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The Sarajevo incident refers to the events surrounding the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Archduchess Sophie during a state visit to Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. It is traditionally regarded as the immediate catalyst for the First World War. Table of Contents. Background. The Assassination.
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Although Sophie did not openly interfere in day-to-day political decision-making, she was de facto the political mastermind and ‘agenda-setter’ behind her son. As the ‘secret empress’ she became a figure of hate for the liberal forces in the monarchy.
Archduchess Sophie of Austria (5 March 1855 – 29 May 1857) was the first child of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. She died aged two.
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The assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was the immediate cause of the First World War. For four years, the great European powers fought a gruesome battle. In response, Austria-Hungary set Serbia an ultimatum.
Setting the World on Fire: The Start of World War I. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863–1914) of Austria, the heir to the Austrian throne, and his wife, Countess Sophie, paid an official visit to Sarajevo, the provincial capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Chotek, Sophie (1868–1914) German-born Austrian aristocrat whose assassination in Sarajevo with husband Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered the chain of events that hurled the world into the first total war in history. Name variations: Sophia, countess of Chotek; Sophie of Hohenberg; Sophie von Hohenberg; duchess of Hohenberg, Hohenburg or ...
When the pressure of the revolution of 1848 compelled Emperor Ferdinand to abdicate, Sophie urged her husband Franz Karl to renounce his claim to the throne and pushed through the accession of her eighteen-year-old son Franz Joseph.
