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| 1900 |
| | | Humbert I, the king of Italy, is assassinated by an Italian-American anarchist, Gaetano Bresci | |
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| 1901 |
| | | President McKinley is assassinated by an anarchist when visiting the Pan-American exhibition in Buffalo | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The king of Portugal, Carlos I, and his heir, Luis Filipe, are shot as they ride in an open carriage in Lisbon | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin is assassinated in a Kiev theatre | |
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| 1914 June 28 |
| | | Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Three members of the Russian imperial family assassinate the influential charlatan Grigory Rasputin | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The Irish Free State takes stringent measures against rebel terrorism, making possession even of a pistol a capital offence | |
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| 1922 |
| | | After Michael Collins is killed in an ambush, William Cosgrave and Kevin O'Higgins emerge as leaders of the Irish Free State | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Alvaro Obregón, the leading figure in Mexico's anti-clerical revolution, is shot by a Roman Catholic assassin | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Irgun, a new Jewish paramilitary group, is set up by Haganah commanders frustrated by the older organization's policies | |
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