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Timeline of human sacrifices

December 18, 2023

This is a list of notable human sacrifices and events relating to them.

Ancient edit

  • 3500 BC: Three men were sacrificed during a burial of unnknown man near the town of Shendi in modern Sudan.[1]
  • 31st century BC: Pharaoh Hor-Aha was buried alongside his servants in the first Egyptian case of retainer sacrifice.[2]
  • 30th century BC: Pharaoh Qa'a was buried alongside his servants in the last Egyptian case of retainer sacrifice.[2]
  • c. 3000 BC: Archeological evidence of human sacrifice in Başur Höyük in Turkey.[3]
  • 2500 BC: Human sacrifice was performed in ancient city of Ur.[4]
  • 1700 - 1550 BC: Evidence of human sacrifice by Kerma culture in modern Sudan.[5]
  • 9th century BC: Arzhan culture kurgan contains evidence of human sacrifice among Scythian people.[6]
  • 678 BC: Duke Wu, the tenth ruler of Qin, had 66 people buried with him.
  • 621 BC: The 14th ruler Duke Mu had 177 people buried with him, including three senior government officials
  • 6th-4th century BC: Archeological evidence of human sacrifice in south-western Bulgaria.[7][8]
  • 5th century BC: Herodotus reports of human sacrifice among Scythian people.[6]
  • 480 BC: According to Plutarch, Greek commander Themistocles sacrificed three Persian prisoners of war before the Battle of Salamis.[9]
  • 228 BC: First known case of human sacrifice in Ancient Rome.[10]
  • 216 BC: Second known case of human sacrifice in Ancient Rome: pair of Gauls and Greeks were buried alive at Forum Boarium following defeat at Cannae.[10]
  • 114 BC: Last human sacrifice occurred in Roman Empire: pair of Gauls and Greeks were buried alive at Forum Boarium.[10]
  • 97 BC: Roman senate outlawed human sacrifice.[10]
  • First century BC: Archeological remains of human sacrifice near the Egyin Gol River in Mongolia.[11]

Medieval edit

  • 323: Emperor Nintoku of Japan had a divine revelation in his dream to the effect that there was a person named Kowakubi in the province of Musashi and a person called Koromono-ko in the province of Kawachi. If they should be sacrificed to deities of the two rivers respectively, then the construction of embankments would be easily achieved. Kowakubi was subsequently thrown into the torrent of the Kitakawa river, with a prayer offered. After the sacrifice the embankment was constructed, Koromono-ko however escaped being sacrificed.[12]
  • 464: First mention of sati (widow sacrifice) in Nepal – king Manadeva I forbade his mother from following this practice.[13]
  • 5h century: Human sacrifices occurred during building of Banwolseong palace in Korea.[14]
  • 4th–6th century: Traces of human sacrifice in Ballana burial site in Nubia.[15]
  • Late 7th century: According to a tale, Wulfram of Sens prevent a sacrifice of Frisian king Radbod's son.[16]
  • 502: King of Korea outlawed human sacrifice.[17]
  • 845: Last human sacrifice in Ireland.[18]
  • 893: Last human sacrifice in Britain.[19]
  • 9th century: Burial with five sacrificed bodies was found in Igbo Ukwu town in Nigeria.[20]

10th century edit

  • 922: Arab traveler Ahmad Ibn Fadlan recorded funeral sacrifice of a female slave of dead Viking ruler in today's Kazan in Russia.[21]
  • c. 978: Theodore the Varangian and his son John were killed during human sacrifice in pagan Kiev.
  • 980: Four children were sacrificed according to archeological findings during building of Trelleborg fortress in Denmark.[22]
  • 1000: Last human sacrifice in Iceland. Two men from each province were sacrificed.[23]
  • 10th century: Ibn Hawqal mentions human sacrifice in kingdom of Ghana.[20]

11th century edit

  • 1024: Human sacrifice by volkhovy reported in Suzdal in Russia.[24]
  • 1066: John Scotus (bishop of Mecklenburg) was sacrificed to Radegast, the god of hospitality.[25]
  • 1071: Human sacrifice of women by volkhvy was reported in a Rostov village in Rus.[26]
  • 11th century: Al-Bakri mentions sacrifice of servants during royal burial in Ghana.[20]
  • Late 11th century: Arabic writer Abd-el-Aziz El-Bekri describes funeral sacrifice of Nubian kings.[15]

