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Guria Republic
The Guria Republic was a peasant self-governing entity proclaimed in Guria, Georgia, in 1905, with its own courts and administration, described as the world's first quasi-Marxist state.
Gwanggaeto's campaigns
Gwanggaeto's campaigns (광개토대왕의 정복 활동) were the conquest wars fought between 391 and about 413 by Gwanggaeto the Great, the 19th king of Goguryeo, greatly expanding its territory.
Gyeon Hwon's Revolt
Gyeon Hwon's Revolt (견훤의 난) was a late 9th-century uprising against Silla led by general Gyeon Hwon, who founded Later Baekje and opened the Later Three Kingdoms period.
György Dózsa
György Dózsa (Dózsa György, c. 1470–1514) was a Székely minor noble appointed to lead Hungary's 1514 anti-Ottoman crusade, which became the largest Hungarian peasant revolt, crushed by Zápolya at Temesvár.
Gypsy Hill killings
Gypsy Hill killings, also called the San Mateo Slasher case: murders of five young women in San Mateo County, California, January–April 1976. DNA later linked Rodney Halbower to two murders and the 1976 Reno killing of Michelle Mitchell; Leon Seymour was charged in a third, and Cathy Woods was exonerated.
Hà My massacre
The Hà My massacre was the killing of 135 villagers by South Korean marines in Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam, on 25 February 1968, during the Vietnam War.
Hableány disaster
Hableány disaster: 29 May 2019 Danube collision in Budapest where the Viking Sigyn cruise ship sank the sightseeing boat Hableány (Mermaid), killing 27 of 35 aboard, mostly South Korean tourists; captain convicted, retrial pending.
Haditha massacre
Haditha massacre: killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by US Marines of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion 1st Marines, on November 19, 2005 in Haditha, Iraq, after an IED killed Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas; exposed by Time in 2006, but no Marine served prison time.
Hafid Revolution
The Hafid Revolution (ثورة الحفيظ), known as the Hafidiya, was the 1907–1908 Moroccan movement that deposed Sultan Abd al-Aziz and installed his brother Abd al-Hafid on a platform of resisting France.
Hafiz Saeed
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Pakistani cleric (born 1950, Sargodha), founder and leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba and amir of Jamaat-ud-Dawa; UN-listed 10 December 2008, $10 million US bounty, serving a 78-year terror-financing sentence since 2020.
Hafsid–Marinid war
The Hafsid–Marinid war was a fourteenth-century conflict between the Hafsids of Tunis and the Marinids of Fez, ending the Marinid conquest of Ifriqiya by 1350.
Haidamaka
A haidamaka (Ukrainian: гайдамак) was a mostly peasant insurgent who took part in armed uprisings against Polish noble rule in Right-Bank Ukraine during the 18th century, culminating in the 1768 Koliivshchyna uprising.
Haiphong incident
The Haiphong incident was a November 1946 clash between French forces and the Viet Minh at Haiphong, culminating in a French naval bombardment that killed thousands of Vietnamese civilians.
Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), also called the Saint-Domingue Slave Revolt, saw enslaved people overthrow French colonial rule, abolish slavery, and found independent Haiti in 1804.
Hajduk uprising
The Hajduk uprising (hajdúfelkelés) was the revolt of the hajdúk, Hungarian mercenaries and cattle-guard fighters, which began in October 1604 and became the core of István Bocskai's anti-Habsburg uprising.
Hamas baby beheading hoax
The "40 beheaded babies" claim spread after Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, originating in a conflated i24NEWS report and amplified by politicians and media; fact-checkers found it unverified and no evidence of mass baby beheadings was released.
Hamidian massacres (Համիդյան ջարդեր)
Hamidian massacres (Համիդյան ջարդեր): 1894–1896 mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Abdülhamid II, begun at Sasun, spread by Hamidiye cavalry, with 100,000–300,000 estimated deaths.
Hamza bin Laden
Hamza bin Laden (born 1989, Jeddah), son of Osama bin Laden and Khairia Sabar; al-Qa'ida member announced by Zawahiri in 2015, US SDGT in 2017, killed in a US counterterrorism operation in 2019.
Hangang Bridge bombing
The Hangang Bridge bombing (한강 인도교 폭파 사건) was the demolition of Seoul's Han River bridges by South Korean engineers on June 28, 1950, early in the Korean War.
Hans Frank
Hans Frank (1900–1946) was a German lawyer, Hitler's personal legal advisor, head of the NSDAP legal office, and Governor General of occupied Poland 1939–1945; hanged at Nuremberg in 1946 for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Hans Münch
Hans Wilhelm Münch (1911–2002), Waffen-SS physician at the Rajsko Hygiene Institute near Auschwitz, tested prisoners for typhus and ran Block 10 streptococcus experiments; he was the sole acquitted defendant at the 1947 Kraków Auschwitz trial.
Haqq ad-Din II's war with Ethiopia
Haqq ad-Din II was a sultan of the Walashma dynasty of Adal, a Muslim state in the Horn of Africa, whose reign fell in the early wars with Ethiopia.
Haqqani network
The Haqqani network (HQN) is a semi-autonomous Taliban insurgent group founded by Jalaluddin Haqqani, led by Sirajuddin Haqqani, based in North Waziristan, designated an FTO in 2012, now holding Afghanistan's interior ministry.
Harki massacres
The Harki massacres were reprisal killings after the 19 March 1962 ceasefire of Algerians who had served as auxiliaries in the French army, with death toll estimates from 10,000 to 150,000.
Harry Patch
Harry Patch (Henry John Patch, 1898-2009), English plumber and the last surviving soldier to have fought in the Western Front trenches of WWI; wounded at Passchendaele 1917, author of The Last Fighting Tommy, pacifist who called war organized murder.
Harrying of the North
Harrying of the North: William the Conqueror's scorched-earth campaign of winter 1069–70 against rebels and a Danish force in northern England, mainly Yorkshire; Orderic Vitalis claimed 100,000 deaths, and modern historians debate whether Domesday 'waste' proves genocide.
Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing
The Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing, also known as Harvey's bombing, was a 1980 extortion bombing at Harvey's casino in Stateline, Nevada, which injured no one.
Hasib Hussain
Hasib Mir Hussain (1986–2005) was the youngest of the four 7 July 2005 London suicide bombers; the 18-year-old from Holbeck, Leeds detonated the No 30 bus bomb in Tavistock Square, killing 13 others.
Hatfield rail crash
Hatfield rail crash: 17 October 2000 derailment of a GNER InterCity 225 near Hatfield, England, at about 115 mph on a rail shattered by rolling contact fatigue (gauge corner cracking); four killed, about 70 injured, leading to mass speed restrictions and Railtrack's collapse.
Haw wars
The Haw wars (Thai: สงครามปราบฮ่อ) were conflicts between Siam and armed Chinese bands called the Haw, who moved down from southern China into northern Laos, generally dated 1865 to 1890.