On June 28, 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered a chain reaction that lead to World War ...

On June 28, 1914, assassins killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and set off a chain of events that led to the First World War. Here’s how it went down on that momentous day.

Archduke Otto's older brother is the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Archduke Otto was born at Gratz in 1865, and when he was 21 years old married ...

Franz's younger brother, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph of Austria, took over the Mexican crown in 1863, per Britannica. His rulership was a rocky time in Mexico with many brutal struggles ...

Sarajevo, Bosnia Austria—June 28—Archduke Franz Ferdinand Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary and his wife Duchess Hohenberg were murdered today by a young Bosnian student, a Serb.

Scores of Servian business places and dwellings were demolished by pro-Austrian mobs, while preparations were being made to remove the bodies of the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his ...

Sometimes, history can seem to pivot on a single event. While the underlying causes were numerous, historians generally accept that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the most ...

IF THE terrorists had not botched their work, it would have been a bomb that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie that fateful Sunday morning in Sarajevo a century ago.

On 17 May 1893, the newly launched SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth – a battle cruiser of the Austro-Hungarian Navy – steamed into Sydney Harbour. It bore a most distinguished passenger, no less a personage ...

Sometimes, history can seem to pivot on a single event. While the underlying causes were numerous, historians generally accept that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the most ...