The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (126 page)

Holy Land, 98–106, 107, 109

Holy League, 237–39

Holy Roman Empire, 103, 215–22

Honan Province, 373

Hong Kong, 286, 378, 491

Hong Taiji, Emperor of China, 227

Hongwu, 141, 142, 153

Hong Xiuquan, 282, 286–93

Honoria,
63,
66–67, 537

Honorius, Emperor of Rome, 62, 63,
63,
64, 65

Hooker, Richard, 576
n

Ho Ping-to, 593
n
–94
n,
601
n

Ho Quy Ly, King of Dai Viet, 154

Horn of Africa, 487–88

Horseshoe Bend, Battle of, 182

Hotel Rwanda,
519
n

Howard, Oliver O., 595
n

Howell, Edgar M., 403
n

Hsenwi, 197

Hsi, 89

Hsiao, Duke, 10

Huanzhou, 302

Huascar, 179

Hubei Province, 380

Hudson’s Bay Company, 328

Hue, 469, 473

Huerta, Victoriano, 340

Huguenots, 198–205

Hui, 109, 297, 302–3, 531, 544, 551

Hui Rebellion, 109, 302–3, 531, 544, 551

Huitzilopochtli, 156

Huizong, Emperor of China, 113–14

Hulagu Khan, 130–31, 530, 533, 545

Humaita, 305

Hume, David, 168

Humphrey, Hubert, 471

Hunan Province, 224

Hundred Flowers campaign, 431

Hundred Years War, 132–39, 201, 530, 547, 551

Hungary, 66, 99, 104, 237, 238, 356, 369, 390, 402, 408, 418, 423, 424, 455, 456, 604
n

Hunt, G. W., 317–18

Hus, Jan, 198

Hussein, Saddam, xvii, 192, 271–72, 509–11, 512, 514–16, 531, 542, 548, 550, 561

Hyderabad, 313, 314

ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad, xv

Ibn al-Athir, 121

Ibn Battuta, 83

Ibn Sina, 120

Icarus, 24

Iceland, 85

Idaho, 182

Il-Khans, 147, 149

Inca Empire, 172, 178–79, 180, 585
n

Inchon, 442

India, 107, 109, 110, 112, 114, 144–47, 150, 153, 229, 233–36, 258, 286, 309–15, 327–28, 352, 377, 409, 418, 427–28, 481, 483, 484, 531, 529, 537–38, 544, 545, 546, 547, 550, 552, 556, 558, 575
n

Indianapolis,
USS, 419

Indian Ocean, 314, 419
n

Indian Ocean tsunami (2004), 419
n

Indian Wars, North American, 172
n,
181–86, 562

India Office, 313

Indochina, 405, 409, 416, 417, 425–26, 531, 546, 561, 552

Indonesia, 192, 409, 418, 474, 475, 476–77, 491, 531, 537, 559

Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), 476

Indonesian Purge, 531, 537

Indore, 314

Industrial Revolution, 169–70, 295, 553

Inkerman, Battle of, 295

Inner Mongolia, 227

Innocent III, Pope, 104, 127, 128

Inquisition, 129, 159, 172

Institutional Revolutionary Party, 343

Interahamwe, 520–22, 523

International Brigades, 397, 398, 399

International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 377

International Rescue Committee (IRC), 527, 620
n

Ionia, 3

Iran, xv, 7, 123, 149, 192, 271, 390, 427, 444, 505, 507, 508, 510, 512–13, 531, 544, 550, 561

Iranian Revolution, 512

Iran-Iraq War, 510, 512–13, 531, 544, 550, 561

Iraq, xiv, 7, 41, 59, 130–31, 192, 271–72, 357, 509–16, 531, 544, 550, 558, 560, 561, 562, 618
n

Iraq War, xiv, 41, 59, 272, 511, 515, 560

Ireland, 85, 107, 109, 231–32, 354–55, 356, 400, 531, 544, 545, 558

Irish Potato Famine, 558

Irkutsk, 363

Iron Curtain, 424

Irving, David, 415
n

Isabella, Queen of France, 135

Isandlwana, Battle of, 337

Isfahan, 149

Ishi, 189

Islam’s Black Slaves
(Segal), 87

Isonzo River, 355

Israel, xv, 42, 192–93, 357, 417, 463, 484, 512, 559

Issus, 6–7

Italia, 32

Italian Somaliland, 487

Italo-Ethiopian War, 395–96, 486, 530, 545, 546, 604
n

Italy, 5, 27, 32, 72, 76–77, 219, 220–21, 262, 264, 327, 338, 345, 352, 355, 362, 370, 376, 390, 395–96, 397, 398, 400, 401–2, 404, 406, 408, 411,
412,
417,
486, 530, 545, 546, 559, 604
n,
605
n

Iturbide, Agustin de, 276

Ivan IV (the Terrible), Tsar of Russia, 202, 207–8, 211, 212–13, 394

Ivan V, Tsar of Russia, 242

Ivory Coast, 499

Ivry, Battle of, 203

Iwo Jima, 336

Jackson, Andrew, 172
n,
182

Jacobins, 260

Jaguar Knight, 157

Jamaica, 161, 166, 167

James River, 181

Jamestown, 185

Janissaries, 237

Janjaweed, 464

Japan, 17, 108, 110, 229, 293, 359, 361, 364, 372, 374–79, 381, 400, 405–6, 408–9, 412–13, 416–17,
417,
418, 419, 425, 439, 443, 446, 516, 537, 563, 607
n,
608
n