13th century edit

  • Late 12th/early 13th century: Archeological evidence of sacrifice of 14 people in Shangjing town of Liao Dynasty.[27]
  • 1265: Hulagu Khan funeral featured last known human sacrifice of rule descending from Genghis Khan.[28]

14th century edit

  • 1326: Following Nepali king Jayarudramalla death, four of his wives were burned.[13]
  • 1342: Gediminas's funeral included a human sacrifice, with his favourite servant and several German slaves being burned on the pyre with the corpse.[29]
  • 1350s: During his travel to Africa Ibn Battuta mentions human sacrifice at the funeral of king of Gobir in Hausaland.[20]
  • 1389: Following the military victories in the land of Medininkai the Samogitians cast lots which indicated Marquard von Raschau, the commander of Klaipėda (Memel), as a suitable victim for gods and burnt him on horseback in full armour. It possibly was the last human sacrifice in medieval Europe.[30]
  • 1398: At least 38 concubines were killed as part of Hongwu's funeral human sacrifice.[31][32]

15th century edit

  • 1439: Zhu Youdun, a grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang was buried alongside his wife and six concubines.[2]
  • 1464: Tianshun Emperor, in his will, forbade the practice of human sacrifice for Ming emperors and princes.
  • 1481: When king Yakshamalla of Nepal died, one of his wives refused to become sati, while other was burned.[13]
  • 1490s: Al-Suyuti mentions of practice of substitute sacrifice in kingdom of Gobir which involved sick people killing others.[20]

16th century edit

  • 1500s: Valentin Fernandes mentions sacrifice of wives and attendants during burials of kings among Mandingo and Beafada people in the Guinea region.[20]
  • 1539: Mention of widespread human sacrifice in Benin kingdom by Christian missionaires.[20]
  • 1560s: Bayinnaung banned human sacrifice in the Burmese Empire.[33]
  • 1578: Altan Khan banned human sacrifice in Mongolia.[34]
  • 1592: Mạc Mậu Hợp was ritually killed in a last known case of human sacrifice in Vietnam.[35]

17th century edit

  • 1620s: Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba engaged in human sacrifice to boost morale of her troops.[36]
  • 1633: Jan Oosterwijck describes sacrifice of 22 female slaves during a burial of a queen on Bali island.[37]
  • 1634: Jeremias van Vliet describes sacrifice of four pregnant women during building a fort in Thailand.[38]
  • 1660s: Olfert Dapper mentions human sacrifice in kingdom of Vai in modern Sierra Leone, in Ivory Coast, Gold Coast and the kingdom of Allada.[20]
  • 1673: Emperor Kangxi of the Qing dynasty banned human sacrifice.[39]
  • 1674: When king Pratnamalla of Nepal died, nine of his wives were burned.[13]
  • 1676: Human sacrifices were performed during founding of Ava city in Myanmar.[40]
  • 1684: Three Franciscan friars were killed, probably by heart sacrifice, at the Manche Chʼol settlement of Paliac on the Caribbean coast of Belize. They included Francisco Custodio, Marcos de Muros, and an unnamed lay brother.[41]
  • February 1696: Franciscan friar Juan de San Buenaventura and an unspecified Franciscan companion were taken to Nojpetén during a skirmish between the Yucatec Spanish and the Itza on the west shore of Lake Petén Itzá. The Itza high priest AjKin Kan Ekʼ later related that he had the Franciscans bound in the form of crosses and then cut out their hearts.[42] About a month later a Guatemalan Spanish expedition was ambushed and slaughtered; Dominican friars Cristóbal de Prada and Jacinto de Vargas were taken across to the island of Nojpetén and were similarly bound to X-shaped crosses before having their hearts cut out.[43]
  • 1687: When king Parthivendramalla of Nepal died, 24 of his wives were sacrificed.[13]
  • 1600s: Madagascar king Andriamasinavalona performed mock human sacrifice asking one man to volunteer and then released him and granted him immunity from punishment.[44]

18th century edit

  • 1724: Chevalier des Marchais reported that human sacrifice was prevalent in Liberia.[45]
  • 1725: Upon the death of "Tattooed Serpent" in 1725, the war chief and younger brother of the "Great Sun" or Chief of the Natchez; two of his wives, one of his sisters (nicknamed La Glorieuse by the French), his first warrior, his doctor, his head servant and the servant's wife, his nurse, and a craftsman of war clubs all chose to die and be interred with him, as well as several old women and an infant who was strangled by his parents.
  • 1727: 4,000 people were killed during a ceremony in Dahomey.
  • 1750s: Queen Pokou in modern Ivory Coast allegedly sacrificed her son to cross a river.[46]
  • 1775: When king of Nepal Prithvinarayana Shaha died nine women including his wife were sacrificed.[13]
  • 1780: Nepal outlawed human sacrifice.[47]

