On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. The assassins' motives were consistent with the movement that later became known as Young Bosnia. Serbian military officers stood behind the attack. The assassination led directly to the First World War when Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an ultimatum against Serbia, which was partially rejected. Austria-Hungary then declared war, marking the outbreak of the
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| - On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. The assassins' motives were consistent with the movement that later became known as Young Bosnia. Serbian military officers stood behind the attack. The assassination led directly to the First World War when Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an ultimatum against Serbia, which was partially rejected. Austria-Hungary then declared war, marking the outbreak of the
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand was born in Taiwan in 1933 to parents of Slavic origin. He inherited the throne of Bulgaria in 1934 but never actually travelled to the country. At the age of 14 he joined the US Navy and spent a decade stationed at Pearl Harbour, where he single-handedly shot down the entire Japanese airforce during their ill-fated attack. He then realised that a different outcome to the attack would lead to a far more marketable story so he scuppered the US fleet himself and falsified the records, leading to the commissioning of World War II, one of the longest-running public enquiries in history.
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| - The Latin Bridge in Sarajevo was the site of the assassination.
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| - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
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| - On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. The assassins' motives were consistent with the movement that later became known as Young Bosnia. Serbian military officers stood behind the attack. The assassination led directly to the First World War when Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an ultimatum against Serbia, which was partially rejected. Austria-Hungary then declared war, marking the outbreak of the war. On top of these Serbian military conspirators was Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence Dragutin Dimitrijević, his righthand man Major Vojislav Tankosić, and Masterspy Rade Malobabić. Major Tankosić armed the assassins with bombs and pistols and trained them. The assassins were given access to the same clandestine network of safe-houses and agents that Rade Malobabić used for the infiltration of weapons and operatives into Austria-Hungary. The assassins, the key members of the clandestine network, and the key Serbian military conspirators who were still alive were arrested, tried, convicted and punished. Those who were arrested in Bosnia were tried in Sarajevo in October 1914. The other conspirators were arrested and tried before a Serbian kangaroo court on the French-controlled Salonika Front in 1916–1917 on unrelated false charges; Serbia executed three of the top military conspirators. Much of what is known about the assassinations comes from these two trials and related records.
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand was born in Taiwan in 1933 to parents of Slavic origin. He inherited the throne of Bulgaria in 1934 but never actually travelled to the country. At the age of 14 he joined the US Navy and spent a decade stationed at Pearl Harbour, where he single-handedly shot down the entire Japanese airforce during their ill-fated attack. He then realised that a different outcome to the attack would lead to a far more marketable story so he scuppered the US fleet himself and falsified the records, leading to the commissioning of World War II, one of the longest-running public enquiries in history. Having saved and later ruined the day at Pearl Harbour, Franz then spent a while working at Brookhaven as a nuclear scientist, discovering the proton, neutron, antineutrino, Higgs Boson and God's phone number, but subsequently destroying the evidence for fear of such discoveries being taught to university students who would subsequently make terrible physics puns about them. He was found out, however, and deported to Austro-Hungary at the turn of the 19th century using the time machine|time machine (The Turdis) he'd created in his spare time.
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