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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

June 28, 1914

Killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie by the Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. Austria-Hungary's ultimatum to Serbia that followed set off the July Crisis and the First World War.

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Key people

Franz Joseph I of Austria Emperor; the assassinated archduke was his heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria victim, Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne; assassinated in Sarajevo Gavrilo Princip perpetrator Nedeljko Čabrinović perpetrator

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Strength and losses

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Deaths 2
Wounded 20

Before and after

Led to
World War I July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918

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