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| 133 BC |
| | | The tribune Tiberius Gracchus is murdered by a mob which includes Roman senators | |
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| 121 BC |
| | | The tribune Gaius Gracchus is murdered by an armed group, led by a consul, after which 3000 of his supporters are rounded up and executed | |
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| 44 BC |
| | | On March 15, the Ides of March, Julius Caesar is stabbed to death during a meeting of the senate | |
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| 644 |
| | | After the assassination of Omar, Othman is elected as the third Muslim caliph | |
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| 661 |
| | | Ali is assassinated and Mu'awiya becomes the fifth Muslim caliph, establishing the Umayyad dynasty | |
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| c. 950 |
| | | So many Slavs are captured and sold, in the movement eastwards of the Germans, that their name becomes the European word for a slave | |
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| 1306 |
| | | After the murder of his rival, in a church in Dumfries, Robert de Bruce is crowned king of Scots at Scone | |
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| 1346 |
| | | Udiana Deva, the last Hindu ruler of Kashmir, is murdered by his Muslim prime minister | |
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| 1610 |
| | | Henry IV is assassinated in a Paris street by a Roman Catholic, François Ravaillac | |
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| 1792 |
| | | The Swedish king Gustavus III is assassinated at a midnight masquerade in Stockholm – an event later dramatized by Verdi | |
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