* 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337, 000 casualties.

Albrecht von Thaer, Staff Officer at Group Wytshchate noted that casualties after 14 days in the line averaged 1, 500 – 2, 000 men compared to the Somme 1916 average of 4, 000 men and that German morale was better than in 1916.

When the village of Douaumont was finally captured by German infantry on 2 March 1916, the Germans had suffered 2, 000 casualties.

The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the war ; by the time fighting paused in late autumn 1916, the forces involved had suffered more than 1 million casualties, making it one of the bloodiest military operations ever recorded.

The battle is best remembered for its first day, 1 July 1916, on which the British suffered 57, 420 casualties, including 19, 240 dead — the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army to this day.

Opponents partly blamed Asquith for events such as the Easter Rising in Ireland ( April 1916 ) and the slow progress and high casualties of the 1916 Battle of the Somme, at which Asquith's son Raymond was killed.

In March 1916 she struck a naval mine off Brindisi and sank with eight casualties.

Hughes was a strong supporter of Australia's participation in World War I and, after the loss of 28, 000 men as casualties ( killed, wounded and missing ) in July and August 1916, Generals Birdwood and White of the Australian Imperial Force ( AIF ) persuaded Hughes that conscription was necessary if Australia was to sustain its contribution to the war effort.

The 13th suffered heavy casualties retreating from Suvla and landing and later evacuating from Helles before being shifted to Mesopotamia in March 1916.

The cemetery on Ferrymuir Lane at the south end of the town is unremarkable other than the very large number of war graves, all for casualties of the Battle of Jutland ( 1916 ) who were brought here for burial.

He was strongly criticised for his tactics and the heavy casualties that were suffered by the Allied armies during these battles, and in December 1916 was removed from command, by Joffre, and sent to command in Italy ; Joffre was himself sacked days later.

By the end of the Dardanelles campaign, casualties were such that the division no longer contained a significant number of naval servicemen and so in July 1916 it was redesignated as the 63rd Division when the original Territorial Force 63rd ( 2nd Northumbrian ) Division was disbanded.

The division remained at Gallipoli until the final evacuation of Helles in January 1916 but was severely depleted by casualties and illness.

Out of a total of 10, 845 men, it had lost 3, 491 on the Loos sector between January and the end of May 1916, including heavy casualties from bombardment and a gas attack at Hullach in April.

Of specific formations, the four Liverpool Pals battalions had nearly 2, 800 casualties, while the 55th Division's 165th ( Liverpool ) Brigade, composed entirely of battalions from the King's, had 1, 672 dead, 6, 056 wounded, and 953 missing during the period of 3 January 1916 and 11 November 1918.

During 1916, the Irish Guards were involved in the Battle of the Somme where they received severe casualties.

Several of these battalions suffered heavy casualties during the Somme offensives of 1916.

At the end of July 1916 the division was withdrawn, having suffered 11, 000 casualties, and in September it was attached to XIV Corps where it joined in the Battle of the Somme by attacking the German fortification known as the Quadrilateral.

Douaumont was later recaptured by the French army in October 1916, after major casualties on both sides.

Japanese officers aboard British warships were casualties at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.

On 1 July 1916, the German Army wiped out most of that regiment at Beaumont Hamel on the first day on the Somme, inflicting 90 percent casualties.

On 1 July 1916, the first Battle of the Somme began, and on the very first day of the offensive, over 57, 000 British soldiers became casualties.

In December 1916 and January 1917, the Latvian riflemen suffered heavy casualties in the month-long Christmas Battles, which began with a surprise attack on German positions during Christmas.

The September 11 attacks presented an unprecedented threat because it involved suicide hijackers who could fly an aircraft and use it to delibrately crash the airplane into buildings for the sole purpose to cause massive casualties with no warning, no demands or negotiations, and no regard for human life.

In Iraq, 8, 262 people were killed in terror attacks in 2005 and 13, 340 in 2006, although not all of theses casualties came from attacks by Islamist groups.

Discussing the hypothetical dangers posed to the US in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks, Franks said that “ the worst thing that could happen ” is if terrorists acquire and then use a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon that inflicts heavy casualties.

The attacks kill 33 civilians and wound almost 300, which is the highest number of casualties in any single day during " The Troubles ".

* October 25 – A Dutch fleet attacks the Portuguese garrison at Elmina castle at present-day Elmina, Ghana, but is defeated with heavy casualties.

Note: This compilation includes only those attacks that resulted in casualties.

The Texians repulsed several attacks and inflicted heavy casualties at the Battle of Refugio.

The German Fourth Army had defeated the British advance to the objectives of 31 July during August but the high casualties and sickness caused by the ground conditions, endless bombardments and air attacks intensified the manpower shortage that the German defensive strategy for 1917 was intended to alleviate.

The Union army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates.

According to Israel, about 9, 000 attacks were launched from 1949 to 1956, resulting in hundreds of Israeli civilian casualties.

The attacks were repulsed with heavy casualties on both sides.

As the German armies retreated towards the German frontier, they were often harried by air attacks and bombing raids by aircraft of the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Force, inflicting casualties and destroying vehicles.

While Funafuti suffered air attacks during 1943, casualties were limited, although on one occasion on 23 April 1943, 680 people took refuge in the concrete walled, pandanus-thatched church.

In June, Human Rights Watch investigated six UAV attacks which was reported to have resulted in civilian casualties, and alleged that Israeli forces either failed to take all feasible precautions to verify that the targets were combatants, or failed to distinguish between combatants and civilians.

Furthermore, if the other party attacks these targets anyway, the resulting civilian casualties have propaganda value.

The attacks by the successive Chinese fireteams were also carefully timed to minimize casualties.

It also reports that there were indiscriminate attacks designed to cause extensive civilian casualties: derailing trains, exploding bombs in markets, restaurants, and other civilian areas between Delhi and Punjab.

Bennigsen repelled several attacks, resulting in huge French casualties, but had to withdraw towards Friedland the following day.

It also included Jean Maximilien Lamarque's 2nd Division, which on 4 July numbered 11 battalions, with some 3, 740 men, but which had seen intense action during the night attacks on 5 July and had taken casualties.

In addition, 189 were killed when American Airlines Flight 77 was crashed into the Pentagon and 44 were killed when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field, bringing the total number of casualties of the September 11 attacks to 2, 977 ( excluding the 19 terrorist hijackers ).

Approximately 200 civilians were killed in the tragic attacks, while the number of American casualties has never been revealed by the United States Department of Defense.

By 12: 00, hundreds of militia cadets from Matanzas had secured Palpite, and cautiously advanced on foot south towards Playa Larga, suffering many casualties during attacks by FAL B-26s.

In the Iraq War, the Bradley proved somewhat vulnerable to improvised explosive device ( IED ) and rocket propelled grenade ( RPG ) attacks, but casualties were light — the doctrine being to allow the crew to escape at the expense of the vehicle.

The initial attacks stunned the US and South Vietnamese armies and took them by surprise, but most were quickly contained and beaten back, inflicting massive casualties on communist forces.