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The assassination of George I of Greece, King of the Hellenes and Prince of Denmark, took place on the late afternoon of March 18, 1913, in Thessaloniki, Greece. It was carried out by an alleged Greek anarchist named Alexandros Schinas .
Assassination of George I as depicted in a contemporary lithograph. The death of Britain's Queen Victoria on 22 January 1901 left King George as the second-longest-reigning monarch in Europe. [60] His always cordial relations with his brother-in-law, the new King Edward VII, continued to tie Greece to Britain.
List of assassinations in Europe. Assassinations which took place on the continent of Europe include the following. For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious or political reasons.
DateVictim (s)Assassin (s)2016Jacques Hamel, Roman Catholic priest of ...Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean2015Cabu, Elsa Cayat, Charb, Philippe Honoré, ...2013Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla ...Shot at Rue La Fayette in Paris.1998Claude Érignac, prefect of CorsicaGeorge I (born December 24, 1845, Copenhagen, Denmark—died March 18, 1913, Thessaloníki, Greece) was the king of the Greeks whose long reign (1863–1913) spanned the formative period for the development of Greece as a modern European state.
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King George I of Greece, while walking in the principal street of Salonika on 18 March 1913, was shot by Aleko Schoinas, a Greek, and died within half an hour. The regicide, armed with a...
Mar 18, 2013 · On May 6, 1913, he died after “falling” from a police station window; the death was officially recorded as a suicide, though there is obvious reason for doubt. The assassination came just a...
Tragically, on a visit to Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, in March 1913 he was shot through the heart at point blank by a Socialist anarchist called Alexandros Schinas. The killer was tortured and fell out of a police station window before being convicted of regicide.
