Assassination target

"Find them, kill them. In doing so, you will sow the seeds of peace."

- Al Mualim to Altaïr, 1191.

Assassination targets were individuals that the Assassin Order – and in select instances, the Templar Order – deemed worthy of elimination. Over the centuries, the Assassins killed many individuals they believed to be corrupt and a danger to humanity, particularly Templars and their associates.

Below is a chronological list of notable victims, by faction and assassin responsible.

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
Around the time of the Third Crusade, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad assassinated various individuals during his quest to find The Chalice in 1190. He later eliminated nine tyrannical public figures in an effort to restore his lost rank and regain honor within the Assassin Order.

Following his ascension to Mentor of the Order, he carried out several assassinations to aid the Cypriot Resistance in 1192, and continued to eliminate notable targets throughout his life.

1189 – 1190= 1191= 1192 – 1193= 1227 – 1247=
 * Haras – 1189
 * Tamir of Damascus – 1190
 * Alaat – 1190
 * Roland Napule – 1190
 * The Master's Student – 1190
 * Master of the Tower – 1190
 * Harash – 1190
 * Lord Basilisk – 1190
 * Tamir the arms dealer
 * Garnier de Naplouse
 * Talal
 * Abu'l Nuqoud
 * William of Montferrat
 * Majd Addin
 * Sibrand
 * Jubair al Hakim
 * Robert de Sable
 * Rashid ad-Din Sinan
 * Frederick the Red
 * Moloch – 1192
 * Dark Oracle – 1192
 * Telemachos – 1192
 * Shalim – 1192
 * Shahar – 1192
 * Pirate Captain – 1192
 * Armand Bouchart – 1193
 * Swami – 1227
 * Bayhas – 1247
 * Abbas Sofian – 1247

Ezio Auditore da Firenze
During the Renaissance, the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze assassinated various individuals in order to avenge the deaths of his family members, free the Spanish Assassins, and liberate the Italian cities of Florence, Venice and Rome from corruption.

1476 – 1479= 1480 – 1489= 1490 – 1499= 1500 – 1509= 1511 – 1512=
 * Uberto Alberti – 1476
 * Vieri de' Pazzi – 1478
 * Francesco de' Pazzi – 1478
 * Antonio Maffei – 1478
 * Francesco Salviati – 1479
 * Bernardo Baroncelli – 1479
 * Stefano da Bagnone – 1479
 * Jacopo de' Pazzi – 1480
 * Emilio Barbarigo – 1485
 * Carlo Grimaldi – 1485
 * Marco Barbarigo – 1486
 * Silvio Barbarigo – 1486
 * Dante Moro – 1486
 * Ludovico Orsi – 1488
 * Checco Orsi – 1488
 * Gaspar Martínez – 1491
 * Pedro Llorente – 1491
 * Juan de Marillo – 1492
 * The Painter – 1497
 * The Guard Captain – 1497
 * The Nobleman – 1497
 * The Priest – 1497
 * The Merchant – 1497
 * The Doctor – 1497
 * The Farmer – 1497
 * The Condottiero – 1497
 * The Preacher – 1497
 * Girolamo Savonarola – 1498
 * Il Carnefice – 1500
 * Master of the Sacred Palace – 1500
 * Malfatto, via an apprentice – 1502
 * Silvestro Sabbatini, via an apprentice – 1502
 * Luigi Torcelli – 1503
 * Juan Borgia the Elder – 1503
 * Lanz – 1503
 * Auguste Oberlin – 1503
 * Ristoro – 1503
 * Gaspar de la Croix – 1503
 * Lia de Russo – 1503
 * Donato Mancini – 1503
 * Octavian de Valois – 1503
 * Ercole Massimo – 1506
 * Cesare Borgia – 1507
 * Leandros – 1511
 * Halim – 1511
 * Vali cel Tradat, via an Apprentice – 1511
 * Cyril of Rhodes – 1511
 * Mirela Djuric – 1511
 * Georgios Kostas, via an Apprentice – 1511
 * Odai Dunqas, via an Apprentice – 1511
 * Damat Ali Pasha, via an Apprentice – 1511
 * Lysistrata – 1511
 * Tarik Barleti – 1511
 * Shahkulu – 1512
 * Manuel Palaiologos – 1512

Edward Kenway
Edward Kenway, father of Haytham Kenway and grandfather of Ratonhnhaké:ton, assassinated several individuals during the Golden Age of Piracy in his quest for riches and glory, and later in the service of the Assassin Order.

