The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's throne was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, set off a chain events that led to the ...

Saturday marked one hundred years since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. In hindsight, the assassination clearly marks the beginning of the process ...

A postcard image of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, moments before the assassination. (Wikimedia Commons) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina—Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary gazes regally from a banner on one side of a museum here. From the other stares a haunted Gavrilo Princip, who, on the street ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Latin Bridge near the assassination site. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered World War I. Ironically, ...

The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, was the flashpoint that started a catastrophic chain of events. It set the crumbling Austrian-Hungarian Empire on a collision ...

One hundred years ago today in Sarajevo, a Serb nationalist shot to death at point-blank range the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie.

A lone incident of violence took place on 28th June 1914, which would mark the point from which world history would take an irreversible turn. The murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the ...