Italian king assassinated at Monza
July 29, 1900
An Italian-American anarchist from Paterson, New Jersey, shot King Umberto I four times at point-blank range in front of his carriage, in revenge for a massacre of workers two years earlier. It was the third assassination of a European head of state in five years. Anarchist terror was becoming a political method across the continent.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.