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| Wife | Origin | Known by Henry | Children |
| Catherine of Aragon | Spain | Mary | |
| Anne Boleyn | Kent? | Elizabeth | |
| Jane Seymour | Wiltshire | Edward | |
| Anne of Cleves | Germany* | 'Flanders Mare' | |
| Catherine (Kathryn) Howard | Norfolk | 'Rose without a thorn'* and 'very jewel of womanhood' | |
| Catherine Parr | Kendal |
| Wife | Date married | Date 'unmarried' | Fate |
| Catherine of Aragon | 11th June, 1509 | 23rd May 23, 1533 | Divorced (annulled) |
| Anne Boleyn | C 25th Jan, 1533 | 19th May, 1536 | Beheaded |
| Jane Seymour | 30th May, 1536 | 24th Oct, 1537 | Died |
| Anne of Cleves | 6th Jan, 1540 | 9th Jul, 1540 | Divorced |
| Catherine (Kathryn) Howard | 28th Jul, 1540 | 13th Feb, 1542 | Beheaded |
| Catherine Parr | 12th Jul, 1543 | 28th Jan,1547 | Survived (widowed) |
Assassinations (murder for a political motive)
| Date | Victim | Assassin | Location |
| 1590 | Musilis I | Hantilis | Hattusas |
| 1025 | King Agag of the Amalekites | Samuel | Israel |
| 681, Jan | Sennacherib | sons | Nineveh? |
| 525 | Smerdis | Cambyses | Persia |
| 514 | Hipparchus | Harmodius and Aristogiton | Athens |
| 461 | Ephialtes | political opponents | Athens |
| 395 | Tissaphernes | Parysatis | Colossae, Phrygia |
| 338 | Artaxerxes III | Bogoas | Persia |
| 336 | Philip II of Macedon | Pausanias? | Asia Minor |
| 336 | Arses | Bogoas | Persia |
| 330 | Darius III | Bessus | Bactria |
| 328 | General Parmenio | Alexander/Cleander | Greece |
| 280 | Nicator Seleucus I | Macedonia | |
| 221 | Gen Hasdrubal | Celt | |
| 207 | Zhoa Gao | China | |
| 192 | Nabis | Antiochus III | Sparta |
| 185 | Emperor Brihadratha | Pusyamitra | Patna, India |
| 135 | Simon Maccabee | son in law | Jerusalem |
| 133, Jun | Tiberius Gracchus | rioters | Rome |
| 125 | Demetrius II of Syria | Parthians? | Syria |
| 121 | Gaius Gracchus | Lucius Opimus/suicide | Aventine Hill, Rome |
| 91 | Marcus Livius Drusus | political opponents | Rome |
| 72 | Quintus Sertorius | Marcus Perperna et al | Spain |
| 48, Sep 28 | Pompey | Ptolemy XII | Egypt |
| 44, Mar 15 | Julius Caesar | Brutus, Cassius et al | The Senate, Rome |
| Date | Victim | Assassin | Location |
| 23, Oct 06 | Wang Mang | rebels | Ch’ang-an |
| 41, Jan 24 | Caligula Cassius | Chaerea et al | Palatine Games, Rome |
| 69, Jan 15 | Emperor Galba | Praetorian guard | The Forum, Rome |
| 96, Sep 18 | Domitian | ex slave Stephanus et al | Rome |
| 192, Dec 31 | Commodus | gladiator | Rome |
| 193 | Emperor Publius Pertinax | soldiers | Rome |
| 212 | Geta | Caracalla | Rome |
| 217, Apl 08 | Caracalla | Marcus Opelius Macrinus | Mesopotamia |
| 241 | King Ardashir of Persia | Persia | |
| 267 | Odaenathus | Cappadocia (Turkey) | |
| 275 | Aurelian (Lucius Domitius) | own officers | Byzantium |
