King Umberto I of Italy was assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci
On the evening of 29 July 1900, Umberto was assassinated when he was shot four times by the Italo-American anarchist Gaetano Bresci in Monza. Bresci claimed he wanted to avenge the people killed during the Bava-Beccaris massacre.
Umberto was buried in the Pantheon in Rome, by the side of his father Victor Emmanuel II, on 9 August 1900. He was the last Savoy to be buried there, as his son and successor Victor Emmanuel III died in exile and is still buried in Egypt.
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