WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip .

Detailed explanation-2: -The assassin – Gavrilo Princip – was a member of a Bosnian Serb nationalist group seeking to unite territories containing ethnic Serbs under Serbia’s control. Convinced that the Serbian government had assisted Princip’s group, Austria-Hungary issued a series of harsh demands, most of which the Serbs accepted.

Detailed explanation-3: -Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914.

Detailed explanation-4: -The assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was the immediate cause of the First World War. For four years, the great European powers fought a gruesome battle. Gavrilo Princip is arrested. Sarajevo, 28 June 1914.

Detailed explanation-5: -The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the immediate cause of a war between two great powers-Russia and the Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire. But why and how did this conflict become a world war?