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In the history of the world, there have been contradictions and conflicts between many countries and classes that cannot be resolved for a while. Thus was born a number of people who acted in the shadows to achieve a certain goal, and they were the people I will talk about today in this article- the Assassins. Assassins generally act in secrecy and pay attention to one-hit death. So which Assassins changed history?
Assassins are all about killing with one hit
First, assassinate the King of Qin, Jing Ke
Presumably, the story of Jing Ke's assassination of the King of Qin is also well known. After the State of Qin destroyed the State of Zhao, it was gradually approaching the State of Yan. Dan, the crown prince of the State of Yan, was worried that the Qin army would attack the State of Yan, so he sent Jing Ke to assassinate the King of Qin. Jing Ke took the head of the rebel general Fan Yu of the Qin state and the map of Dou Kang and traveled to Xianyang with another assassin, Qin Wuyang. Before leaving, leave the famous song "The wind is cold and the water is cold, and the hero will not return once he is gone." Arriving in Xianyang, the King of Qin summoned Jing Ke and the two of them, and thus had the later Tu Qian Dagger. Jing Ke failed to stab Qin and was killed along with Qin Wuyang.
Stills from the movie "Jing Ke Thorn Qin King"
Although Jing Ke failed to stab Qin, it indirectly accelerated the speed of Qin's unification of the Six Kingdoms.
Second, assassinate Caesar, Brutus
At the end of the Roman Republic, Caesar alone monopolized the military and political power of Rome. In 44 BC, Caesar became a lifelong dictator, and it was even rumored that he wanted to accept the title of king. At that time, the Roman Senate had many people who opposed Caesar's dictatorship, so under the conspiracy of Cassius, 60 senators colluded to prepare to eliminate Caesar by assassination. The one who was most trusted by Caesar was Brutus.
Brutus
On March 15, 60 members of the Senate secretly carried daggers into parliament. When Caesar entered the Senate, he was surrounded by these conspirators, who took out their daggers and stabbed Caesar. Before this day, Caesar had been hinted that someone was going to assassinate him, and he didn't believe that these had the guts. Until Caesar saw that Brutus was standing in front of him, ready to assassinate him, Caesar was disappointed. Brutus gave Caesar one last stab, ending the life of the great hero of the Roman Republic.
Oil painting "Assassination of Caesar"
The Assassins of the Senate had thought that killing the dictator would be exchanged for popular support, but the Roman people were angry. Eventually, it also led to the complete transition of Rome from a republic to an empire.
Third, Hassan bin Sabah, founder of Assassin's Creed
Hassan bin Sabah was originally a low-ranking official of the Seljuk Kingdom, but he was not satisfied with this, so he relied on his religious (Islamic) reputation to form the Assasin sect, an organization that used assassination to strike opponents and accomplish their goals.
Hassan bin Sabah
The Assasins targeted the monarchs of the Crusader principalities and the Mongols. At that time, during the Mongol Expedition to the West, many Mongol caravans were assassinated by Assasin. At its peak, the Assasins had 50,000 Assassins. Hassan bin Sabah built his base camps "Vulture's Nest" and "Secret Garden" in the middle of the rugged mountains. Due to its easy defense and difficulty in attacking, the "Vulture Nest" was attacked by the Mongol army and relied on 50,000 assassins to successfully resist the repeated attacks of the Mongol army.
In the end, the Mongol army transferred Guo Kan, a descendant of the famous Tang Dynasty general Guo Ziyi, and successfully took the Assassin's Nest "Vulture's Nest" by means of firearms bombardment. Hassan bin Sabah is also Jin Yong's "old man in the mountains" HuoShan, and the game "Assassin's Creed" is also based on the Assasins, and even the word "assassin" in English is "assassin" to this day, which shows the far-reaching influence of this organization.
