List of assassinations in Europe
Date Victim ( s ) Notes
1308 Albert I of Habsburg , German King and Duke of Austria Albert was killed by his nephew , whom he had deprived of his inheritance , at Windisch on the Reuss River
1639 Jörg Jenatsch Killed in Chur
1898 Elisabeth ( Sisi ) , Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary Lucheni attacked the Empress randomly on the street of Geneva . Elisabeth was stabbed in the heart once with a sharp needle file . Due to her extremely tight corset , she had no idea she has been wounded and collapsed suddenly two hours later due to slow internal hemorrhaging
1923 Vatslav Vorovsky , Soviet diplomat
1936 Wilhelm Gustloff , German leader of the Swiss Nazi party
1960 Félix-Roland Moumié , successor to Ruben Um Nyobe at the head of the UPC Assassinated by the SDECE ( French secret services )
1990 Kazem Rajavi , Iranian opposition leader Killed in Geneva
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This is a list of assassinations which took place on the continent of Europe. For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious or political reasons.