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The following is a list ofmassacres that have occurred in the territory of present-dayRomania (numbers may be approximate):
| Name | Date | Present location | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siculeni massacre | 7 January 1764 | Csík-Mádéfalva,Principality of Transylvania,Habsburg monarchy (todaySiculeni,Harghita County) | 400Székelys | Memorial plaque unveiled on the spot in 1899 mentions 200 victims. |
| Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan | late 1784 | Grand Principality of Transylvania, Habsburg Monarchy (today primarilyHunedoara County,Alba County, andArad County, to a lesser extent alsoBrașov County,Sibiu County,Cluj County,Timiș County) | About 4,000 victims | Mostly Hungarian nobles and Hungarian civilians in towns were targeted in a total of 133 settlements. Further thousands were forcedly converted to Romanian Orthodoxy.[1] |
| Mihalț massacre | 2 June 1848 | Michelsdorf, Grand Principality of Transylvania,Austrian Empire (todayMihalț,Alba County) | 12 armed Romanian peasants | After an illegal attack on a noble estate in the village, thousands of armed peasants fromObreja,Cistei, andCrăciunelu de Jos gathered to refuse the entry of the imperial investigative committee, and the entry of the official regiment sent byAnton von Puchner, commander in chief of the Austrian troops in Transylvania. The resulting armed clash killed 12 Romanian peasants and 1 Hungarian soldier. This was the first Transylvanian armed conflict in 1848 and played a major role in the exacerbation of political-ethnic differences in the region. |
| Nadab massacre | 10 September 1848 | Nadab,Arad County, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayNădab,Arad County) | 3 ethnic Romanians | Hungarian troops killed ethnic Romanian civilians after they opposed conscription.[2] |
| Aranyoslóna massacre | 12 September 1848 | Aranyoslóna | 30 Romanians | Hungarian troops massacred ethnic Romanian civilians after they tried to avoid conscription.[3] |
| Geoagiu massacre | October 1848 | Gergesdorf, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayGeoagiu,Hunedoara County) | 85 ethnic Hungarians[4]: 424 | Mostly civilians |
| Bucerdea Vinoasă massacre | October 1848 | Botschard, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayBucerdea Vinoasă,Alba County) | 73 ethnic Hungarians[4]: 424 | Mostly civilians |
| Stremț massacre | October 1848 | Nussschloss, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayStremț,Alba County) | 25 ethnic Hungarians[5] | Local noble families |
| Alba Iulia massacre | October 1848 | Karlsburg, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayAlba Iulia,Alba County) | 42 ethnic Hungarians | Civilians[4]: 337 |
| Grindeni massacre | October 1848 | Gerendkeresztúr, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayGrindeni,Mureș County) | 200 ethnic Hungarians | Civilians[4]: 424 |
| Lunca Mureșului massacre | October 1848 | Holten, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayLunca Mureșului,Mureș County) | 60 ethnic Hungarians | Civilians[4]: 424 |
| Hațeg massacre | October 1848 | Wallenthal, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayHațeg,Hunedoara County) | 15 ethnic Hungarians | Civilians massacred on the order of the Romanian Orthodox priest.[4]: 376 |
| Ocna Mureș massacre | October 1848 | Miereschhall, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayOcna Mureș,Alba County) | 90 ethnic Hungarians | Civilians living in the town[4]: 376 |
| Micăsasa massacre | October 1848 | Feigendorf, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayMicăsasa,Sibiu County) | 150 ethnic Hungarians | All locals except for one family were massacred[6] |
| Sângătin massacre | 14 October 1848 | Kleinenyed, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todaySângătin,Sibiu County) | 140–175 ethnic Hungarians | Mostly civilians[7] |
| Zlatna massacre | 22–24 October 1848 | Kleinschlatten, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayZlatna,Alba County) | 8–10 Romanian spearmen 700 ethnic Hungarians | All the Hungarian civilians fled from the town but were raided near the villagePresaca Ampoiului and were all massacred. The town was completely destroyed.[4]: 420 [8]: 682 [9] |
| Ighiu massacre | 29 October 1848 | Grabendorf, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayIghiu,Alba County) | 200 ethnic Hungarians | The entire Hungarian population of the village, except for the Hungarian priest was massacred.[4]: 420 |
| Bochia massacre | 30 October 1848 | Boklya, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayBochia,Arad County) | 30 ethnic Hungarians[4]: 424 | Mostly civilians |
| Unirea massacre | 13 November 1848 | Oberwinz, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayUnirea,Alba County) | 200 ethnic Hungarians[4]: 424 | The whole village was destroyed and most civilians massacred |
| Aiud massacre | 8–17 January 1849 | Straßburg am Mieresch, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayAiud,Alba County) | 800–1,000 ethnic Hungarians | Mostly civilians. The whole city with the ancientBethlen College was burned and destroyed.[8]: 682 Mass rape and torture.[10] |
| Iara massacre | 15 and 17 January 1849 | Jahren, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayIara,Cluj County) | 150 ethnic Hungarians and 33 ethnic Romanians | Civilians[4]: 433 |
| Benic massacre | January 1849 | Unter-Hahnenberg, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayBenic,Alba County) | 400 ethnic Hungarians[4]: 424 | By the order of the Romanian Greek Catholic priest, the entire Hungarian population was wiped out[8]: 695 |
| Heria massacre | January 1849 | Brenndorf, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayHeria,Alba County) | 18 ethnic Hungarians | |
