Political Assassinations That Shook The World

Abraham Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, has consistently been ranked by scholars as one of the greatest of all the U.S. Presidents. This greatest president was assassinated on Good Friday, April 14, 1865 while attending the play Our American Cousin with his wife at Ford's Theatre. It was John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer who fatally shot him dead.

Lincoln’s attack came only five days after the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac, effectively ending the American Civil War. Lincoln was the first American President to be assassinated, though an unsuccessful attempt had been made on Andrew Jackson thirty years before in 1835.

Franz Ferdinand: The dead of Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne is largely considered as the catalyst for the outbreak of World War I. On one of his visit to Sarajevo on June 28th 1914, he and his wife Sophie were shot by members of The Black Hand, a Serbian group attempting to gain independence for all the states annexed by Austria-Hungary.

At the time of his murder, Ferdinand was 50 years old. World War I began two months after the assassination, with Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia.

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