below Franz Ferdinand’s, reflecting her lower status. Their children (who were not
included in the succession), were forbidden from attending the ceremony in Vienna.
More importantly for European politics, no foreign dignitaries were in attendance.
Reportedly, foreign royalty wishing to attend were told their presence was not wanted.
Officially, this was to spare the 83-year old Franz Josef from the fatigue at such a
trying time, but it may have simply been a further expression of the Emperor’s
displeasure. More intriguingly, it has been suggested by Austrian officials that Foreign
Minister Berchtold arranged for the lack of dignitaries so that a convocation of
European royalty could not be present to act as a moderating influence on the Emperor
while Berchtold was agitating for war with Serbia.
There was to be one exception—-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, a close personal
friend of Franz Ferdinand’s who had last seen him only a couple of weeks previously.
However, on July 2, Wilhelm bowed out, officially due to an attack of lumbago.
included in the succession), were forbidden from attending the ceremony in Vienna.
More importantly for European politics, no foreign dignitaries were in attendance.
Reportedly, foreign royalty wishing to attend were told their presence was not wanted.
Officially, this was to spare the 83-year old Franz Josef from the fatigue at such a
trying time, but it may have simply been a further expression of the Emperor’s
displeasure. More intriguingly, it has been suggested by Austrian officials that Foreign
Minister Berchtold arranged for the lack of dignitaries so that a convocation of
European royalty could not be present to act as a moderating influence on the Emperor
while Berchtold was agitating for war with Serbia.
There was to be one exception—-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, a close personal
friend of Franz Ferdinand’s who had last seen him only a couple of weeks previously.
However, on July 2, Wilhelm bowed out, officially due to an attack of lumbago.
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He seemed to be losing consciousness during his last few minutes, but, his voice
growing steadily weaker, he repeated the phrase perhaps six or seven times more.
A rattle began to issue from his throat, which subsided as the car drew in front of the
Konak bersibin (Town Hall). Despite several doctors' efforts, the Archduke died shortly
after being carried into the building while his beloved wife was almost certainly dead
from internal bleeding before the motorcade reached the Konak.
There are no photographs of the actual assassination, and the famous image purporting
to be the arrest of Gavrilo Princip actually shows Ferdinand Behr, a passerby who
objected to the street lynching of Princip and was hauled off by the gendarmes.
Following the assassination, mobs of Bosnian Muslims and Catholics launched a
growing steadily weaker, he repeated the phrase perhaps six or seven times more.
A rattle began to issue from his throat, which subsided as the car drew in front of the
Konak bersibin (Town Hall). Despite several doctors' efforts, the Archduke died shortly
after being carried into the building while his beloved wife was almost certainly dead
from internal bleeding before the motorcade reached the Konak.
There are no photographs of the actual assassination, and the famous image purporting
to be the arrest of Gavrilo Princip actually shows Ferdinand Behr, a passerby who
objected to the street lynching of Princip and was hauled off by the gendarmes.
Following the assassination, mobs of Bosnian Muslims and Catholics launched a
archduke's aides attempted to undo his coat but realized they needed scissors to cut it
open. It was too late; he died within minutes. Sophie also died en route to the hospital.
One bullet pierced Franz Ferdinand's neck while the other pierced Sophie's abdomen. ...
As the car was reversing (to go back to the Governor's residence because the
entourage thought the Imperial couple were unhurt) a thin streak of blood shot from the
Archduke's mouth onto Count Harrach's right cheek (he was standing on the car's
running board). Harrach drew out a handkerchief to still the gushing blood. The
Duchess, seeing this, called: "For Heaven's sake! What happened to you?" and sank
from her seat, her face falling between her husband's knees.
Harrach and Potoriek ... thought she had fainted ... only her husband seemed to have an
open. It was too late; he died within minutes. Sophie also died en route to the hospital.
One bullet pierced Franz Ferdinand's neck while the other pierced Sophie's abdomen. ...
As the car was reversing (to go back to the Governor's residence because the
entourage thought the Imperial couple were unhurt) a thin streak of blood shot from the
Archduke's mouth onto Count Harrach's right cheek (he was standing on the car's
running board). Harrach drew out a handkerchief to still the gushing blood. The
Duchess, seeing this, called: "For Heaven's sake! What happened to you?" and sank
from her seat, her face falling between her husband's knees.
