Editing 1880s (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
|-
|1881
|13 March
|[[Alexander II of Russia]]
|[[Governor of Kentucky|Tsar of the]] [[Russian Empire]]
|[[Pervomartovtsy]] and [[Narodnaya Volya]] 
|[[Russian Empire]]
|Five [[Cossacks]] killed the Tsar by throwing a bomb at his carriage.
|[[File:Attentat mortal Alexander II (1881).jpg|frameless]]
|-
|1881
|19 September
|[[James A. Garfield]]
|[[President of the United States]] 
|[[Charles J. Guiteau]]
|[[United States]]
|Garfield was leaving Washington for his summer vaction and was about to board a train at the [[Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station]] when Guiteau [[Assassination of James A. Garfield|appeared and shot Garfield twice.]]
|[[File:Garfield assassination engraving.jpg|frameless]]
|-
|1882
|2 March 
|[[Queen Victoria]] 
|Queen of the [[British Empire]]
|[[Roderick Maclean]]
|[[England]]
|Maclean was offended when Victoria refused to accept one of his poems and so decided to shoot at the Queen as her carriage left [[Windsor & Eton Central railway station|Windsor railway station.]]
|
|-
|1882
|3 April 
|[[Jesse James]]
|outlaw 
|[[Robert Ford (outlaw)|Bob Ford]]
|[[United States]]
|While Jesse James was dusting a picture, Ford grabbed James' pistol and shooting him in the back.
|[[File:Robert Ford shooting Jesse James in the head.jpg|frameless]]
|-
|1882
|6 May
|[[Lord Frederick Cavendish]]
|[[Chief Secretary for Ireland]]
|members of [[Irish National Invincibles]].
|[[Ireland]]
|While walking in the [[Phoenix Park]] in company with [[Thomas Henry Burke (civil servant)|Thomas Henry Burke]], he was assassinated [[Irish National Invincibles]].
|[[File:The Assassinations in Dublin, Funeral of Lord Frederick Cavendish at Edensor, near Chatsworth - The Graphic 1882.jpg|frameless]]
|-
|1882
|4 December 
|[[W. H. H. Tison|William Henry Haywood Tison]]
|39th speaker of the [[Mississippi House of Representatives]]
|J. Edward Sanders
|[[United States]]
|On December 4, 1882, J. Edward Sanders shot him in [[Baldwyn, Mississippi]].
|
|-
|1882
|20 December 
|[[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz Joseph]]
|[[Emperor of Austria]]
|[[Guglielmo Oberdan]]
|[[Austria-Hungary]]
|Oberdan and Istrian pharmacist Donato Ragosa plotted an assassination attempt on the emperor. Oberdan's attempt failed, as he was arrested in [[Ronchi dei Legionari|Ronchi]] shortly after crossing the border into Austrian territory.
|[[File:6270 - Bologna - Lapide G. Oberdan. Cortile di Palazzo d'Accursio - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto, 9-Feb-2008.jpg|frameless]]
|}
* 1882 - [[Guglielmo Oberdan]] fails to assassinate [[Austria-Hungary|Austria-Hungarian]] Emperor [[Franz Joseph]] and is executed<ref>Salata 1932, p. 290</ref>