List of events named massacres

List of events named massacres

This is a "list of events named "massacre"". The term suggests mass murder and its usage may be controversial.

The word "massacre" was loaned into English from Middle French, derived from Old French "maçacre" (and variants) "slaughterhouse, butcher's shop". The term "maçacre" was already used in Anglo-Norman in the sense of "slaughter of many people" in the 12th century. The word's ultimate origin is from late Latin " mazacrium" "slaughter".The first recorded use in English of the word "massacre" dates to the late 16th century, in reference to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. The Oxford English Dictionary records: [Oxford English Dictionary Massacre, n.] :1578 (R. Lindsay, "Hist. & Cron. Scotl." (1899) II. 291): "The xxiiij day of August..the grytt..murther and massecar of Paris wes committit.":1593 (Marlowe) "The massacre at Paris" :1617, (F. Moryson "Itinerary" I. 131) "I wondered to see the Massacre of Paris painted upon the wall."

"Massacre" can also be used as a verb, (the first usage of which was "1588 J. PENRY Viewe Publ. Wants Wales 65 Men which make no conscience for gaine sake, to breake the law of the æternall, and massaker soules..are dangerous subjects.") [Oxford English Dictionary Massacre, v.] , and this usage is not recorded in this list.

"Massacre" is also used idiomatically for events that do not involve any deaths, such as the Saturday Night Massacre, which was a mass firing of political appointees during the Watergate scandal. Such events are not listed in the table below.

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ee also

*List of battles and other violent events by death toll
*Indian massacre
*Mass grave
*Mass murder
*Spree killer
*War crime
*Mass graves in the Soviet Union
*Great Purge
*List of massacres of Indigenous Australians
*Caste-related violence in India
*School shootings
*List of war crimes

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