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  2. 1 day ago · The Black Hand, a secret Serbian society committed to the cause of Slavic unification, saw an opportunity to strike a blow against Austro-Hungarian rule. On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand, assassinated the Archduke and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo. The assassination set off a chain reaction that would plunge Europe ...

  3. May 2, 2024 · On the morning of June 28, 1914, Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were on a visit to Sarajevo when they were shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist group seeking to create a Greater Serbia. The assassination set off a chain of events that would ultimately lead to the outbreak of World War I. The ...

  4. 3 days ago · Believing that the Serbs’ cause would be served by the death of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austrian emperor Franz Joseph, and learning that the Archduke was about to visit Bosnia on a tour of military inspection, Apis plotted his assassination.

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  5. Apr 30, 2024 · Died: April 30, 1847, Vienna, Austria (aged 75) House / Dynasty: House of Habsburg. Role In: Battle of Wagram. French Revolutionary wars. Napoleonic Wars. Archduke Charles (born Sept. 5, 1771, Florence [Italy]—died April 30, 1847, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian archduke, field marshal, army reformer, and military theoretician who was one of ...

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  6. May 16, 2024 · The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand along with his wife Sophie in Sarajevo, on June 28, 1914, which would eventually trigger World War I, occurred after an enormous accumulation of...

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › July_CrisisJuly Crisis - Wikipedia

    4 days ago · The crisis began on 28 June 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. A complex web of alliances, coupled with the miscalculations of numerous political and military leaders (who either regarded war as ...

  8. 2 days ago · On 28 June 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo resulted in Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against the Kingdom of Serbia, which was an ally of the Russian Empire.

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