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8/13/2019 List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia List of wars by death toll This list of wars by death toll includes death toll estimates of all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war. These numbers usually include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of battle or other military wartime actions, as well as the wartime/war-related deaths of soldiers, which are the results of war-induced epidemics, famines, atrocities, genocide, etc. Contents Pre-Modern Ancient wars Medieval wars Modern Modern wars with greater than 25,000 deaths by death toll Modern wars with fewer than 25,000 deaths by death toll Charts and graphs See also Notes References Works cited Further reading External links Pre-Modern Ancient wars Click here to go to an alphabetical summary starting on p. 29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll 1/28 8/13/2019 List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia Geometric Death War mean Date Combatants Location Notes range (Note 1) Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle Persian recorded by writers during Conquests of 549 BC– Middle 100,000+ 100,000 Empire vs. this time period, does not Cyrus the Great 530 BC East various states take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. Greece vs. Greco–Persian 499 BC– 73,800+ 73,800 Persian Greece Wars 449 BC Empire Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded by Roman writers Roman 343 BC– during this time period, Samnite Wars 33,500+ 33,500 Republic vs. Italy 290 BC does not take into account Samnites civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. Number given is the sum Middle of all deaths in battle East / during these wars Macedonian Wars of Alexander 336 BC– North recorded by Greek writers, 142,000+ 142,000 Empire vs. the Great 323 BC Africa / does not take into account various states Central civilian deaths, the actual Asia / India number may be much greater. Roman Western 1,250,000– 264 BC– Republic vs. Europe / Punic Wars 1,520,691 1,850,000 146 BC Carthaginian North Empire Africa Roman Southern 264 BC– Republic vs. Europe / First Punic War 400,000+ 400,000 – Part of the Punic Wars 241 BC Carthaginian North Empire Africa Roman Western 218 BC– Republic vs. Europe / Second Punic War 770,000+ 770,000 [1] – Part of the Punic Wars 201 BC Carthaginian North Empire Africa Roman 150,000– 149 BC– Republic vs. Third Punic War 193,649 Tunisia – Part of the Punic Wars 250,000 146 BC Carthaginian Empire Maurya Empire 150,000– 262 BC– Kalinga War 173,205 vs. State of India 200,000 261 BC Kalinga Qin state vs. Qin's Wars of 230 BC– Han, Zhou, – Part of Warring States 700,000+ 700,000 China Unification 221 BC Yan, Wei, Chu, Period Qi States Roman Empire 410,000– 113 BC– Western – Part of the Germanic Cimbrian War 516,236 vs. Cimbri and 650,000 101 BC Europe Wars Teutones Roman 58 BC–50 Gallic Wars 1,000,000+ 1,000,000 Republic vs. France BC Gallic tribes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll 2/28 8/13/2019 List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia Geometric Death War mean Date Combatants Location Notes range (Note 1) Year is uncertain – Part of Roman Empire Iceni Revolt [2] 150,000 60–61 England the Roman Conquest of 150,000+ vs. Celtic tribes Britain Middle Jewish–Roman 350,000– Roman Empire 836,660 66–136 East/North Wars 2,000,000 vs. Jews Africa First Jewish– 270,000– Roman Empire Middle – Part of Jewish–Roman 605,614 66–73 Roman War 1,358,400 vs. Jews East Wars – Also known as the Southern Second Jewish–Roman Roman Empire Europe / Kitos War 440,000+ 440,000 115–117 War vs. Jews North – Part of Jewish–Roman Africa Wars – Also known as the Third Bar Kokhba Roman Empire Middle Jewish–Roman War 580,000+ 580,000 132–136 Revolt vs. Jews East – Part of Jewish–Roman Wars Claudius II defeated the Goths, of whom 320,000 Roman Empire were slain. This number is Gothic War (269) 320,000+ 320,000 269 Europe vs. Goths from the Historia Augusta. – Part of the Germanic Wars Emperor Probus informed the Senate that he had Probus's German Roman Empire killed 400,000 Germans. 