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Serbian Chetnik Organization
The Serbian Chetnik Organization (Српска четничка организација), or Serbian Revolutionary Organization, was a Serbian paramilitary group formed in 1903 to liberate Kosovo and Macedonia from Ottoman rule.
Serbian Revolution
Serbian Revolution (Српска револуција), 1804–1835: First and Second Serbian Uprisings led by Karađorđe and Miloš Obrenović against Ottoman rule, ending with autonomy, the 1835 Sretenje Constitution, and abolition of feudalism; named by Ranke in 1829.
Serbian Vojvodina uprising
The Serbian Vojvodina uprising (Српска Војводина) was the armed and political struggle of the Serbs of southern Hungary in 1848 and 1849, ending in the Habsburg Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar.
Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876–1878)
The Serbian–Ottoman Wars (Serbian: Српско-турски ратови), also called the Serbian Wars for Independence, were two wars fought by Serbia against the Ottoman Empire in 1876–1877 and 1877–1878.
Serbo-Bulgarian War
The Serbo-Bulgarian War was a brief war between Serbia and Bulgaria from 14 to 28 November 1885, triggered by Serbia's attempt to reverse Bulgaria's unification with Eastern Rumelia.
Sergei Gorshkov
Sergei Gorshkov, born Sergei Georgiyevich Gorshkov, was a Soviet naval officer who commanded the Soviet Navy from 1956 to 1985, building an oceangoing nuclear fleet.
Sétif and Guelma massacre
The Sétif and Guelma massacre was a wave of violence in eastern Algeria that began on 8 May 1945 and pushed the national movement toward the 1954 war of independence.
Seven Days Battles
The Seven Days Battles, June 25 to July 1, 1862, were six engagements near Richmond where Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia drove McClellan's Army of the Potomac back to the James River, ending the Peninsula Campaign and saving the Confederate capital.
Seven Warring States (战国七雄)
The Seven Warring States (战国七雄) were Qin, Chu, Yan, Qi, Han, Zhao, and Wei, the dominant powers of China's Warring States period (475–221 BCE), formed after the partition of Jin and Tian takeover of Qi; Qin conquered the other six by 221 BCE.
Seven Years' War
Seven Years' War (1756–1763), also known in North America as the French and Indian War (from 1754): the first global imperial conflict, pitting Britain and Prussia against France, Austria, Russia, Spain, and Sweden, ending with the Treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg in 1763.
Sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians during the Gaza war
Sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians in the Gaza war: UN Commission of Inquiry, ICC, Amnesty, and HRW findings on rape, detention abuse, reproductive healthcare destruction, and accountability since 7 October 2023.
Sexual and gender-based violence in the October 7 attacks
Sexual and gender-based violence in the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel: UN investigators found reasonable grounds for rape and gang rape at the Nova festival site, Road 232, and Kibbutz Re'im, amid limited forensic evidence and contested public debate.
Seychelles coup attempts
The Seychelles coup attempts were a series of plots against Seychelles' government between 1977 and 1992, starting with the 1977 coup that installed France-Albert René as president.
Seytenga massacre
The Seytenga massacre was the killing of at least 86 residents of Seytenga, Burkina Faso, by Islamic State in the Sahel fighters in June 2022.
Shaba I
Shaba I was the March 1977 invasion of Zaire's Shaba province by about 2,000 exiled Katangan FNLC fighters from Angola, repelled by Zairian forces reinforced with 1,500 Moroccan troops and ended in May 1977.
Shaba II
Shaba II was the second invasion of Zaire's Shaba Province by Katangan rebels, who seized Kolwezi in May 1978 before French and Belgian forces retook the town.
Shaba invasions
The Shaba invasions were two 1977 and 1978 incursions into Zaire's Shaba Province by the FNLC, exiled Katangese gendarmes, repelled after French and Moroccan military intervention.
Shangani Patrol
The Shangani Patrol, also called Wilson's Patrol, was a 34-soldier unit of the British South Africa Company annihilated by Ndebele warriors on the Shangani River in 1893.
Shankill Butchers
The Shankill Butchers were a Belfast loyalist gang associated with the UVF. Eleven members received forty-two life sentences in1979 for offenses including nineteen murders.
Sharpeville massacre
Sharpeville massacre: police killing of 69 unarmed anti-pass protesters at Sharpeville, South Africa, on 21 March 1960, during a PAC campaign; led to banning of ANC and PAC, armed struggle, and Human Rights Day.
Sheepeater Indian War
The Sheepeater Indian War of 1879 was a short US Army campaign in central Idaho against the Tukudika, a Shoshone band, Idaho's last Indian war.
Shell shock
Shell shock was the First World War term, coined by Charles Myers in The Lancet in 1915, for combat-related nervous and mental disorders, later called battle fatigue and now understood as PTSD.
Shenandoah (film)
Shenandoah is a 1965 American Civil War drama directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring James Stewart as a neutral Virginia farmer whose son is taken prisoner.
Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea, also called the Savannah Campaign, was a Union Civil War campaign in which William Tecumseh Sherman led 62,000 men from Atlanta to Savannah in 1864.
Shifta War
The Shifta War was a Somali secessionist conflict in northern Kenya from 1963 to 1967, fought by the region's ethnic Somali inhabitants against the new Kenyan state.
Shimabara Rebellion
The Shimabara Rebellion, or Shimabara no Ran, was a 1637–1638 peasant and Christian uprising on Kyushu, Japan, whose rebels were starved out and massacred at Hara Castle.
Shindand SuperCobra incident
Shindand SuperCobra incident: label for a reported 26 September 1988 Soviet shootdown of two Iranian AH-1 SuperCobras near Shindand, Herat Province, unconfirmed by authoritative sources; article documents the well-sourced 2007 and 2008 Shindand strikes often conflated with it.
Shirō Ishii (石井四郎)
Shirō Ishii (石井四郎), 1892–1959, Japanese army physician who commanded Unit 731's human-experimentation and biological-warfare program; granted US immunity in exchange for experiment data, never prosecuted.
Shooting of Charles Kinsey
Shooting of Charles Kinsey: July 18, 2016 North Miami, Florida police shooting of unarmed behavioral therapist Charles Kinsey by officer Jonathan Aledda while Kinsey aided autistic client Arnaldo Rios Soto; led to negligence trial and autism-training legislation.
Shooting of Marimar Martinez
Marimar Martinez, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen, was shot five times by CBP agent Charles Exum in Chicago's Brighton Park on October 4, 2025, during Operation Midway Blitz; charges against her were dismissed and she later sued.