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Famous Assassinations Of History

by Francis JOHNSON (1837 - 1908)

Preface

It has been the object of the writer to make each of these “famous assassinations” the central scene of a picture in which the political, religious, or national features of the epoch in which the assassination occurred are portrayed with historical fidelity and strict impartiality…. Only those assassinations have been included which either had an important and political bearing on the world, or on the nation immediately affected, or which left a profound, and, it would seem, indelible impression on the imagination of contemporaries and posterity. - Summary by Book Preface

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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865) , Assassination of Alexander I and Draga, King and Queen of Servia (June 10-11, 1903) , Assassination of Alexander the Second of Russia (March 13, 1881) , Assassination of Alexis, Son Of Peter the Great (June 26,1718) , Assassination of August von Kotzebue (March 23, 1819) , Assassination of Gessler (AD 1307) , Assassination of Gustavus the Third of Sweden (March 17, 1792) , Assassination of Henry the Fourth of France (May 14, 1610) , Assassination of Hypatia (AD 415) , Assassination of Inez de Castro (AD 1355) , Assassination of Jean Paul Marat (July 13, 1793) , Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 BC) , Assassination of Paul the First of Russia (March 24, 1801) , Assassination of Peter the Third of Russia (July 17, 1762) , Assassination of Philip of Macedon (336 BC) , Assassination of the Brothers John and Cornelius de Witt (August 20,1672) , Assassination of the Duc de Berry (February 13,1820) , Assassination of Thomas A Becket (December 29, 1170) , Assassination of Tiberius Gracchus (133 BC) , Assassination of Wallenstein (February 24, 1634) , Assassination of William McKinley, President of the United States (September 6, 1901) , Assassination of William of Orange (July 10, 1584) , Assassinations by Ivan the Terrible (1560-1584) , Assassinations of Rizzio and Darnley (March 9, 1566; February 9,1567) , Assassinations of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero (AD 37-68)