Game Assassin's Creed
Fourth, assassinate Li Hongzhang - Koyama Rokunosuke
In 1894, the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Naval Battle broke out. The result of the war is well known, the corrupt Qing Dynasty lost to Japan, which had just completed the Meiji Restoration, and was forced to sign the Treaty of Maguan in 1895, which lost power and humiliated the country, and compensated Japan with 200 million taels of silver as war reparations.
Scene of China and Japan signing the Maguan Treaty
Li Hongzhang was ordered to go to Japan to negotiate peace with then Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi and discuss the specific contents of the treaty. At that time, some right-wing forces in Japan were not satisfied with Japan's compensation for land cession and wanted to start an all-out war against China. Rokunosuke Koyama is one such right-winger. So on the afternoon of March 24, 1895, Koyama Rokunosuke secretly approached Li Hongzhang's palanquin, suddenly rushed over, pulled out the revolver he was carrying and shot Li Hongzhang in the face, Li Hongzhang was bleeding profusely, and then Koyama Rokunosuke was arrested by the gendarmes. Later, after hospital treatment, Li Hongzhang's injuries improved, but the bullet was not removed and remained in Li Hongzhang's body.
Rokunosuke Koyama, a right-winger who assassinated Li Hongzhang
Before Li Hongzhang's assassination, Japanese Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi proposed that the Qing court need to compensate the Japanese government for 300 million taels of silver. After the assassination, under the pressure of public opinion in various countries, the compensation was reduced to 200 million taels of silver. Koyama Rokunosuke's bullet worth 100 million taels of silver is also the most expensive bullet.
Five, the shooting of Lincoln – John Wilkes Booth
During the American Civil War, the leader of the American North, and later the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. He led the victory of the Northern armies, thus ending slavery in the South and unifying the United States into the capitalist system. His progress in human rights was also so great that Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862, formally abolishing black slavery.
Abraham lincoln
This series of actions was rightfully met with hatred and opposition from southern slave owners. The Fanatics of the South wanted to get rid of Lincoln and restore slavery. One of them was a professional actor, John Wilkes Booth. More than once in his life he preached about killing Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
On the evening of April 14, 1865, Lincoln was watching a play at the Ford Theater in Washington, D.C., when John Wilkes Booth learned that Lincoln was in the theater, sneaked into the audience where Lincoln was, grabbed the pistol in his hand, and shot Lincoln in the back of the head. Fatally injured, a great president, Abraham Lincoln, died the next day.
Lincoln assassination
6.6.5.1. Ito Hirobumi-Yasushigene
The signing of the "Maguan Treaty" has made Japan unprecedentedly inflated, especially the Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi, who led the signing of this treaty, and the voice at home is even louder. Under his leadership, the Korean Peninsula was completely reduced to a Japanese colony. But the seeds of revenge across North Korea have been quietly planted.
Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito
From 1906 onwards, Ito Hirobumi served as Japan's governor in Korea, and at the end of October 1909, Ito traveled to Harbin, China, to prepare for talks with Russian officials on the final annexation of Korea. At this time, Ahn Jung-geun, the leader of the "Broken Alliance" who was committed to the Korean independence movement, decided to take advantage of this opportunity to get rid of Ito Hirobumi. On the morning of October 26, Ahn Chong-geun was caught in a group of reporters interviewing and secretly evaded security checks. When a complacent little old man stepped off the train and greeted everyone, Ahn Jung-geun, who was hiding behind the Russian honor guard, pulled out the pistol he was carrying and fired three shots at Ito Hirobumi, who eventually died of his injuries.
Assassinate Ahn Jung-geun of Hirobumi Ito
Seven, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, Principe
In 1908, the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexed Serbia, and the flames of revenge still brewed in the annexed Serbian lands. On 28 June 1914, serbia's Day of National Shame, Archduke Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, took his wife on a visit to Saraje, the capital of Bosnia, where she also enjoyed the royal honors she had not received in Vienna.
