In sum, the Kaiser's Germany, following a course at least partly set by Bismarck's earlier brutal wars of conquest, destroyed Europe's chance of 100 years of peaceful development.

ECONOMIST: Letters

In 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicated and a council of People's Delegates assumed power.

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Countless attempts were also made on the lives of bigger names, such as King Alfonso XII of Spain (1878), Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany (May and June 1878), Andrew Carnegie's business partner, Henry Clay Frick (Pittsburgh, 1892), a Serbian minister (Paris, 1893) and King Alfonso XIII and his English bride (Madrid, on their wedding day, 1906).

ECONOMIST: The anarchists