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Regicide is a the deliberate killing of a king by one of his subjects. It has particular resonance within the concept of the Divine Right of Kings, whereby monarchs were presumed by decision of God to have a divinely anointed authority to rule. As such, an attack on a king by one of his own subjects was taken to amount a direct challenge to (i) the monarch, (ii) his Divine Right to Rule, and (iii) God's will. Even after the disappearance of the Divine Right of Kings and the appearance of Constitutional Monarchies, the term continued and continues to be used to describe the murder of a king by one of his subjects or citizens. The word is applied to the killer as well as the act: in English history it is applied also to those who signed the death warrant for Charles I of England.Seven famous historical regicides were the executions or deliberate assassinations of
- Henry IV of France in 1610 assassinated by Ravaillac;
- Charles I of England in 1649 after sentence of death by parliament;
- Gustav III of Sweden in 1792 assassinated by Jacob Anckarström;
- Louis XVI of France in 1793Events January 2 Russia and Prussia partition Poland January 9 Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a balloon in the United States. January 21 After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, "Citizen Capet" ie. Louis XVI of Fran, after sentence of death by parliament;
- Umberto I of ItalyUmberto I or Humbert I of Italy (Ranieri Carlo Emanuele Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio of Savoy, 14 March, 1844 29 July, 1900), surnamed "the Good", was the King of Italy from 9 January, 1878 until his death. Umberto I The son of Vittorio Emanuele II a in 19001900 is the common year starting on Monday. see link for calendar) For the film, see 1900 (film). Events January January 1 Nigeria becomes British protectorate January 2 John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. January 2 Chicag by an assassin;
- Charles of Portugal in 19081908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). Events January-February January 1 A ball signifying New Year's Day drops in New York City's Times Square for the first time January 8 A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue T, by Alfredo Costa and Manuel Buiça , both connected to the Carbonária (the portuguese section of the CarbonariThe Carbonari (" coal-burners") were groups of secret revolutionary societies founded in early 19th century Italy, and instrumental in organising revolution in Italy in 1820 and 1848. They were organised in the fashion of Freemasonry, broken into small ce) and the FreemasonryFreemasonry is a worldwide fraternal organization. Its members are joined together by shared ideals, of both a moral and metaphysical nature, and, in most of its branches, by a common belief in a Supreme Being. Freemasonry is an esoteric art, in that cert;
- ex- TsarTsar ( Bulgarian Russian often spelt Czar or Tzar in English), was the title used for the rulers of the First and Second Bulgarian Empires from 913 and in Russia from 1547 to 1917. It is derived from the Latin title Caesar. History of usage The title tsar Nicholas II of Russia in 1918 by some of his former subjects.
More recently, King Birendra of Nepal was killed in the massacre of the Nepalese royal family in 2001 by his own son, the Crown Prince Dipendra.
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