This is a list of events for which one of the commonly accepted names includes the word "pogrom".
| Date | Pogrom Name | Alternative Name(s) | Deaths | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | Alexandrian pogrom (name disputed)[a] | Alexandrian riots | Aulus Avilius Flaccus, the Egyptian prefect of Alexandria appointed by Tiberius in 32 CE, may have encouraged the outbreak of violence; Philo wrote that Flaccus was later arrested and eventually executed for his part in this event. Scholarly research around the subject has been divided on certain points, including whether the Alexandrian Jews fought to keep their citizenship or to acquire it, whether they evaded the payment of the poll-tax or prevented any attempts to impose it on them, and whether they were safeguarding their identity against the Greeks or against the Egyptians. | |
| 1066 | Granada pogrom | 1066 Granada massacre | 4,000 Jews | A mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, which was at that time in Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, assassinated the Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacred many of the Jewish population of the city. |
| 1096 | 1096 pogroms | Rhineland massacres | 2,000 Jews | Peasant crusaders from France and Germany attacked Jewish communities in the three towns of Speyer, Worms and Mainz. They were the first Christian pogroms to be officially recorded. |
| 1113 | Kiev pogrom (name disputed)[b] | Kiev revolt | Rebellion sparked by the death of the Grand Prince of Kiev, in which Jews connected to the prince's economic affairs were among the victims | |
| 1506 | Lisbon pogrom | Lisbon Massacre | 500 New Christians | After an episode of famine and bad harvests, a pogrom happened in Lisbon, Portugal,[58] in which more than 500 "New Christian" (forcibly converted Jews) people were slaughtered and/or burnt by an angry Christian mob, in the first night of what became known as the "Lisbon Massacre". The killing occurred from 19 to 21 April, almost eliminating the entire Jewish or Jewish-descendant community residing in that city. Even the Portuguese military and the king himself had difficulty stopping it. The event is today remembered with a monument in S. Domingos' church. |
| 1563 | Polotskpogrom (name disputed)[c] | Polotsk drownings | Following the fall of Polotsk to the army of Ivan IV, all those who refused to convert to Orthodox Christianity were ordered drowned in the river Dvina | |
| 1821–1871 | First Odessa pogroms | The Greeks of Odessa attacked the local Jewish community, in what began as economic disputes | ||
| 1881–1884 | First Russian Tsarist pogroms | 2 Jews | A large-scale wave of anti-Jewish riots swept through south-western Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine and Poland) from 1881 to 1884 (in that period over 200 anti-Jewish events occurred in the Russian Empire, notably the Kiev, Warsaw and Odessa pogroms) | |
| 1881 | Warsaw pogrom | 2 Jews (Included above) | Three days of rioting against Jews, Jewish stores, businesses, and residences in the streets adjoining the Holy Cross Church. | |
| 1902 | Częstochowa pogrom | 14 Jews | A mob attacked the Jewish shops, killing fourteen Jews and one gendarme. The Russian military brought to restore order were stoned by mob. | |
| 1903–1906 | SecondRussian Tsarist pogroms | 2,000+ Jews | A much bloodier wave of pogroms broke out from 1903 to 1906, leaving an estimated 2,000 Jews dead and many more wounded, as many Jewish residents took arms to defend their families and property from the attackers. The 1905 pogrom against the Jewish population in Odessa was the most serious pogrom of the period, with reports of up to 2,500 Jewish people killed. | |
| 1903 | First Kishinev pogrom | 47 Jews (Included above) | Three days of anti-Jewish rioting sparked by anti-semitic articles in local newspapers | |
| 1904 | Limerick pogrom (name disputed)[d] | Limerick Boycott | None | An economic boycott waged against the small Jewish community in Limerick, Ireland, for over two years |
| 1905 | SecondKishinev pogrom | 19 Jews (Included above) | Two days of anti-Jewish rioting beginning as political protests against the Tsar | |
| 1905 | Kiev Pogrom (1905) | 100 Jews (Included above) | Following a city hall meeting, a mob was drawn into the streets, proclaiming that "all Russia's troubles stemmed from the machinations of the Jews and socialists." | |
