Person1863 – 1914
Franz Ferdinand
Also called: Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, assassinated with his wife in Sarajevo in 1914
Where they went
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Gavrilo Princip, a young Bosnian Serb, shot dead the Austrian heir and his wife on their visit to Sarajevo. The killing set off the First World War.
People who appear alongside
- Gavrilo Princip1894 – 1918
Bosnian Serb youth who shot the Austrian heir and his wife in Sarajevo in 1914
Themes this person appears in
- Imperialism and the Partition of the World1839 – 1914
From the Tanzimat to Sarajevo — seventy-five years in which the powers carved up West Asia, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Pacific, and the peoples there answered with reform and resistance
- World War I and the Russian Revolution1908 – 1923
From the Balkan crises to a war of trenches and total mobilization that toppled four empires; the Russian Revolution it unleashed, which created the first socialist state; and the Versailles settlement of national self-determination and the League of Nations