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This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
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Year Death toll Event Countries affected Type Date 2001 13,805–20,023 2001 Gujarat earthquake: India Earthquake January 26 2002 1,200 2002 Hindu Kush earthquakes: Afghanistan March 25 2003 72,000 2003 European heat wave: Europe Heat wave July – August 2004 227,898 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
Eighty Years' War Holy Roman Empire ... 22 killed 1 September 1939 8 May 1945: ... 70–85 million people death: See also. History of Austria; Austrian Armed Forces;
He was succeeded as duke of Austria by his young son Albert II the Magnanimous of Germany, with his cousin William the Courteous acting as regent. 1406: 15 July: William the Courteous died without heirs. He was succeeded in Upper Austria by Leopold the Fat and in Carinthia, Styria and Carniola by another brother, Ernest the Iron, Duke of Austria.
This is a list of years in Austria. See also the timeline of Austrian history . For only articles about years in Austria that have been written, see Category:Years in Austria .
The death of Joseph Stalin and the Korean Armistice Agreement defused the standoff, and the country was rapidly, but not completely, demilitarized. After the Soviet Union had relieved Austria of the need to pay for the cost of their reduced army of 40,000 men, [76] the British and French followed suit and reduced their forces to a token ...
[There were no deaths due to deterministic effects (i.e., people receiving a high dose of radiation, rapidly becoming ill, and dying); the 100–240 figure is an estimate of the number of people who died later in life due to cancer caused by radiation from the accident [29]]. 95–4,000+ [30] [31] 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.