jul 28, 1914 - WWI Begins
Description:
The event that was widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I occurred on June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was shot to death with his wife by the Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo.Added to timeline:
Date:
jul 28, 1914
Now
~ 111 years ago