The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in the territory of present-day Romania (numbers may be approximate):
| Name | Date | Present location | Deaths | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 January 1764 | Csík-Mádéfalva, Principality of Transylvania, Habsburg monarchy (today Siculeni, Harghita County) | Memorial plaque unveiled on the spot in 1899 mentions 200 victims. | |||
| late 1784 | Grand Principality of Transylvania, Habsburg Monarchy (today primarily Hunedoara County, Alba County, and Arad County, to a lesser extent also Brașov County, Sibiu County, Cluj County, Timiș County) | Mostly Hungarian nobles and Hungarian civilians in towns were targeted in a total of 133 settlements. Further thousands were forcedly converted to Romanian Orthodoxy.[1] | |||
| Mihalț massacre | 2 June 1848 | Michelsdorf, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Mihalț, Alba County) | After an illegal attack on a noble estate in the village, thousands of armed peasants from Obreja, Cistei, and Crăciunelu de Jos gathered to refuse the entry of the imperial investigative committee, and the entry of the official regiment sent by Anton von Puchner, commander in chief of the Austrian troops in Transylvania. The resulting armed clash killed 12 Romanian peasants and 1 Hungarian soldier. This was the first Transylvanian armed conflict in 1848 and played a major role in the exacerbation of political-ethnic differences in the region. | ||
| Nadab massacre | 10 September 1848 | Nadab, Arad County, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Nădab, Arad County) | 3 ethnic Romanians | Hungarian troops killed ethnic Romanian civilians after they opposed conscription.[2] | |
| Aranyoslóna massacre | 12 September 1848 | Hungarian troops massacred ethnic Romanian civilians after they tried to avoid conscription. | |||
| Geoagiu massacre | October 1848 | Gergesdorf, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Geoagiu, Hunedoara County) | Mostly civilians | ||
| Bucerdea Vinoasă massacre | October 1848 | Botschard, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Bucerdea Vinoasă, Alba County) | Mostly civilians | ||
| Stremț massacre | October 1848 | Nussschloss, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Stremț, Alba County) | [3] | Local noble families | |
| Alba Iulia massacre | October 1848 | Karlsburg, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Alba Iulia, Alba County) | Civilians | ||
| Grindeni massacre | October 1848 | Gerendkeresztúr, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Grindeni, Mureș County) | Civilians | ||
| Lunca Mureșului massacre | October 1848 | Holten, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Lunca Mureșului, Mureș County) | Civilians | ||
| Hațeg massacre | October 1848 | Wallenthal, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Hațeg, Hunedoara County) | Civilians massacred on the order of the Romanian Orthodox priest. | ||
| Ocna Mureș massacre | October 1848 | Miereschhall, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Ocna Mureș, Alba County) | Civilians living in the town | ||
| Micăsasa massacre | October 1848 | Feigendorf, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Micăsasa, Sibiu County) | All locals except for one family were massacred[4] | ||
| Sângătin massacre | 14 October 1848 | Kleinenyed, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Sângătin, Sibiu County) | Mostly civilians | ||
| Zlatna massacre | 22–24 October 1848 | Kleinschlatten, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Zlatna, Alba County) | All the Hungarian civilians fled from the town but were raided near the village Presaca Ampoiului and were all massacred. The town was completely destroyed.[5] | ||
| Ighiu massacre | 29 October 1848 | Grabendorf, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Ighiu, Alba County) | The entire Hungarian population of the village, except for the Hungarian priest was massacred. | ||
| Bochia massacre | 30 October 1848 | Boklya, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Bochia, Arad County) | Mostly civilians | ||
| Unirea massacre | 13 November 1848 | Oberwinz, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Unirea, Alba County) | The whole village was destroyed and most civilians massacred | ||
| Aiud massacre | 8–17 January 1849 | Straßburg am Mieresch, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Aiud, Alba County) | Mostly civilians. The whole city with the ancient Bethlen College was burned and destroyed. Mass rape and torture.[6] | ||
| Iara massacre | 15 and 17 January 1849 | Jahren, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Iara, Cluj County) | Civilians | ||
| Benic massacre | January 1849 | Unter-Hahnenberg, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Benic, Alba County) | By the order of the Romanian Greek Catholic priest, the entire Hungarian population was wiped out[7] | ||
