28 Jul 1914 Jahr - Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to Emperor Franz Joseph, visits Sarajevo, capital of the recently annexed provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Six assassins from the movement known as Young Bosnia, or Mlada Bosnia, take up positions along the route taken by the Archduke's motorcade, with the intention of assassinating him. Supplied with arms by extremists from the Serbian Black Hand intelligence organization, they hope his death will free Bosnia from Austrian rule, although there is little agreement on what would replace it.
Nedeljko Čabrinović throws a grenade at the Archduke's car and injures two of his aides, who are taken to the hospital while the convoy carries on. The other assassins are also unsuccessful but an hour later, as Ferdinand is returning from visiting the injured officers, his car takes a wrong turn into a street where Gavrilo Princip is standing. He steps forward and fires two pistol shots, fatally wounding Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, who both die shortly thereafter.

The Austrio-Hungarian authorities encourage the subsequent anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo, in which Bosnian Croats and Bosniaks kill two Bosnian Serbs and damage numerous Serb-owned buildings. Violent actions against ethnic Serbs are also organised outside Sarajevo, in other cities in Austro-Hungarian-controlled Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia.
Austro-Hungarian authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina imprison and extradited　approximately 5,500 prominent Serbs, 700 to 2,200 of whom die in prison. A further 460 Serbs are sentenced to death. A predominantly Bosniak special militia known as the Schutzkorps is established and carries out the persecution of Serbs.

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