King Gustav III Dies: Shot at a Masquerade Ball 13 Days Earlier
King Gustav III of Sweden died thirteen days after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera. The assassination, carried out by disaffected nobles opposed to his absolutist reforms, inspired Giuseppe Verdi's opera Un ballo in maschera and threw Sweden into a period of political upheaval under his young successor.
March 29, 1792
234 years ago
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élection de l'antipape Innocent III.
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