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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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| 1794 |
| | | Robespierre and St Just succeed in sending Danton and his faction to the guillotine in April | |
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| 1794 |
| | | Robespierre and his faction go to the guillotine in July, in the final bloodletting of the Terror | |
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| 1811 |
| | | All but one of 300 Mameluke guests are assassinated during an entertainment by Muhammad Ali in Cairo | |
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| 1812 |
| | | The British prime minister, Spencer Perceval, is assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Sucre is assassinated on his journey home to Quito from a congress in Bogotá | |
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| 1844 |
| | | The Mormon leader, Joseph Smith, and his brother are killed by an armed mob in Nauvoo | |
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