It began on 23 August 1572 in Paris and continued for several weeks as the frenzy spread to other parts of France. No exact date of when it was ended is recorded and the number of casualties remains poorly defined. Certainly many of the victims were not killed because of religion, but were conveniently eliminated to wipe out debts or to settle grudges.
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Early on the morning of 24 August 1572 (St. Bartholomew's Day by the Catholic Church calendar), French Catholic troops began to slaughter unarmed Protestants ( Huguenots), who had gathered in Paris for a royal wedding. The wave of popular violence that followed resulted in the death of some two thousand persons in Paris and another three thousand in other French cities. Known collectively as the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, these events constitute the most infamous episode in the French Wars of Religion and a turning point in these wars.
This is, of course, a question concerning opinion. In European history, some would argue that Catherine de Medici was the bad guy of the 16th century. She basically launched the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which killed thousands of Huguenots (French Protestants).
The Whitman massacre happened on November 29th, 1847, in Seattle
The British evacuated Boston by sea on St. Patrick's Day 1776 after an 11-month siege. And that is why, to this day, kids in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, get St. Patty's day off from school.
The Boston Massacre came first out of the four. March 1770 – Boston Massacre https://homeworkhelp.app/question/which-event-came-first-second-continental-congress-9-boston-tea-party-7-boston-massacre-13-declaration-of-independence/
Wyoming is the state that was named after a valley in Pennsylvania where an Indian massacre occurred. Wyoming is an Indian word for valley.