No other political murder in modern history has had such momentous consequences as the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He was the heir to the Habsburg empire, and the first to fall victim to political homicide. Unlike some constitutional monarchies in Western Europe, the Habsburgs had failed to modernize their multinational state. They used force to defend their institutions, and they were faced with a mass of revolutionary movements in Italy and Hungary.

Although the Sarajevo assassins were Bosnians and thus Austro-Hungarian citizens, and although they had plotted against the Habsburg dignitaries for years, three leading members of the conspiracy, Princip, Cabrinovic, and Grebez, came to Sarajevo from Belgrade. They were armed with pistols and bombs, which they had obtained through some Bosnian youth from Major Voljislav Tankosic, one of the leaders of the Black Hand. Despite the common goal of national liberation shared by the Young Bosnians and the Black Hand alike they differed in their approach to internal problems in the South Slav society.

The civilian authorities at the border informed the Serbian government that some members of the Black Hand were smugg

It was 10:10 am on June 28, 1914 and as the archduke's car passed the central police station of Sarajevo, General Potiorek, who was with the archduke and his wife, pointed out the new barracks. At that moment a tall young man in a long black coat and a black hat, Cabrinovic, asked a policeman which car the archduke was in; seconds later he had knocked the cap off a hand grenade against a metal lamppost and hurled it at the archduke's car. The driver saw a black object flying towards him and accelerated, and the bomb

Archduke ordered the chauffeur to stop, since he noticed that the other cars were not following. Two officers were wounded, one seriously, and several bystanders were wounded as well.

The Archduke Franz Ferdinand's decision to

The procession moved on towards the town hall and here the archduke decided to change the route of the procession to visit one of the wounded officers in the hospital. The driver was lured to take an incorrect route, whether this was a mistake, or deliberate, we will never know. General Potiorek shouted at the driver, "What is this? Stop! You are going the wrong way." Stepping hard on the brake, the driver stopped the car just in front of a shop, close to the crowded pavement. At that instant a short young man with long hair and deep-set blue eyes took out a revolver. A policeman saw the danger and was on the point of grabbing his hand when he was struck by someone standing nearby, presumably a friend of the assassin. Pistol shot were heard. The killer was only a few steps from his target.

He was expected to attend and the Emperor

There is a theory that there was a power struggle between Apis and Pasic, the Prime Minister who thought Apis was threatening the whole political system of Serbia. The s

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