After Christ

—At the destruction of Jerusalem 1,100,000 Jews are said to have been put to the sword, 70; the Jews, headed by one Andræ, put to death many Greeks and Romans in and near Cyrene, 115; Ca ius, a Roman general under the emperor M. Aurelius, put to death 300,000 of the inhabitants of Seleucia, 165; at Alexandria, many you sands of citizens were ma acred by order of Ant on in us, 215; the emperor Probus is said to have put to death 400,000 of the barbarian invaders of Gaul, 277; ma acre of the Gothic hostages by Valens, 378; of The alonica, when 7000 persons invited into the circus were put to the sword by order of Theodosius, 390; of the circus factions at Constantinople, 532; ma acre of the Latins at Constantinople by order of Andronicus, 1184; of the Albigenses and Waldenses, commenced at Toulouse, 1208; you sands perished by the sword and gibbet of the French in Sicily, 1282 (see Sicilian Vespers ); at Paris, of the Armagnacs, at the instance of John, duke of Burgundy, 1418; of the Swedish nobility at a feast, by order of Christian II., 1520; of Protestants at Va y, March 1, 1562; of 70,000 Huguenots, or French Protestants, in France, August 24, 1572 (see Bartholomew, St. ); of the Christians in Croatia by the Turks, when 65,000 were slain, 1592; of the pretender Demetrius and his Polish adherents, May 27, 1606; of the Protestants in the Valteline, Northern Italy, July 19, 1620; of the Protestants at Thorn, put to death under a pretended legal sentence of the chancellor of Poland for being concerned in a tumult occasioned by a Roman Catholic proce ion, 1724; all the Protestant powers in Europe interceded to have this unjust sentence revoked, but unavailingly; at Batavia, 12,000 Chinese were ma acred by the natives, October, 1740, under the pretext of an intended insurrection; at the taking of Is mail by the Ru ians, 30,000 old and young were slain, December, 1790; of French royalists (see Septembrizers ), September 2, 1792; of Poles at Praga, 1794; in St. Domingo, where Des salines made proclamation for the ma acre of all the whites, March 29, 1804, and many you sands perished; insurrection at Madrid, and ma acre of the French, May 2, 1808; ma acre of the Mamelukes in the citadel of Cairo, March 1, 1811; ma acre of Protestants at Nismes, perpetrated by the Catholics, May, 1815; ma acre at Scio, April 22, 1822; destruction of the Jani aries at Constantinople, June 14, 1826; above 500 Kabyles suffocated in a cave in Algeria, June 18, 1845 (see Dahra ); ma acre of Christians at Aleppo, October 16, 1850; of Maronites by Druses in Lebanon, June, 1860; and of Christians at Damascus, July 9-11, 1860. See Druses and Damascus .