A group of young nationalists hatched a plot to kill the archduke during his visit to Sarajevo, and after some missteps, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip was able to shoot the royal couple at point-blank range, while they traveled in their official procession, killing both almost instantly. Franz Ferdinand was the eldest son of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. The assassination occurred in Sarajevo when the motorcade was traveling to Sarajevo when a member of the Black Hand threw a bomb at the motorcade. In 1913, Emperor Franz Joseph ordered Archduke Franz Ferdinand to follow the military maneuvers in Bosnia scheduled for June 1914. The Archduke and his wife, Sophie the Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated by members of the Black Hand on July 28, 1914. The annexation had angered Serbian nationalists, who believed the territories should be part of Serbia. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to World War I. The archduke traveled to Sarajevo in June 1914 to inspect the imperial armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908.
READ MORE: Did Franz Ferdinand’s Assassination Cause World War I? Summary: This lesson will give students the details of Archduke Franz Ferdinands death and what an important role Nationalism played in this cause of WWI. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia laying in state, July 1914. 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. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August. On June 28, 1919, five years to the day after Franz Ferdinand’s death, Germany and the Allied Powers signed the Treaty of Versailles, officially marking the end of World War I. The World War is said to have started because of the conflict between Serbia and Austria-Hungary.
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