Funeral | Date | Country | City | No. of attendees | Television audience |
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Funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven | March 29, 1827 | Austrian Empire | Vienna | ~20,000[1] |
Funeral of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | November 18, 1852 | United Kingdom | London | 1,500,000[2] |
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln | April 19 – May 3, 1865 | United States | East and Midwest | 150,000[3] |
State funeral of Victor Hugo | June 1, 1885 | French Third Republic | Paris | 2,000,000–3,000,000[4] |
Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons | November 13, 1887 | United States | Chicago | ~500,000[5] |
Funeral of Wilhelm I | March 12–16, 1888 | German Empire | Berlin | 200,000[6] |
State funeral of Pedro II of Brazil | December 9, 1891 | French Third Republic | Paris | 200,000–300,000[7][8] |
Funeral of Henry George | October 29, 1
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