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List of book-burning incidents
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- 1 Antiquity
- 1.1 Destruction of Ebla
- 1.2 Destruction of Mari
- 1.3 Destruction of Alalakh
- 1.4 Destruction of Ugarit
- 1.5 Library of Ashurbanipal (by Babylonians, Scythians and Medes)
- 1.6 A scroll written by the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah (burnt by King Jehoiakim)
- 1.7 Protagoras's "On the Gods" (by Athenian authorities)
- 1.8 Zoroastrian scriptures and Persian Royal Archives (by Alexander the Great)
- 1.9 Chinese philosophy books (by Emperor Qin Shi Huang and anti-Qin rebels)
- 1.10 Books of Pretended Prophecies (by Roman authorities)
- 1.11 Jewish holy books (by the Seleucid monarch Antiochus IV)
- 1.12 Aeneid (unsuccessfully ordered by Virgil)
- 1.13 Roman history book (by the aediles)
- 1.14 Greek and Latin prophetic verse (by the Emperor Augustus)
- 1.15 Torah scroll (by Roman soldier)
- 1.16 Sorcery scrolls (by early converts to Christianity at Ephesus)
- 1.17 Rabbi Haninah ben Teradion burned with a Torah scroll (under Hadrian)
- 1.18 Burning of the Torah by Apostomus (precise time and circumstances debated)
- 1.19 Epicurus's book (in Paphlagonia)
- 1.20 Manichaean and Christian scriptures (by Diocletian)
- 1.21 Books of Arianism (after Council of Nicaea)
- 1.22 Library of Antioch (by Jovian)
- 1.23 "Unacceptable writings" (by Athanasius)
- 1.24 The Sibylline books (various times)
- 1.25 Writings of Priscillian
- 1.26 Etrusca Disciplina
- 1.27 Nestorius' books (by Theodosius II)
- 2 Middle Ages
- 2.1 Archives of Ctesiphon (during Arab conquest)
- 2.2 Japanese books and manuscripts (during power struggle at the Imperial court)
- 2.3 Repeated destruction of Alexandria libraries
- 2.4 Qur'anic texts with varying wording (ordered by the 3rd Caliph, Uthman)
- 2.5 Competing prayer books (at Toledo)
- 2.6 Abelard forced to burn his own book (at Soissons)
- 2.7 The writings of Arnold of Brescia (at France and Rome)
- 2.8 Nalanda University
- 2.9 Samanid Dynasty Library
- 2.10 Buddhist writings in the Maldives
- 2.11 Destruction of Cathar texts (Languedoc region of France)
- 2.12 Maimonides' philosophy (at Montpellier)
- 2.13 The Talmud (at Paris), first of many such burnings over the next centuries
- 2.14 Rabbi Nachmanides' account of the Disputation of Barcelona (by Dominicans)
- 2.15 The House of Wisdom library (at Baghdad)
- 2.16 Lollard books and writings (By English Law)
- 2.17 Wycliffe's books (at Prague)
- 2.18 Codices of the peoples conquered by the Aztecs (by Itzcoatl)
- 2.19 Gemistus Pletho's Nómoi (by Partiarch Gennadius II)
- 3 Early Modern Period (from 1492 to 1650)
- 3.1 Library and archives of the Novgorod Republic (by Ivan III and Ivan IV)
- 3.2 Decameron, Ovid and other "lewd" books (by Savonarola)
- 3.3 Arabic and Hebrew books (in Andalucía)
- 3.4 Tyndale's New Testament (in England)
- 3.5 Angelo Carletti's theological works (by Martin Luther)
- 3.6 English Monastic Libraries (during the Dissolution of the Monasteries)
- 3.7 Servetus's writings (burned with their author at Geneva, and also burned at Vienne)
- 3.8 The Historie of Italie (In England)
- 3.9 Maya codices (by Spanish Bishop of Yucatan)
- 3.10 "Obscene" Maltese poetry (by the Inquisition)
- 3.11 Arwi books (by Portuguese in India and Ceylon)
- 3.12 Bernardino de Sahagún's manuscripts on Aztec culture (by Spanish authorities)
- 3.13 Luther's Bible translation
- 3.14 Uriel da Costa's book (By Jewish community and city authorities in Amsterdam)
- 3.15 Marco Antonio de Dominis' writings (in Rome)
- 4 Early Modern Period (from 1650 until the turn of the 19th century)
- 4.1 Books burned by civil, military and ecclesiastical authorities between 1640 and 1660 (in Cromwell's England)
- 4.2 Earl of Worcester's library (by New Model Army)
- 4.3 Book criticising Puritanism (in Boston)
- 4.4 Manuscripts of John Amos Comenius (by anti-Swedish Polish partisans)
- 4.5 Quaker books (in Boston)
- 4.6 Great Fire (London)
- 4.7 Hobbes books (at Oxford University)
- 4.8 Swedish National Archives
- 4.9 Mythical (and/or mystical) writings of Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (by rabbis)
- 4.10 Protestant books and Bibles (by Archbishop of Salzburg)
- 4.11 Amalasunta (by Carlo Goldoni)
- 4.12 The writings of Johann Christian Edelmann (by Imperial authorities in Frankfurt)
- 4.13 Books that offended Qianlong Emperor
- 4.14 Anti-Wilhelm Tell tract (at Canton of Uri)
- 4.15 Books of Voltaire (by French authorities)
- 4.16 Vernacular Catholic hymn books (at Mainz)
- 4.17 Cluny Abbey's library
