Jerusalem, 1,100,000 Jews cruelly put to the sword, A.D. 70.
Cassius slaughtered 400,000 of the inhabitants of Selucia, A.D. 167.
Eighty Christian Fathers by order of the Emperor Gratian were put into a ship which was set on fire and then driven out to sea, A.D. 370.
Belisarius massacred 30,000 citizens of Constantinople, A.D. 552.
That of the Albigenses and Waldenses, A.D. 1209.
The Sicilian Vespers—all the French in Sicily butchered without distinction of age or sex, the first bell for vespers being the signal, A.D. 1282.
That of St. Bartholomew’s day throughout France, August 24th, 1572.
Ismael, 30,000 of the inhabitants old and young slain, December, 1790. See [Ismael].
Of all the whites in the Island of St. Domingo, March 29th, 1804.