Before 1900 the index keeps one chapter per century: the most documented and most cited file on record from each.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons — Lincoln O-77 portrait (one of the last photographs of Lincoln, Feb…Public domainSourceFord's Theatre, Washington, D.C.
On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next morning. Booth and co-conspirators also targeted Secretary of State Seward and Vice President Johnson as part of a broader plot.
Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons — biographical infobox portrait paintingPublic domainSourceBeach near Parkhouse, Ardrossan estate, Ayrshire, Scotland
Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton, was fatally shot on a beach near his stables at Parkhouse on his Ardrossan estate in Ayrshire on 24 October 1769 by excise officer Mungo Campbell, after a dispute over Campbell's right to carry a gun on the Earl's land. Campbell was tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang, but died by suicide in prison before the execution could take place.
Plymouth Colony (near Providence–Plymouth trail), Massachusetts
In July 1638, Penowanyanquis, a Nipmuc man, was robbed and fatally stabbed near a trail between Providence and Plymouth Colony by four runaway indentured servants. He lived long enough to identify his attackers, three of whom were tried, convicted, and executed in September 1638.
Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons — portrait of Svante SturePublic domainSourceUppsala Castle, Uppsala, Sweden
The 1567 killing of five imprisoned Swedish nobles and the king's former tutor at Uppsala Castle by King Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards during a period of the king's serious mental disorder.
