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9 hours ago · Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II when King George VI died in February 1952. The King’s coffin lay in Westminster Hall where 305,806 people filed past to pay their respects ahead of ...
9 hours ago · Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 by revolutionary terrorists. The reign of his son Alexander III (1881–1894) was less liberal but more peaceful. Constitutional monarchy and World War. Under last Russian emperor, Nicholas II (1894–1917), the Revolution of 1905 was triggered by the failure of the humiliating Russo-Japanese War.
