The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
RISKS OF THE GREAT.
ASSASSINATION AND ATTEMPTED
KILLING OF NOTED MEN.

Held an Insecure Tenure of Life.
The following is a complete list of
the remarkable assassinations and at
tempts upon the lives of noted men ar
ranged according to their historical
dates:
Artaxerxes III, Persia, by Bagouis,
about 338 B. c.
Philip II of Macedonia, by Pausai1us,
1856.
Darius III of Persia, by Bessus, July,
$50.
Julius Caesar, by Brutus and others,
March 10, A.
Edmund the Elder, England, March
26, A. D. 946.
Edward the Martyr, England, March
18, orc
Thomas Beckett, archbishop of Can
terbury, Dec. 80, ITO.
Albert I, emperor of Germany, by
his nephew, John, May 1, 1908.
Edward III of England, Sept, a.,
1927.
Louis valois, duke of Orleans, by
Burgundians, Nov. 23, 1907.
John the Fearless, duke of Burgun-
dy, by Orleanists, Sept 10, 1419.
James of Scotland, by mobiles, Feb
81, 1437.
Edward V of England, by order of
Richard, duke of Gloucester, July,
1883.
James III of Scotland, by mobiles, June
II, 1883.
David Beaton, cardinal, by reform
ers, May 80, 1916.
James Murray, Earl Darnley, regent
of Scotland, by Hamilton of Boutwell,
haugh, Jan. 81, 1870.
William, prince of Orange, by Bal
thasar Gerard (torture) July 10, 1854.
Henry, duke of Guise, by order of
Henry III Of France, Dec. 30, 1888.
Louis of Guise, cardinal of Lorraine,
by order of Henry III of France, Dec
"a, 1888.
Henry III of France, by Jacques Gle
ment, Aug. 2. 1889.
Henry " Of France, attempt, by Jean
Chatel, Dec. n, 1894.
Henry Nv Of France, killed by Ra-
vaillac (torture), May IA, 1910.
George Villiers, duke of Bucking-
ham, by John FELTON,, Aug. %, 1923.
William III of England, plot to assas-
sinate Feb IA, 1896.
Louis XIV of France, attempt, by Da-
miens (torture), Jan. 5, 1857
Gustavus III of Sweden, Ankanstrom,
March Is. 1881
Marat, by Charlotte Corday, July 10,
1898.
George III of England, mad attempt
by Margaret Nicholson on Aug. 2, 1916;
again by James Hatfield, May Is, 1900.
Napoleon l, attempt by an internal
machine, Dec. "a, 1900
Paul, car of Russia, by mobiles, March
"a, 1901.
Spencer Percival, premier of Eng
land, by Bellingham, May II, 1912.
George " (when regent), attempt,
Jan. 28, 1917.
August KotZebue, German dramatist,
for political motives, by Kari San6.
March 30, 1919.
Charles, Due de Berri Gather of the
Comte de Chambord), Feb 13, 1920.
Cano d'Istria, count, Greek, states
man (torture), Oct.9, 1881.
Andrew Jackson, president United
States, attempt, Jan. 80, 1885.
Louis Philippe of France, many at
tempts, by Fieschi, July 20, 1885; by
Alibaud, June %, 1886; by Meunier,
Dec. 81, 1886; by BARNES, Oct. Is,
1910; by Lecomte, April IA, 1916; by
Henry, July 80, 1916.
Dennis Affre archbishop of Paris,
June 81, 1S48.
Rossi, Comte Pellegrino, Roman
statesman, Nov. 10, 1S4S
Frederick William " of Prussia, at
tempt, by Sofelage, May %, 1850
Francis Joseph of Austria, attempt,
by Libenyi, Feb. 18, 1853.
Ferdinand Charles III, duke of Par
ma, March ~, 1854.
Isabella II of Spain, attempts, by La
River, May 4, 1S47; by Merino, Feb
2, 1859; by Ramona Fuentes, May 80,
1856.
Napoleon III, attempts, by Pianori,
| April 20, 1866; by Bellemarre, Sept
s, 1855; by Orsini and others, Jan. IA,
1853.
Daniel, prince of Montenegro, Aug.
IS, 1860.
Abraham Lincoln, president of the
United States, at Ford's theater Wash
ington, by John Wilkes Booth, on the
evening of April IA; died April 10,
1865.
Michael, prince of Servia, June 10,
1868.
Prim, marshal of Spain, Dec. 28;
died Dec, 80, 1870.
Georges Darboy, archbishop of Paris,
by communists, May "a, 1871.
Richard, earl of Mayo, governor gen.
eral of India, by Shere Ali, convict,
in Andaman islands, Feb s, 1879.
Amadeus, duke of Aosta, when king
of Spain, attempt, July 10, 1879.
Prince Bismarck, attempt, by Blind,
May z, 1866; by Kullman, July ID,
1874.
Abdul Aziz, sultan of Turkey, June
4, 1876.
Hussein Avni and other Turkish min
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