1713 – 1719= 1722 – 1723=
 * Julian – 1713
 * Duncan Walpole – 1715
 * Julien du Casse – 1715
 * Lucia Márquez – 1716
 * Kenneth Abraham – 1716
 * Laurens Prins – 1717
 * Hilary Flint – 1717
 * Vance Travers – 1717
 * Jing Lang – 1717
 * Peter Chamberlaine – 1718
 * Josiah Burgess – 1719
 * John Cockram – 1719
 * Benjamin Hornigold – 1719
 * Bartholomew Roberts – 1722
 * El Tiburón – 1722
 * Laureano de Torres y Ayala – 1722
 * Emmett Scott – 1723
 * Wilson – 1723

Aveline de Grandpré
Aveline de Grandpré assassinated various targets between the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War in an effort to free New Orleans from Templar influence and liberate victims of the slave trade.

1765 – 1769= 1770 – 1784=
 * Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie – 1765
 * Baptiste – 1766
 * Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer – 1769
 * Bouché – 1771
 * Diego Vázquez – 1776
 * George Davidson – 1777
 * Madeleine de L'Isle – 1777
 * Edmund Judge – 1784

Ratonhnhaké:ton
Before, during, and after the events of the American Revolutionary War, the Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton eliminated various Templars in order to protect his tribe and further the pursuit of freedom for the citizens of the thirteen colonies of the United States.

Following a meeting with George Washington, Ratonhnhaké:ton found himself in an alternate reality created by an Apple of Eden. He assassinated several individuals while experiencing the alternate timeline.

1774 – 1179= 1780 – 1782= Alternate reality=
 * William Johnson – 1774
 * John Pitcairn – 1775
 * Thomas Hickey – 1776
 * Benjamin Church – 1778
 * Nicholas Biddle – 1778
 * Haytham Kenway – 1781
 * Charles Lee – 1782
 * Benedict Arnold
 * Israel Putnam
 * John Fitzwilliams
 * George Washington

Desmond Miles
Following his kidnapping by Abstergo Industries and training with the Assassins, Desmond was forced by Juno to assassinate Lucy Stillman in the Colosseum Vault. He later infiltrated the Abstergo Industries headquarters in Rome and assassinated two prominent members of their Order.

2012=
 * Lucy Stillman
 * Daniel Cross
 * Warren Vidic

Other Assassins
Below is a chronological list of other notable assassinations, by century and, if known, Assassin responsible:

BCE= 1st= 3rd= 13th= 14th= 15th= 16th= 18th= 19th= 20th= 21st=
 * King Xerxes I, by Darius in 456 BCE
 * Alexander the Great, by Iltani in 323 BCE
 * Qin Shi Huang, by Wei Yu in 210 BCE
 * Gaius Julius Caesar, by Brutus and others in 44 BCE
 * Cleopatra, by Amunet in 31 BCE
 * Caligula, by Leonius in 41
 * Faustinus, by Aquilus in 259
 * Caïus Fulvus Vultur, by Aquilus in 259
 * Genghis Khan, by Qulan Gal and Darim Ibn-La'Ahad in 1227
 * Bachir Al-Djallil, by Numa Al'Khamsin in 1340
 * Yongle, by Li Tong in 1424
 * Cem, in 1495
 * Perotto Calderon, in 1498
 * Tomás de Torquemada, in 1498
 * Agostino Barbarigo, by Tessa Varzi in 1501
 * Cahin, in 1503
 * Caha, in 1503
 * Rocco Tiepolo, in 1503
 * Baltasar de Silva, in 1503
 * Margaret of York, in 1503
 * Isabella I of Castile, in 1504
 * Niccolò di Pitigliano, by Francesco Vecellio in 1510
 * Francisco, in 1511
 * Juan Ponce de León, in 1521
 * The Viper, by Giovanni Borgia, in 1527
 * Francisco Pizarro, in 1541
 * Mary I of England, in 1558
 * Ivan Ivanovich of Russia, in 1581
 * Templar Admiral, by Adéwalé in 1735
 * Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, by Adéwalé in 1737
 * Richard Montgomery, in 1775
 * Johann Rall, in 1776
 * Friedrich Baum, in 1777
 * Carl Emilius von Donop, in 1777
 * George Dorrance, in 1778
 * John Boyd, in 1779
 * Hugh Jackson, in 1779
 * Johann de Kalb, in 1780
 * Hector McNeill, in 1781
 * Jonathan Trumbull, in 1785
 * Jeannot Bullet, in 1791
 * Charles Leclerc, by Eseosa in 1802
 * John Wilkes Booth, in 1865
 * Alexander II of Russia, in 1881
 * Alexander III of Russia, by Nikolai Orelov in 1894 (of wounds sustained)
 * Dolinsky, in 1908
 * Erich Albert, in 1914
 * Grigori Rasputin, in 1916
 * Khioniya Guseva, by Nikolai Orelov in 1917
 * Adolf Hitler, in 1945
 * Joseph Stalin, in 1953
 * François Duvalier, in 1971
 * Galina Voronina's mother, by Galina Voronina in 2014