19th century edit

  • 1806: When king of Nepal Ranabahadura Shaha was assassinated, fourteen female slaves and one concubine were sacrificed. His wife was later forced to become sati.[13]
  • 1809: Kanihonui was ritually killed for having sexual affair with queen of Hawaii in possibly last case of ritual sacrifice in Hawaii.[48]
  • 1815: The last recorded human sacrifice in Tahiti, described by Samuel Henry, which took place after the battle of Fei Pi in 1815.[49]
  • 1817: According to an account, in Tonga, a child was strangled to assist the recovery of a sick relation.[50]
  • 1829: Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829 prohibited sacrifice of wives in British India.
  • 1838: In a last human sacrifice among the Pawnee tribe, Haxti, a 14-year-old Oglala Lakota girl was killed.[51]
  • 1839: Eighty women were strangled to accompany the spirits of their husbands to the next world in Viwa Island in Fiji.[52]
  • October 1843: Slave girls was shot to accompany the funeral of wife of local king on the island of Waiheke, near Auckland.[52]
  • 1850: Funeral sacrifices were abolished in Old Calabar.[20]
  • 1853: Dahomey king limited ritual killings to criminals.[20]
  • 1854: Prime minister of Nepal Jung Bahadur Rana restricted which women could be sacrificed during sati ritual, including criminalizing forcing woman to become sati.[13]
  • 1857: During the founding of the city of Mandalay in Myanmar a pregnant woman was reportedly sacrificed.[53]
  • 1858: Following the death of Gezo ritual killings of war captives resumed in Dahomey.[20]
  • 1861: Last recorded case of human sacrifice of Meriah among Khonds people in India.[54]
  • 1863: Igbo state of Abo accepted a treaty abolishing human sacrifice.[20]
  • 1867: Last human sacrifice was performed in Anaho in French Polinesia.[55]
  • 1868: Last recorded human sacrifice among Mayas in Chamula of Chiapas.[56]
  • 1870s: Last cases of human sacrifice among Tlingit people in Alaska were reported.[57]
  • 1874: Treaty imposed on Asante by British expedition aimed to abolish human sacrifice.[20]
  • 1876: Following the treaty Asante limited ritual killings to convicted murderers.[20]
  • 1877: Following death of Jung Bahadur Rana, three of his wives burnt themselves.[13]
  • April or May 1877: Last royal-sponsored human sacrifise in Cambodia in Ba Phnom.[58]
  • 1881: Asante abolished public executions at religious ceremonies.[20]
  • 1887:
    • the last human sacrifice in connection with a funeral among Yombe people occurred when nine women were buried with their dead husband.[59]
    • Last recorded human sacrifice at Mount Tláloc in Mexico.[60]
  • 1890: Last human sacrifice occurred in Baliy area in Sarawak.[61]
  • 1892: French conquest suppressed human sacrifises in Dahomey.[20]
  • 1890s:
    • Europeans conquered Benin and Asaba banning human sacrifice.[20]
    • Funeral sacrifices of wives of chefs and witches stopped among Mapuche tribes in Argentina following state conquest of their territory.[62]
  • July 1893: Last human sacrifise in Ondo region in Nigeria took place when two slaves were killed at Oyegbata's funeral. After that British forced the region to stop the practice.[63]
  • 1895: First recorded ritual killing for medicine in British Lesotho.[64]
  • 1900: Last royal sacrifice occurred among Kuba people in Congo.[65]