Archduke Ferdinand and Princess Sophia
Before this day, the Ferdinands had been attacked once, but had been saved under the protection of their entourage. Ferdinand was on his way to the hospital to visit his injured retinue that day when a 19-year-old student, Gafegri Princip, rushed in. Princip shot at Ferdinand and the bullet hit Ferdinand in the neck and Sophia's abdomen, killing them both. Principe was also arrested and imprisoned for this. And this assassination time completely detonated the Already tense Powder Keg Balkan Peninsula, and the Sarajevo incident became the fuse of the First World War.
Principe, who sparked World War I
Eighth, assassinate Hitler- Stauffenberg
The Second World War, launched by Hitler, brought deep disasters to all mankind. Inside Germany, there were many people who opposed Hitler, and Stauffenberg was such a person. In early 1943, Stauffenberg went to Tunisia in North Africa to command an armored division. In April 1943, he lost two fingers of his left hand and his entire right hand during the battle, seriously injuring his left eye and completely blinding his right eye. Unable to continue serving in the field forces, Stauffenberg was transferred back to China.
Stauffenberg
At 8 o'clock on July 20, 1944, Staufenberg dropped the bomb under a table two steps away from Hitler, and two minutes later he sneaked out of the venue. The bomb exploded on time, killing 4 of the 24 participants on the spot, the cement roof collapsing in half and a large crater exploded on the ground. But at the moment of the explosion, Hitler was lying on the table looking at the map, and the heavy oak table blocked the bomb, allowing Hitler to escape the disaster. That night, Stauffenberg and four others were outnumbered and arrested without trial and sentenced to death and dragged into the courtyard for immediate execution.
Stauffenberg played by Tom Cruise in the film Assassination of Hitler
Nine, assassinate U.S. President John F. Kennedy , Lee Harvey Oswald
Since 1964 was the year of the U.S. election, in 1963 John F. Kennedy, then president of the United States, began lobbying for re-election. So on November 22, 1963, Kennedy, in conjunction with his wife, traveled in a Lincoln sedan to the most prosperous area of Dallas, ready to make contact with the people.
Kennedy sat in the car with his wife before he was assassinated
At about 12:30, as the convoy passed the Texas textbook warehouse, Oswald, who had already been ambushed at the sixth-floor window of a seven-story building at 411 Elm Street, pulled the trigger on the Calcano rifle in his hand. Oswald was only 80 yards away from Kennedy, firing three shots in a row in 8 seconds, hitting Kennedy in the head. Eventually, Kennedy died in the arms of His Wife Jacqueline. Oswald was subsequently arrested by the police, but just four days later, Oswald was stabbed to death by a gunman named Jack Ruby. In the 30 years since the Kennedy assassination, 115 relevant witnesses have committed suicide or been murdered in various bizarre incidents, casting a shadow over conspiracy theories over the entire case.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy
Ten, the assassination of John Lennon - Mark Chapman
In the 1960s, the rise of rock and roll made many talented musicians widely sought after. The Beatles, sung by John Lennon, played a pivotal role in the history of modern music. At that time, countless people were playing or singing the music of the Beatles on the streets and alleys. "The Beatles" even became synonymous with rock 'n' roll.
The Beatles
After the glory, the band announced its dissolution in 1970, but this band has been a major figure in the entire history of music. Unfortunately, on the night of December 8, 1980, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were in front of their Dakota apartment in Manhattan, New York, when a young man named Mark Chapman pulled out his revolver and fired five shots at John Lennon. Amid Yoko Ono's screams, John Lennon collapsed in a pool of blood. Later, Mark Chapman was also arrested by the police and executed. Some say Mark Chapman suffers from schizophrenia, and Mark Chapman himself says there was a voice in his head that kept echoing and asking him to shoot. He used his bullets to change a piece of the history of the music industry.
Mark Chapman, who assassinated John Lennon
There are countless assassins in history, but the ones introduced today have influenced the course of history to a certain extent with their own actions. So which Assassin do you know best? Pay attention to the historiography meow and share more things you don't know.