Editing 1860s (section)

==Assassinations and attempts==
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Prominent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts include:
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
!Year
!Date
!Name
!Position
!Culprits
!Country
!Description
!Image 
|-
|1860
|March 24
|[[Ii Naosuke]]
|[[Tairō]] of the [[Tokugawa Shogunate]]
|17 young samurai loyalists
|[[Japan]] 
|While Naosuke was at staying at the [[Edo Castle]] a group of 17 [[Sakuradamon Incident (1860)|loyalist ambushed and was decapitated.]]
|[[File:Ii Naosuke.jpg|frameless|283x283px]]
|-
|1861
|October 23
|[[Jorge Córdova]]
|[[president of Bolivia]]
|Colonel Plácido Yáñez
|[[Bolivia]] 
|Jorge was captured by Colonel Plácido Yáñez and executed along with 50 other prisoners.
|[[File:12 - Jorge Córdova (CROPPED).jpg|frameless|234x234px]]
|-
|1862
|January 11 
|[[José Santos Guardiola]]
|[[President of Honduras]]
|unknown presidential guard 
|[[Honduras]] 
|Jose was sleeping with his wife [[Ana Arbizú y Flores]] when an unknown assassin shot him and fled. 
|[[File:Jose Santos Guardiola.jpg|frameless|200x200px]]
|-
|1863
|May 12
|[[Radama II]]
|[[List of Imerina monarchs|King of Madagascar]]
|Men led by [[Rainivoninahitriniony]]
|[[Madagascar]]
|Radama's absolutism in pursuing dramatic reforms in disregard of the advice of his ministers ultimately turned them against him. In a coup led by his prime minister, Rainivoninahitriniony, Radama II was strangled on May 12, 1863.
|[[File:Radama II with crown.jpg|frameless|180x180px]]
|-
|1863
|October 30
|[[Serizawa Kamo]]
|chief of [[Shinsen-gumi]]
|likely [[Hijikata Toshizō|Hijikata]], [[Okita Sōji|Okita]], [[Yamanami Keisuke]], [[Inoue Genzaburō|Inoue]], [[Harada Sanosuke|Harada]] or [[Tōdō Heisuke|Tōdō]] and [[Saitō Hajime|Saitō]]
|[[Japan]]
|While sleeping with a woman named Oume he was assassinated by an unknown assassin.
|
|-
|1865
|March 27
|[[Manuel Isidoro Belzu|Manuel Isidoro Belzu Humérez]]
|[[President of Bolivia]]
|A group of men led by [[Mariano Melgarejo]]
|[[Bolivia]] 
|When Belzu entered the [[Palacio Quemado]] for a meeting with Mariano Melgarejo he was ambushed by Melgarejo and a group of men who murdered him.
|[[File:CAMPERO(1874) pg97 ULTIMO INSTANTES DEL GENERAL BELZU.jpg|frameless]]
|-
|1865
|April 14
|[[Abraham Lincoln]]
|[[President of the United States|President of America]]
|[[John Wilkes Booth]] 
|[[United States of America]]
|On the night of April 14th of 1865, John Wilkes Booth sneaked into [[Ford's Theatre]] and assassinated the President whilst he watched ''[[Our American Cousin|Our America Cousin]].'' 
|[[File:Lincoln_assassination_slide_c1900_-_Restoration.jpg|alt=Image of Lincoln being shot by Booth while sitting in a theater booth.|frameless]]
|-
|1868
|February 19 
|[[Venancio Flores]] and [[Bernardo Berro|Bernardo Prudencio Berro]]
|[[President of Uruguay]] 
|Group of unknown assassins
|[[Uruguay]] 
|Four days after stepping down as President, Flores and Berro were murdered by a group of unidentified assassins in [[Montevideo]].
|[[File:Asesinato del general Venancio Flores.jpg|frameless]]
|-
|1868
|April 7
|[[Thomas D'Arcy McGee]]
|Member of the [[Canadian Parliament]]<nowiki/>for [[Montreal West (electoral district)|Montreal West]]
|[[Patrick J. Whelan]] 
|[[Canada]] 
|McGee was entering a boarding house in [[Ottawa]] when he was shot in the head by a Catholic [[Fenian]] sympathizer.
|[[File:ThomasDArcyMcGee.jpg|frameless]]
|-
|1868
|October 22
|[[James M. Hinds]] 
|Member of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Arkansas]]'s [[Arkansas's 2nd congressional district|2nd]] district
|George Clark 
|[[United States]]
|En route to a campaign event for [[Ulysses S. Grant|Grant]] near the village of [[Indian Bay, Arkansas|Indian Bay]] in [[Monroe County, Arkansas|Monroe County]], Clark shot Hinds and fellow Republican politician [[Joseph Brooks (politician)|Joseph Brooks]] in the back with a shotgun. Brooks managed to stay on his horse and ride to the event to bring back assistance, before his death Hinds wrote a message to his wife revealing the killers identity as secretary of the Monroe County Democratic Party and local Klansman, George Clark.
|[[File:James M. Hinds (cropped).jpg|frameless]]
|-
|1868
|December 10
|[[Sakamoto Ryōma]] and [[Nakaoka Shintarō]]
|[[Japan|Japanese]] ''[[samurai]]'' and influential figure of the ''[[Bakumatsu]]''
|unknown assassin 
|[[Tokugawa Shogunate]]
|Ryōma and Shintarō where eating in the Ōmiya Inn when an unknown broke in and killed the men and the bodyguards. 
|[[File:Sakamoto Ryōma2.jpg|frameless|202x202px]]
|-
|1869
|December 7
|[[Ōmura Masujirō]]
|military leader and theorist
|unknown assassin
|[[Empire of Japan|Japan]]
|Omura was stabbed in a [[Kyoto]] inn and died in Osaka. 
|[[File:Masujiro Omura cropped.jpg|frameless]]
|}
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