| Heria massacre | January 1849 | Brenndorf, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Heria, Alba County) | |||
| Abrud massacre | 9 and 17 May 1849 | Großschlatten, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Abrud, Alba County) | Mass torture and rape. Casualties were mostly miners and officers and their families. | ||
| Buceș massacre | 9 May 1849 | Bucsesd, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Buceș, Hunedoara County) | |||
| Butyin massacre | 6 August 1848 | Butyin, Arad County, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Buteni, Arad County) | 8 ethnic Romanians | Ethnic Romanians killed for opposing the plundering by Hungarian troops.[8] | |
| March–April 1907 | Peasants rebelling against economic conditions killed in various places across the country | ||||
| 1916 Galați massacre | 13 June 1916 | Galați, Covurlui County, Kingdom of Romania (today Galați, Galați County) | Workers participating in an anti-war demonstration shot by the army[9] [10] | ||
| Lăzarea massacre | 22 September 1916 | Gyergyószárhegy, Austria-Hungary (today Lăzarea, Harghita County) | The leadership of the village was shot in a mass grave without trial, further 57 civilians only escaped because a high-ranking officer arrived and stopped the massacre.[11] | ||
| 8 November 1918 | Jósikafalva, Austria-Hungary (today Beliș, Cluj County) | 41–50 civilians | Mostly ethnic Romanians | ||
| 13 December 1918 | Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania | Striking workers shot by the army | |||
| 19 April 1919 | Köröstárkány and Kisnyégerfalva, Hungarian Soviet Republic (today Tărcaia and Grădinari, Bihor County) | All civilians.[12] | |||
| 6 August 1929 | Lupeni, Hunedoara County, Kingdom of Romania | Striking workers shot by the army and the gendarmerie | |||
| 16 February 1933 | Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania | Striking workers shot by the army and the gendarmerie | |||
| 30 June 1940 | Galați, Covurlui County, Kingdom of Romania (today Galați, Galați County) | Bessarabians returning home and Jewish Romanians wanting to escape the anti-Semitic regime shot while waiting to cross into the Soviet Union | |||
| 1 July 1940 | Dorohoi, Dorohoi County, Kingdom of Romania (today Dorohoi, Botoșani County) | Jewish community in Dorohoi claims the death toll between 165 and 200.[13] | |||
| 8 September 1940 | Szilágynagyfalu, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (today Nușfalău, Sălaj County) | ||||
| 9 September 1940 | Treznea, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (today Treznea, Sălaj County) | ||||
| 14 September 1940 | Ip, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (today Ip, Sălaj County) | 158, including an unborn child[14] | |||
| 26 November 1940 | Jilava, Ilfov County, Kingdom of Romania | ||||
| 22 January 1941 | Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania | Other five Jews were missing and presumed dead.[15] | |||
| 29 June - 6 July 1941 | Iași, Iași County, Kingdom of Romania | Under the direction of Marshal Ion Antonescu, one third of the city's Jewish population was exterminated | |||
| 4 September 1944 | Szárazajta, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (today Aita Seacă, Covasna County) | [16] [17] | |||
| 5–13 September 1944 | Marosludas, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (today Luduș, Mureș County) | ||||
| 17 September 1944 | Nagysármás, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (today Sărmașu, Mureș County) | ||||
| 24 September 1944 | Hărcana, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (today Hărcana, Cluj County) | ||||
| September–October 1944 | Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary | Mihăileni, Gheorgheni, Sândominic, Zimbor, Aghireș, Huedin | |||
| 14 October 1944 | Majszin, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (today Moisei, Maramureș County) | Two men were also seriously injured.[18] | |||
| July 1974 | Around 50 other people were also injured.[19] | ||||
| 16–25 December 1989 | |||||
| 19–21 March 1990 | Hundreds of people were also wounded. | ||||
| 13–15 June 1990 | Bucharest, Romania | ||||
| 25–28 September 1991 | Bucharest, Romania | ||||
| 20 September 1993 | Hădăreni, Mureș County, Romania | ||||
| 5 March 2012 | Bucharest, Romania | A 51-year old man killed 2 people and injured another 8 people in a salon in Bucharest. | |||
| 25 July 2019 | Caracal, Romania | A 65-year old man is suspected to kill 2 minor girls. | |||
| 18 August 2019 | Săpoca, Buzău County, Romania | A 38-year-old man hospitalised at The Săpoca Hospital killed 5 people and hurt 8 with an infusion stand | |||
| 9 August 2022 | Bascov, Argeș County, Romania | A 52-year-old mentally ill man killed 5 members of his family.[20] | |||
| Timișoara killings | 29 June 2023 | Timișoara, Timiș County, Romania | 2 | A 38-year old man killed 2 elder people. |