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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Austria · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1914Date range
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Chronological records

1914

Leopold Berchtold28 June 1914

Warfare / Balkan Wars, 1st

Following the Balkan Wars, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 was therefore a culmination of the heightened tension between Austria-Hungary and Serbia

Names involved

Leopold Berchtold

Provenance

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