Final Hours
Hour-by-hour reconstructions of how famous lives and eras ended
The Final Hours of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln almost skipped the play, his lone guard wasn't at the door when it mattered, and a president who had just won the war died across the street by dawn.
The Final Hours of Anne Boleyn
Hour by hour: Anne Boleyn's arrest, trial, and execution by a specially summoned swordsman inside the Tower of London on 19 May 1536.
The Final Hours of Cleopatra
Antony was already dead, Octavian's legions held Alexandria, and Egypt's last pharaoh had days left. What the record says really happened.
The Final Hours of Julius Caesar
A wife's nightmare, a soothsayer's warning, and the senate meeting he nearly skipped: the last hours before 23 stab wounds ended Rome's dictator.
The Final Hours of Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette's last night: a letter to her sister-in-law, her hair cropped short, and a cart ride through a jeering Paris to the guillotine.
The Final Hours of Napoleon on Saint Helena
Napoleon spent nearly six years in exile before a slow death, and a hair test decades later reignited an old poisoning theory.