WORLD WAR 1 The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife Sophia and their children.
Starting out in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on 28 June 1914.
The road where the bomb exploded.
The royal couple leaving the Sarajevo Town Hall to go to the hospital.
The royal couple seconds before their assassination. The royal couple seconds before their assassination.
The layout. The layout.
The assassin: Gavrillo Princip. The assassin: Gavrillo Princip.
The position from which he fired. The position from which he fired.
An artist’s impression of the assassination.
Gavrillo Princip’s arrest.
Gavrillo Princip’s gun and Franz Ferdinand’s jacket.
The funeral.
The reaction.
Original Austrian text of the Ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia, 1914.