Harrach and Potoriek ... thought she had fainted ... only her husband seemed to have an
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| Determining who the two people were was not difficult. The presence of the guards indicated that these were important people. Their uniforms were of WWI era vintage, so the assassination of the couple came to mind. I had to resort to Wikipedia to find the answer to why Sophie's casket was lower. In doing so I learned a new term-morganistic marriage, marriage between 2 people of unequal rank. Also the significance of her gloves was that she had once been a lady-in-waiting. The Hapsburgs certainly believed in holding grudges. Ellen Welker |
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On Sunday, 28 June 1914, at approximately 10:45
am, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed in
Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian
province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Gavrilo
Princip, 19 at the time, a member of Young
Bosnia and one of a group of assassins organized
and armed by the Black Hand. The event led to a
chain of events that eventually triggered World
War I.
Earlier in the day, the couple had been attacked by
Nedeljko Čabrinović, who had thrown a grenade
at their car. However, the bomb detonated behind
them, hurting the occupants in the following car.
On arriving at the Governor's residence, Franz
angrily shouted, "So this is how you welcome
your guests — with bombs?!"
After a short rest at the Governor's residence, the
royal couple insisted on seeing all those who had
been injured by the bomb at the local hospital.
However, no one told the drivers that the itinerary
had been changed. When the error was
discovered, the drivers had to turn around. As the
cars backed down the street and onto a side
street, the line of cars stalled. At this same time,
Princip was sitting at a cafe across the street. He
instantly seized his opportunity and walked across
the street and shot the royal couple. He first shot
Sophie in the abdomen and then shot Franz
Ferdinand in the neck. Franz leaned over his wife
crying. He was still alive when witnesses arrived
to render aid. His dying words to Sophie were,
'Don't die darling, live for our children.' Princip's
weapon was the pocket-sized FN Model 1910
pistol chambered for the .380 ACP cartridge
provided him by Serbian Army Colonel and Black
Hand member Dragutin Dimitrijević. The
am, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed in
Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian
province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Gavrilo
Princip, 19 at the time, a member of Young
Bosnia and one of a group of assassins organized
and armed by the Black Hand. The event led to a
chain of events that eventually triggered World
War I.
Earlier in the day, the couple had been attacked by
Nedeljko Čabrinović, who had thrown a grenade
at their car. However, the bomb detonated behind
them, hurting the occupants in the following car.
On arriving at the Governor's residence, Franz
angrily shouted, "So this is how you welcome
your guests — with bombs?!"
After a short rest at the Governor's residence, the
royal couple insisted on seeing all those who had
been injured by the bomb at the local hospital.
However, no one told the drivers that the itinerary
had been changed. When the error was
discovered, the drivers had to turn around. As the
cars backed down the street and onto a side
street, the line of cars stalled. At this same time,
Princip was sitting at a cafe across the street. He
instantly seized his opportunity and walked across
the street and shot the royal couple. He first shot
Sophie in the abdomen and then shot Franz
Ferdinand in the neck. Franz leaned over his wife
crying. He was still alive when witnesses arrived
to render aid. His dying words to Sophie were,
'Don't die darling, live for our children.' Princip's
weapon was the pocket-sized FN Model 1910
pistol chambered for the .380 ACP cartridge
provided him by Serbian Army Colonel and Black
Hand member Dragutin Dimitrijević. The
Gavrilo Princip (25 July [O.S. 13 July] 1894 – 28 April
1918) was a Bosnian Serb who assassinated Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess
of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. He was born
in the remote hamlet of Obljaj, near Bosansko Grahovo, on
25 July [O.S. 13 July] 1894. He was one of nine children,
six of whom died in infancy. He was named Gavrilo at the
insistence of a local Serbian Orthodox priest, who claimed
that naming the sickly infant after the Archangel Gabriel
would help him survive.
