"deliberate genocide of the Jews by the German Nazi regime and ... the deaths of countless others", 1940-1945

"direct association with the life of the Lord Buddha, being the place where He attained the supreme and perfect insight"

"celebration of the Olympic Games from 776 BC to 393 AD"

on 31 October 1517, Luther posted his famous '95 Theses' here

First test of a practicable Hydrogen Bomb Mar 1 1957

Criterion (viii): Earth's history and geological features 'The 1902-1905 eruption is considered a key event for the history of volcanology. - AB Evaluation

Crit iv: "Tr’ondëk-Klondike stands out as a very rare occurrence and provides remarkable evidence of growing colonial influence within a concentrated timeframe – from the construction of the first commercial fur-trading post at Fort Reliance in 1874, to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896-1898, and, ultimately, the consolidation of colonial authority by 1908."
See en.wikipedia.org

"All along the Western Front of the First World War, (...) a series of 139 funerary and memorial sites bear witness to the common desire of the various parties involved in the conflict to honour their children who fell in battle." (Official description)

Birthplace of Jesus

"the events of the Khmer Rouge repressive system of imprisonment, interrogation, torture and execution" (OUV crit vi)

Place of birth and death of Confucius

eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79

"On 1 January 1804, after fourteen years of struggle by the island’s black slaves against the colonists, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the principal leader of the revolution, proclaimed the independent Republic of Haiti. The “Emperor” Dessalines immediately entrusted to one of his generals, Henri Christophe, the task of constructing an immense fortress on the Pic Laferrière, to protect the young republic."

" symbol of the ancient Jewish Kingdom of Israel, of its violent destruction in the later 1st century CE"

birthplace of the Lord Buddha

Signing of United States of America’s Declaration of Independence (1776) and Constitution (1787)

1945 nuclear bomb blast

"The monumental complex, erected between the years 1937 and 1938, to commemorate the supreme sacrifice of Romanian soldiers, police and ordinary citizens who died defending the city of Târgu Jiu during the First World War (...)" (OUV) – "The Ensemble is a World War I memorial, a tribute to the fallen heroes – soldiers, police, scouts and ordinary citizens – who were killed on 14 October 1916 during a German offensive, defending the city at the historic truss bridge over the River Jiu then located at the southern end of the Constantin Brâncusi Park." (Nomination file, p. 11)

is believed to be the location where Jesus of Nazareth was baptized by John the Baptist