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4 days ago · It is a story I tell in my novel The Assassins, which focuses on how the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated largely by accident, and the failure to find a political solution to the ensuing diplomatic crises that plunged the world into war.
2 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.
2 days ago · As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers. It was signed in the Palace of Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to the war.
4 days ago · Early in the war, British propagandists were keen to move away from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to present a picture of "Poor Little Belgium" at the helm of an "army of jack-the-rippers," as Franco-British author William Le Queux described it at the time.
3 days ago · No one thinks Gavrilo Princip, the man who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, was the cause of World War I by himself. The political climate that led to Princip’s violent act could have and sooner or later would have inspired someone else to do the same thing.
3 days ago · With the death of his grandfather Maximilian I and the accession of his now 19-year-old brother, Charles V, to the title of the Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, Ferdinand was entrusted with the government of the Austrian hereditary lands, roughly modern-day Austria and Slovenia. He was Archduke of Austria from 1521 to 1564.
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2 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.
