The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand Franz at Sarajevo

Gavrilo Princip (1894-1918) was a simple man and son of a postman also a member of the Black Hand. He is credited with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire, along with his wife, Sophie. This action was cause of WWI. Franz Ferdinand assassination gave Austria-Hungary the tools or the excuse that needed to declared war on Serbia,

On June 28, Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were riding through Sarajevo in an open car when suddenly, a young terrorist by the name of Gavrilo Princip stepped from the curb and took aim at the couple with a pistol. Just like that, the heir to the throne and his wife were

On June 28 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, while riding in an open car, had a grenade thrown at them by . The grenade missed and injured a guard who was behind their car. The guard worked for the archduke, and to pay his respects he visited the hospital the officer was in. They took a wrong turn and the associate of the man who threw the grenade happened to be on the street where they turned. 19 year old Gavrilo Princip, who was dying of tuberculosis, spotted the car and shot the archduke and his wife killing them both. The assassination was completed and a point had been made.

The assassination of Franz Ferdinand on the 28th June, 1914, precipitated WW1. He was shot by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand, a Serbian group set up to fight for the unification of all South Slav territories that had been annexed by Austria-Hungary. Two months after the shooting Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, setting off the next chain of events that brought

Franz Ferdinand was the archduke of Austria-Hungary. On June 28, 1914, Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were visiting Sarajevo when the two were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Serbian terrorist group, the Black Hand. After several failed attempts from members of the Black Hand that day, the members were running out of hope. However, due to a communication problem with the driver of Ferdinand and his wife’s car, they were forced to turn around in an alley that Princip was hidden in. Two shots later, the pair was dead within minutes and Austria-Hungary was ready to make Serbian’s pay for what they did. Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination had different effects but the biggest one was the start of World War I.

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was basically a snapping point of the tensions between the European countries. The disagreement between Austria-Hungary and Serbia over how to manage the killing of Archduke Ferdinand by a Blackhand terrorist; the Austro Hungarian government believed that the Serbian government had some involvement with the assassination and they had demanded

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was a major cause of World War One. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed in the city of Bosnian. As he and his wife were visiting the capital of Sarajevo, a Bosnian revolutionary named Gavrilo Princip made his way to the open car and murdered the couple to death. This event was planned because the Serbian officials thought the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand would start a war that could bring down the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austria-Hungary demanded war against Serbia on June 28 when Serbia could not reach Austria-Hungary's

Archduke Franz Ferdinand who was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary rode in a parade to the town hall of Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princip a Bosnian-born Serbian and six others had plans to assassinate the Archduke. The six of them were armed with pistols and small grenade. The assassins almost didn’t complete their mission. The first two were too nervous to fire and let the parade go on. The third man Nedjelko Cabrinovic threw his grenade, but missed the Archduke’s car and knocked out the oil pan of the car behind, then took a pill of cyanide ( which was too small to actually kill him) jumped into the River Miljacka. The next two were too shocked to fire. If it's not for the wrong turn by the Archduke’s car Gavrilo Princip wouldn’t have had a clear shot. Gavrilo Princip was the only one who had the opportunity to assassinate him and closed his eyes and shot twice, killing the Archduke and his wife. This outraged Austria-Hungary and within a month declared war on

Intro: As the battle died, the legend was born, and so was the nation. On the 28th of June, 1914, Archduke of Austro-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand was Assassinated by Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. The camel’s back was finally broken after years of alliances and tensions, and

I believe that June 28th, 1914, was perhaps the one of the single most defining moments of the 20th century. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, assassinations shook a fragile European peace down to its roots. While Franz Ferdinand was not the emperor of the Habsburg Empire at the time of his death, Serbian nationalist extremist group, the Black Hand, planned, and executed, their assassination in hopes that his death would start a war that would free what was then Bosnia from Austrian rule. While the decision to target Franz Ferdinand was relatively arbitrary, the Black Hand wanted to target some member of the Habsburg Dynasty that would trigger their Bosnian revolution. Ultimately with some planning, and a lot of luck, the Serbian members of the Black Hand were presented with their chance at Austrian aristocracy.

While there is never just a single event that has led to the start of a world war, or any other serious war, there is often one thing that triggers long lived tensions and thus war ensues. Such was the case in WWI with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. There were many tensions that existed prior to his assassination, but it was his assassination which triggered the war, his assassination that served as an excuse, and perhaps the last straw, so to speak, which led to the First World War. The following paper examines the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and its relationship to the start of WWI.

On June 28, 1914 the peace of Europe was threatened when Garillo Princip, a member of the terrorist group; the Black Hand, murdered Arch-Duke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungry. After the assassination, well established alliances, made many European nations chose sides. By August 1914, what had been a small conflict in Europe, evolved into a world war. Over 30 nations took part in either fighting the Central or Allied Powers. The excerpt from “June 28, 1914 A Royal Murder” demonstrates the assassination of the

The assassination of Austria-Hungary heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, was the cause of the Great Wars to begin. Archduke Ferdinand and is wife Sophie were killed by the Serbia nationalist. Why start war over an assassination if nobody cared? Nobody seemed much to car about the assassination, yet Austria-Hungary started looking for an excuse to start a war against Serbia. The war against Serbia was to take back the territory in the Balkans, which had been taken during the Balkan Wars.

In 1914 Bosnia was holding the annual summer manoeuvers of the Austro- Hungarian army that were centered on the XV and XVI corps there. It was said it was beautiful Sunday morning as it was bright and sunny that day. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was there serving as the inspector of the army. It was announced in March that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand would be attending this event, and would be visiting Sarajevo as well. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28th, 1914 in Sarajevo as an act of terror by Princip, on behalf of the Slavic Nationalist Black Hand Organization. This date is often associated with being the start of the First World War.

Franz Ferdinand can be said to be the reason that WWI happened. An archduke, he was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire. Ferdinand, with his wife, decided to make an inspection of troops in the capital of Bosnia. While there, a Sebrian terrorist group of seven, The Black Hand, was going to try to assassinate him. The first two assassins were unable to kill him, but the third was able to throw a grenade that landed under the car in which they were traveling in. Although it did not injure him or his wife, Sophie, it did harm some of his attendants. After this point, no one knows for sure what happens. Some say he went