Which single assassination do you believe most dramatically altered the course of history?

What I'm saying is, Germany had different interests than protecting Austria-Hungary against Bosnian terrorists.

Does the execution of Louis XVI count?
He did have his own brother and many members of Parliament, Noblesse, etc conspiring against him.
If not, my vote goes to Caesar's assassination. So many countries glorify the Roman empire, therefore, whatever would've changed the outcome would've changed the glory.

That's actually...pretty convincing. We were mistaken

The end of the Roman REPUBLIC, and the birth of the Roman EMPIRE.

Was it really though? Rome became an empire ruled by a dictator for life after his death, and if he had lived, Rome would have been an empire ruled by a dictator for life.

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>colonies
In Africa. Not in Russia.

Julius could have provided stability and avoided the cultural meme of civil wars and coups

As rulers, they were titans. As men, fuck them all really.

>In von Bernhardi's 1912 book, Germany and the Next War, he expanded upon Ratzel's hypotheses and, for the first time, explicitly identified Eastern Europe as a source of new space.
newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Lebensraum

Btfo yet again
Who is the brainlet now?
tell me

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>Lebensraum almost became a reality in 1918, during World War I. The new communist regime of the Soviet Union concluded the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, ending Russian participation in the war in exchange for the surrender of huge swathes of land, including the Baltic territories, Belarus, Ukraine, and the Caucasus

how much more can your butthole take? Shall i go on?

You're sure this was a government policy?

>lebensraum as a trigger for ww1 when the concept was created as a direct reaction TO germany's experience in that war
>spells it wrong to boot

if you want to argue that ww1 was inevitable you could have argued
>intense competition between rival imperial ambitions
>germany's desire to dominate european politics
>france's desire to regain lost territory
>arms races ramped up tensions further
>secret (and known) alliances would trigger in case of a crisis, ensuring its escalation to european wide war
which was indeed what happened

>Does the execution of Louis XVI count?
nah I don't think so, that wasn't really an assassination

Most of that land was split up into various vassal states.

what was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

Don't forget Britain's eternal paranoia for big continental states.

Unironically Huey Long's

it was Germany's naval building program that scared them more

Octavian did exactly that after winning. Only helped for so long.

This could happen in future to. They could just get rid of Trump, for being such an asshole, maybe a bullet or something different you can never know.
An alpha male could replace this beta male, i´m sure his wife cuckolds him and he likes it.

Abel's

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Because Germany was a relatively young, big and powerful continental empire.

We could have been kings

Stolypin Assassination
I could have lived in a good country not ruined by fucking socialists then.

masterful bait sir

Abel

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Bobrikov

His death started the Finngolian uprising

a mere 200 years of peace

THIS

Jesus christ its the king of brainlets

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see

Glory to the kingfish.

While Lebensraum is definitely the wrong idea, the drang nach osten was very much a thing as of the 1890's. With the unification of Germany, and the romanticisation of past events like the ostsiedlung, there was a sense that the future would be dictated by a titanic struggle between the Teuton and the Slav.

I would also add that, prior to German unification, French & Russian ambassadors were discussing the potential ramifications of a united Germany. I'm talking like 1840's here, even before the Springtime of Nations. The conclusion was that Germany would, inevitably, menace France & Russia due to demographics and geography.

Execution's not really an assassination

Philip II of Macedon. Literally every other answer is a meme.

Gustav III of Sweden tbhdesufamalamsmh

That of the fourth caliph of Islam.

Unless one country already had a plan of invading another without provocation WWI required something like assassination of the next emperor.