What the records say
- When
- 24 Jun 1894
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 45.76° N, 4.84° E
Assassination of Sadi Carnot
1894 murder of the French President
On 24 June 1894, French President Sadi Carnot was assassinated by Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio in Lyon, France. A part of the Ère des attentats anarchist terrorist campaign (1892–1894), it led to a historic crackdown on French anarchist activities.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “仏カルノー大統領暗殺”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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