Albert Street Fire
Deadly blaze in South Africa
Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion
2023 deadly explosion in the Gaza Strip
Sack of Rome
Sack of Rome by the Vandals (455)
Winnenden school shooting
2009 shooting spree in Winnenden, Germany
Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping
2014 kidnapping by Boko Haram
Bardo National Museum attack
2015 mass killing of hostages by militants in Tunis, Tunisia
Paris massacre of 1961
French police killing of Algerian demonstrators
February 2016 Ankara bombing
Bombing in Turkey by Kurdish separatists
March 2016 Ankara bombing
Terrorist attack in Ankara, Turkey, by Kurdish militants
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1948 Ashgabat earthquake
Earthquake in Turkmenistan
2001 Gujarat earthquake
Earthquake in India and Pakistan
Soviet famine of 1932–1933
Famine that affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union
2017 Quebec City mosque shooting
2017 mass shooting in Quebec, Canada
Bangladesh genocide
1971 genocide of Bengalis in East Pakistan
Assassination of Indira Gandhi
1984 murder in New Delhi, India
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Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
1948 murder in New Delhi, India
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Iranian Embassy Siege
1980 hostage situation in London
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Toulouse and Montauban shootings
Series of Islamist terrorist attacks
2018 Kemerovo fire
Shopping mall fire in Kemerovo, Russia
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Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
2018 mass shooting in Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Brumadinho dam disaster
2019 dam collapse in Brumadinho, Brazil
Murder of Junko Furuta
1989 murder of Japanese high school girl
Hurricane Dorian
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2019
Operation Tannenberg
Anti-Polish extermination actions by Nazi Germany
Pazzi conspiracy
1478 plot in the Republic of Florence
Tlatelolco massacre
1968 killing of anti-government protestors by the Mexican Armed Forces in Mexico City
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2020 Kabul University attack
Armed terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan
West Fertilizer Company explosion
2013 explosion of ammonium nitrate in Texas, USA
Killing of Hind Rajab
2024 killing of a Palestinian child in the Gaza Strip
2023-2024 mpox epidemic
Global disease outbreak since September 2023
1938 Yellow River flood
Flood during Sino-Japanese War
December 2013 Volgograd bombings
Two suicide bombings in the city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast, Southern Russia
2015 Illapel earthquake
8.3 magnitude quake in Chile
2015–16 Zika virus epidemic
Widespread epidemic of Zika fever
2016 Gulshan, Dhaka attack
Terrorist attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh
July 2016 Baghdad bombings
2016 bombing in Karrada, Iraq
Sagamihara stabbings
2016 hate crime in Japan
Hōei eruption
Last major eruption of Mount Fuji (1707–08)
Bleiburg repatriations
Incident in Yugoslavia at the end of World War II
Hindenburg disaster
1937 airship fire in the US
Aberfan disaster
1966 Welsh colliery disaster
2012 Northern Italy earthquakes
Severe earthquakes centered in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Hurricane Michael
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2018
Novocherkassk massacre
1962 mass killing in the Soviet Union
Lviv pogroms
Genocidal massacres of Jews in 1941 Ukraine
1999 Jiji earthquake
Earthquake in Taiwan
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
Major volcanic eruption in Skamania County, Washington
Hurricane Wilma
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2005
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
1911 factory fire in New York City
Tajbeg Palace assault
1979 Soviet assassination of Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin
2020 Nice attack
Stabbing attack in France
Hurricane Andrew
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 1992
Massacre of Vassy
1562 killing of Huguenots in Wassy, France
2022 Oslo shooting
Mass shooting in Norway
Great Train Robbery
1963 robbery in Ledburn, England
Chios massacre
1822 killing and enslavement of Greek people by Ottoman troops
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2024 Southport stabbings
2024 mass stabbing in North West England
Storegga Slides
Prehistoric landslide off Norway
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida
Foiled assassination plot in Florida, U.S.
2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike
Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon
Grand Kartal fire
Fire in Bolu Province, Turkey
Hurricane Melissa
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2025
2026 Onikişubat school shooting
2026 mass shooting in Turkey
Revolt of the Comuneros
1520 rebellion in Castile, Spain
Kafr Qasim massacre
1956 Israeli massacre of Arab civilians
2014 Southeast Europe floods
Natural disaster in Europe
Kishinev pogrom
Anti-Jewish attack in Kishinev, Russian Empire (19–21 April 1903)
1900 Galveston hurricane
Category 4 Atlantic hurricane
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2015 Copenhagen shootings
Spree shootings that occurred in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 14 February 2015
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Garissa University College attack
2015 Al-Shabaab shooting in Kenya
Ponary massacre
1941–1944 Nazi murders in Vilnius, Lithuania
Farhud
1941 anti-Jewish massacre in Baghdad, Iraq
Operation Nemesis
1920–22 Armenian assassination campaign
2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
Mass shooting in Texas, U.S.
