The Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 by a Serbian nationalist (who had a revolver).
Sarajevo.
The Archduke of Austria-Este, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated on a street near the Latin Bridge in Sarjevo, the capitol then of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was one of the elements that eventually led to WW1.
Nineteen-year-old Gavrilo Princip shot Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, while Ferdinand was traveling through Sarajevo, a city in Austria-Hungary. Princip was a member of the Black Hand (a Serbian terrorist organization). He shot Ferdinand in the throat and his wife Sophia in her stomach. Franz Ferdinand cried out, "Sopherl! Sopherl! Don't die! Keep alive for our children!"Princip swallowed poison, but the poison failed and he was caught by an angry crowd and beaten. He was then transported to a Theresienstadt prison in Austria to serve a 20 year sentence. Two years into his sentence, he died of tuberculosis.Ferdinand
Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnai
Sarajevo
Sarajevo, Bosnia.
The city of Sarajevo, in Bosnia
Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary
The Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 by a Serbian nationalist (who had a revolver).
Sarajevo.
The Archduke of Austria-Este, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated on a street near the Latin Bridge in Sarjevo, the capitol then of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was one of the elements that eventually led to WW1.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria .
He was asassinated in the city of Sarajevo the Serb Capital.
Nineteen-year-old Gavrilo Princip shot Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, while Ferdinand was traveling through Sarajevo, a city in Austria-Hungary. Princip was a member of the Black Hand (a Serbian terrorist organization). He shot Ferdinand in the throat and his wife Sophia in her stomach. Franz Ferdinand cried out, "Sopherl! Sopherl! Don't die! Keep alive for our children!"Princip swallowed poison, but the poison failed and he was caught by an angry crowd and beaten. He was then transported to a Theresienstadt prison in Austria to serve a 20 year sentence. Two years into his sentence, he died of tuberculosis.Ferdinand
In June of 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was visiting Sarajevo and riding through the city in a motorcade when he was felled by the bullet of an assassin. His wife was also killed. The killer's name was Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old member of the Serbian nationalist group known as The Black Hand Society. This event is considered significant because it caused a chain reaction of consequences which eventually led to the outbreak of World War I.