20th century edit

  • 1903: In the last case of human sacrifice on Bali island in Indonesia two women were killed in Tabanan.[37]
  • 1909: Ritual sacrifice of a boy by elders was reported in Philippines. Perpetrators sentence was suspended upon promise of ending the practice.[66]
  • 1911: The last ritual sacrifices with death of Chitimukulu in Zambia occurred.[67]
  • 1912: A Kazakh chief was skinned to make a religious implement by Ja Lama, who also cut the chief's heart out of his chest. Another Kazakh was also skinned.[68]
  • 1915: Human sacrifices were reportedly still performed in Kamuku territory in Nigeria.[69]
  • 8 July 1920: Ritual burning of widows was fully banned in Nepal.[13]
  • 1923: In Chigango's Kraal in Rhodesia son of local chief was sacrificed to appease rain goddess. Two people were found guilty and sentenced to death.[70]
  • 1925: Duna boy was killed by Huli tribe in Papua New Guinea in a human sacrifice ritual.[71]
  • 1927–8: British forces sent several expeditions into upper Myanmar convincing local chiefs to stop human sacrifise.[72]
  • January 1929: Last pre-ww2 human sacrifise in Upper Burma is recorded in Manmao village.[72]
  • 1931: Government of Assam sentenced all adult members of villages near Burma border engaged in human sacrifise to punitive labor.[72]
  • 4 December 1933: Khanty tribe ritually sacrificed group of Soviet soldiers. It is only known case of human sacrifice among the group.[73]
  • 1940-5: Last reported cases of human sacrifice among Hadjarai people in Chad.[74]
  • 1946: During raids by villagers from Naga hills in Myanmar number of slaves were taken, some of them later sold for human sacrifice. This is last record by British administration in Myanmar of human sacrifice.[72]
  • 1945: Young girl was ritually killed in Elmina in Ghana. Five men were convicted and hanged.[75]
  • 1949: Two chiefs were hanged in British Lesotho for ritual killings of people for medicine.[64]
  • 1960: In the aftermath of 1960 Valdivia earthquake in Chile 5-year-old boy is sacrificed by local Maluchem tribe. Two accused were released from prison after two years
  • 1966: Last reported ritual killing for medicine in Lesotho.[64]
  • 1976–7: A series of ritual killings dubbed Maryland ritual killings occurred in Liberia. Seven of the alleged perpetrators were executed.[76]
  • 1971: Head of cargo cult in the East Sepik District in New Guinea threatened to sacrifice a boy.[77]
  • 1972: Last beheading during head hunting reportedly occurred among Ingolots of New Guinea.[78]
  • 1975: Last human sacrifice in Mayong village in Assam occurred.[79]
  • 1987: India strengthened penalties against ritual burning of widows via Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987.
  • 1989–97: During the First Liberian Civil War General Butt Naked engaged in multiple human sacrifices.

1990s edit

  • 1990: 30 people were arrested following ritual killing of a woman by cult in Gabon.[80]
  • 1991-2001: Kamajors militias are accused of engaging in human sacrifices during the Sierra Leone Civil War.[81]
  • 1996: A nine-year-old boy was sacrificed by Jharkhand-native Sushil Murmu as an offering to goddess Kali. Murmu was sentenced to death by the court but later got commuted to life imprisonment by the president of India.[82][83]

21st century edit

  • 2007: Papua New Guinea police clashed with human sacrifice cult after alleged kidnapping of a child. Villagers forced police to retreat with guns and arrows and went on rampage killing one man from other tribe.[84]
  • 2008: 13 year-old boy was ritually killed in Gabon. In total there were 12 ritual murders in previous month ahead of presidential elections.[85]
  • 2012: Ethiopian Karo tribe agreed to stop mingi practice of ritual killings of infants, however two tribes continue this practice.[86]
  • 2013: Steven Tari, leader of Papua New Guinea cult responsible for sacrifices of several girls was killed by angry mob.[87]
  • 2015: 10-year-old was sacrificed in Kudiya village in southwest Nepal. 11 people were convicted of murder.[88]
  • 2019: Aime Ngbando, Anti-balaka general from Satema ritually killed a 14-year-old girl to increase profit from mines.[89]
  • 2021: Uganda introduced a law prescribing death penalty for human sacrifice, advocating it or possessing body parts.[90]
  • 2022: Between June and October 2022, two women were killed and reportedly cannibalised as part of a human sacrifice in Elanthoor in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala.[91] In October 2022, a six-year-old girl was killed in Delhi by two men to please a deity.[92]

