Politics · April 14, 1865

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Name: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Start: 1865-04-14
Location: Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., USA

161 years ago · Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., USA

161st anniversary

President Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth and dies the following morning.

The 162nd anniversary falls on April 14, 2027.

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1809–1865

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the United States who led the nation through the Civil War and abolished slavery.

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1126–1198

Averroes

Ibn Rushd (14 April 1126 – 11 December 1198), Latinized as Averroes, was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who was proficient in a variety of intellectual fields, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, neurology, Islamic jurisprudence, law, and linguistics.

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1629–1695

Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem (14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.

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1797–1877

Adolphe Thiers

Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers ( tee-AIR; French:; 15 April 1797 – 3 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian who served as President of France from 1871 to 1873. He was the second elected president and the first of the Third French Republic.

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1889–1975

Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee (14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London.

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