269 notable events from 1941 — massacres, wars and genocides. Page 1 of 3.
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
Dec 7, 1941 · United States · War & armed conflict
- Operation Barbarossa
Jun 22, 1941–Dec 5, 1941 · Estonia · War & armed conflict
- Siege of Leningrad
Sep 8, 1941–Jan 27, 1944 · Russian Federation · War & armed conflict
- Final Solution
1941–May 8, 1945 · Germany · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Battle of Crete
May 20, 1941–Jun 1, 1941 · Greece · War & armed conflict
- Continuation War
Jun 25, 1941–Sep 19, 1944 · Finland · War & armed conflict
- Babi Yar
Sep 30, 1941 · Ukraine · Murder & homicide
- Otto Ohlendorf
Jun 1, 1941–Jul 1, 1942 · Ukraine · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Arthur Nebe
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1944 · Belarus · Massacre
- Lviv pogroms (1941)
Jun 30, 1941–Jul 2, 1941 · Ukraine · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse
Dec 10, 1941 · Malaysia · War & armed conflict
- Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies
Dec 8, 1941–Aug 1, 1945 · Indonesia · War & armed conflict
- Paul Blobel
Jun 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1944 · Poland · Genocide & ethnic violence
- German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1945 · Ukraine · War & armed conflict
- Herberts Cukurs
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1944 · War & armed conflict
- Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia
1941 · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Niʻihau incident
Dec 7, 1941–Dec 13, 1941 · United States · War & armed conflict
- Babi Yar massacre
Sep 29, 1941–Sep 30, 1941 · Ukraine · Massacre
- Friedrich Jeckeln
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1945 · Estonia · War & armed conflict
- Jedwabne pogrom
Jul 10, 1941 · Poland · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Salaspils camp
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1944 · Latvia · Massacre
- Farhud
Jun 1, 1941–Jun 2, 1941 · Iraq · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Gordon Cummins
Oct 12, 1941–Feb 13, 1942 · War & armed conflict
- Bouncing bomb
Jan 1, 1941 · Bombing & explosion
- Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom
Jan 23, 1941 · Romania · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Rumbula massacre
Nov 30, 1941–Dec 8, 1941 · Latvia · Murder & homicide
- Josef Blösche
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1945 · Poland · Genocide & ethnic violence
- 1941 Odessa massacre
Oct 24, 1941 · Ukraine · Murder & homicide
- Ponary massacre
Jul 1941–Aug 1944 · Lithuania · Murder & homicide
- Battle of Guam (1941)
Dec 8, 1941–Dec 10, 1941 · Guam · War & armed conflict
- Yugoslav coup d'état
Mar 27, 1941 · Serbia · War & armed conflict
- Franz Six
Jun 20, 1941–Aug 20, 1941 · Russian Federation · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Action 14f13
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1944 · Austria · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Eduard Krebsbach
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1944 · Austria · War & armed conflict
- 1941 Iraqi coup d'état
Apr 1, 1941 · Iraq · War & armed conflict
- NKVD prisoner massacres
Nov 1, 1941 · Russian Federation · Massacre
- Murder of Davis Timmerman
Sep 17, 1941 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Massacre of Kondomari
Jun 2, 1941 · Greece · Massacre
- Massacre of Lwów professors
Jul 1, 1941 · Ukraine · War & armed conflict
- Medvedev Forest massacre
Sep 11, 1941 · Russian Federation · Massacre
- Barbarossa decree
May 13, 1941 · War & armed conflict
- Raid on Alexandria (1941)
Dec 19, 1941 · Egypt · War & armed conflict
- Bombing of Königsberg in World War II
Sep 1, 1941 · Russian Federation · War & armed conflict
- Minsk Ghetto
Jul 20, 1941–Oct 21, 1943 · Belarus · Massacre
- German occupation of Lithuania during World War II
Jun 22, 1941–Jan 28, 1945 · Lithuania · War & armed conflict
- Iași pogrom
Jun 29, 1941–Jul 6, 1941 · Romania · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Kaunas pogrom
Jun 27, 1941 · Lithuania · Massacre
- Sinking of HMAS Sydney
Nov 19, 1941 · Australia · War & armed conflict
