Assassinations in History

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Assassinations in History - Chronologically

Welcome to the history assassination archive.

Included are attempted assassinations.

This is the chronological index.

44 BC	Gaius Julius Caesar Surprisingly, Brutus was one of them. MORE ABOUT THE CAESAR ASSASSINATION

1252	Peter of Verona Members of the Cathari sect transformed Peter of Verona into Peter Martyr. MORE ABOUT THE PETER OF VERONA ASSASSINATION

1792	Gustav III For gunning down Swedish King Gustav III, they chopped off the assassin's right hand before his head. MORE ABOUT THE GUSTAV III ASSASSINATION

1800	Kleber, Jean-Baptiste Armies couldn't bring him down, but, disguised as a beggar, Sulayman al-Halabi managed to sneak up on the French general. MORE ABOUT THE GENERAL KLEBER ASSASSINATION

1835	Jackson, Andrew Jackson became the first U.S. president to encounter and survive an assassination attempt. MORE ABOUT THE JACKSON ASSASSINATION

1859	Napoleon III Bombs hurled at his carriage on the way to the opera. MORE ABOUT THE NAPOLEON III ASSASSINATION

1865	Lincoln, Abraham The first assassinated U.S. president. MORE ABOUT THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSASSINATION

1881	Alexander II Russia's tsar gets eliminated. MORE ABOUT THE ALEXANDER II ASSASSINATION

1900	Umberto I The king of Italy was gunned down by an anarchist from New Jersey, Gaetano Bresci on July 29, 1900, at Monza, Italy.

1901	McKinley, William In Buffalo, NY, Leon Czolgosz, places two bullets in McKinley's chest and abdomen. MORE ABOUT THE MCKINLEY ASSASSINATION

1912	Roosevelt, Theodore How to take a bullet and run with it for seven years. MORE ABOUT THE THEODORE ROOSEVELT ASSASSINATION

1914	Francis Ferdinand The World War One trigger. MORE ABOUT FRANCIS FERDINAND

1919	Zapata, Emiliano Colonel Jesús Guajardo's ambush in Morelos. MORE ABOUT THE EMILIANO ZAPATA ASSASSINATION

1933	Roosevelt, Franklin D. Close call in Miami. MORE ABOUT THE FDR ASSASSINATION

1935	Long, Huey Pierce Carl Austin Weiss assassinated him at the Louisiana State Capitol Building. Long was buried on the grounds. MORE ABOUT THE HUEY LONG ASSASSINATION

1948	Gandhi, Mohandas Seventy-eight year old hunger strike enthused Mohandas had to take three bullets when a slap on the head would have done the job. MORE ABOUT THE MOHANDAS GANDHI ASSASSINATION

1961	Gaulle, Charles de French statesman and "sturdy hide of the decade" who survived 31 documented attempts on his life. MORE ABOUT THE CHARLES DE GAULLE ASSASSINATION

1963 November 22	Kennedy, John F. One of the most famous assassinations in modern history. MORE ABOUT THE JFK ASSASSINATION

1963 November 24	Oswald, Lee Harvey When the assassin gets assassinated. MORE ABOUT THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD ASSASSINATION

1965	Malcolm X Civil rights leader Malcolm X encounters three assassins at once and takes 16 bullets. MORE ABOUT THE MALCOLM X ASSASSINATION

1966	Verwoerd, Hendrik South African's Mr. Apartheid was presented the blade by a crazy person. MORE ABOUT THE HENDRIK VERWORD ASSASSINATION

1968	King, Martin Luther, Jr. Surviving Curry's wielding of the letter opener, it took a conspiracy and James Earl Ray to accomplish a successful attack on Reverend King. MORE ABOUT THE MARTIN LUTHER KING ASSASSINATION

1969	Brezhnev, Leonid When your police officer is more than you think he is. MORE ABOUT THE LEONID BREZHNEV ASSASSINATION

1972	Wallace, George C. Arthur Bremer gave Alabama's governor four bullets and a wheelchair. MORE ABOUT THE GEORGE C. WALLACE ASSASSINATION

1974	Nixon, Richard M. Catching a plane. MORE ABOUT THE RICHARD NIXON ASSASSINATION

1975 August	Rahman, Mujibur Bangladeshi president and his family terminated in his home. MORE ABOUT THE MUJIBUR RAHMAN ASSASSINATION

1975 September 5	Ford, Gerald R. A female admirer gets out of hand. MORE ABOUT THE GERALD R. FORD ASSASSINATION

1981 March 30	Reagan, Ronald The 40th president of the U.S. survived Hinckley's revolver, fired at close range. MORE ABOUT THE RONALD REAGAN ASSASSINATION

1981 May 13	John Paul II The Pope survived a bullet shot through his abdomen, another one hit him in the hand. MORE ABOUT THE POPE JOHN PAUL II ASSASSINATION

1984 October 12	Thatcher, Margaret When bathroom walls get custom-rebuilt for a prime minister. MORE ABOUT THE MARGARET THATCHER ASSASSINATION

1984 October 31	Gandhi, Indira Indian prime minister with two Sikh bodyguards. MORE ABOUT THE INDIRA GANDHI ASSASSINATION

1986	Pinochet, Augusto How the old fox survived a rocket attack. MORE ABOUT THE AUGUSTO PINOCHET ASSASSINATION

1991	Gandhi, Rajiv Indian prime minister candidate greeted a bomb-laden female who pulled the trigger, killing herself, Rajiv, and 16 others. MORE ABOUT THE RAJIV GANDHI ASSASSINATION

2007	Bhutto, Benazir Never stand through the sunroof of your vehicle. MORE ABOUT THE BENAZIR BHUTTO ASSASSINATION