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Sabinada
The Sabinada was a separatist and republican rebellion in Salvador, Bahia, led by the doctor and journalist Francisco Sabino between November 1837 and March 1838.
Sabirs
The Sabirs, also rendered Savirs or Suwars, were a Turkic nomadic people of the fifth and sixth centuries, dominant north of the Caucasus and involved in the Persian-Byzantine wars.
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Sabra and Shatila massacre (صبرا وشاتيلا): killing of 800 to over 3,000 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians in Beirut refugee camps, 16–18 September 1982, by the Phalange-linked Lebanese Forces militia under Israeli army control.
Sack of Baturyn
The Sack of Baturyn (Батуринська трагедія), also called the Baturyn massacre, was the storming and destruction of the Cossack Hetmanate capital by Menshikov's troops in 1708.
Sack of Constantinople
Sack of Constantinople (13 April 1204): looting of the Byzantine capital by the Fourth Crusade and Venetians under Enrico Dandolo, leading to the Latin Empire (1204–1261), the partitio Romaniae, relic transfers to Venice, and papal apologies in 2001 and 2004.
Sack of Delhi (1757)
Sack of Delhi (1757), also called the Fourth Invasion of Ahmad Shah Durrani: the Afghan ruler's occupation and systematic plunder of the Mughal capital, 28 January to 22 February 1757, followed by the Mathura massacre and the path to Panipat.
Sack of Kartasura
The sack of Kartasura was the capture of the Mataram court of Pakubuwana II by Chinese and Javanese rebels on 30 June 1742, ending with the court's removal to Surakarta.
Sack of Magdeburg
The Sack of Magdeburg, or Magdeburg Wedding, was the storming and burning of the Protestant city by Imperial troops on 20 May 1631, killing about 20,000.
Sack of Rome (1527)
The Sack of Rome (Sacco di Roma) was the looting of Rome in May 1527 by troops of Emperor Charles V, forcing Pope Clement VII to flee the city.
Sack of Rome (410)
Sack of Rome (410): Alaric I and his Visigoths entered Rome through the Salarian Gate on 24 August 410 and plundered it for three days, the first foreign capture in about 800 years, sparing churches but burning the Senate House.
Sack of Rome (455)
The Sack of Rome (455): the Vandals under Genseric plundered Rome June 2-16, 455, after Valentinian III and Petronius Maximus were killed, sparing the monuments and taking Eudoxia and her daughters captive to Carthage.
Sack of Somnath
Mahmud of Ghazni's 1025–26 sack of the Somnath Shiva temple in Gujarat: treasure seized, idol destroyed, fragments sent to Ghazni; later remembered as a foundational trauma, a reading Romila Thapar's historiography questions.
Sack of Thăng Long (1371)
The sack of Thăng Long in 1371 was the capture and burning of Đại Việt's capital, present-day Hanoi, by Champa's naval forces under King Chế Bồng Nga, part of their 1367–1390 war.
Safarilink Aviation Flight 053
Safarilink Aviation Flight 053 (F2-53), a Dash 8-315 5Y-SLK Nairobi Wilson–Ukunda flight, collided midair on 5 March 2024 over Nairobi National Park with a Ninety Nines Cessna 172M; two died, all 44 aboard the Dash 8 survived.
Sagamihara stabbings
Sagamihara stabbings (Tsukui Yamayuri En incident): 26 July 2016 mass killing at a Kanagawa disability care home by former employee Satoshi Uematsu; 19 killed, 27 injured; death sentence finalized 2020.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (also al-Qadhafi), second son of Muammar Gaddafi and one-time heir apparent, ICC-indicted 2011, death sentence in absentia 2015, freed 2017, 2021 presidential candidate, shot dead in Zintan 3 February 2026.
Saint Patrick's Battalion
Saint Patrick's Battalion (Batallón de San Patricio, the San Patricios): Mexican army unit of 1846-48, mostly Irish Catholic US Army deserters led by John Riley of Clifden, defeated at Churubusco 1847, fifty hanged, commemorated in Mexico on 12 September.
Sakashita Gate Incident
The Sakashita Gate Incident (坂下門外の変, Sakashitamongai no Hen) was an 1862 attack in which Mito ronin ambushed and wounded shogunate senior councillor Andō Nobumasa outside Edo Castle; he survived.
Sakdalista uprising
The Sakdalista uprising was an armed rebellion launched by the Sakdal movement in the Philippines on May 2, 1935, seizing municipal buildings in Central and Southern Luzon before suppression.
Salafi jihadist insurgency in the Gaza Strip
Salafi jihadist insurgency in the Gaza Strip: armed Sunni factions such as Jaysh al-Islam, Jaysh al-Umma, and Jund Ansar Allah that emerged around 2005, reject Hamas rule, seek sharia, and later aligned with the Islamic State.
Salamaua–Lae campaign
The Salamaua–Lae campaign was a series of 1943 battles in New Guinea during World War II, in which Australian and US forces captured Salamaua and Lae from Japanese forces.
Salvadoran Civil War
Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992), conflict between the Salvadoran government and the FMLN guerrilla front; about 75,000 killed, over $6 billion in US aid, ended by the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accords and UN Truth Commission.
SAM Colombia Flight 601
SAM Colombia Flight 601 (HK-1274, Lockheed Electra) was hijacked 30 May 1973 by Paraguayans Francisco Solano and Eusebio Borja posing as ELN; 60 hours, 22 stops, ended at Ezeiza with US$50,000 ransom.
Samantha Lewthwaite
Samantha Lewthwaite, alias Natalie Webb, the 'White Widow', is a British fugitive born 1983 in Northern Ireland, widow of 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay, wanted via a 2013 Interpol Red Notice by Kenya for a 2011 Mombasa explosives conspiracy, with no court evidence linking her to Westgate.
Samuel J. Seymour
Samuel James Seymour (1860-1956), also called the last witness to Lincoln's assassination, claimed he saw Booth shoot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in 1865 and told the story on I've Got a Secret in February 1956; his presence there is undocumented.
Samuel of Bulgaria
Samuel (Samuil) of Bulgaria, tsar 997–1014 of the First Bulgarian Empire, led decades of war against Basil II, was defeated at Kleidion (Klyuch) in 1014, and died that October; his successors ruled until Byzantium annexed Bulgaria in 1018.
San Juan Hill
San Juan Hill: hill in the San Juan Heights east of Santiago de Cuba, site of the July 1, 1898 Spanish-American War battle involving Roosevelt's Rough Riders and the 9th and 10th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers; also a demolished Manhattan neighborhood and several American peaks.
San Juan massacre
The San Juan massacre (Masacre de San Juan) was a 1967 army attack on Bolivian mining camps in Potosí, killing more than 20 miners and their families.
San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
San Ysidro McDonald's massacre: James Huberty killed 21 people and injured 19 at a San Diego McDonald's on July 18, 1984, before a police sniper killed him; the deadliest U.S. mass shooting at the time.
Sand Creek massacre
Sand Creek massacre: November 29, 1864 attack by 675 Colorado volunteers under Colonel John Chivington on about 750 Cheyenne and Arapaho people at Big Sandy Creek, Colorado Territory, killing over 230, mostly women, children, and elderly; commemorated since 2007 by Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site.