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Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg ( German: Sophie Marie Josephine Albina Gräfin Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin; Czech: Žofie Marie Josefína Albína hraběnka Chotková z Chotkova a Vojnína; 1 March 1868 – 28 June 1914) was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Their assassination in Sarajevo ...
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
Jun 27, 2014 · Franz Ferdinand showed very little warmth to anyone but his wife and three children. In a letter, published in “Archduke of Sarajevo,” to his stepmother, Archduchess Maria Theresa, after the ...
Jul 17, 2018 · It would take only a single crisis—the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ... On July 28, 1914, one month after Franz Ferdinand’s death, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia ...
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.
1. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was an Austrian royal, a nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and the heir to his throne. 2. The archduke was intelligent, worldly and liberal-minded, which set him at odds with his conservative family. 3. In June 1914 Ferdinand was touring Sarajevo, Bosnia, when he fell victim to a terrorist gang of Serbian nationalists. 4.
Jan 30, 2018 · The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. On Sunday June 28th, 1914, Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie traveled in a motorcade through Sarajevo; their car was open topped and there was little security. The would-be assassins positioned themselves at intervals along the route.
