What is Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria?
{{Infobox civilian attack | title = Assassination of Archduke<br />Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg | image = DC-1914-27-d-Sarajevo-cropped.jpg | caption = Assassination illustrated in the Italian newspaper ''[[La Domenica del Corriere|Domenica del Corriere]]'', 12 July 1914 by [[Achille Beltrame]] | location = Near the [[Latin Bridge]], [[Sarajevo]] ({{coord|43.857917|18.42875|display=inline}}) | coordinates = | date = 28 June 1914 | time = | timezone = | type = | fatalities = | injuries = | perps = | perp =Gavrilo Princip | susperps = | susperp = | weapons = }} The '''[[assassination]] of [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]]''', [[heir presumptive|the heir presumptive]] to the [[throne]] of [[Austria-Hungary]], and of his wife, [[Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg]], happened on 28 June 1914 in [[Sarajevo]]. Both of them were shot and killed by [[Gavrilo Princip]]. Princip was one of a group of seven assassins (five from [[Serbia]] and one from [[Bosnia]]) from the [[Black Hand]]. The political reason for the secret society to commit assassination was to make Austria-Hungary's South [[Slavs|Slavic]] provinces and then combine them into a new country, [[Greater Serbia]]. That led to the outbreak of war in [[Europe]] in late July 1914,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/harrachmemoir.htm|title=''First World War.com'' Primary Documents: Archduke Franz Ferdinand's Assassination, 28 June 1914|date=2002-11-03|access-date=2016-10-09}}</ref> which started when Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia. Both countries had allies that fought in [[World War II|World War I]]. == References == <br />{{Reflist}} == Other websites == {{Commons category|Sarajevo assassination}} * [http://maps.omniatlas.com/europe/19140628/ Map of Europe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316080131/http://maps.omniatlas.com/europe/19140628/ |date=2015-03-16 }} at the time of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand at omniatla