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

Although built in 1901, the one I climb aboard looks spanking new, and was christened after the Swiss folk-hero Wilhelm Tell.

BBC: Swiss movement