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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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| 1848 |
| | | The prime minister of the papal states, Pellegrino Rossi, is assassinated in Rome | |
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| 1865 |
| | | On a visit to a Washington theatre, Lincoln is assassinated in his box by John Wilkes Booth | |
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| 1865 |
| | | The first branch of the Ku Klux Klan is founded at Pulaski, in Tennessee, on Christmas Eve | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Maximilian, the emperor of Mexico, and two of his generals are shot after being surrounded and captured at Querétaro | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Turkish irregular soldiers, the ferocious bashibazouks, massacre some 15,000 Bulgarian civilians | |
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| 1881 |
| | | Russia's reforming tsar, Alexander II, is killed by hand-made grenades thrown at his carriage in St Petersburg | |
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