- 4.18 Egyptian archaeological finds (threatened burning by French scholars)
- 5 Industrial Revolution period
- 5.1 "The Burned Book" (by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov)
- 5.2 Musin-Pushkin's library (In Great Moscow Fire)
- 5.3 Records of the Goa Inquisition (by Portuguese colonial authorities)
- 5.4 Original Library of Congress Collection (by British troops)
- 5.5 The Code Napoléon (by German Nationalist students)
- 5.6 Early braille books (in Paris)
- 5.7 Library of St. Augustine Academy, Philadelphia (by anti-Irish rioters)
- 5.8 Chinese literary works (By Anglo-French troops in Beijing)
- 5.9 Edmond Potonie's papers (by French Police)
- 5.10 Library of Strasbourg (in German bombardment)
- 5.11 Library of the Louvre (during suppression of the Paris Commune)
- 5.12 "Lewd" books (by Anthony Comstock and the NYSSV)
- 5.13 Emily Dickinson's correspondence (on her orders)
- 5.14 Ivan Bloch's research on Russian Jews (by Tsarist Russian government)
- 5.15 Italian Nationalist literature (by Austrian authorities in Trieste)
- 6 WWI and interbellum era
- 6.1 Leuven University Library (by World War I German Army)
- 6.2 Many books (by Communists in Russia)
- 6.3 Valley of the Squinting Windows (at Delvin, Ireland)
- 6.4 George Grosz's cartoons (By court order in Weimar Germany)
- 6.5 Irish National Archives (in Civil War)
- 6.6 Plunkett family records (in Civil War)
- 6.7 Jewish, anti-Nazi and "degenerate" books (by the Nazis)
- 6.8 Theodore Dreiser's works (at Warsaw, Indiana)
- 6.9 Works of Goethe, Shaw, and Freud (by Metaxas dictatorship in Greece)
- 6.10 Pompeu Fabra's library (by Franco's troops)
- 7 World War II
- 7.1 Leuven University Library (by World War II German occupation troops)
- 7.2 Chinese libraries (by World War II Japanese troops)
- 7.3 Works in the British Museum (by German bomber planes)
- 7.4 Jean Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers (by French prison guard)
- 7.5 Jewish books in Allesandria (by pro-Nazi mob)
- 7.6 André Malraux's manuscript (by the Gestapo)
- 7.7 Various libraries in Warsaw, Poland (during World War II)
- 7.8 Books in the National Library of Serbia (by World War II German bomber planes)
- 7.9 Douai Municipal Library
- 7.10 Books in German libraries (by World War II Allied bomber planes)
Destruction d'ouvrages du Falun Gong lors de la répression de 1999 en Chine
- 8 Cold War era and 1990s
- 8.1 The books of Knut Hamsun (in post-WWII Norway)
- 8.2 Post-WWII Germany
- 8.3 Books in Kurdish (in north Iran)
- 8.4 Comic book burnings, 1948
- 8.5 Books by Shen Congwen (by Chinese booksellers)
- 8.6 Judaica collection at Birobidzhan (by Stalin)
- 8.7 Communist and "fellow traveller" books (by Senator McCarthy)
- 8.8 Wilhelm Reich's publications (by U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
- 8.9 Brazil, military coup, 1964
- 8.10 Religious, Anti-Communist and Genealogy books (in the Cultural Revolution)
- 8.11 Beatles Burnings – Southern USA, 1966
- 8.12 Leftist books in Chile after the 1973 coup d'état
- 8.13 Burning of Jaffna library
- 8.14 The Satanic Verses (worldwide)
- 8.15 Book burnings in Croatia
- 8.16 Oriental Institute in Sarajevo (1992)
- 8.17 National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992)
- 8.18 Abkhazian Research Institute of History, Language and Literature & National Library of Abkhazia (by Georgian troops)
- 8.19 The Nasir-i Khusraw Foundation in Kabul (by the Taliban regime)
- 9 21st Century
- 9.1 Berkeley book burning
- 9.2 Abu Nuwas poetry (by Egyptian Ministry of Culture)
- 9.3 Independent Librarians (in Cuba)
- 9.4 Iraq's national library, Baghdad 2003
- 9.5 Harry Potter books (in various American cities)
- 9.6 Inventory of Prospero's Books (by proprietors Tom Wayne and W.E. Leathem)
- 9.7 New Testaments in city of Or Yehuda, Israel
- 9.8 Non-approved Bibles, books and music in Canton, North Carolina
- 9.9 Bagram Bibles
- 9.10 2010–11 Florida Qur'an burning and related burnings
- 9.11 Operation Dark Heart, memoir by Anthony Shaffer (by the U. S. Dept. of Defense)
- 9.12 The burning of the library in the Institut d'Egypte in Cairo
- 9.13 Suspected Colorado City incident
- 9.14 Qur'ans in Afghanistan
- 9.15 Climate change book at San Jose State University
- 9.16 Manuscripts in Timbuktu
- 9.17 National Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2014)
- 10 See also
- 11 References
- 12 External links
8000 livres rares partis en fumée. Dimanche, les terroristes de l'organisation Etat islamique ont brûlé la bibliothèque de Mossoul, en Irak.
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