He was in the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia, where he was shot in the open car he was riding in while being driven to a local hospital to visit the victims of an assassination attempt on him earlier that day.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria died on 1914-06-28.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand's birth name is Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph von Habsburg-Lothringen.
Franz Ferdinand is famous because of the fact that his assassination triggered the beginning of the First World War. Franz Ferdinand was a heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary and he was assassinated in Sarajevo in the year 1914.
Franz Ferdinand never reigned. His father's brother, Franz Joseph, was the Emperor for sixty-eight years. The Emperor's only son, the cousin of Franz Ferdinand, committed suicide when the Emperor refused him permission to marry the girl he loved (see the movie "Mayerling"). With that suicide the old Emperor had no heir, and tried to make his brother, Franz Ferdinand's father, the heir to the throne, but the brother did not want it. So that left Franz Ferdinand to be the heir to the throne when his old uncle might die, but he just lived on and on and on. Franz Ferdinand was heir for more than fifteen years, but when he was murdered his uncle was still alive. The old Emperor outlived Franz Ferdinand by two years, dying in 1916.
Franz Ferdinand was dead during the war, his role in WWI is that he was the spark, the event that set off the war when he was assasinated.
Franz Ferdinand died on June 28, 1914 at the age of 50.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria died on 1914-06-28.
Franz-Joseph I
Franz Ferdinand's funeral was held in July 1914.
Ferdinand August Maria Franz von Ritgen died in 1867.
Franz Ferdinand died on June 28, 1914 at the age of 50.
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the throne of Austria. He was assassinated while riding in the 1911 Graf & Stift car.
Franz Ferdinand was born on December 18, 1863 and died on June 28, 1914. Franz Ferdinand would have been 50 years old at the time of death or 151 years old today.
Emperor Franz Josef was Franz Ferdinand's uncle.
Franz Ferdinand had 3 children
Franz Ferdinand was born on December 18, 1863.
They did in no way, have anything to do with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.