What are some of the most tradgic events in history?

Question

I would like to hear about the not so common ones.
We all know WW1 WW2 and so on.

Answer 1

Jallianwala baug massacre Indian History..Also Bhopal gas tragedy may qualify.Though Bhopal gas tragedy may not be a historical event.

Answer 2

There have been numerous natural disasters like earthquakes that have burned down cities like Tokyo and San Fransisco. Than there are tsunamis that kill thousands of people. Some of the more tragic human caused ones are the Trail of Tears caused by Andrew Jackson and all of the political killing that Stalin did. He killed an estimated 20 million Russians but since he was on our side in WWII his record is over looked. Most dictatorships have brutal components look at the Vietnam region and all of the killing there. Do not forget Saddam who killed the minorities that spoke out against him.

Answer 3

The sinking of the USS Juneau in Guadecanal. Most of its 700-man crew were instantly killed. 140 were thrown overboard by the ship's blasts and left to died. Only 10 ultimately survived. The story of how the Juneau crew was left to die is a heartbreaking tragedy of American military errors. Everyone hears the story about the 5 Sullivan Brothers, but there were 4 brothers from another family and many other men who died that day and deserve to be remembered too. If you ever get a chance to read the book Left To Die it is a really telling story and if you ever go to Juneau, Alaska there is a memorial to the ship and its crew. Stop and remember them....

Answer 4

In the sixties there were the university riots in Kent State and the thing that happened at Woodstock. Kidnapping in Iran in 1980. The Great Depression of the 1930's. Fighting in Ireland. The tsunami in Indonesia is very tragic and the many earthquakes in LA and Turkey, etc.

Answer 5

The battle of the Somme
The battle of Gallipoli
Stalingrad/Leningrad, the Nazi invasion of Russia
The Israeli occupation of the West Bank/Gaza
The 6 Day War - Arab/Israeli
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Chernobyl
The Christmas Tsunami
The Gulf War - 'Napalm Corridor'
The Colonisation of Africa
The Slave Trade

...Basically, human history is a tragedy of Greek proportions

Answer 6

The Rape of Nanking; Between December 1937 and March 1938 at least 369,366 Chinese civilians and prisoners of war were slaughtered by the Japanese Troops. An estimated 80,000 women and girls were raped; many of them were then mutilated or murdered.
Native Americans. The Native American tribal people suffered under the European invasion and then under the United States. Whole tribes wiped out, Countless numbers of their once great populations were ravaged by displacement, disease, warfare and, enslavement.
The Killing Field of Vietnam and the Vietnam War.
September 11 attacks.
Currently Global Warming may kill us all.
Just to name a few,

All the best;

Answer 7

Tragedy is in the eye of the beholder.

For me it would have been when my 3 year old brother was struck by a car and killed.

For a literalist Bible interpretor the most tragic events in history would be the fall of Lucifer....when God's most beautiful angel decided he was better than his maker....next would be the fall of man (these may have been simultaneously) and the effect of sin on creation....then the slaying of Able by Cain....the flood and the destruction of the known world....and on and on.

There are things more tragic than the deaths of huge numbers of people....such things as motives....like greed and jealousy.

Answer 8

I think the most ridiculously tragic events are in our lifetime.. How about so called "Religiously Spiritual People" flying 3 airplanes full of civilians into three buildings full of people and into a field in the name of their God.. I'm still blown away that those people did that...and all the car bombings.. etc.. and when 15 civilians get killed the US is called murderers.. My boyfriends cousin was the pilot of the plane that went down in Pennsylvania.. I think he was the first one on the plane to die.

Answer 9

St. Bartholemew's massacre....Catholics doomed off hundreds of thousands of Protestant heretics, at the instigation of the Queen of France (1572)

Rhwanda machetes massacre/genocide - 1994

30million to 200million slave trade from Africa to the Americas.

2million to 100million Native Americans - genocide/massacres/disease and plagues

Sack of Jeruselum, 1st Crusade, around a 100,000 - 1099

250,000–1,000,000 - Indonesia (1965-1966) under President Suharto (anti-communist purges).

2,000,000–3,000,000 - Cambodia (1975-1979) under Pol Pot

Answer 10

Salem witch trials - In which no witches were ever killed because none the people were witches.

The Spanish Inqusition - In which no one really should have died only because of the hysteria of "cleansing" the country of Non-Christians. Some were good Christians in a bad situation.