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1860: British and French troops destroy the Summer Palace in Beijing
1936: The Crystal Palace in London was destroyed by fire on 30 November 1936.
1941: Bombing of the Frauenkirche in Dresden
1944 Bombing of the monastery of Monte Cassino
1950: A madman burns the Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion) in Kyoto
1954: China demolishes the Gate of China in Beijing (now the site of Mao's mausoleum)
1959: China destroys hundreds of Buddhist monuments in Tibet including Ganden Monastery
1964: The Guatemalan government destroys Temple 33 in Tikal
1966-76: Mao's Cultural Revolution destroys much of China's historical heritage (more than 10,000 temples, churches, monasteries, statues, etc)
White Horse Temple, Luoyang. Oldest Buddhist temple in China. Some historical artifacts are still missing.[25]
Famen Buddhist Temple, Shaanxi
1993: Croat militias destry the Stari Most in Bosnia
1991: Serbia's bombing of Dubrovnik
1992: Hindu extremists destroy the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya (India)
2001: The Taliban dynamite the Buddhas of Bamyan (Afghanistan)
2001: Al Qaeda destroys the World Trade Center
2003: Bam earthquake
2006: Sunni extremists destroy the dome of the Al-Askari Mosque in Samarra
2015: ISIS' destruction of Palmyra
2015: Nepal earthquake in 2015 demolished the heritage Dharahara tower in Kathmandu
2015: ISIS destroys Nimrud
2015: Saudi Arabia's bombing of Yemen's ancient cities
2019: Fire of Notre Dame
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