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Assassinations That Changed The World
Julius Caesar
About 60 senators stabbed Rome's leader 23 times, according to The Telegraph. His death came a month after he was instilled as a dictator. The senate was worried the power would go to his head and that he would claim to be king, and no longer heed the senate.
His death led to civil wars, the end of Rome's time as a republic, and the beginning of its time as an empire. 1)
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth, a 26-year-old actor, shoot Lincoln while he was on the stage five days before the conclusion of the Civil War, in Washington D.C. Some hailed his death in the South. Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's vice president, replaced him, and after the war worked to reconcile the country. Johnson was generous to the southern states during the reconstruction, resulting in stringent “black codes” that ultimately decimed the liberties of freed slaves. 2)
William McKinley
McKinley was shot at a fair in Buffalo, New York, by a 28-year-old anarchist called Leon Czolgosz. Eight days later, he passed away. 3)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princip, 18, a Serbian student, shot the Archduke while driving through Sarajevo in Bosnia. Heir of Austria-Hungary, Ferdinand, was thus not taken lightly by his death. The empire proclaimed Serbian war after his death. Other countries were dragged into the war that led to World War I and more than 37 million troops were killed or wounded. 4)
Tsar Nicholas II
In a cellar Bolcheviks, a revolutionary socialist organization, shot dead the tsar, his wife, and their five children who had taken them captive for months. It was harsh and inadequately carried out since the children sewed gems in their garments so that they were kept secret. The jewels were nonetheless prolonged like bullet-proof jackets. 5)
Emiliano Zapata
At the command of the then Mexican President Venustiano Carranza, General Emiliano Zapata was killed during the Mexican Revolution. Throughout his life Zapata had struggled for impoverished farmers. He became an icon of Mexican farmers and the working class after his death. 6)
Mahatma Gandhi
The Hindu extremist on the way to the prayer of the evening assassinated Mahatma Ghandi, who successfully contributed to India's political independence from Britain in 1947. He organized several notable nonviolent rallies, including a 241-mile Indian shore march for salt, which resulted to the imprisonment of 60,000 innocent demonstrators. 7)