| 293 | Carausius (Augustus) | Allectus | Britain |
| 350 | Constans | Magnus Magnentius | Gaul |
| 392, May 25 | Valentinian II | Arbogast supporters | Vienna |
| 415 | Ataulf (Ataulfus) | Barcelona |
| 602 | Mauritius | mutinous soldiers | Byzantium |
| 644, Nov 03 | Umar ibn Al-Khattab | slave | Medina |
| 656, Jun 17 | Uthman ibn ‘Afan | rebels | Medina |
| 661 | Ali | Khariji sect? | Kufah, Iraq |
| 861, Dec | Caliph al-Mutawakkil | disaffected troops | Samarra, Iraq |
| 867, Sep 23 | Michael III | Basil I | Byzantium |
| 882, Dec | Pope John VIII | religious opponents | Rome |
| 900, Jun 17 | Archbishop Fulk of Reims | Baldwin II of Flanders | Rheims |
| 978, Mar 18 | Edward the Martyr | stepmother Elfrida? | Corfe |
| 1014 | King Brian (Boru) of Ireland | Munster chieftains | Clantar nr Dublin |
| 1040 | Duncan | Macbeth of Ross and Moray | Scotland |
| 1072, Oct 06 | Sancho II of Castile | city defenders | Zamora, Spain |
| 1170, Dec 29 | Thomas a Becket | Knights: Fitorse, Tracy, Morville, Brito | Canterbury Cathedral |
| 1208, Jun 21 | Philip of Sweden | Otto of Wittelsbach | Bamberg (Germany) |
| 1306, Aug 04 | Wencelas III | Bohemia | |
| 1308, May 01 | HR Emperor Albert I | John of Swabia | Brugg, Switzerland |
| 1354, Oct 08 | Cola di Rienzi | rioters | Rome |
| 1390, Feb | King Che Bong Nga of Champa |
| 1400, Feb | Richard II | circumstances not known | Pontefract Castle |
| 1419, Sep 10 | John the Fearless | Armagnacs | Montereau, France |
| 1437, Feb 20 | James I of Scotland | Sir Robert Graham et al | Dominican monastery |
| 1476, Dec | Galeazzo Attendoli | citizens | Milan |
| 1483, Aug | Princes Edward and Richard | Richard III? | Tower of London |
| 1488, Jun 11 | James III of Scotland | unknown | Stirling |
| 1532 | Huascar | Atahualpa | Peru |
| 1533, Aug 29 | Atahualpa | Francisco Pizarro | Cajamarca, Peru |
| 1537, Jan 05/6 | Alessandro de’ Medici | Lorenzino de Medici | Florence |
| 1538 | Diego de Almagro | Hernando Pizarro | Cusco, Peru |
| 1541, Jun 26 | Francisco Pizarro | Spaniards | Lima |
| 1546, May 29 | Cardinal David Beaton | Leslie and Kirkaldy of Grange | St Andrews Castle |
| 1563, Feb 24 | Francois Guise | Huguenots | Orleans |
| 1567, Feb 9/10 | Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley | suspected Earl of Bothwell | Kirk o’field, Edinburgh |
| 1567, June 02 | Shane O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone | MacDonnells | Cushendun, Antrim |
| 1570, Jan 21 | Earl of Moray | James Hamilton | Linlithgow |
| 1572, Aug 26 | Petrus Ramus | hired assassins | Paris |
| 1582, Jun 02 | Oda Nobunaga | Akechi Mitsuhide/suicide | Kyoto |
| 1584, Jul 10 | William the Silent | Balthasar Gerard | Delft, Netherlands |
| 1588, Dec 23 | Henry, Duke of Guise | Huguenots? | Blois |
| 1588, Dec 24 | Louis, Cardinal de Guise | Huguenots? | Blois |
| 1589, Aug 02 | Henry III of France | Jacques Clement | Saint-Cloud |
