48 notable events in Latvia — wars, murders and massacres.
- Singing Revolution
1987–1991 · Riot & unrest
- Salaspils camp
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1944 · Massacre
- Rumbula massacre
Nov 30, 1941–Dec 8, 1941 · Murder & homicide
- Zolitūde shopping centre roof collapse
Nov 21, 2013 · Industrial & structural disaster
- Philippe Halsman
date unknown · Murder & homicide
- Catalina affair
Jun 16, 1952 · Aviation accident
- June deportation
May 22, 1941–Jun 20, 1941 · War & armed conflict
- 1934 Latvian coup d'état
May 15, 1934 · War & armed conflict
- 2022 Baltic Sea Cessna Citation II crash
Sep 4, 2022 · Aviation accident
- Liepāja massacres
Jun 29, 1941–Apr 1942 · Massacre
- Riga Trial
Jan 26, 1946–Feb 3, 1946 · War & armed conflict
- Kaspars Petrovs
Jan 1, 2000–Jan 1, 2003 · Murder & homicide
- Latvian partisans
Jan 1, 1944–Jan 1, 1956 · War & armed conflict
- SMS Bremen
date unknown · War & armed conflict
- SMS Prinz Adalbert (1901)
date unknown · War & armed conflict
- Escape of Roman Svistunov
May 27, 1987 · Incident
- Burning of the Riga synagogues
Jul 1, 1941 · Fire
- Biķernieki forest
date unknown · Massacre
- Dünamünde Action
Mar 1942 · War & armed conflict
- Daugavpils Ghetto
Jun 26, 1941–Oct 1, 1943 · War & armed conflict
- Ansis Kaupēns
Jan 1, 1920–Jan 1, 1926 · Murder & homicide
- Great Choral Synagogue (Riga)
date unknown · Massacre
- Leonid Rozhetskin
Mar 16, 2008 · Murder & homicide
- Aeroflot Flight L-51
Dec 30, 1967 · Aviation accident
- Peitav Synagogue
date unknown · Bombing & explosion
- 2008 Latvian financial crisis
2008–2009 · Crisis
- Vitaly Kostetsky
date unknown · Murder & homicide
- Jelgava massacres
Aug 1, 1941 · Massacre
- Curonian Uprising
Jun 25, 1794–Aug 12, 1794 · War & armed conflict
- Gulbene kindergarten massacre
Feb 22, 1999 · Massacre
- 2009 Riga riot
Jan 13, 2009 · Riot & unrest
- Centrs department store bombing
Aug 17, 2000 · Terrorism
- 1998 Riga bombing
date unknown · Bombing & explosion
- Libava uprising
date unknown · War & armed conflict
- Ludvík Svoboda tanker explosion
Mar 6, 1985 · Bombing & explosion
- Walk crisis
1918–1920 · War & armed conflict
- Andrejeva v Latvia
Feb 18, 2009 · Crime & justice
- 2009 Latvian meteorite hoax
date unknown · Scandal & controversy
- Siege of Cēsis Castle (1577)
1577–Dec 1577 · War & armed conflict
- Tupolev Tu-134 crash near Liepāja
Mar 22, 1979 · Aviation accident
- Riga hostel fire
Apr 28, 2021 · Fire
- Raihman v. Latvia
Oct 28, 2010 · Crime & justice
- Calendar riots in Riga
1584–1589 · War & armed conflict
- Biķernieki Forest massacre
date unknown · Murder & homicide
- Tukums Uprising
Dec 13, 1905–Dec 16, 1905 · War & armed conflict
- Zleka tragedy
Dec 9, 1944 · Murder & homicide
- Iecava mass shooting
Sep 20, 1997 · Shooting
- Potato riot (Jaunbebri)
date unknown · War & armed conflict