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This is a list of notable human sacrifices and events relating to them Contents 1 Ancient 2 Medieval 3 10th century 4 11th century 5 13th century 6 14th century 7 15th century 8 16th century 9 17th century 10 18th century 11 19th century 12 20th century 12 1 1990s 13 21st century 14 ReferencesAncient edit3500 BC Three men were sacrificed during a burial of unnknown man near the town of Shendi in modern Sudan 1 31st century BC Pharaoh Hor Aha was buried alongside his servants in the first Egyptian case of retainer sacrifice 2 30th century BC Pharaoh Qa a was buried alongside his servants in the last Egyptian case of retainer sacrifice 2 c 3000 BC Archeological evidence of human sacrifice in Basur Hoyuk in Turkey 3 2500 BC Human sacrifice was performed in ancient city of Ur 4 1700 1550 BC Evidence of human sacrifice by Kerma culture in modern Sudan 5 9th century BC Arzhan culture kurgan contains evidence of human sacrifice among Scythian people 6 678 BC Duke Wu the tenth ruler of Qin had 66 people buried with him 621 BC The 14th ruler Duke Mu had 177 people buried with him including three senior government officials 6th 4th century BC Archeological evidence of human sacrifice in south western Bulgaria 7 8 5th century BC Herodotus reports of human sacrifice among Scythian people 6 480 BC According to Plutarch Greek commander Themistocles sacrificed three Persian prisoners of war before the Battle of Salamis 9 228 BC First known case of human sacrifice in Ancient Rome 10 216 BC Second known case of human sacrifice in Ancient Rome pair of Gauls and Greeks were buried alive at Forum Boarium following defeat at Cannae 10 114 BC Last human sacrifice occurred in Roman Empire pair of Gauls and Greeks were buried alive at Forum Boarium 10 97 BC Roman senate outlawed human sacrifice 10 First century BC Archeological remains of human sacrifice near the Egyin Gol River in Mongolia 11 Medieval edit323 Emperor Nintoku of Japan had a divine revelation in his dream to the effect that there was a person named Kowakubi in the province of Musashi and a person called Koromono ko in the province of Kawachi If they should be sacrificed to deities of the two rivers respectively then the construction of embankments would be easily achieved Kowakubi was subsequently thrown into the torrent of the Kitakawa river with a prayer offered After the sacrifice the embankment was constructed Koromono ko however escaped being sacrificed 12 464 First mention of sati widow sacrifice in Nepal king Manadeva I forbade his mother from following this practice 13 5h century Human sacrifices occurred during building of Banwolseong palace in Korea 14 4th 6th century Traces of human sacrifice in Ballana burial site in Nubia 15 Late 7th century According to a tale Wulfram of Sens prevent a sacrifice of Frisian king Radbod s son 16 502 King of Korea outlawed human sacrifice 17 845 Last human sacrifice in Ireland 18 893 Last human sacrifice in Britain 19 9th century Burial with five sacrificed bodies was found in Igbo Ukwu town in Nigeria 20 10th century edit922 Arab traveler Ahmad Ibn Fadlan recorded funeral sacrifice of a female slave of dead Viking ruler in today s Kazan in Russia 21 c 978 Theodore the Varangian and his son John were killed during human sacrifice in pagan Kiev 980 Four children were sacrificed according to archeological findings during building of Trelleborg fortress in Denmark 22 1000 Last human sacrifice in Iceland Two men from each province were sacrificed 23 10th century Ibn Hawqal mentions human sacrifice in kingdom of Ghana 20 11th century edit1024 Human sacrifice by volkhovy reported in Suzdal in Russia 24 1066 John Scotus bishop of Mecklenburg was sacrificed to Radegast the god of hospitality 25 1071 Human sacrifice of women by volkhvy was reported in a Rostov village in Rus 26 11th century Al Bakri mentions sacrifice of servants during royal burial in Ghana 20 Late 11th century Arabic writer Abd el Aziz El Bekri describes funeral sacrifice of Nubian kings 15 13th century editLate 12th early 13th century Archeological evidence of sacrifice of 14 people in Shangjing town of Liao Dynasty 27 1265 Hulagu Khan funeral featured last known human sacrifice of rule descending from Genghis Khan 28 14th century edit1326 Following Nepali king Jayarudramalla death four of his wives were burned 13 1342 Gediminas s funeral included a human sacrifice with his favourite servant and several German slaves being burned on the pyre with the corpse 29 1350s During his travel to Africa Ibn Battuta mentions human sacrifice at the funeral of king of Gobir in Hausaland 20 1389 Following the military victories in the land of Medininkai the Samogitians cast lots which indicated Marquard von Raschau the commander of Klaipeda