| 1601? | Prince Michael of Walachia | Giorgio Basta | Romania |
| 1605, Apl 02 | Tsar Boris Gudenov | pretender to be Prince Dmitry | Moscow |
| 1610, May 14 | Henry IV of France | Francois Ravaillac | Paris |
| 1617, Apl 24 | Marquis d’Ancre | Louis XIII | France |
| 1628, Aug 23 | Duke of Buckingham (George Villiers) | John Felton | Portsmouth |
| 1634, Feb 25 | Prince Albrect von Wallenstein | Walter Devereux | Eger |
| 1647, Jul 16 | Mananiello | Spanish | Naples |
| 1672, Aug 20 | de Witt brothers | angry crowd | The Hague |
| 1708, Oct 07 | Gobind Singh | Pashton tribesman | Nanded, Maharashtra |
| 1720 | Husayn ‘Ali | Afghanistan | |
| 1747, Jun | Nadir Shah | own soldiers | Korasan, Afghanistan |
| 1762, Jul 17 | Peter III | possibly Alexius Orlov | Russia |
| 1792, Mar 29 | Gustavus III of Sweden | Johan Ankarstrom | Stockholm |
| 1793, Jan 13/14 | Hugou de Bassville | angry crowd | Rome |
| 1793, Jul 13 | Jean Paul Marat | Charlotte Corday | Paris |
| 1800, Jun 14 | Jean Babtiste Kleber | Turkish fanatic | Cairo |
| 1801, Mar 23 | Tsar Paul I of Russia | army officers | Russia |
| 1806, Oct 17 | Jean-Jacques Dessalines | Henri Christophe/Alexandre Petion | Port-au-Prince |
| 1812, May 11 | Spencer Perceval | John Bellingham | House of Commons |
| 1817, Jul 13 | Karageorge (George Petrovich) | Milos Obrenovich | Radovanje, Serbia |
| 1819, Mar 23 | August von Kotzebue | Karl Sand | Mannheim |
| 1820, Feb 13/14 | Duc de Berry | Louis-Pierre Louvel | Paris |
| 1821, May 02 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Compte de Mentholon (alleged) | St Helena |
| 1822, Feb 02 | Ali Pasha | Mahmud II | Janina |
| 1828, Sep 24 | Chaka | Dingaan et al | Swaziland |
| 1830, Jun 04 | Antonio Jose de Sucre | possibly Hose Oblando | Berreucos, Ecuador |
| 1831, Oct 09 | Count Kapodistrias Antonios | Mavromikhalis brothers | Navpion, Greece |
| 1843 | Dingaan | Swazi? | Swaziland |
| 1844, Jun 27 | Joseph and Hyram Smith | mob | Carthage, Illinois |
| 1860, Mar 24 | Li Naosuke | pro-imperial radicals | Edo (Tokyo) Castle |
| 1865, Apl 14/15 | Abraham Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth | Ford's Theatre, Washington DC |
| 1868, Jun 10 | Prince Michael III of Serbia | Turks? | Serbia |
| 1875, Aug 06 | Gabriel Garcia Moreno | liberals | Quito |
| 1878, May 14 | Okubo Toshimichi | Samurai | Japan |
| 1881, Mar 01 | Alexander II of Russia | Narodnaya Volya (Nihilists) | St Petersburg |
| 1881, Jul 2/Sep 19 | James A Garfield | Charles J Guiteau | Washington DC |
| 1882 | Sekukuni | Mampura | South Africa |
| 1882, May 06 | Lord Frederick Cavendish | Irish Invincibles | Phoenix Park, Dublin |
| 1894, Jun 24 | Marie Francois (Sadi) Carnot | Italian anarchist | Lyon |
| 1897, Aug 08 | Antonio Canovas del Castillo | Angiollo (anarchist) | Santa Agueda, Vitoria |
