Mass suicides

18th century samurai battle

The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name Jonestown, was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.

antisemitic massacres across the Holy Roman Empire in 1096 AD

1944 battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands

American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997

thumb|The Rajput ceremony of Jauhar, 1567, as depicted by Ambrose Dudley in Hutchinsons History of the Nations, Jauhar, sometimes spelled Jowhar or Juhar, was a practice of mass self-immolation by Rajput kshatriya women and girls in the Indian subcontinent to avoid capture, sex slavery, enslavement, and rape when facing certain defeat during a war. Some reports of jauhar mention women committing self-immolation along with their children, Jauhar performed to avoid rape and necrophilia by the invading armies. This practice was historically observed in the northwest regions of India, with the mo

main engagement of the Third Punic War in which the Roman Republic besieged the Punic city of Carthage in c. 149–146 BCE

thumb|upright|Monument to the 1906 Puputan, located in Taman Puputan (Puputan Park), Denpasar, [[Bali.]]

suicide of a large number of people

Taiwanese rebellions against Japanese rule

Kenyan religious organization (2003-)

siege marking the end of the First Jewish–Roman War

1803 mass suicide in the Greek War of Independence

Aftermath of World War II

Underground bunker of the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto during WW2

2018 mass suicide case

134–133 BCE siege

Pilėnai (also Pillenen in German) was a hill fort in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Its location is unknown and is subject to academic debates, but it is well known in the history of Lithuania due to its heroic defense against the Teutonic Order in 1336. Attacked by a large Teutonic force, the fortress, commanded by Duke Margiris, tried in vain to organize a defense against the larger and stronger invader. Losing hope, the defenders decided to burn their property and commit mass suicide to deprive the Order of prisoners and loot (cf. scorched earth). This dramatic episode from the Lithuanian Cr

one Nepali poet

Mass suicide incident in Germany

right|250px|thumb|A woodblock print depicting the wife of Onodera Junai, one of the [[forty-seven rōnin. She prepares herself to follow her husband into death.]]

set of 19th-century Russian katorga prisons along the Kara River in Transbaikalia

1842 battle

fought between British and Chinese forces in Chapu (Zhapu), China, in 1842 during the First Opium War

Greek Souliot heroine