what historical event has had the most deaths?

Question

U.S.A.'s wars have had a bunch, Hitler has some too, but I'd guess its the "discovery of america" the comv¿bined natives killed by england and spain, could be wrong obvioulsly

I'll guess the black plague is right, I'll have to do some research, guess the killing in this continent is 2nd

Answer 1

The Black Death was an outbreak of bubonic plague that entered Melcombe Regis in 1348, and within a year had killed nearly half the population.

The Black Death, began with a minor outbreak of bubonic plague, medical term Yersinia Pestis, which started in the Gobi Dessert. It was transmitted throughout China and reached Europe when a Kipchak army, besieging a Crimean trading post, catapulted plague-infested corpses over the city walls. Plague spread throughout Europe, carried by fleas in the fur of rats, and eventually reached the Dorset coast on 24th June 1348.

Contagion carried quickly, and about two thirds of the population became infected. The morbidity rate was about 66%, i.e. if you caught it, you had a two to one chance of dying. Chroniclers relate how the disease raged in a town for about a month and then left. It moved gradually northwards until it had burnt itself out. Within twelve months, nearly half the population was dead.

After the problem of burying the dead in plague pits was over, people tried to get back to normality. But life was never the same again. The decreased population meant a shortage of labour and workmen demanded and received pay increases. The government of Edward III tried to cap pay increases by an Act of Parliament, The Statute of Labourers, the first government attempt to control the economy. Workmen who demanded too much were placed in the stocks, that is trapped in a wooden gadget for a day, and employers who paid over the odds were fined. The Act was largely unsuccessful as employers coaxed workers from other employers, with promises abundant pay increases, and wages kept on rising. One recorded case shows that a joiner who built the stocks for the punishment of greedy workers was paid three times the legal rate for his labour.

The government also passed The Sumptuary Act of 1367, making it illegal for the lower classes to spend their new wealth on new apparel of ermine or silk. Only the aristocracy and some senior gentlefolk were allowed to wear these items. Today when barristers are raised to the rank of Queen’s Council, they are said to ‘take silk’, indicating their elevation in status. The Act has never been repealed, so if you wear silk, and if any of Edward III’s commissioners are still alive, you could get put in the stocks!

By the reign of Richard II, the economy had settled down and landowners switched from labour intensive methods, grain production, to low labour processes, particularly sheep farming. Increased wool production boosted the economy and became the nation’s chief export, making England a major economic power.

Answer 2

The black plague that swept across Europe. The Black Death, or Black Plague, was a devastating pandemic that began in south-western Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s, where it got the name Black Death. It killed between a third and two-thirds of Europe's population and, including Middle Eastern lands, India and China, killed at least 75 million people. The same disease is thought to have returned to Europe every generation with varying degrees of intensity and fatality until the 1700s. Notable later outbreaks include the Italian Plague of 1629-1631, the Great Plague of London (1665–1666), the Great Plague of Vienna (1679), the Great Plague of Marseilles in 1720–1722 and the 1771 plague in Moscow. There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form seems to have disappeared from Europe in the 18th century.

Answer 3

The World Health Organisation, as well as several other sources (easilly accessible by a Yahoo search) cite the 1918-1919 'Spanish' Influenza Pandemic as the biggest killer in history. At the time the world's focus was on the events of world war one. For this reason, the pandemic has been sometimes called the 'fogotten pandemic'. Initially it was estimated that it killed around 20 million, but more recent studies have shown that it could have been as high as 50-100 million. It killed so many people that the average life span in America dropped by ten years. One of the most interesting aspects of the pandemic was that, unlike other influenza strains, the 1918-1919 one seemed to target the young and healthy. There are some really good primary sources available on the internet regarding the Spanish Flu if you are interested.

Answer 4

Its hard to say. While the Black Plague killed 1/3 the population in Europe, its hard to say exact amounts. However, if you take into account the deaths during WWII, not only the Holocaust victims, but the victims of Stalin in Russia in the Siberian labor camps, as well as the soldiers that died, I think WWII might win. There were approx. 6 million Jews killed, but an estimated 10-20 million were killed in Russia...

Answer 5

Micheal Jackson demise is a historic journey in the international of father subculture. i'd not evaluate it to be a historic journey, yet you under no circumstances understand what the editors of our historic previous texts books evaluate to be an major historic journey. His lack of life did reason some large controversies about his little ones, property rights, and different stuff like that even with the truth that.

Answer 6

Genghis Khan moving to a new neighborhood?
But, the Plague/Black Death most correct.
I think it go; "Red Rosy, red Rosy, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down.
If, I remember correct the red Rosy was the nose of those infected. It was believed posies would protect from the plague and of course the ashes, we fall down dead and they burned the bodies trying to stop the spread of the disease.
If you thinking America, you way off target, many wars and disease have killed more people than anything America has ever done or been in and had to do.
Many people not understand the astronomical numbers involved in many incidents of death. There have probably been more people killed in traffic accidents than many wars, I not sure, but, you may be surprised to learn.

Answer 7

Depends upon what you mean by "historical event" I suppose.

Battle of Stalingrad killed 20 million, it has to be up there. Battle of the Somme too.

Obviously the Holocaust, and the Irish potato famine (3 million out of a population of 8 million).

As far as the discovery of America, it certainly was horrific, but I don't think there were as many native americans in sheer numbers compared to those lovely 19th and 20th century massacres.

Answer 8

I agree with the Black Death, as one person said. It killed 2/3 s of the world population.

Answer 9

WW2 or the Black death/plague that swept across Europe

Answer 10

dont forget Joseph Stalin, the leader of Russia/USSR for about 25 years. We will probably never know the exact numbers, but it is beleived he killed more people that Hitler. What is shocking is that they were mainly russian people, his own citizens.