Modern History
- Exodus of 1879 (The Kansas Exodus), in which black Americans known as Exodusters fled the Southern United States for Kansas
- 1959 Tibetan exodus, 80,000 Tibetans crossed the Himalayas for India
- Jewish Exodus from Arab lands, the twentieth century emigration or expulsion of Jews from Arab lands
- 1948 Palestinian exodus, 1949–1956 Palestinian exodus, and the 1967 Palestinian exodus in which Palestinians fled or were expelled from Mandate Palestine, Israel and the West Bank during, and after wars
- SS Exodus, a ship carrying thousands of Jewish refugees in 1947 that was refused entry into Palestine
- Operation Exodus (WWII operation), an Allied operation to repatriate European prisoners of war to Britain in the Second World War
- German exodus from Eastern Europe, the exodus of Germans to the east of Germany's and Austria's post-World War II borders
- Istrian exodus, the exodus of Italians from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia after World War II
- Jujuy Exodus, the massive evacuation of people from the province of Jujuy, Argentina, in 1812, during the Argentine War of Independence
- The exodus of ethnic Macedonians from Greece, the exodus of Ethnic Macedonians following the Greek Civil War
- 1976 Sahrawi exodus, the exodus of Sahrawis during the Western Sahara War
- Mormon Exodus, the transcontinental migration of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the Midwestern United States to the Salt Lake Valley
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