Trivia: What was the bloodiest year in human history?

[DeadlyDynasty]

1916
1942
1943
1944
1945

?

[JoeTait75]

1916
1942
1943
1944
1945

?

I'm going to say 1916. Verdun, the Somme and the Brusilov Offensive all in the same year. IIRC the Armenian Genocide may have happened that year too.

[exstatic]

1918. An estimated 20-40 million deaths from Spanish flu worldwide. That tops the most virulent four years (1347-1351) of the Black Plague, combined,

[DeadlyDynasty]

1918. An estimated 20-40 million deaths from Spanish flu worldwide. That tops the most virulent four years (1347-1351) of the Black Plague, combined,

I said bloody (as in people killing other people), not disease.

[DeadlyDynasty]

I'm going to say 1916. Verdun, the Somme and the Brusilov Offensive all in the same year. IIRC the Armenian Genocide may have happened that year too.

:lolI don't know the answer tbh, but my gut tells me 1916 too. Verdun and the Somme alone were catastrophic. The Armenian Genocide was going strong too, but 1915 and post-WW1 showed increased "killing" of the Armenians

[mavs>spurs]

what year was mao on top of his rein of terror? he killed almost as many people as those who died in ww1 and 2 combined. government..the biggest killer in mankind history tbh democide.

[DeadlyDynasty]

tbh I don't know much about Mao, but I think he spread his killing out over the length of his tenure. If I had to guess, the Cultural Revolution (whatever years it was) was probably the height of his killing.

[mavs>spurs]

i guess mao's was over a longer stretch of time tho, and ww2 was all in a span of a few years so technically one of the ww2 years had to be more bloody for a 1 year peak

[mavs>spurs]

^oh hi yeah what u just said

[leemajors]

Sieges of Leningrad and Stalingrad are up there too, but according to Wikipedia Battle of Baghdad in 1258 is tops with 2mill + including civilians.

[exstatic]

I said bloody (as in people killing other people), not disease.

One physician writes that patients with seemingly ordinary influenza would rapidly "develop the most viscous type of pneumonia that has ever been seen" and later when cyanosis appeared in the patients, "it is simply a struggle for air until they suffocate," (Grist, 1979). Another physician recalls that the influenza patients "died struggling to clear their airways of a blood-tinged froth that sometimes gushed from their nose and mouth."

Sounds bloody to me. You're moving the goalposts.

[DeadlyDynasty]

You're an idiot.

[JoeTait75]

:lolI don't know the answer tbh

You asked a trivia question that you didn't know the answer to?

That's messed up.

BTW, Rasputin was murdered in 1916, which is like 4-5 deaths in one.

[DeadlyDynasty]

You asked a trivia question that you didn't know the answer to?

That's messed up.

BTW, Rasputin was murdered in 1916, which is like 4-5 deaths in one.

I was gonna crunch the #'s later, but apparently 2 million scros died in baghdad 800 years ago. The more i think about it the more im leaning towards 1942 or 43. Stalingrad, liquidation of the polish ghettos, Treblinka and Sobibor

[NASpurs]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_by_casualties

Operation Barbarossa has 1.4 mil to 5 mil in 1941... pretty crazy.

The Chinese Civil War had about 2 million dead in 1948.

[Latarian Milton]

flu claimed an astronomical number of lives and that was sad but i don't think any flu-plagued year should be described as "bloody" since flu doesn't cause no bleeding or shit. 45 might be the bloodiest year because the two atom bombs killed millions of innocent japanese people in just a few seconds, and even more people died of radiation-related syndromes shortly afterwards, not to say the radiative residue would continue to affect people's health for decades to go as an aftermath.

japs were assholes during the WW2 and they probably deserved what they received but i would never call it a victory for neither side when so many innocent people had lost their lives because of that shit. japs provoked the war vs. US and americans made the right response, shitheads fucked with us and we must make them pay. but in terms of politics, US fought the wrong side.

[exstatic]

:lolI don't know the answer tbh, but my gut tells me 1916 too. Verdun and the Somme alone were catastrophic. The Armenian Genocide was going strong too, but 1915 and post-WW1 showed increased "killing" of the Armenians


You're an idiot.

Look in the mirror. The idiot is there.

[jeebus]

Operation Barbarossa has 1.4 mil to 5 mil in 1941... pretty crazy.

that's quite the variable. I'm gonna start saying between 2000 and 1 million americans died in the Iraqi War. :lol

I'm gonna go with 1916. Verdun, Somme, and the Russian clusterfuck offensive all in the same year is just crazy. And that's just the super major offensives, not counting the rest of the front, Africa, Middle East, etc.

[DMC]

Nukes killed a lot more that reported. Had it hit China instead, half the world's population would be happier.

[redzero]

Whenever the Mongols went HAM on Eurasia.

[leemajors]

I was gonna crunch the #'s later, but apparently 2 million scros died in baghdad 800 years ago. The more i think about it the more im leaning towards 1942 or 43. Stalingrad, liquidation of the polish ghettos, Treblinka and Sobibor

Just saw this out of curiosity after redzero posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)

Only January 29 until February 10, 1258 and possibly 2 mill, probably half that. Mongols with "minimal" casualties.

[jeebus]

Just saw this out of curiosity after redzero (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=16145) posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)

Only January 29 until February 10, 1258 and possibly 2 mill, probably half that. Mongols with "minimal" casualties.

It was probably a rapefest, literally and figuratively. lol at destroying the library of baghdad; fucking savage mongoloids