On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip participated in the
assassination in Sarajevo of the Austrian Archduke Franz
Ferdinand and his wife, Duchess Sophie Chotek of
Austria. The governor of the Austrian provinces of Bosnia
1918) was a Bosnian Serb who assassinated Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess
of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. He was born
in the remote hamlet of Obljaj, near Bosansko Grahovo, on
25 July [O.S. 13 July] 1894. He was one of nine children,
six of whom died in infancy. He was named Gavrilo at the
insistence of a local Serbian Orthodox priest, who claimed
that naming the sickly infant after the Archangel Gabriel
would help him survive.
On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip participated in the
assassination in Sarajevo of the Austrian Archduke Franz
Ferdinand and his wife, Duchess Sophie Chotek of
Austria. The governor of the Austrian provinces of Bosnia
| Gavrilo Princip 25 Jul 1894-28 Apr 1918 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip |
and Herzegovina, General Oskar Potiorek, had invited the Archduke and Duchess
Sophie to the opening of a hospital. Franz Ferdinand knew that the visit would be
dangerous; his uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph, had been the subject of an assassination
attempt by the Black Hand in 1911.
Just before 10 a.m. on Sunday, the royal couple arrived in Sarajevo by train. The royal
couple were then to take an automobile into the city. In the front car was Fehim
Čurčić, the mayor of Sarajevo and Dr. Edmund Gerde, the city's Commissioner of
Police. Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were in the second car with Oskar Potiorek and
Lieutenant Colonel Count Franz von Harrach. The car's top was rolled back in order to
allow the crowds a good view of its occupants.
The seven conspirators lined the route. They were spaced out along the Appel Quay,
each one with instructions to try to kill Franz Ferdinand when the royal car reached his
position. The first conspirator on the route to see the royal car was Muhamed
Mehmedbašić. Standing by the Austro-Hungarian Bank, Mehmedbašić lost his nerve
and allowed the car to pass without taking action. Mehmedbašić later said that a
Sophie to the opening of a hospital. Franz Ferdinand knew that the visit would be
dangerous; his uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph, had been the subject of an assassination
attempt by the Black Hand in 1911.
Just before 10 a.m. on Sunday, the royal couple arrived in Sarajevo by train. The royal
couple were then to take an automobile into the city. In the front car was Fehim
Čurčić, the mayor of Sarajevo and Dr. Edmund Gerde, the city's Commissioner of
Police. Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were in the second car with Oskar Potiorek and
Lieutenant Colonel Count Franz von Harrach. The car's top was rolled back in order to
allow the crowds a good view of its occupants.
The seven conspirators lined the route. They were spaced out along the Appel Quay,
each one with instructions to try to kill Franz Ferdinand when the royal car reached his
position. The first conspirator on the route to see the royal car was Muhamed
Mehmedbašić. Standing by the Austro-Hungarian Bank, Mehmedbašić lost his nerve
and allowed the car to pass without taking action. Mehmedbašić later said that a
Princip, first row center, on trial 5 Dec 1914
car as it drove past, having taken the
wrong turn. After realizing the mistake,
the driver put his foot on the brake, and
began to reverse the car. In doing so the
engine of the car stalled and the gears
locked, giving Princip his opportunity.
Princip stepped forward, drew his pistol
(Belgium M 1910 .380 ACP
Semi-Auto][26]), and at a distance of
about 1.5 m (five feet), fired twice into
the car. Franz Ferdinand was hit in the
neck and Sophie (who instinctively
covered Franz's body with her own after
the first shot) in the abdomen. They both
died before 11:00 am.
wrong turn. After realizing the mistake,
the driver put his foot on the brake, and
began to reverse the car. In doing so the
engine of the car stalled and the gears
locked, giving Princip his opportunity.
Princip stepped forward, drew his pistol
(Belgium M 1910 .380 ACP
Semi-Auto][26]), and at a distance of
about 1.5 m (five feet), fired twice into
the car. Franz Ferdinand was hit in the
neck and Sophie (who instinctively
covered Franz's body with her own after
the first shot) in the abdomen. They both
died before 11:00 am.
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie Chotek |
policeman was standing behind him and
feared he would be arrested before he had
a chance to throw his bomb.
