List of massacres in Italy
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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Italy and its predecessors (numbers may be approximate):
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sack of Genoa | April 5, 1849 | Genoa | 10001000 | by Army of Piedmont, after revolt in city |
| Bronte riots | August 2, 1860 | Bronte | 002121 | 16 people killed in the riots, 5 sentenced to death as rioters by a drumhead court |
| Bava-Beccaris massacre | May 9, 1898 | Milan | 0284118-450 (+400-2000 wounded) | troops under Bava-Beccaris fired on rioters |
| Biscari massacre | July 14, 1943 | Biscari (now Acate) | 007171 | POWs killed by US troops in two incidents |
| Canicattì massacre | July 14, 1943 | Canicattì | 00088 | US troops fired on looters |
| Boves massacre | September 8, 1943 | Boves | 004545 | mass killing by German occupation troops under Joachim Peiper |
| Ardeatine massacre | March 24, 1944 | Rome | 0335335 | mass killing by German occupation troops (SD-Gestapo led by Herbert Kappler) |
| Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre | August 12, 1944 | Sant'Anna di Stazzema | 0560560 | mass killing by German occupation troops (SS Reichsfuehrer) |
| Marzabotto massacre | September 29, 1944 | Marzabotto | 0771770+ | mass killing by German occupation troops (SS Reichsfuehrer) |
| Bombing of Gorla | October 20, 1944 | Milan | 0614614 | USAAF bombers discarded their bombload on a densely inhabited area: among the victims, 184 pupils of the Gorla elementary school |
| Villarbasse massacre | July 5, 1946 | Villarbasse | 001010 | 3 of the perpetrators were sentenced to death; this was the last time the death penalty was applied in Italy |
| Portella della Ginestra massacre | May 1, 1947 | Piana degli Albanesi | 001111 (+33 wounded) | Attack on May Day celebrations by bandits |
| Ciaculli massacre | June 30, 1963 | Ciaculli | 00077 | car bombing of police by Mafia |
| Viale Lazio massacre | December 10, 1969 | Palermo | 00055 | clan warfare by Mafia |
| Piazza Fontana bombing | December 12, 1969 | Milan | 001717 (+88 wounded) | bombing by terrorists |
| Piazza della Loggia bombing | May 28, 1974 | Brescia | 00088 (+>90 wounded) | bombing by terrorists |
| Italicus Express bombing 1974 | August 4, 1974 | San Benedetto Val di Sambro | 001212 (+48 wounded) | bombing by terrorists |
| Acca Larentia killings | January 7, 1978 | Rome | 00033 | killing of right-wing activists by Left-wing terrorists |
| Ustica massacre | June 27, 1980 | Tyrrhenian Sea near Ustica | 008181 | airplane brought down by a terrorist bomb or air-to-air missile (findings disputed) |
| Bologna Station massacre | August 2, 1980 | Bologna | 008585 (+>200 wounded) | bombing by terrorists |
| Train 904 bombing | December 23, 1984 | San Benedetto Val di Sambro | 001717 (+267 wounded) | terrorist attack by Mafia |
| Pizzolungo massacre | April 2, 1985 | Erice | 00033 (+5 wounded) | attack on magistrate C Palermo by Mafia |
| Fiumicino massacre | December 27, 1985 | Rome | 001616 | attack at Rome's international airport, probably carried out by Abu Nidal Organization, which also struck at Vienna's international airport on the same day |
| Capaci massacre | May 23, 1992 | Capaci | 00055 | attack on magistrate G Falcone by Mafia |
| Via d'Amelio massacre | July 19, 1992 | Palermo | 00066 | attack on magistrate P Borsellino by Mafia |
| Via dei Georgofili massacre | May 27, 1993 | Florence | 00055 (+48 wounded) | car bomb by Mafia |
| Via Palestro massacre | July 27, 1993 | Milan | 00055 (+12 wounded) | ? |
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