Memel as a suitable victim for gods and burnt him on horseback in full armour It possibly was the last human sacrifice in medieval Europe 30 1398 At least 38 concubines were killed as part of Hongwu s funeral human sacrifice 31 32 15th century edit1439 Zhu Youdun a grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang was buried alongside his wife and six concubines 2 1464 Tianshun Emperor in his will forbade the practice of human sacrifice for Ming emperors and princes 1481 When king Yakshamalla of Nepal died one of his wives refused to become sati while other was burned 13 1490s Al Suyuti mentions of practice of substitute sacrifice in kingdom of Gobir which involved sick people killing others 20 16th century edit1500s Valentin Fernandes mentions sacrifice of wives and attendants during burials of kings among Mandingo and Beafada people in the Guinea region 20 1539 Mention of widespread human sacrifice in Benin kingdom by Christian missionaires 20 1560s Bayinnaung banned human sacrifice in the Burmese Empire 33 1578 Altan Khan banned human sacrifice in Mongolia 34 1592 Mạc Mậu Hợp was ritually killed in a last known case of human sacrifice in Vietnam 35 17th century edit1620s Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba engaged in human sacrifice to boost morale of her troops 36 1633 Jan Oosterwijck describes sacrifice of 22 female slaves during a burial of a queen on Bali island 37 1634 Jeremias van Vliet describes sacrifice of four pregnant women during building a fort in Thailand 38 1660s Olfert Dapper mentions human sacrifice in kingdom of Vai in modern Sierra Leone in Ivory Coast Gold Coast and the kingdom of Allada 20 1673 Emperor Kangxi of the Qing dynasty banned human sacrifice 39 1674 When king Pratnamalla of Nepal died nine of his wives were burned 13 1676 Human sacrifices were performed during founding of Ava city in Myanmar 40 1684 Three Franciscan friars were killed probably by heart sacrifice at the Manche Chʼol settlement of Paliac on the Caribbean coast of Belize They included Francisco Custodio Marcos de Muros and an unnamed lay brother 41 February 1696 Franciscan friar Juan de San Buenaventura and an unspecified Franciscan companion were taken to Nojpeten during a skirmish between the Yucatec Spanish and the Itza on the west shore of Lake Peten Itza The Itza high priest AjKin Kan Ekʼ later related that he had the Franciscans bound in the form of crosses and then cut out their hearts 42 About a month later a Guatemalan Spanish expedition was ambushed and slaughtered Dominican friars Cristobal de Prada and Jacinto de Vargas were taken across to the island of Nojpeten and were similarly bound to X shaped crosses before having their hearts cut out 43 1687 When king Parthivendramalla of Nepal died 24 of his wives were sacrificed 13 1600s Madagascar king Andriamasinavalona performed mock human sacrifice asking one man to volunteer and then released him and granted him immunity from punishment 44 18th century edit1724 Chevalier des Marchais reported that human sacrifice was prevalent in Liberia 45 1725 Upon the death of Tattooed Serpent in 1725 the war chief and younger brother of the Great Sun or Chief of the Natchez two of his wives one of his sisters nicknamed La Glorieuse by the French his first warrior his doctor his head servant and the servant s wife his nurse and a craftsman of war clubs all chose to die and be interred with him as well as several old women and an infant who was strangled by his parents 1727 4 000 people were killed during a ceremony in Dahomey 1750s Queen Pokou in modern Ivory Coast allegedly sacrificed her son to cross a river 46 1775 When king of Nepal Prithvinarayana Shaha died nine women including his wife were sacrificed 13 1780 Nepal outlawed human sacrifice 47 19th century edit1806 When king of Nepal Ranabahadura Shaha was assassinated fourteen female slaves and one concubine were sacrificed His wife was later forced to become sati 13 1809 Kanihonui was ritually killed for having sexual affair with queen of Hawaii in possibly last case of ritual sacrifice in Hawaii 48 1815 The last recorded human sacrifice in Tahiti described by Samuel Henry which took place after the battle of Fei Pi in 1815 49 1817 According to an account in Tonga a child was strangled to assist the recovery of a sick relation 50 1829 Bengal Sati Regulation 1829 prohibited sacrifice of wives in British India 1838 In a last human sacrifice among the Pawnee tribe Haxti a 14 year old Oglala Lakota girl was killed 51 1839 Eighty women were strangled to accompany the spirits of their husbands to the next world in Viwa Island in Fiji 52 October 1843 Slave girls was shot to accompany the funeral of wife of local king on the island of Waiheke near Auckland 52 1850 Funeral sacrifices were abolished in Old