Henry III Assassinated
August 1, 1589
The last Valois king of France, camped with his army outside Paris, received a young Dominican friar named Jacques Clement, who claimed to carry secret messages. Clement stabbed him in the stomach with a hidden knife and was himself hacked to pieces on the spot. Henry III died the next day, childless.
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- After: 1590: Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.