At 10:15, when the six-car procession
passed the central police station, nineteen-
year-old student Nedeljko Čabrinović
hurled a hand grenade at the Archduke's
car. The driver accelerated when he saw
the object flying towards him, but the
bomb had a 10-second delay and
exploded under the wheel of the fourth
feared he would be arrested before he had
a chance to throw his bomb.
At 10:15, when the six-car procession
passed the central police station, nineteen-
year-old student Nedeljko Čabrinović
hurled a hand grenade at the Archduke's
car. The driver accelerated when he saw
the object flying towards him, but the
bomb had a 10-second delay and
exploded under the wheel of the fourth
car, two of the occupants, Eric von Merizzi and Count Alexander von Boos-Waldeck,
were seriously wounded. About a dozen spectators were also hit by bomb shrapnel.
After Čabrinović's bomb missed the Archduke's car, five other conspirators, including
Princip, lost an opportunity to attack because of the heavy crowds and the high speed
of the Archduke's car. To avoid capture, Čabrinović swallowed a cyanide capsule and
jumped into the River Miljacka to make sure he died. The cyanide pill was expired and
made him sick, but failed to kill him and the River Miljacka was only 10 centimetres (4
in) deep. A few seconds later he was hauled out and detained by police.
Franz Ferdinand later decided to go to the hospital and visit the victims of Čabrinović's
failed bombing attempt. In order to avoid the city centre, General Oskar Potiorek
decided that the royal car should travel straight along the Appel Quay to the Sarajevo
Hospital. However, Potiorek forgot to inform the driver, Leopold Loyka, about this
decision. On the way to the hospital, Loyka took a right turn into Franz Josef Street.
Princip was standing near Moritz Schiller's cafe, when he spotted Franz Ferdinand's
were seriously wounded. About a dozen spectators were also hit by bomb shrapnel.
After Čabrinović's bomb missed the Archduke's car, five other conspirators, including
Princip, lost an opportunity to attack because of the heavy crowds and the high speed
of the Archduke's car. To avoid capture, Čabrinović swallowed a cyanide capsule and
jumped into the River Miljacka to make sure he died. The cyanide pill was expired and
made him sick, but failed to kill him and the River Miljacka was only 10 centimetres (4
in) deep. A few seconds later he was hauled out and detained by police.
Franz Ferdinand later decided to go to the hospital and visit the victims of Čabrinović's
failed bombing attempt. In order to avoid the city centre, General Oskar Potiorek
decided that the royal car should travel straight along the Appel Quay to the Sarajevo
Hospital. However, Potiorek forgot to inform the driver, Leopold Loyka, about this
decision. On the way to the hospital, Loyka took a right turn into Franz Josef Street.
Princip was standing near Moritz Schiller's cafe, when he spotted Franz Ferdinand's
Princip attempted suicide first with cyanide, then with his pistol, but he vomited the
past-date poison (as did Čabrinović, leading the police to believe the group had been
deceived and bought a much weaker poison) and the pistol was wrested from his hand
before he had a chance to fire another shot.
Princip was 19 years old at the time of the assassinations and too young to receive the
death penalty, being only twenty-seven days short of the 20-year minimum age limit
required by Habsburg law for the death sentence. Instead, he received the maximum
sentence of twenty years in prison. He was held in harsh conditions which were
worsened by the war. He contracted tuberculosis. He died on 28 April 1918 at Terezín
3 years and 10 months after he assassinated the Archduke and Duchess. At the time of
his death, Princip, weakened by malnutrition and disease, weighed around 40 kilograms
past-date poison (as did Čabrinović, leading the police to believe the group had been
deceived and bought a much weaker poison) and the pistol was wrested from his hand
before he had a chance to fire another shot.
Princip was 19 years old at the time of the assassinations and too young to receive the
death penalty, being only twenty-seven days short of the 20-year minimum age limit
required by Habsburg law for the death sentence. Instead, he received the maximum
sentence of twenty years in prison. He was held in harsh conditions which were
worsened by the war. He contracted tuberculosis. He died on 28 April 1918 at Terezín
3 years and 10 months after he assassinated the Archduke and Duchess. At the time of
his death, Princip, weakened by malnutrition and disease, weighed around 40 kilograms
(88 lb; 6 st 4 lb). His body had become wracked by skeletal
tuberculosis that ate away his bones so badly that his right
arm had to be amputated.