400,000+ 400,000 277 Europe War vs. Germans From the Historia Augusta. – Part of the Germanic Wars Gothic War (376– Roman Empire Eastern – Part of the Germanic 40,000+ 40,000 376–382 382) vs. Goths Europe Wars [3][4] – Academically, the period of the Three Kingdoms refers to the period between the foundation of the state of Wei in 220 and the conquest of the state of Wu by the Jin dynasty in Three Kingdoms 36,000,000– Wei vs. Shu 280. The earlier, 37,947,332 184–280 China War 40,000,000 Vs. Wu "unofficial" part of the period, from 184 to 220, was marked by chaotic infighting between warlords in various parts of China. See: End of the Han Dynasty Peasants vs. Yellow Turban 3,000,000– – Part of Three Kingdoms 4,582,576 184–205 Eastern Han China Rebellion 7,000,000 War China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll 3/28 8/13/2019 List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia Geometric Death War mean Date Combatants Location Notes range (Note 1) Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded in this time period in battles between Wars of the Northern Northern 150,000+ 150,000 304–439 armies of the Sixteen Sixteen Kingdoms Chinese States China Kingdoms, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded by Roman writers Roman Empire during this time period, Hunnic Invasions 165,000+ 165,000 395–453 vs. Hunnic Europe does not take into account tribes civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. Note 1: The geometric mean is the middle of the quoted range, taken by multiplying together the endpoints and then taking the square root. Medieval wars Note: the identity of a single "war" cannot be reliably given in some cases, and some "wars" can be taken to last over more than a human lifetime, e.g. "Reconquista" (711–1492, 781 years) "Muslim conquests in India" (12th to 16th c., 500 years) "Crusades" (ten or more campaigns during the period 1095–1291, 196 years), "Mongol conquests" (1206–1368, 162 years), "early Muslim conquests" (622–750, 128 years), "Hundred Years' War" (1337–1453, 115 years). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll 4/28 8/13/2019 List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia Death Geometric War Date Combatants Location Notes range mean Moors vs. 534– North Moorish Wars 5,000,000+ 5,000,000 Byzantine 548 Africa Empire Number given is the sum Middle Byzantine of all deaths in battle East / Empire and recorded by writers during 629– North Arab–Byzantine Wars 130,000+ 130,000 allies vs. this time period, does not 1050 Africa / Islamic Empire take into account civilian Southern and Allies deaths, the actual number Europe may be much greater. Spanish and 711– Portuguese Iberian Reconquista 7,000,000+ 7,000,000 [5] 1492 states vs. Peninsula Muslim states Tang Dynasty 13,000,000– 755– China and China / [6] An Lushan Rebellion 21,633,308 – Also known as the 36,000,000 763 Islamic Empire Vietnam An–Shi Rebellion vs. Yan state Liao Empire 993– Goryeo–Khitan Wars 90,000+ 90,000 vs. Goryeo Korea [7] 1019 Kingdom Originally Byzantine Europe / Empire vs. 1,000,000– 1095– Middle Crusades 1,732,051 Seljuq Empire, [8] 3,000,000 1291 East ("Holy but evolved Land") into Christians vs. Muslims. [9][10] Papal States – Also known as the 200,000– 1208– and France vs. Cathar Crusade Albigensian Crusade 447,214 France 1,000,000 1229 Cathartic – Part of the Crusades States [11][12][13] – Excludes the Mongol Empire (up to) 200,000,000 30,000,000– 1206– vs. Several deaths from the Black Mongol conquests 34,641,016 Eurasia 40,000,000 1368 Eurasian Death migration that states arguably may have been associated with the Mongol expansion Wars of Scottish 60,000- 1296– Scotland vs. Scotland / 94,868 Independence 150,000 1357 England England House of 2,300,000– 1337– Valois vs. Western Hundred Years' War 2,754,995 [14] 3,300,000 1453 House of Europe Plantagenet Timurid Empire 8,000,000– 1370– vs. several Conquests of Timur 12,649,111 Eurasia [15][16] 20,000,000 1405 middle eastern states Ottoman Empire vs. Conquests of Mehmed 1451– Eastern [17] May be over or 873,000+ 873,000 Various south II 'the Conqueror' 1481 Europe underestimated European states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll 5/28 8/13/2019 List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia Death Geometric War Date Combatants Location Notes range mean House of Lancaster, House of 35,000– 1455– England / Wars of the Roses 41,833 Tudor, and [18][19] 50,000 1487 Wales allies vs. House of York and allies Modern Modern wars with greater than 25,000 deaths by death toll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll 6/28 8/13/2019 List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia Death Geometric War Date Comabatants Location Notes range mean Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and some Italian 1494– States vs. Southern [20] Italian Wars 300,000–400,000 346,410 – Also known as the 1559 France, Ottoman Europe Great Wars of Italy Empire, and some Italian states Spanish [20] Spanish Colonial – Part of the European conquest of 1519– 24,300,000+ 24,300,000 Empire vs.
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