Following the murder, Austria-Hungary sought to inflict a military blow on Serbia, to demonstrate its own strength and to dampen Serbian support for Yugoslav nationalism, viewing it as a threat to the unity of its multi-national empire.

They were shot at close range while being driven through Sarajevo, the provincial capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, formally annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908.

Bosnian Serb and JNA troops overwhelmed the poorly equipped and unprepared Bosnian security forces to take control of large areas of Bosnian territory, beginning with attacks on Bosniak civilians in the east.

On June 28th 1914, Ferdinand and his wife were touring Sarajevo, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, now the capital of Bosnia. They were targeted by a small band of Serbian nationalists, who had been inflamed by Austria’s takeover of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The Sarajevo incident refers to the events surrounding the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Archduchess Sophie during a state visit to Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. It is traditionally regarded as …

Sarajevo was not considered to be hostile territory, so security was not tight, but in fact six assassins from the Serbian nationalist Black Hand organisation were waiting along the motorcade route, including Gavrilo Princip.

On June 28, 1914, a political assassination in the Balkan city of Sarajevo sparked a diplomatic crisis that would soon engulf the entire world in the flames of war. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was murdered along with his wife Sophie by a young Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip.

The Sarajevo incident refers to the events surrounding the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Archduchess Sophie during a state visit to Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. It is traditionally regarded as …

The Sarajevo assassination, in which the heirs to the throne had been struck down by the young Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip, was certainly not the direct cause of the great catastrophe. It served more as a pretext, after almost a month, to launch the final strike.

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary was assassinated at Sarajevo, Capital of Bosnia by the secret society called ‘Black Hand’ or ‘Union of Death’, formed by dying assertive Serbian nationalists whose aim was to unite all Serbians into a single Serbian State.