Cannibalism in Europe

717-718 combined land and sea offensive by the Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate against the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople

famine in 14th century medieval Europe

410 Visigoth siege and looting of Rome

1346-1347 siege by King Edward III during the Hundred Years' War

431 BCE battle

400 px|thumb|The approximate locations of the Sicambri and Bructeri in about 10 BC The Usipetes or Usipii (in Plutarch's Greek, Ousipai, and possibly the same as the Ouispoi of Ptolemy) were an ancient Germanic people who entered the written record when they encountered Julius Caesar in 56/55 BC when they attempted to find a new settlement west of the Rhine, together with the Tencteri, who were both attempting to move away from the aggressions of the Suevi on the east side of the Rhine. After the Romans slaughtered a great number of both tribes, they resettled on the east bank with the help of

The Androphagi were an ancient Scythian tribe whose existence was recorded by ancient Greco-Roman authors. They were closely related to the Melanchlaeni and the Budini.

9th-century siege in Sicily

series of campaigns waged by William the Conqueror in the winter of 1069–70

1590 diege of the French Wars of Religion

134–133 BCE siege

14th century French tax revolt

famine in northern Europe

history of human cannibalism in Europe

thumb|Apothecary containers for Axungia hominis (human fat), 17th-18th centuries. Sacamantecas ("Fat extractor" in Spanish) or mantequero ("Fat seller/maker") is the Spanish name for a kind of bogeyman or criminal characterized by killing for human fat.

Spanish child killer