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Apr 16, 2018 · Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria, and his wife Sophie riding in an open carriage at Sarajevo shortly before their assassination. On June 28, the couple went to the capital city of Sarajevo to ...
Jun 28, 2016 · Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife, the duchess of Hohenberg, moments before they were assassinated in 1914. Credit Time Life Pictures, via Getty Images
Oct 29, 2009 · World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central ...
June 28, 1914. At around 11 a.m. today, two shots rang out from a street corner in the center of this city, mortally wounding the archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Sophie the Duchess of Hohenberg, his wife. A suspect, a 19-year old Bosnian-Serb named Gavrilo Princip, was apprehended.
Jun 27, 2014 · On 28 June 1914 Gavrilo Princip shot and killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. A little over a month later Europe was ablaze. There was a direct connection ...
Jan 2, 2024 · An important moment in modern history, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914, at Sarajevo, Bosnia, greatly contributed to the outbreak of World War I. The Black Hand, a gang of Bosnian Serb nationalists, carried out this killing, which set off a series of events that ultimately resulted in the ...
The July Crisis [b] was a series of interrelated diplomatic and military escalations among the major powers of Europe in the summer of 1914, which led to the outbreak of World War I. The crisis began on 28 June 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian ...