| 1898 | Jose Maria Barrios | political opponents | Guatemala |
| 1898 Sep 10 | Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary | anarchist | Geneva |
| 1900, Jul 29 | Umberto I of Italy | G Bresci (anarchist) | Monza |
| 1901, Sep 6/14 | William McKinley | Leon Czolgosz (anarchist) | Buffalo, NY |
| 1903, Jun 11 | King Alexander of Serbia | military coup | Belgrade |
| 1904, Jun 17 | Nikolay Bobrikov | Finnish nationalists | Helsinki |
| 1908, Feb 01 | Carlos I of Portugal | republicans | Lisbon |
| 1909, Oct 26 | Hirobumi Ito | An Chung-gun | Manchuria |
| 1911, Sep 14 | Pyotr Stolypin | Dmitry Bogrov | Kiev |
| 1912, Nov | Jose Canalejas | anarchist | Spain |
| 1913, Feb 22 | Francisco Madero | Victoriano Huerta | Mexico City |
| 1913, Mar 18 | George I of Greece | Schinas | Salonika |
| 1914, Jun 28 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Gavrilo Precip | Sarajevo |
| 1914, Jul 31 | Jean Jaures | fanatic | France |
| 1916, Oct 21 | Count von Sturgkh | Freidrich Adler | Vienna |
| 1916, Dec 30/31 | Grigory Rasputin | Feliks Yusupov et al | Russia |
| 1918, Oct 31 | Count Istvan Tisza | anti war protesters | Budapest |
| 1919, Feb | Habibullah Khan | Afghanistan | |
| 1919, Apl 10 | Emiliano Zapata | Carrancistas | Morelos, Mexico |
| 1920, May 20 | Venustiano Carranza | Obregon supporters | Tlaxcalantongo, Mexico |
| 1921, Nov 04 | Hara Takashi | radical nationalist | Tokyo station |
| 1922, Jun 24 | Walther Rathenau | right wing fanatics | Berlin |
| 1922, Aug 22 | Michael Collins | Irish nationalists | Cork |
| 1923, Jun 20 | Pancho Villa | unknown | Parral, Mexico |
| 1928, Jul 17 | Gen Alvaro Obregon | Jose Toral | Mexico |
| 1928, Jun 04 | Chang Tso-lin | Japanese extremists | Manchuria |
| 1928, Jun 20 | Stjepan Radic | Serbs | Belgrade parliament |
| 1931, Nov | Osachi Hamaguchi | Japan | |
| 1932, May 6/7 | Paul Doumer | Paul Gorgoulov | France |
| 1933, Feb 15 | Anton Cermak | Joseph Zangara | Chicago |
| 1933, Nov | Shah Nadir, of Afghanistan | fundamentalists | Afghanistan |
| 1934, Jul 25 | Engelbert Dollfuss | Nazis | Austrian Chancellery |
| 1934, Oct 09 | Alexander I of Yugoslavia | Croat separatists | Marseilles |
| 1934, Oct 09 | Louis Barthou | Croat separatists | Marseilles |
| 1934, Feb 23 | Augusto Cesar Sandino | national guard | Nicaragua |
| 1934, Oct 09 | Louis Barthou | Croatian terrorists | Marseilles |
| 1934, Oct 09 | King Alexander of Yugoslavia | Croatian terrorists | Marseilles |
| 1934, Dec 01 | Sergei Kirov | Stalin suspected | USSR |
| 1935, Sep 8/10 | Huey Long | Carl Austin Weiss | Baton Rouge |
| 1936, Jun 22 | Maritz Schlick | demented student | Vienna |
| 1936, Jul 13 | Jose Calvo Sotelo | republicans | Spain |
| 1938, Nov 06 | Ernst vom Rath | Hirchel Grynszpan | Paris |
| 1939, Sep 21 | Armand Calinescu | Nazi 'Iron Guards' | Romania |
