assassinations

What if despite still being ambushed and stabbed by a mob of senators, Caesar clings to life, nursed back to health in seclusion by loyalists? What would the fallout be of a few months of instability as people are unsure of what is going on, rumours spread about his assassination and supposed...

On December 7, 1492, King Ferdinand II of Aragon was departing from the Plaça del Rei in Barcelona when a man named Juan de Cañamares (or, Joan de Canyamars) armed with a short sword took the chance to stab him, leaving a long wound that went from his ear to his neck (as a chronicler of the time...

Often attributed to his papacy are a few collapses of dictatorial systems all around the globe and he played a major factor in the downfall of the soviet union and communism in europe as well. As history tells us, Pope John Paul II survived the assassination attempt in May 1981, but he was...

Historically, the period between 1807-1808 was a period which saw great instability in the Ottoman Empire with Selim III and Mustafa IV killed and an attempted coup attempted against Mahmud II delaying his proposed reforms, but what if the series of coups and general unrest led to the extinction...

In the long span of Roman history, the average length of an emperor's reign was something like seven years. This average only includes the emperors generally regarded as "legitimate" by historians. When factoring the total number of men who have, at one time or another, claimed the imperial...

IOTL, there was an attempt on ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1905, put forth by armenian terrorists. The bomb that was thrown managed to kill 26 of Abdul's servants and acquaintances, but not Abdul himself. But what if the sultan had been killed that day? What are the ramifications stemming...

I picked this premise up from a book. Basically, what if throughput the 50s-70s of the Cold War, the CIA actually performed assassinations on activists or politicians that were anti US in allied countries like France. One particular assassination scenario in the book was this. During the 60s...

Woodrow Wilson arrives to France before the final version of the Treaty of Versailles is prepared. Suddenly, an unknown gun-wielding maniac (either a passionate anti-american or simply a nationalistic fanatic from one of the Central Powers) runs out of the crowd and starts shooting at the...