List of massacres in Italy

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Italy and its predecessors (numbers may be approximate):

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
Sack of Genoa	April 5, 1849	Genoa	1000	by Army of Piedmont, after revolt in city
Bronte riots	August 2, 1860	Bronte	21	16 people killed in the riots, 5 sentenced to death as rioters by a drumhead court
Bava-Beccaris massacre	May 9, 1898	Milan	118-450 (+400-2000 wounded)	troops under Bava-Beccaris fired on rioters
Biscari massacre	July 14, 1943	Biscari (now Acate)	71	POWs killed by US troops in two incidents
Canicattì massacre	July 14, 1943	Canicattì	8	US troops fired on looters
Boves massacre	September 8, 1943	Boves	45	mass killing by German occupation troops under Joachim Peiper
Ardeatine massacre	March 24, 1944	Rome	335	mass killing by German occupation troops (SD-Gestapo led by Herbert Kappler)
Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre	August 12, 1944	Sant'Anna di Stazzema	560	mass killing by German occupation troops (SS Reichsfuehrer)
Marzabotto massacre	September 29, 1944	Marzabotto	770+	mass killing by German occupation troops (SS Reichsfuehrer)
Bombing of Gorla	October 20, 1944	Milan	614	USAAF bombers discarded their bombload on a densely inhabited area: among the victims, 184 pupils of the Gorla elementary school
Villarbasse massacre	July 5, 1946	Villarbasse	10	3 of the perpetrators were sentenced to death; this was the last time the death penalty was applied in Italy
Portella della Ginestra massacre	May 1, 1947	Piana degli Albanesi	11 (+33 wounded)	Attack on May Day celebrations by bandits
Ciaculli massacre	June 30, 1963	Ciaculli	7	car bombing of police by Mafia
Viale Lazio massacre	December 10, 1969	Palermo	5	clan warfare by Mafia
Piazza Fontana bombing	December 12, 1969	Milan	17 (+88 wounded)	bombing by terrorists
Piazza della Loggia bombing	May 28, 1974	Brescia	8 (+>90 wounded)	bombing by terrorists
Italicus Express bombing 1974	August 4, 1974	San Benedetto Val di Sambro	12 (+48 wounded)	bombing by terrorists
Acca Larentia killings	January 7, 1978	Rome	3	killing of right-wing activists by Left-wing terrorists
Ustica massacre	June 27, 1980	Tyrrhenian Sea near Ustica	81	airplane brought down by a terrorist bomb or air-to-air missile (findings disputed)
Bologna Station massacre	August 2, 1980	Bologna	85 (+>200 wounded)	bombing by terrorists
Train 904 bombing	December 23, 1984	San Benedetto Val di Sambro	17 (+267 wounded)	terrorist attack by Mafia
Pizzolungo massacre	April 2, 1985	Erice	3 (+5 wounded)	attack on magistrate C Palermo by Mafia
Fiumicino massacre	December 27, 1985	Rome	16	attack at Rome's international airport, probably carried out by Abu Nidal Organization, which also struck at Vienna's international airport on the same day
Capaci massacre	May 23, 1992	Capaci	5	attack on magistrate G Falcone by Mafia
Via d'Amelio massacre	July 19, 1992	Palermo	6	attack on magistrate P Borsellino by Mafia
Via dei Georgofili massacre	May 27, 1993	Florence	5 (+48 wounded)	car bomb by Mafia
Via Palestro massacre	July 27, 1993	Milan	5 (+12 wounded)	?