Leiden gunpowder disaster, in 1807 a ship carrying 17,760 kg of gunpowder blew up in the Dutch town of Leiden.
Siege of Almeida (1810), a chance shell ignited a line of black powder which set off a chain reaction in the magazine
Negro Fort, a British-built fort on the Apalachicola River, occupied by fugitive slaves and Choctaws, was destroyed in 1816 when a hot-shot fired by a US gunboat landed in the fort's magazine.
Pollepel Island, August 1920 explosion at Bannerman's Island Arsenal
Dublin Four Courts explosion 1922 explosion of munitions stored by the anti-Treaty IRA in the Four Courts building in Dublin, which destroyed much of Ireland's pre-1921 public records.
Lake Denmark explosion, July 10, 1926 detonation of millions of pounds of stored explosives at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey
Tolar, New Mexico, 30 November 1944, munitions carried by train exploded, causing extensive damage to town and killing 1.
RAF Fauld explosion, UK underground munitions storage depot in 1944, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history
SS John Burke, a Liberty ship carrying ammunition, was hit by a kamikaze pilot and disintegrated in an enormous explosion on December 28, 1944.
USS Serpens, 29 January 1945 explosion of an ammunition ship off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal. US Coast Guard-crewed. 254 killed (196 USCG, 57 US Army, and 1 US Public Health Service physician)
Cádiz Explosion, 18 August 1947, in mines and torpedoes depot, ca. 150 killed and large part of the city destroyed
Mitholz explosion, Switzerland, an underground ammunition depot partially exploded on 19 December 1947, destroying the village and killing 9. Explosives are still on site posing a risk, their removal is planned to begin in 2030 and last 10 years.
Prüm, Germany, 15 July 1949, a French Army depot with 500 tons of ammunition explodes, 12 killed
2020 Beirut Explosion August 4, 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries
^Schiffer, Thomas D. (2002). Peters & King: The Birth & Evolution of the Peters Cartridge Co. & the King Powder Co. Iowa, Wisc.: Krause. pp. 62–68. ISBN 0-87349-363-X.
^ abHampton Road BlogSpot accessed September 27, 2018