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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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| 1792 |
| | | During four September days, thugs are encouraged to massacre some 1400 aristocrats and priests held in Paris prisons | |
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| 1793 |
| | | 25-year-old Charlotte Corday gains access to prominent republican Jean-Paul Marat and stabs him in his bath | |
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| 1793 |
| | | The Terror begins in republican France, with executions rising to more than 3000 in December | |
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