Alexandros Schinas
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Alexandros Schinas, also known as Aleko Schinas, assassinated King George I of Greece in 1913. Schinas has been variously portrayed as either an anarchist with political motivations, or a madman, but
Portrait of Alexandros Schinas published in The New York Times on 13 April 1913
1914 posthumous portrait of King George I of Greece by painter Georgios Jakobides
Illustration of the assassination published in Le Petit Journal on 30 March 1913
Photograph of Schinas in custody taken the day after the assassination and published in L'Illustration
George I, the king of Greece, was assassinated on the late afternoon of March 18, 1913, in Thessaloniki, by Alexandros Schinas, an alleged Greek anarchist.
Alexandros Schinas
…Alexandros Schinas (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Σχινάς, c. 1870 – 6 May 1913), also known as Aleko Schinas, assassinated King George I of Greece in 1913. Schinas has been variously portrayed as either an anarchist with political motivations (propaganda by deed), or a…
The Greek armed forces entering Thessaloniki (1912).
King George I of Greece (c. 1910).
The White Tower (1912).
Reconstruction of the murder on the front page of Le Petit Journal (March 30, 1913).