Regicides

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former General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia

King of Siam (1737–1809)

Ricimer ( , ; – 19 August 472) was a Romanized Germanic general, who ruled the remaining territory of the Western Roman Empire from 456 after defeating Avitus, until his death in 472, with a brief interlude in which he contested power with Procopius Anthemius. Deriving his power from his position as magister militum of the Western Empire, Ricimer exercised political control through a series of puppet emperors. Ricimer's death led to unrest across Italy and the establishment of a Germanic kingdom on the Italian Peninsula.

Prince turned King of Nepal, Mass Murderer and Assassin

founder of China's Zhou dynasty

Alboin (530s – 28 June 572) was king of the Lombards from about 560 until 572. During his reign the Lombards ended their migrations by settling in Italy, the northern part of which Alboin conquered between 569 and 572. He had a lasting effect on Italy and the Pannonian Basin; in the former, his invasion marked the beginning of centuries of Lombard rule, and in the latter, his defeat of the Gepids and his departure from Pannonia ended the dominance there of the Germanic peoples.

king of Lydia, 7th century BC

Serbian knight

event on 1 June 2001 in Kathmandu, Nepal in which Crown Prince Dipendra killed most of the royal family (including King Birendra and himself) with a gun

Rhadamistus (died 58) was a royal prince of the Pharnavazid dynasty of the Iberia who reigned over the Kingdom of Armenia from 51 to 53 and 54 to 55. He was considered a usurper and tyrant, who was overthrown in a rebellion supported by the Parthian Empire.

Treniota (also spelled Troniata; ; – 1264) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1263 to 1264.

Gundobad (; ; 452 – 516) was King of the Burgundians (473–516), succeeding his father Gundioc of Burgundy. Previous to this, he had been a patrician of the moribund Western Roman Empire in 472–473, three years before its collapse, succeeding his uncle Ricimer. He is perhaps best known today as the probable issuer of the Lex Burgundionum legal codes, which synthesized Roman law with ancient Germanic customs. He was the husband of Caretene.

Dingane KaSenzangakhona Zulu (–29 January 1840), commonly referred to as Dingane, Dingarn or Dingaan, was a Zulu prince who became king of the Zulu Kingdom in 1828, after assassinating his half-brother Shaka Zulu. He set up his royal capital, uMgungundlovu, translated to "Place of the Elephant" or "elephant swallower". He also constructed one of numerous military encampments, or kraals, in the eMakhosini Valley just south of the White Umfolozi River, on the slope of Lion Hill (Singonyama).

Macedonian revolutionary (1897–1934)

member of the House of Habsburg and assassin of Albert I of Germany

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Lithuanian duke, ruler of the Pskov Republic, Eastern Orthodox saint (1240–1299)

military assassinations of royal couple and government officials in Serbia

Phoenician king (1 Kings 16)

Boyar and killer of Asen

Norwegian historical chieftain

February 1908 murder of the king and crown prince of Portugal

Japanese politician (1847–1926)

Ovida or Odiva (died 481/482) was a late Western Roman general and warlord of likely Gothic origin and the last Roman ruler of Dalmatia. Ovida initially served Julius Nepos, ruler of Roman Dalmatia and later western Roman emperor in Italy from 474 to 475. After being usurped in 475, Nepos continued to claim the imperial title in exile in Dalmatia, supported by the Eastern Roman Empire, but he was murdered by Ovida and another general, Viator, in 480. Upon his death, Ovida became the ruler of Dalmatia, a position he held until he was defeated and killed by Odoacer, the first barbarian King of I

Uyghur Khanate's governing Khagan

assassin of Afghan king Mohammed Nadir Shah (1933)

assassination of Empress Myeongseong

king of Cyrenaica in 550 BC

king of Kakheti in eastern Georgia

king of Kakheti (1464–1513)

legendary king of the Khmer Empire

Vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate in 1153–54

Portuguese regicide

Portuguese regicide

1900 shooting of the Italian king

1946 movement in Indonesia