Calabar 20 1853 Dahomey king limited ritual killings to criminals 20 1854 Prime minister of Nepal Jung Bahadur Rana restricted which women could be sacrificed during sati ritual including criminalizing forcing woman to become sati 13 1857 During the founding of the city of Mandalay in Myanmar a pregnant woman was reportedly sacrificed 53 1858 Following the death of Gezo ritual killings of war captives resumed in Dahomey 20 1861 Last recorded case of human sacrifice of Meriah among Khonds people in India 54 1863 Igbo state of Abo accepted a treaty abolishing human sacrifice 20 1867 Last human sacrifice was performed in Anaho in French Polinesia 55 1868 Last recorded human sacrifice among Mayas in Chamula of Chiapas 56 1870s Last cases of human sacrifice among Tlingit people in Alaska were reported 57 1874 Treaty imposed on Asante by British expedition aimed to abolish human sacrifice 20 1876 Following the treaty Asante limited ritual killings to convicted murderers 20 1877 Following death of Jung Bahadur Rana three of his wives burnt themselves 13 April or May 1877 Last royal sponsored human sacrifise in Cambodia in Ba Phnom 58 1881 Asante abolished public executions at religious ceremonies 20 1887 the last human sacrifice in connection with a funeral among Yombe people occurred when nine women were buried with their dead husband 59 Last recorded human sacrifice at Mount Tlaloc in Mexico 60 1890 Last human sacrifice occurred in Baliy area in Sarawak 61 1892 French conquest suppressed human sacrifises in Dahomey 20 1890s Europeans conquered Benin and Asaba banning human sacrifice 20 Funeral sacrifices of wives of chefs and witches stopped among Mapuche tribes in Argentina following state conquest of their territory 62 July 1893 Last human sacrifise in Ondo region in Nigeria took place when two slaves were killed at Oyegbata s funeral After that British forced the region to stop the practice 63 1895 First recorded ritual killing for medicine in British Lesotho 64 1900 Last royal sacrifice occurred among Kuba people in Congo 65 20th century edit1903 In the last case of human sacrifice on Bali island in Indonesia two women were killed in Tabanan 37 1909 Ritual sacrifice of a boy by elders was reported in Philippines Perpetrators sentence was suspended upon promise of ending the practice 66 1911 The last ritual sacrifices with death of Chitimukulu in Zambia occurred 67 1912 A Kazakh chief was skinned to make a religious implement by Ja Lama who also cut the chief s heart out of his chest Another Kazakh was also skinned 68 1915 Human sacrifices were reportedly still performed in Kamuku territory in Nigeria 69 8 July 1920 Ritual burning of widows was fully banned in Nepal 13 1923 In Chigango s Kraal in Rhodesia son of local chief was sacrificed to appease rain goddess Two people were found guilty and sentenced to death 70 1925 Duna boy was killed by Huli tribe in Papua New Guinea in a human sacrifice ritual 71 1927 8 British forces sent several expeditions into upper Myanmar convincing local chiefs to stop human sacrifise 72 January 1929 Last pre ww2 human sacrifise in Upper Burma is recorded in Manmao village 72 1931 Government of Assam sentenced all adult members of villages near Burma border engaged in human sacrifise to punitive labor 72 4 December 1933 Khanty tribe ritually sacrificed group of Soviet soldiers It is only known case of human sacrifice among the group 73 1940 5 Last reported cases of human sacrifice among Hadjarai people in Chad 74 1946 During raids by villagers from Naga hills in Myanmar number of slaves were taken some of them later sold for human sacrifice This is last record by British administration in Myanmar of human sacrifice 72 1945 Young girl was ritually killed in Elmina in Ghana Five men were convicted and hanged 75 1949 Two chiefs were hanged in British Lesotho for ritual killings of people for medicine 64 1960 In the aftermath of 1960 Valdivia earthquake in Chile 5 year old boy is sacrificed by local Maluchem tribe Two accused were released from prison after two years 1966 Last reported ritual killing for medicine in Lesotho 64 1976 7 A series of ritual killings dubbed Maryland ritual killings occurred in Liberia Seven of the alleged perpetrators were executed 76 1971 Head of cargo cult in the East Sepik District in New Guinea threatened to sacrifice a boy 77 1972 Last beheading during head hunting reportedly occurred among Ingolots of New Guinea 78 1975 Last human sacrifice in Mayong village in Assam occurred 79 1987 India strengthened penalties against ritual burning of widows via Sati Prevention Act 1987 1989 97 During the First Liberian Civil War General Butt Naked engaged in multiple human sacrifices 1990s edit 1990 30 people were arrested following ritual killing of a woman by cult in Gabon 80 