| 1940, Aug 20/21 | Leon Trotsky | Ramon Mercader | Mexico City |
| 1942, May 27 | Reinhard Heydrich | Czech patriots | Prague |
| 1942, Dec 24 | Jean Francois Darlan | Free French Forces | North Africa |
| 1943, Aug 28 | Boris III of Bulgaria | German agents or heart attack | Sofia |
| 1944, Apl 15 | Giovanni Gentile | communists | Italy |
| 1946, Jun 09 | King Ananda Mahidol (Rama III) | circumstances unknown | Thailand |
| 1947, Jul 19 | Aung San | U Saw et al | Rangoon |
| 1948, Jan 30 | Mahatma Gandhi | Nathuran Godse | Delhi |
| 1948, Apl 09 | Jorge Eliecer Gaitan | conservatives | Bogata |
| 1948, Sep 17 | Count Folke Bernadotte | Israeli Stern Gang | Jerusalem |
| 1950, Nov 13 | Delgado Chalbaud | political opponents | Venezuela |
| 1951, Jul 20 | Abdullah ibn-Hussein | Palestinian | Jerusalem |
| 1951, Oct 06 | Sir Henry Gurnay | guerrillas | Malaya |
| 1951, Oct 16 | Liaquat Ali Khan | Muslim fanatics | Rawlpindi |
| 1955, Jan 02 | Col Jose Remon | political opponents | Panama |
| 1956, Sep 21/29 | Anastasio Garcia Somoza | Rigoberto Lopez Perez | Leon |
| 1957, Jul 26 | Col Carlos Castillo Armas | left wing opponents | Guatemala |
| 1958, Jul 14 | King Faisal II of Iraq | military coup | Baghdad |
| 1959, Sep 25 | Solomon Bandaranaike | Talduwe Somarama | Colombo |
| 1961, Jan 17 | Patrice Lumumba | political opponents | Katanga |
| 1961, May 30 | Gen Rafael Trujillo Molina | Gen JT Diaz et al | San Cristobel |
| 1961 | Louis Muhirwa | political opponents | Burundi |
| 1963, Jan 13 | Sylvanus Olympio | military coup | Togo |
| 1963, Jun 12 | Medgar Evers | Byron de la Beckwith | |
| 1963, Nov 02 | Ngo Dinh Diem | military coup | Saigon |
| 1963, Nov 22 | John F Kennedy | unknown (Lee Harvey Oswald has been blamed) | Dallas |
| 1965, Feb 21 | Malcolm X | Black Muslims | Harlem |
| 1965, Oct 29 | Mehdi Ben Barka | Moroccans/French SS | Morocco |
| 1966, Jan 15 | Abubakar Tafawa Balewa | military coup | near Ifo, Nigeria |
| 1966, Sep 06 | Hendrik Vervoerd | Dimitri Tsafendas | South African Parliament |
| 1968, Apl 04 | Martin Luther King | JamesEarl Ray | Memphis, Tennessee |
| 1968, Jun 5/6 | Robert Kennedy | Sirhan Sirhan | Ambassador Hotel, LA |
| 1969 | Eduardo Mondlane | Portuguese? | Mozambique |
| 1969, Jul 05 | Tom Mboya | Kikuyu | nr Nairobi |
| 1969, Oct 15 | Abdi Rashid Ali Shirmarke | Yussuf Ismail | Somalia |
| 1971, Nov 28 | Wasfi Tal | Palestinians | Cairo |
| 1973, Jan 20 | Amilcar Cabral | political opponents | Conakry |
| 1973, Dec 20 | Luis Carrero Blanco | Basques | Madrid |
| 1975, Feb 11 | Col Richard Ratsimandrava | Malagasy Republic | |
| 1975, Mar 25 | King Faisal of Saudia Arabia | Faisal ibn Musad | Riyadh |
| 1975, Apl 13 | N’ Garta Tombalbaye | military coup | Chad |
| 1975, Aug 15 | Sheik Mujibur Rahman | military coup | Dacca |
| 1976, Feb 13 | Gen Murtala Mohammed | Attempted coup | Nigeria |