Fearing his bones might become relics for Slav nationalists,
Princip’s jailers took the body in secret to an unmarked grave,
but a Czech soldier assigned to the burial remembered the
location, and in 1920 Princip and the other "Heroes of
Vidovdan" were disinterred and brought to Sarajevo, where
they were buried together beneath a chapel "built to
commemorate for eternity our Serb Heroes" at St. Mark’s
Cemetery.
tuberculosis that ate away his bones so badly that his right
arm had to be amputated.
Fearing his bones might become relics for Slav nationalists,
Princip’s jailers took the body in secret to an unmarked grave,
but a Czech soldier assigned to the burial remembered the
location, and in 1920 Princip and the other "Heroes of
Vidovdan" were disinterred and brought to Sarajevo, where
they were buried together beneath a chapel "built to
commemorate for eternity our Serb Heroes" at St. Mark’s
Cemetery.
| Principe's Cell |
instinct for what was happening. Turning
to his wife despite the bullet in his neck,
Franz Ferdinand pleaded: "Sopherl!
Sopherl! Sterbe nicht! Bleibe am Leben für
unsere Kinder! - Sophie dear! Don't die!
Stay alive for our children!" Having said
this, he seemed to sag down himself. His
plumed hat ... fell off; many of its green
feathers were found all over the car floor.
Count Harrach seized the Archduke by the
uniform collar to hold him up. He asked
"Leiden Eure Kaiserliche Hoheit sehr? - Is
Your Imperial Highness suffering very
badly?" "Es ist nichts. - It is nothing." said
the Archduke in a weak but audible voice.
to his wife despite the bullet in his neck,
Franz Ferdinand pleaded: "Sopherl!
Sopherl! Sterbe nicht! Bleibe am Leben für
unsere Kinder! - Sophie dear! Don't die!
Stay alive for our children!" Having said
this, he seemed to sag down himself. His
plumed hat ... fell off; many of its green
feathers were found all over the car floor.
Count Harrach seized the Archduke by the
uniform collar to hold him up. He asked
"Leiden Eure Kaiserliche Hoheit sehr? - Is
Your Imperial Highness suffering very
badly?" "Es ist nichts. - It is nothing." said
the Archduke in a weak but audible voice.
| Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie leaving City Hall in Sarajevo, minutes before they were assassinated. www.reiss-institute.org |
pogrom of Serbs in Sarajevo, killing at least two
people and causing widespread property damage.
Similar pogroms were recorded throughout Bosnia,
Herzegovina, and (present-day) Croatia.
Contemporary reports called the anti-Serb riots
“officially encouraged.”
The bodies of the Archduke and his wife were taken
by train to the sea, then transported aboard the
warship Viribus Unitis to Trieste, and then by train
to Vienna. The funeral was held on July 3. It was a
relatively low-key affair for a man whose death
would plunge Europe into war within four weeks.
The Emperor Franz Josef himself did not attend,
having never forgiven his nephew his morganatic
marriage to Sophie Chotek. This was reflected
throughout the ceremony; Sophie’s coffin was
relatively unadorned and was placed a full 20 inches
people and causing widespread property damage.
Similar pogroms were recorded throughout Bosnia,
Herzegovina, and (present-day) Croatia.
Contemporary reports called the anti-Serb riots
“officially encouraged.”
The bodies of the Archduke and his wife were taken
by train to the sea, then transported aboard the
warship Viribus Unitis to Trieste, and then by train
to Vienna. The funeral was held on July 3. It was a
relatively low-key affair for a man whose death
would plunge Europe into war within four weeks.
