What the records say
- When
- 28 Jun 1914
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Killed
- 2
- Coordinates
- 43.86° N, 18.43° E
- Wounded
- 20
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
1914 shooting in Sarajevo
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. They were shot at close range while being driven through the provincial capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, formally annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908.
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- Wikidata: terrorist attacks outside GTD’s yearsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria: Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, 19, assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das Attentat von Sarajevo auf Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand und seine Gemahlin Sophie löst die Julikrise aus, die schließlich zum Ersten Weltkrieg führt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “assassinat à Sarajevo de l’archiduc François-Ferdinand, héritier du trône d’Autriche-Hongrie et de sa femme Sophie par le nationaliste serbe de…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Сараевское убийство: гибель наследника австрийского престола Франца Фердинанда от руки сербского террориста Гаврило Принципа спровоцировала Июльский кризис”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Sarajevo, el nacionalista serbio Gavrilo Princip asesina al archiduque Francisco Fernando (heredero al trono austrohúngaro) y a su esposa”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “奥匈帝国皇太子在塞拉耶佛被刺,这是第一次世界大战爆发的直接原因。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “オーストリアのボスニア地方の町サラエボで、オーストリア皇位継承者フランツ・フェルディナント大公夫妻がセルビア人青年によって暗殺される(サラエボ事件)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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