December 2016 Istanbul bombings
Terrorist attack
1907 Tiflis bank robbery
Robbery of bank stagecoach by Bolsheviks in 1907
1984 anti-Sikh riots
Series of organised pogroms in India
2017 Turku attack
Terrorist attack in Turku, Finland
2011 Minsk Metro bombing
Terrorist attack in Minsk, Belarus
Kauhajoki school shooting
2008 shooting in Finland
1983 Beirut barracks bombing
1983 bombings in Beirut, Lebanon
Great Stink
1858 pollution event in central London
2018 Attica wildfires
Series of wildfires in Greece
2018 Ahvaz military parade attack
2018 terrorist attack in Iran
Indian massacre of 1622
Powhatan attack on the English colony of Virginia
Donghak Peasant Revolution
1894–1895 rebellion in Korea
1
1138 Aleppo earthquake
12th-century earthquake in Syria
2
2010 Canterbury earthquake
Earthquake in New Zealand
Hurricane Bret
Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1999
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1968 murder in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
2
2009 Sumatra earthquakes
Earthquakes in Indonesia
2
2006 Mumbai train bombings
2006 terrorist attack on the Mumbai Suburban Railway by Lashkar-e-Taiba
Burning of Washington
1814 British attack on the United States
2020 Norilsk oil spill
2020 industrial disaster in Russia
Jacobite rising of 1745
Attempt by the House of Stuart to regain the British throne
2023 Ohio train derailment
2023 disaster in Ohio, United States
Black Hole of Calcutta
Dungeon used in 1756 to hold British and Indian prisoners
Massacre of the Latins
1182 massacre of Roman Catholics in Constantinople
P
Parsley massacre
1937 mass killing of Haitians by Dominican forces
I
Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus
2024 Israeli airstrike in Syria
2024 Persian Gulf floods
Diocletianic Persecution
Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire (303–313)
Burke and Hare murders
1828 series of killings in Edinburgh, Scotland
2026 Minab school attack
2026 Iran war missile strike
1929 Hebron massacre
Killing of Jews in Mandatory Palestine
Riga supermarket roof collapse
2013 disaster in Riga, Latvia
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
1994 shooting massacre in Hebron
2003 Bam earthquake
Earthquake in Iran
Indian Airlines flight 814 hijacking
1999 Indian aircraft hijacking
Colectiv nightclub fire
2015 fire in Bucharest, Romania
Kielce pogrom
1946 outbreak of anti-Jewish violence in Kielce, Poland
The Holocaust in Poland
Avianca Flight 203
1989 airliner bombing in Colombia
P
Palm Sunday church bombings
2017 suicide bombings at Coptic churches in Egypt
In Aménas hostage crisis
2013 hostage crisis in Algeria
AMIA bombing
1994 attack on a Jewish Community Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bosnian Genocide
1995 genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Murder of James Bulger
1993 child murder in Liverpool, England
École Polytechnique massacre
1989 mass shooting in Montreal, Canada
V
Vukovar massacre
Massacre of civilians and prisoners of war following the Battle of Vukovar
D
Dowry death
Femicide to extort more dowry
2001 anthrax attacks
Bioterrorist attacks in the United States
1941 Odessa massacre
Romanian massacre of Jews during World War II
Hurricane Rita
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2005
1977 Vrancea earthquake
Romanian earthquake
Black Saturday bushfires
2009 Australian fires
2010 Pichilemu earthquakes
Intraplate earthquakes in Chile
I
Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing
Suicide bombing at the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan on 20 September 2008
Fire of Moscow
Part of the French invasion of Russia
Khodynka Tragedy
Human stampede in Russia in 1896
Ludlow Massacre
April 1914 massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War
Surfside condominium collapse
2021 building collapse near Miami, Florida, US
Champ de Mars Massacre
1791 massacre in Paris
2022 Fukushima earthquake
Severe off-shore earthquake near Fukushima, Japan
Nord Stream pipelines sabotage
Gas pipe explosions in the Nord Stream pipelines
1740 Batavia massacre
Pogrom of ethnic Chinese in the Dutch East Indies
Killing of Brian Thompson
2024 killing of American CEO in New York City
E
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
1996 aircraft hijacking and crash in the Comoros
July 2025 Central Texas floods
Natural disaster in Texas, U.S.
Killing of Alex Pretti
2026 shooting by US Border Patrol agents
August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack
2013 gas attack during the Syrian Civil War
2
2011 Tarlay earthquake
Earthquake affecting Myanmar and Thailand
2
2014 Isla Vista killings
Terrorist attacks in California, U.S.
2014 Iguala mass kidnapping
2014 abduction of rural Mexican college students
Great Plague of Marseille
Bubonic plague outbreak in France
Zong massacre
1781 mass killing of enslaved Africans
Turkish Abductions
Barbary slave raids against Iceland
Sand Creek massacre
1864 US troop murders of Native Americans
2
2016 Jakarta attacks
Terrorist attacks in Indonesia
1929 Arab riots in Palestine
Arab–Jewish clashes in Mandatory Palestine
Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II
1981 shooting in St. Peter's Square
Tsavo Man-Eaters
Pair of dangerous lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya in 1898
2016 Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray church attack
Terrorist attack in July 2016 in France
Intelligenzaktion
Plan of extermination of Polish intelligentsia by German troops in 1939
Nedelin catastrophe
1960 fatal Soviet launch pad disaster
2018 Japan floods
Heavy rain disaster that occurred in July 2018 in Japan
Wola massacre
1944 extermination of civilians by Nazi forces in Wola, Warsaw, Poland
National Museum of Brazil fire
2018 museum fire at Rio de Janeiro
Ufa train disaster
1989 railway accident in Iglinksy District, Bashkir SSR, Soviet Union
Sétif and Guelma massacre
1945 mass murder of Muslims in French Algeria
Hurricane Felix
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2007
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Lymphogranuloma venereum
Sexually transmitted infection
A
Andijan massacre
Violent incident in Andijan, Uzbekistan
2002–2004 SARS outbreak
Epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome originating in China
St Nedelya Church assault
1925 bombing of a church in Sofia, Bulgaria by Communist Party militants
V
Visakhapatnam gas leak
2020 gas leak incident in Visakhapatnam, India

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