| 1906 | Siedlce pogrom | 26 Jews (Included above) | An attack organized by the Russian secret police (Okhrana). Anti-semitic pamphlets had been distributed for over a week and before any unrest begun, a curfew was declared. | |
| 1909 | Adana pogrom | Adana massacre | 30,000 Armenians | A massacre of Armenians in the city of Adana amidst the Countercoup (1909) resulted in a series of anti-Armenian pogroms throughout the district. |
| 1911 | Tredegar pogrom (name disputed) South Wales[e] | Tredegar riots | None | Jewish shops were ransacked and the army had to be brought in |
| 1914 | Anti-Serb pogrom in Sarajevo | Sarajevo frenzy of hate | 2 Serbs | Occurred shortly after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.[62] |
| 1918 | Lwów pogrom(name disputed)[f] | Lemberg massacre | 52–150 Jews, 270 Ukrainians | During the Polish-Ukrainian War over three days of unrest in the city, an estimated 52–150 Jewish residents were killed and hundreds injured, with widespread looting carried out by Polish soldiers, as well as lawless civilians, and local criminals. Two hundred and seventy more Ukrainians were killed during this time as well. The Poles did not stop the pogrom until two days after it began. The independent investigations by the British and American missions in Poland stated that there were no clear conclusions and that foreign press reports were exaggerated. |
| 1919 | Kiev Pogroms (1919) | 60+ | A series of Jewish pogroms in various places around Kiev carried out by White Volunteer Army troops | |
| 1919 | Pinsk pogrom (name disputed)[g] | Pinsk massacre | 36 Jews | Mass execution of thirty-five Jewish residents of Pinsk in April 1919 by the Polish Army, during the opening stages of the Polish-Soviet War |
| 1919–20 | Vilna pogrom (name disputed)[h] | Vilna offensive | 65+ Jews and non-Jews | As Polish troops entered the city, dozens of people connected with the Lit-Bel were arrested, and some were executed |
| 1929 | Hebron pogrom (name disputed)[i] | Hebron massacre | 67 Jews | During the 1929 Palestine riots, sixty-seven Jews were killed as the violence spread to Hebron, then part of Mandatory Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by rumors that Jews were massacring Arabs in Jerusalem and seizing control of Muslim holy places. |
| 1936 | Przytyk pogrom(name disputed)[j] | Przytyk riot | 2 Jews and 1 Polish | Some of the Jewish residents gathered in the town square in anticipation of the attack by the peasants, but nothing happened on that day. Two days later, however, on a market day, as Jewish historians Martin Gilbert and David Vital claim, peasants attacked their Jewish neighbors. |
| 1938 | November pogrom | Kristallnacht | 91 Jews | Coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians. Accounts from the foreign journalists working in Germany sent shock waves around the world. |
| 1940 | Dorohoi pogrom | 53 Jews | Romanian military units carried out a pogrom against the local Jews, during which, according to an official Romanian report, 53 Jews were murdered, and dozens injured | |
| 1941 | Iași pogrom | 13,266 Jews | One of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history, launched by governmental forces in the Romanian city of Iaşi (Jassy) against its Jewish population | |
| 1941 | Antwerp Pogrom | 0 | One of the few pogroms of Belgian history. Flemish collaborators attacked and burned synagogues and attacked a rabbi in the city of Antwerp | |
| 1941 | Bucharest pogrom | Legionnaires' rebellion | 125 Jews and 30 soldiers | As the privileges of the paramilitary organisation Iron Guard were being cut off by Conducător Ion Antonescu, members of the Iron Guard, also known as the Legionnaires, revolted. During the rebellion and pogrom, the Iron Guard killed 125 Jews and 30 soldiers died in the confrontation with the rebels. |
| 1941 | Tykocin pogrom | 1,400–1,700 Jews | Mass murder of Jewish residents of Tykocin in occupied Poland during World War II, soon after Nazi German attack on the Soviet Union. | |
| 1941 | Jedwabne pogrom | 340 Jews | The local rabbi was forced to lead a procession of about 40 people to a pre-emptied barn, killed and buried along with fragments of a destroyed monument of Lenin. A further 250-300 Jews were led to the same barn later that day, locked inside and burned alive using kerosene | |
