Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke…

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Edinburgh, is shot in the back in Sydney, Australia, at a fund raising event for the Sydney Sailors Home on March, 12, 1868, by Irishman Henry James O'Farrell, infamously recorded as the first person to attempt a political assassination in Australia.

Shot just to the right of his spine, the prince will be tended for the next two weeks by six nurses, trained by Florence Nightingale and led by Matron Lucy Osburn, who had just arrived in Australia in February, 1868.

He will quickly recover; O'Farrell, arrested at the scene, will be executed in April 1868, despite attempts by the prince to gain clemency for him.