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Assassinations

The unlucky leaders who met a TRAGIC

end as they tried to change the world

Julius Caesar
By 44 BCE, Roman war hero Julius
Caesar was the most powerful man
in the world. He had been made
“Dictator for Life” of Rome, in charge
of its vast empire. But some Romans
felt that this was too much power for
one man, so they PLOTTED TO KILL

him. On March 15, 44 BCE, when
Caesar arrived at the Senate, he was
surrounded by a group of Senators.
They unsheathed their daggers and
stabbed him 23 times until he fell,
dead, onto the Senate floor.

The Senate was the Did you know?
place where the rulers
of Rome met to debate While escaping after
and pass laws. Abraham Lincoln Lincoln, the killer fell off
shooting President

the theater stage
and broke his leg.

Abraham Lincoln was president of the USA from
1861 to 1865. He led the country during the Civil
War, when some states, who called themselves
the Confederacy, fought against Lincoln’s policy

Lincoln’s side won, but just a week later the
president was shot dead while he and his
wife were watching a play at the theater.
The killer was an actor and Confederacy
spy named John Wilkes Booth, who was
shot dead himself 11 days later.

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