| 1941 | Pogrom in Krnjeuša | 240 Croats | An organized attack in the territory of the Catholic parish of Krnjeuša in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, carried out by Serb Chetniks against the local Catholic Croatpopulation | |
| 1941 | Lviv pogroms | 4,000–8,000 civilian prisoners and 5,000 Jews | Massacres of civilian prisoners by Soviet forces prior to evacuation, followed by massacre of Jews by German and other forces. Subject of a protracted controversy | |
| 1946 | Kunmadaras pogrom | 2 Jews | A frenzy instigated by the crowd's libelous belief that some Jewish people had made sausage out of Christian children | |
| 1946 | Miskolc pogrom | 2 Jews | Riots started as demonstrations against economic hardships and later became anti-Semitic | |
| 1946 | Kielce pogrom | 38–42 Jews | Violence against the Jewish community centre, initiated by Polish Communist armed forces (LWP, KBW, GZI WP) and continued by a mob of local townsfolk. | |
| 1955 | Istanbul pogrom | Istanbul riots | 13–30 Greeks | Organized mob attacks directed primarily at Istanbul's Greek minority. Accelerated the emigration of ethnic Greeks from Turkey (Jews were also targeted in this event).[67][68] |
| 1966 | 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom | A series of massacres directed at Igbo and other southern Nigerian residents throughout Nigeria before and after the overthrow (and assassination) of the Aguiyi-Ironsi junta by Murtala Mohammed. | ||
| 1983 | Black July | 1983 anti-Tamil pogrom | 400–3,000 Tamils | Over seven days mobs of mainly Sinhalese attacked Tamil targets, burning, looting and killing |
| 1984 | 1984 anti-Sikh riots | 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom | 8,000 Sikhs | In October 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom in Delhi, and other parts of India, Sikhs in India were targeted |
| 1988 | Sumgait pogrom | 26+ Armenians and 6+ Azeris | Mobs made up largely of ethnic Azeris formed into groups that went on to attack and kill Armenians both on the streets and in their apartments; widespread looting and a general lack of concern from police officers allowed the situation to worsen | |
| 1988 | Kirovabad pogrom | 3+ Soviet soldiers, 3+ Azeris and 1+ Armenian | Ethnic Azeris attacked Armenians throughout the city | |
| 1989 | 1989 Bangladesh pogroms | Attacks against Bengali Hindus, apparently as a reaction to the laying of the foundation of Ram temple adjacent to the disputed structure in Ayodhya | ||
| 1990 | Baku pogrom | 90 Armenians, 20 Russian soldiers | Seven-day attack during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered and expelled from the city. There were also many raids on apartments, robberies and arsons | |
| 1991 | Crown Heights pogrom (disputed)[k] | Crown Heights riot | 1 Jew and 1 non-Jew | A three-day riot that occurred in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. The riots incited by the death of the seven-year-old Gavin Cato, unleashed simmering tensions of the Crown Heights' black community against the Orthodox Jewish community. In its wake, several Jews were seriously injured; one Orthodox Jewish man, Yankel Rosenbaum, was killed; and a non-Jewish man, allegedly mistaken by rioters for a Jew, was killed by a group of African-American men.[71][72] |
| 1991 | Mława pogrom | Five days of rioting in which a mob attacked Roma residents of the Polish town of Mława causing hundreds to flee in terror | ||
| 2002 | Gujarat Godhra Train Burning | Godhra Train Burning | 59 Hindu pilgrims including 25 women and 15 children | 59 Hindus including 25 women and 15 children were killed in a coach. A court convicted 31 Muslims for the incident and the conspiracy for the crime. |
| 2002 | Gujarat pogrom | 2002 Gujarat violence | 790–2,000 Muslims and 254 Hindus | Inter-communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat which lasted for approximately three days, sparked by the burning of a train of Hindu pilgrims |
| 2004 | March pogrom | 2004 unrest in Kosovo | 8 ethnic Serbs and 11 ethnic Albanians | Over 4,000 Serbs were forced to leave their homes, 935 Serb houses, 10 public facilities and 35 Serbian Orthodox church-buildings were desecrated, damaged or destroyed, and six towns and nine villages were ethnically cleansed according to Serbian media |
| 2013 | 2013 Burma anti-Muslim riots | anti-Rohingya pogrom | Rohingya Muslims | Muslims called the Rohingyas were targeted in the Buddhist-majority Myanmar.[73] |
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