| Abrud massacre | 9 and 17 May 1849 | Großschlatten, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayAbrud,Alba County) | 1,100–1,200 ethnic Hungarians | Mass torture and rape. Casualties were mostly miners and officers and their families.[4]: 433 |
| Buceș massacre | 9 May 1849 | Bucsesd, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayBuceș,Hunedoara County) | 200 ethnic Hungarians | [11] |
| Butyin massacre | 6 August 1848 | Butyin,Arad County, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (todayButeni,Arad County) | 8 ethnic Romanians | Ethnic Romanians killed for opposing the plundering by Hungarian troops.[12] |
| Massacres during thePeasants' Revolt | March–April 1907 | Western Moldavia and southernWallachia,Kingdom of Romania | cca. 11,000 peasants | Peasants rebelling against economic conditions killed in various places across the country |
| 1916 Galați massacre | 13 June 1916 | Galați, Covurlui County, Kingdom of Romania (today Galați,Galați County) | 9 workers | Workers participating in an anti-war demonstration shot by the army[13][14] |
| Lăzarea massacre | 22 September 1916 | Gyergyószárhegy,Austria-Hungary (todayLăzarea,Harghita County) | 8 Hungarian civilians | The leadership of the village was shot in a mass grave without trial, further 57 civilians only escaped because a high-ranking officer arrived and stopped the massacre.[15] |
| Beliș massacre [ro] | 8 November 1918 | Jósikafalva, Austria-Hungary (todayBeliș,Cluj County) | 45–50 civilians[16][17] | Mostly ethnic Romanians |
| Theater's Square massacre | 13 December 1918 | Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania | up to 102 workers | Striking workers shot by the army |
| Tărcaia and Grădinari massacres [ro] | 19 April 1919 | Köröstárkány and Kisnyégerfalva,Hungarian Soviet Republic (todayTărcaia andGrădinari,Bihor County) | 108 ethnic Hungarians | All civilians.[18][19] |
| Lupeni massacre | 6 August 1929 | Lupeni,Hunedoara County, Kingdom of Romania | 22 workers | Striking workers shot by the army and the gendarmerie |
| Grivița massacre | 16 February 1933 | Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania | 7 workers | Striking workers shot by the army and the gendarmerie |
| 1940 Galați massacre | 30 June 1940 | Galați,Covurlui County, Kingdom of Romania (today Galați,Galați County) | 80 to 400 Bessarabian and Jewish refugees | Bessarabians returning home and Jewish Romanians wanting to escape the anti-Semitic regime shot while waiting to cross into the Soviet Union[20] |
| Dorohoi pogrom | 1 July 1940 | Dorohoi,Dorohoi County, Kingdom of Romania (today Dorohoi,Botoșani County) | 53 Jews | Jewish community in Dorohoi claims the death toll between 165 and 200.[21] |
| Nușfalău massacre | 8 September 1940 | Szilágynagyfalu,Northern Transylvania,Kingdom of Hungary (todayNușfalău,Sălaj County) | 11 ethnic Romanians | |
| Treznea massacre | 9 September 1940 | Treznea, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (todayTreznea,Sălaj County) | 93 ethnic Romanians and Jews | |
| Ip massacre | 14 September 1940 | Ip, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (todayIp,Sălaj County) | 157 ethnic Romanians | 158, including an unborn child[22] |
| Jilava massacre | 26 November 1940 | Jilava,Ilfov County, Kingdom of Romania | 64 political detainees | |
| Bucharest pogrom | 22 January 1941 | Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania | 120 Jews | Other five Jews were missing and presumed dead.[23] |
| Iași pogrom | 29 June - 6 July 1941 | Iași,Iași County, Kingdom of Romania | 13,266 Jews | Under the direction ofMarshalIon Antonescu, one third of the city's Jewish population was exterminated |
| Aita Seacă massacre | 4 September 1944 | Szárazajta, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (todayAita Seacă,Covasna County) | [24][25] | | |
| Luduș massacre | 5–13 September 1944 | Marosludas, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (todayLuduș,Mureș County) | 15 Jews and 2 ethnic Romanians | |
| Sărmașu massacre | 17 September 1944 | Nagysármás, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (todaySărmașu,Mureș County) | 126 Jews | |
| Hărcana massacre [ro] | 24 September 1944 | Hărcana, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (todayHărcana,Cluj County) | 18 ethnic Romanians | |
| Various massacres by theManiu Guard | September–October 1944 | Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary | 49 ethnic Hungarians | Mihăileni, Gheorgheni, Sândominic, Zimbor, Aghireș, Huedin |
| Moisei massacre [ro] | 14 October 1944 | Majszin, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (todayMoisei,Maramureș County) | 29 ethnic Romanians | Two men were also seriously injured.[26][27] |
| Eugen Grigore case | July 1974 | Ciurea,Iași County,Socialist Republic of Romania | 24 Romani | Around 50 other people were also injured.[28] |
| Romanian Revolution of 1989 | 16–25 December 1989 | Main Romanian cities,Socialist Republic of Romania | 1,104 | |
| Ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș | 19–21 March 1990 | Târgu Mureș,Mureș County,Romania | 5 | Hundreds of people were also wounded. |
| June 1990 Mineriad | 13–15 June 1990 | Bucharest, Romania | 6–100 | |
| September 1991 Mineriad | 25–28 September 1991 | Bucharest, Romania | 4 | |
| Hădăreni riots | 20 September 1993 | Hădăreni,Mureș County, Romania | 3 | |
| 2012 Bucharest hair salon shooting | 5 March 2012 | Bucharest, Romania | 5 | A 51-year old man killed 2 people and injured another 8 people in a salon in Bucharest. |
| Săpoca Hospital massacre | 18 August 2019 | Săpoca,Buzău County, Romania | 7 | A 38-year-old man hospitalised at The Săpoca Hospital killed 5 people and hurt 8 with an infusion stand |
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