Elimination by Templars
Several assassinations similar to those carried out by Assassins were instigated by Templars at various points in history. The following is a chronological list of Templar assassinations by century and, if known, the Templar responsible.

3rd= 15th= 16th= 18th= 20th= 21st=
 * Lucius, by Caïus Fulvus Vultur – 259
 * Galeazzo Maria Sforza, by Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani, Gerolamo Olgiati, Carlo Visconti – 1476
 * Giovanni Auditore da Firenze – 1476
 * Giuliano de' Medici, by Francesco de' Pazzi and Bernardo Baroncelli – 1478
 * Giovanni Mocenigo, by Carlo Grimaldi – 1485
 * Mario Auditore, by Cesare Borgia – 1500
 * Ramiro d'Orco – 1500
 * , by Micheletto Corella – 1500
 * , by Micheletto Corella – 1502
 * , by Micheletto Corella – 1502
 * Oliverotto da Fermo, by Micheletto Corella – 1502
 * Vitellozzo Vitelli, by Micheletto Corella – 1502
 * Francesco Troche, by Micheletto Corella – 1503
 * Rodrigo Borgia, by Cesare Borgia – 1503
 * Micheletto Corella, by Cesare Borgia – 1506
 * Tom Cobleigh, by Wilson – 1713
 * Edward Kenway, by mercenaries in the employ of Reginald Birch – 1735
 * Juan Vedomir, by Haytham Kenway – 1747
 * Jack Digweed, by Reginald Birch – 1747
 * Miko, by Haytham Kenway – 1754
 * Louis Mills, by Haytham Kenway – 1754
 * Cutter, by Haytham Kenway – 1754
 * Silas Thatcher, by Benjamin Church – 1754
 * Edward Braddock, by Haytham Kenway – 1755
 * John Harrison, Haytham Kenway – 1757
 * Harry Houdini – 1926
 * Mahatma Gandhi – 1948
 * Harry Dexter White – 1948
 * Jack Parsons – 1952
 * Alan Turing – 1954
 * John F. Kennedy, by Lee Harvey Oswald – 1963
 * The Mentor, by Daniel Cross – 2000

Survivors
In carrying out their missions, some Assassins notably spared potential victims, or otherwise did not complete an assassination as directed. The following is a chronological list of targets known to have survived encounters with Assassin attackers:


 * Maria Thorpe – spared by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, 1191
 * Tomás de Torquemada – escaped from Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1492
 * Rodrigo Borgia – spared by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1499
 * Micheletto Corella – spared by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1503
 * Charles Vane – spared by Edward Kenway, 1719
 * Woodes Rogers – survived attack by Edward Kenway, 1721
 * Antonio de Ulloa – spared by Aveline de Grandpré, 1768
 * Benjamin Franklin – spared by Ratonhnhaké:ton, in alternate reality