1991 2001 Kamajors militias are accused of engaging in human sacrifices during the Sierra Leone Civil War 81 1996 A nine year old boy was sacrificed by Jharkhand native Sushil Murmu as an offering to goddess Kali Murmu was sentenced to death by the court but later got commuted to life imprisonment by the president of India 82 83 21st century edit2007 Papua New Guinea police clashed with human sacrifice cult after alleged kidnapping of a child Villagers forced police to retreat with guns and arrows and went on rampage killing one man from other tribe 84 2008 13 year old boy was ritually killed in Gabon In total there were 12 ritual murders in previous month ahead of presidential elections 85 2012 Ethiopian Karo tribe agreed to stop mingi practice of ritual killings of infants however two tribes continue this practice 86 2013 Steven Tari leader of Papua New Guinea cult responsible for sacrifices of several girls was killed by angry mob 87 2015 10 year old was sacrificed in Kudiya village in southwest Nepal 11 people were convicted of murder 88 2019 Aime Ngbando Anti balaka general from Satema ritually killed a 14 year old girl to increase profit from mines 89 2021 Uganda introduced a law prescribing death penalty for human sacrifice advocating it or possessing body parts 90 2022 Between June and October 2022 two women were killed and reportedly cannibalised as part of a human sacrifice in Elanthoor in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala 91 In October 2022 a six year old girl was killed in Delhi by two men to please a deity 92 References edit Oldest human sacrifice discovered in Africa 16 February 2008 a b c The Comparison between Human Sacrifice in Egypt and that in China Saraceni Jessica Esther 5 000 Year Old Tomb Excavated in Turkey Archaeology Magazine www archaeology org Retrieved 2023 06 13 Human sacrifice and intentional corpse preservation in the Royal Cemetery of Ur March 2011 Dying to serve Human sacrifice during the Classic Kerma Period January 2009 a b Treasures of the Scythian Kings Thracian Child Sacrifice Discovered in Bulgaria 21 April 2015 ON HUMAN SACRIFICE IN THRACE ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE 10 January 2010 Themistocles Allegedly Conducted A Human Sacrifice Before The Battle of Salamis 10 December 2019 a b c d Ritual Killing in Ancient Rome Homicide and Roman Superiority Double Death 25 September 2000 Tsuda Noritake 1918 Human Sacrifices in Japan The Open Court 1918 12 760 761 a b c d e f g h i j Sati Custom in Nepal A Historical Perspective Fifth Century Remains May Be Evidence of Human Sacrifice in Ancient Korea 24 May 2017 a b RETAINER SACRIFICE IN EGYPT AND IN NUBIA 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ACfU3U1OYnwWMjDf1HHRgtYTfyYr F8Faw amp hl en amp sa X amp ved 2ahUKEwihrrLfmreBAxV9hf0HHQtvDIIQ6AF6BAgJEAM v onepage amp q kamuku 20territory 20 as 20recently 20as 201915 amp f false Peoples of the Middle Niger Region Northern Nigeria Western Africa A Sacrifice for Rain Chief s Son Burnt Rhodesian Natives Sentenced From Blood to Oil Mining Cosmology and Human Sacrifice in Central New Guinea a b c d Human Sacrifice and Slavery in the Unadministered Areas of Upper Burma During the Colonial Era Religious Revival as Reaction to the Hegemonization of Power in Siberia in the 1920s to 1940s CULTES AGRAIRES ET RELATIONS D AUTORITE CHEZ LES SABA HADJERAi DU TCHAD A Chieftaincy Dispute and Ritual Murder in Elmina Ghana 1945 6 Aime Muyoboke Karimunda 16 March 2016 The Death Penalty in Africa The Path Towards Abolition Taylor amp Francis pp 82 ISBN 978 1 317 03633 3 New Guinea Cargo Cult Plans Human Sacrifice to Find Wealth 23 May 1971 Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice Vinticated Medicinal Practices MMPs of Mayong Assam Human sacrifice of woman discovered in Gabon 25 July 1990 Sierra Leone Special Court indicts two former militia leaders 27 June 2003 President commutes Jharkhand resident s death penalty to life India News Times of India The Times of India TNN Feb 21 2012 Retrieved 2023 01 08 Sushil Murmu vs State Of Jharkhand on 12 December 2003 Human sacrifice cult battles with police 10 May 2007 Ritual killings increasing in lead up to Gabon polls 29 March 2008 Saving Ethiopian Children Thought to Be Cursed 25 July 2019 PNG s Black Jesus castrated after cult sacrifices 2 September 2013 11 suspects convicted of human sacrifice in Nawalparasi 30 August 2016 Letter dated 6 December 2019 from the Panel of Experts on the Central African Republic extended pursuant to resolution 2454 2019 addressed to the President of the Security Council Parliament enacts law against human sacrifice 4 May 2021 Body parts chopped cooked eaten Human sacrifice ritual stuns Kerala indiatoday in 12 October 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