The Emperor Franz Josef himself did not attend,
having never forgiven his nephew his morganatic
marriage to Sophie Chotek. This was reflected
throughout the ceremony; Sophie’s coffin was
relatively unadorned and was placed a full 20 inches
Franz Ferdinand's blood-stained
uniform
uniform
| countries, a woman could marry a man of lower rank morganatically. After World War I the heads of both ruling and formerly reigning dynasties initially continued the practice of rejecting dynastic titles and/or rights for descendants of "morganatic" unions, but gradually allowed them, sometimes retroactively, effectively de-morganatizing the wives and children. Variations of morganatic marriage were also practised by non-European dynasties, such as the Royal Family of Thailand, the polygamous Mongols as to their non-principal wives, and other families of Africa and Asia. Etymology Morganatic, already in use in English by 1727 (according to the Oxford English Dictionary), is derived from the medieval Latin morganaticus from the Late Latin phrase matrimonium ad morganaticam and refers to the gift given by the groom to the bride on the morning after the wedding, morning gift, i.e., dower. The Latin term, applied to a Germanic custom, was adopted from a Germanic term, *morgangeba (compare Early English morgengifu, German Morgengabe, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål Morgengave, Norwegian Nynorsk Morgongåve and Swedish Morgongåva). The literal meaning is explained in a 16th-century passage quoted by Du Cange as, "a marriage by which the wife and the children that may be born are entitled to no share in the husband's possessions beyond the 'morning-gift'". Meyers Konversations-Lexikon of 1888 gives an etymology of the German term Morganitische Ehe as a combination of the ancient Gothic morgjan, to limit, to restrict, occasioned by the restricted gifts from the groom in such a marriage and the morning gift. Morgen is the German word for morning, while the Latin word is matutinus. The morning gift has been a customary property arrangement for marriage found first in early medieval German cultures (such as the Lombards) and also among ancient Germanic tribes, and the church drove its adoption into other countries in order to improve the wife's security by this additional benefit. The bride received property from the bridegroom's clan. It was intended to ensure her livelihood in widowhood, and it was to be kept separate as the wife's discrete possession. However, when a marriage contract is made wherein the bride and the children of the marriage will not receive anything else (than the dower) from the bridegroom or from his inheritance or clan, that sort of marriage was dubbed as "marriage with only the dower and no other inheritance", i.e., matrimonium morganaticum. |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, and their three children from their morganate marriage: Prince Ernst von Hohenberg, Princess Sophie, and Maximilian, Duke of Hohenburg, in 1910 |
Unofficially, though, the trip was
cancelled due to security concerns.
German Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg
informed the Emperor that he had “been
obliged to request His Majesty the Kaiser
to abandon his trip to Vienna” as
successful assassinations “are well
known to have a suggestive effect on
criminal elements”—hardly a vote of
confidence on Austrian competency from
the Germans.
| The funeral procession. |
The last-second cancellation of Kaiser Wilhelm’s visit had immediate consequences for
delicate Austro-German diplomacy. Both Berchtold and Tisza had hoped that the visit
would allow the Kaiser to be brought around to be decisively in favor of war or peace,
respectively.
The couple was buried at Artstetten Castle, the Hapsburg’s summer home; the Imperial
crypt was off-limits to Sophie, as her marriage to the Archduke had been morganatic
(she could not be a royal consort, as her rank was not noble enough for the Hapsburgs).
A monument was put up sometime in 1914, across the street from where the
assassination took place. It was demolished in 1918.
The assassinations, along with the arms race, nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and
the alliance system all contributed to the origins of World War I, which began a month
after Franz Ferdinand's death, with Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia.
The assassination of Ferdinand is considered the most immediate cause of World War I
delicate Austro-German diplomacy. Both Berchtold and Tisza had hoped that the visit
would allow the Kaiser to be brought around to be decisively in favor of war or peace,
respectively.
The couple was buried at Artstetten Castle, the Hapsburg’s summer home; the Imperial
crypt was off-limits to Sophie, as her marriage to the Archduke had been morganatic
(she could not be a royal consort, as her rank was not noble enough for the Hapsburgs).
A monument was put up sometime in 1914, across the street from where the
assassination took place. It was demolished in 1918.
The assassinations, along with the arms race, nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and
the alliance system all contributed to the origins of World War I, which began a month
after Franz Ferdinand's death, with Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia.
The assassination of Ferdinand is considered the most immediate cause of World War I
(Above) The tomb of Franz Ferdinand and
Sophie Chotek; (Right) Monument to the
Archduke and his wife, installed across the
street where they died. It was demolished
in 1918.
Sophie Chotek; (Right) Monument to the
Archduke and his wife, installed across the
street where they died. It was demolished
in 1918.
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