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This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...
The Thirty Years' War, [j] from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from the effects of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [19]
Listed conflicts have at least 100 cumulative deaths in total and at least 1 death in current or in the past calendar year. Fatality totals may be inaccurate or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus symbol, indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 455+ indicates that at least 455 people have died).
Thirty Years' War: 6,700 Battle of White Mountain: 1620 Thirty Years' War: 3,450 Battle of Shen-Liao: 1620 Qing conquest of the Ming: 75,000 Battle of Rohilla: 1621 Early Mughal-Sikh Wars: 14,000 Battle of Lutter: 1626 Thirty Years' War: 9,700 Battle of Wolgast: 1628 Thirty Years' War: 3,100 First Battle of Breitenfeld: 1631 Thirty Years' War ...
1733–1738 War of the Polish Succession – 88,000 killed in action [1] 1735–1739 Russo-Ottoman War; 1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession – 359,000 killed in action [1] 1740–1763 Silesian Wars; 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War; 1745–1746 Jacobite rising of 1745; 1756–1763 Seven Years' War – 992,000 killed in action [1] 1757 ...
About 30 Ukrainian men have died trying to illegally cross Ukraine's borders and avoid fighting in the war against Russia which started in 2022, the spokesman for Ukraine's border service told ...
Scottish soldier, known as "Black Ramsay", who served Gustavus Adolphus, during the Thirty Years' War. Peter Hagendorf: 1625–1649 Holy Roman Empire: German mercenary soldier in the Thirty Years' War. His wartime diary is credited for giving a unique historic record of the life in the contemporary army from the viewpoint of a simple Landsknecht.
Nearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia’s war dead. Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and ...