why did thousands of people gather and watch the procession?
What was mental state of the people who watched the procession?
Answers
Explanation:
Funeral Date Location No. of attendees Television audience
Funeral of Julius Caesar March 20, 44 BC Rome, Roman Republic
Funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven March 29, 1827 Austrian Empire Vienna, Austrian Empire ~20,000[1]
Funeral of Henry George October 29, 1897 United States New York City, New York, United States 100,000[2]
Funeral of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington November 18, 1852 United Kingdom London, England, United Kingdom 1,500,000[3]
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln April 19–May 3, 1865 United States Eastern and Midwestern United States ~7,000,000[4]
State funeral of Victor Hugo June 1, 1885 French Third Republic Paris, France 2,000,000–3,000,000[5]
Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons November 13, 1887 United States Chicago, Illinois, United States ~500,000[6]
Funeral of Wilhelm I March 12–16, 1888 German Empire Berlin, German Empire 200,000[7]
Funeral of Sholem Aleichem May 13, 1916 United States New York City, New York, United States 250,000+[8]
Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht June 13, 1919 Weimar Republic near Berlin, Weimar Republic 200,000[9]
Funeral of Rudolph Valentino August 30, 1926 United States New York City, New York, United States 100,000+[10]
Funeral of Engelbert Dollfuss July 30, 1934 Federal State of Austria Vienna, Austria 1,000,000+[11]
Funeral of Paul von Hindenburg August 6–7, 1934 Nazi Germany Tannenberg Memorial, Hohenstein in Ostpreußen, Nazi Germany 200,000[12] Millions (via radio, not television)[13]
Funeral of Huey Long September 12, 1935 United States Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States ~200,000[14]
Funeral of Roman Dmowski January 7, 1939 Poland Warsaw, Poland 200,000[15]
State funeral of Pedro Aguirre Cerda November 28, 1941 Chile Santiago, Chile 700,000[16]
Funeral of Mahatma Gandhi February 6, 1948 India New Delhi, Dominion of India 2,000,000+[17][18]
State funeral of Eva Perón August 9, 1952 Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina 3,000,000[19]
Funeral of B. R. Ambedkar December 6, 1956 India Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 500,000+[20]
State funeral of John F. Kennedy November 25, 1963 United States Washington, D.C., United States 550,000[21] 41.5 million[22]
State funeral of Jawaharlal Nehru May 28, 1964 India New Delhi, Delhi, India 1,500,000[23]
State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill January 30, 1965 United Kingdom London, England, United Kingdom 6,000 (funeral service)[24]
500,000 (funeral procession)[25] 350,000,000[24]
State funeral of Hendrik Verwoerd September 10, 1966 South Africa Pretoria, South Africa 250,000[26]
Funeral of Mir Osman Ali Khan February 25, 1967 India Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India 800,000[27]
Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. April 9, 1968 United States Atlanta, Georgia, United States 300,000[28] 120,000,000[22]
Funeral of C. N. Annadurai February 3, 1969 India Madras, Tamil Nadu, India Millions, according to some reports in the press[29][3]
State funeral of Ho Chi Minh September 9, 1969 North Vietnam Hanoi, North Vietnam 250,000[30]
State funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser October 1, 1970 Egypt Cairo, Egypt Millions[31][32]
State funeral of Juan Perón July 2–4, 1974 Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina 1,135,000+[33]
Funeral of Umm Kulthum February 3, 1975 Egypt Cairo, Egypt Millions[34][35]
State funeral of Francisco Franco November 22–23, 1975 Spain Madrid, Spain 300,000–500,000[36][37]