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Born in Graz on 18 December 1863, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the eldest son of Archduke Karl Ludwig, a younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph, and his second wife, Maria Annunziata of Naples and Sicily (called Ciolla; 1843–1871), a daughter of King Ferdinand II of von Naples and Sicily from the House of Bourbon and Archduchess Maria Theresia. Maria Annunziata was a
Apr 16, 2018 · For four years, from 1914 to 1918, World War I raged across Europe’s western and eastern fronts after growing tensions and then the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ignited ...
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo when they were shot dead by Gavrilo Princip. Princip was one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak) coordinated by Danilo Ilić, a Bosnian ...
Following the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and Sophie in 1914, Franz Joseph's daughter, Marie Valerie, noted that her father expressed his greater confidence in the new heir presumptive, his grandnephew Archduke Charles. The emperor admitted to his daughter, regarding the assassination: "For me, it is a relief from a great worry."
簽名. 弗朗茨·斐迪南大公 （德語： Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Este ；1863年12月18日—1914年6月28日）， 奧匈帝國 皇帝 弗兰茨·约瑟夫一世 之弟 卡爾·路德維希大公 之长子，在1889年至1914年期間擔任奧地利皇儲，同時兼任埃斯特大公、 奧匈陸軍 總司令 ...
Dec 28, 2023 · Just hours after narrowly escaping an assassin’s bomb, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, are killed by Gavrilo Princip. A month later, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and Europe rapidly descends into chaos. Read more about it!
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 ...