Jebe, 122–23

Jefferson, Thomas, 108
n,
270

Jehovah’s Witnesses, 407

Jena, Battle of, 264, 267

Jericho, 192

Jerusalem, 50–51, 52, 67, 75, 98, 101, 102–3, 105, 107, 294, 352

Jesuits, 196, 213, 216, 219, 286, 382

Jesus Christ, xv, 61–62, 108
n,
111, 126, 127

Jewish Diaspora, 52

Jews, 5, 42, 50–52, 84, 99, 101, 108, 111, 112, 113, 116, 172, 186, 190, 192–93, 213, 357, 365, 377, 383, 388, 393, 403, 407–8, 417, 418, 420, 422, 423, 479, 525, 531, 532
n,
535–36, 545, 546

Jiang Qing, 435, 436, 437, 537

Jiangxi Soviet, 375

Jin dynasty, 8, 9, 53, 57–58, 119–20, 122, 123, 225

Jinjibao, 303

Jinnah, Mohammed, 427

Jintian, Battle of, 289

Joanna (the Mad) of Castille, 249
n

Joan of Arc, 136–37

Johannes, 65

John I, King of France, 134

John III Sobieski, King of Poland, 238

Johnson, Lyndon B., 465, 466–67, 471

John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, 136

Jonacatepec, 342–43

Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 250, 251

Josephus, 52

Joshua, 109, 192

Judaism, 51, 108
n,
112, 113

Julius Caesar
(Shakespeare), xvi
n

Junkers, 256–57

Jupiter, 51

Jura Mountains, 274

Jurchens, 225

Justin I, Byzantine Emperor, 74

Justina,
63

Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor, 74–77, 85, 530, 545, 552, 574
n

Kabila, Joseph, 526–27

Kabila, Laurent, 523, 524–26

Kabul, 64, 505, 506

Kagame, Paul, 521–22, 523, 524

Kaifeng, 119–20, 224

Kali, 111

Kaliningrad, 422

Kamal, Babrak, 506, 507

Kamenev, Lev, 383, 386

Kampala, 501

Kansas, 315

Kansas-Wyoming front line, 444–45

Karachai, 191

Kashi Vishwanath temple, 234

Katai, 328

Katanga, 328

Katyn Forest massacre, 188, 189, 388

Katz, Stephen, 184

Kaufman, Konstantin, 153

Keegan, John, 400
n,
418
n

Kemal, Mustafa (Ataturk), 370, 371, 542

Kennedy, John F., xiv

Kennedy, Robert F., 471

Kent State shootings (1970), 472

Kenya, 92, 280, 487

Kerensky, Aleksandr, 360

Kesava Deo temple, 234

KGB, 384
n

Khalifah, 320

Khartoum, 292, 321–22, 463

Khayyam, Omar, 120

Khe Sanh, 469, 470

Khitan, 88, 89

Khmer Rouge, 188, 465, 471–72, 492–95, 547

Khrushchev, Nikita, 431

Khumalo, 280

Khwarezm, 120–22, 123, 147–48

Kibombo, 527–28

Kiernan, Ben, 495

Kiev, 365–66, 403

Kilmer, Joyce, 351

Kilwa, 81

Kim Il-sung, 439, 440, 446–48, 449, 456

Kim Jong-il, 446, 448–52

Kim Pyong-il, 448–49

Kindermord (Massacre of the Innocents), 347

Kingdom of the Pacified South (Nanping Guo), 297, 298

King Philip’s War, 181

Kinshasa, 525

Kirov, Sergei, 385–86

Kitchener, Herbert, 324

Kleve, 256

Knights Hospitallers, 102, 198

Knights of Rhodes, 152

Knights Templars, 102, 198

Knox, John, 199

Koestler, Arthur, 399

Kolchak, Aleksandr, 363

Kolyma River, 385

Komuch, 359, 364

Konarha Province, 507

Kongo, 161, 162

Konigsberg, 422

Koprulu family, 237

Koran, 152

Kordofan, 322–23

Korea, 78–79, 364, 390–91, 409, 439, 455, 533, 552, 563, 545

Korean Airlines Flight 007 shootdown (1983), 448

Korean War, 357, 429, 432, 439–45, 470, 474–75, 530, 533, 545, 552

Korean War: No Victors, No Vanquished
(Sandler), 444
n

Kornilov, Lavr, 365

Kosovo, 239

Kowalsky, Henry, 331

Kremlin, 148, 206, 209

Krishna, 234

Krishna River, 144

Krupp armaments, 336

Kublai Khan, 14
n,
119

Ku Klux Klan, 542

Kulbarga, 144

Kuldja, 254

Kunduz, 507

Kunduzcha, Battle of, 150

Kunming, 297

Kunstkamera, 246

Kunyang, Siege of, 48

Kuo Tzu-hsing, 141

Kurapaty, 386–87

Kurosawa, Akira, 229

Kursk, Battle of, 406

Kut, 352

Kuwait, 272, 510, 514

Lady Alice,
325

Lagoda, Lake, 404–5

Lagos, 479

Lake Region (Africa),
496,
519, 523

Lancashire, 313

Lancet,
560

Langi tribe, 484

Languedoc, 127–29

Lao Ai, 11–12

Lao-Tzu, 113

Laos, 425, 426, 465, 467, 472, 473, 475, 493

La Rochelle, 202

Las Casas, Bartolome de, 160, 186

Last Samurai, The,
293

Late Antiquity, 71

Latin America, 270, 344, 453
n