| 1976, Jul 21 | Christopher EwartBiggs | IRA | Dublin |
| 1976, Feb 13 | Brig Murtala Ramat | attempted coup | Nigeria |
| 1977, Mar | Kamul Jumblatt | political opponents | Beirut |
| 1977 | Capt Marien Ngouabi | anti communists | Congo |
| 1977, Oct | Col Ibrahim al-Hamadi | military opponents | Yemen |
| 1978 | Ahmad al-Gashmi | political opponents | Yemen |
| 1978 | Pedro Chamorro | Somozans | Nicaragua |
| 1978, May | Ali Soilih | French mercenaries | Comoros |
| 1978, Apl | President Daud | coup | Afghanistan |
| 1978 | Georgi Markov | Bulgarian SS | London |
| 1978, May 09 | Aldo Moro | Red Brigade | Italy |
| 1979, Mar 22 | Ambassador Richard Sykes | IRA | The Hague |
| 1979, Mar 30 | Airey Neave | INLA | House of Commons |
| 1979, Aug 27 | Lord Louis Mountbatten | Provisional IRA | Eire |
| 1979, Oct 26 | Park Chung Hee | Kim Jae Kyu | South Korea |
| 1980, Feb 15 | John Lennon | Mark Chapman | New York |
| 1980, Apl 12 | William R Tolbert | Master Sgt Samuel Doe | Liberia |
| 1980, Sep 17 | Anastasio Somoza Debayle | Sandanistas? | Asuncion |
| 1981, May 30 | Capt Zia ur Rahman | attempted coup | Bangladesh |
| 1981, Oct 06 | Anwar Sadat | Muslim fundamentalists | Cairo |
| 1982, Sep 14 | Bashir Gemayel | political opponents | Beirut |
| 1983, Aug 21 | Benigno Aquino | military guard | Manila airport |
| 1984 | Jese Popuwyusco | government agents | Poland |
| 1984, Oct 31 | Indira Gandhi | Sikh bodyguards | Delhi |
| 1986, Feb 28 | Olaf Palme | unknown | Stockholm |
| 1987, Jun | Rashid Karami | Lebanese factions | Lebanon |
| 1988 | Gen Zia ul-Haq | political opponents | Bomb in aircraft, Pakistan |
| 1988 | Chico Mendes | Darci Alves | Brazil |
| 1989, Nov 22 | Rene Moawad | unknown | Beirut |
| 1989, Nov | Ahmed Abdullah | French mercenaries | Comoros |
| 1990 | Luis Galen | drugs cartel | Colombia |
| 1990, Sep 09 | Gen Samuel Doe | rebels | Monrovia |
| 1990, Nov 05 | Rabbi Meir Kahane | Arab extremists | New York |
| 1991 | Salah Khalaf | Abu Nidal | Palestine |
| 1991, May 21 | Rajiv Gandhi | Tamil terrorist | Sriperambudur, nr Madras |
| 1991, Aug 06 | Shahpur Bakhtiar | Islamic zealots | Paris |
| 1991, Apl | Detler Rohwedder | Red Army Faction | Germany |
| 1992, Jun 29 | Muhammad Boudiaff | Muslim fundamentalists | Algeria |
| 1993, Apl | Chris Hani | white nationalists | South Africa |
| 1993, Apl 23 | Lalith Athulathmundi | Tamil Tigers? | Sri Lanka |
| 1993, May 01 | Ranasinghe Premadasa | Tamil Tigers? | Colombo |
| 1994, Mar 24 | Luis Donaldo Colosio | political opponents | Tijuana, Mexico |
| 1994, Sep 28 | Jose Ruiz Massieu | Mexico | |
| 1995, Nov 04 | Yitzhak Rabin | Yigal Amir | Tel Aviv |
| 1998, Nov 20 | Galena Steavolcheva | political opponents | St Petersburg |
| Copyright Quibs 1999 |
Last Updated 25/3/1999
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