- Kragujevac massacre
Oct 20, 1941–Oct 21, 1941 · Serbia · Massacre
- Bombing of Gorky in World War II
Nov 4, 1941 · Russian Federation · War & armed conflict
- Chetnik war crimes in World War II
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1945 · Serbia · War & armed conflict
- Deportation of Soviet Germans (1941–1942)
Aug 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1942 · Russian Federation · War & armed conflict
- Belfast Blitz
1941 · United Kingdom · War & armed conflict
- Theodore Edward Coneys
Oct 17, 1941 · Murder & homicide
- German bombing of Belgrade
Apr 6, 1941 · Serbia · War & armed conflict
- Operation Archery
Dec 27, 1941 · Norway · War & armed conflict
- Battle of Changsha (1941)
Sep 6, 1941–Oct 8, 1941 · China · War & armed conflict
- Great Famine (Greece)
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1942 · Greece · Natural disaster
- Pripyat Marshes massacres
Jul 19, 1941–Aug 31, 1941 · Belarus · Massacre
- Uprising in Montenegro (1941)
Jul 13, 1941–Dec 1, 1941 · Montenegro · War & armed conflict
- June Uprising in Lithuania
Jun 27, 1941 · Lithuania · War & armed conflict
- June deportation
May 22, 1941–Jun 20, 1941 · Latvia · War & armed conflict
- Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre
Aug 28, 1941 · Ukraine · Massacre
- Bila Tserkva massacre
Aug 21, 1941 · Ukraine · Genocide & ethnic violence
- 1941 Santander fire
Feb 16, 1941 · Spain · Fire
- Junkers Ju 52 overflight of the Soviet Union incident
May 15, 1941 · Russian Federation · Aviation accident
- New Fourth Army Incident
Jan 7, 1941–Jan 13, 1941 · China · War & armed conflict
- Liepāja massacres
Jun 29, 1941–Apr 1942 · Latvia · Massacre
- Bombing of Bangkok in World War II
1941–1945 · Thailand · Bombing & explosion
- Kovno Ghetto
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1943 · Lithuania · War & armed conflict
- German occupation of Estonia during World War II
1941–1944 · Estonia · War & armed conflict
- Uprising in Serbia (1941)
Jul 7, 1941–Dec 1941 · Serbia · War & armed conflict
- Serbian genocide (1941-45)
Apr 1, 1941–May 1, 1945 · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Japanese occupation of the Gilbert Islands
Dec 10, 1941 · Kiribati · War & armed conflict
- Fântâna Albă massacre
Apr 1, 1941 · Romania · Massacre
- Białystok Ghetto
Jul 26, 1941–Sep 15, 1943 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Raid on Souda Bay
Mar 26, 1941 · Greece · War & armed conflict
- Operation Flipper
Nov 10, 1941–Nov 18, 1941 · Libya · War & armed conflict
- Attack on Clark Field
Dec 8, 1941 · Philippines · War & armed conflict
- St. Stephen's College massacre
Dec 25, 1941 · Hong Kong · Massacre
- Prebilovci massacre
Aug 1, 1941 · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Massacre
- The Holocaust in German-occupied Serbia
Apr 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1945 · Serbia · War & armed conflict
- Massacre of Feodosia
Dec 29, 1941–Jan 1, 1942 · Ukraine · War & armed conflict
- Stanley Graham
Oct 9, 1941 · War & armed conflict
- Glina massacres
May 12, 1941 · Croatia · Massacre
- NKVD prisoner massacres in Lviv
Jun 1, 1941 · Ukraine · Murder & homicide
- Lake Biwa boating disaster
Apr 6, 1941 · Japan · Maritime disaster
- Seikatsu Zuga incident
1941–1942 · Japan · Crime & justice
- Bombing of Bulgaria in World War II
Apr 1, 1941–Apr 1, 1944 · Bulgaria · War & armed conflict
- Reprisals after the death of Karl Hotz
Oct 20, 1941 · War & armed conflict
- Kaunas massacre of October 29, 1941
Oct 29, 1941 · Lithuania · Massacre
- Rašića Gaj massacres
Jun 22, 1941–Jul 20, 1941 · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Massacre
- Srb uprising
Sep 1941 · Bosnia and Herzegovina · War & armed conflict
- Bombing of Minsk in World War II
Jun 22, 1941–Jun 27, 1941 · Belarus · War & armed conflict
- Sovietization of the Baltic states
1941 · Estonia
- Drohobycz Ghetto
Jul 1, 1941 · Ukraine · Massacre
- Gerhard Bast
Jul 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1945 · Belarus · Genocide & ethnic violence
- 1941 Porto Alegre floods
Apr 1941 · Brazil · Natural disaster
- Bernard Pesquet
Jan 1, 1941–Jan 1, 1976 · Murder & homicide
- Operation Grog
Feb 9, 1941 · Italy · War & armed conflict