1h 20min, jun 28, 1914 y - The Spark
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On the 28th of June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, by Gavrilo Princip, a young Bosnian-Serb. Nationalists. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August. He was assassinated primarily because Bosnian nationalists, primarily the Black Hand, believed he represented a threat to the independence of Serbia and other South Slavic nations within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Added to timeline:
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1h 20min, jun 28, 1914 y
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~ 111 years ago