He was in-line to be king of Austria.
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He was in-line to be king of Austria.
The assignation Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was the spark of WWI. He, and his wife, were killed by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo (the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Franz Ferdinand was the oldest son of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria and of his second wife, Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
The head of state of Austria was an emperor, not a king. Franz Joseph I died in 1916 and was succeede by Karl I.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Treaties in Europe triggered many countries to enter the war therefor causing a World War. check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_keg_of_Europe
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Archduke Ferdinand, though he may or not be a king..
Ferdinand the Catholicwas king of aragon- in 1474-1504, as Ferdinand V, in right of his wife-and then regent of that country also from 1508 to his death, in the name of his reportedly mentally unstable daughter joanna.
After the death of King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria became King of Bohemia and the country became a constituent state of the Habsburg Monarchy.
The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was Archduke Franz Ferdinand. It is general consensus amongst historians that his death at the hands of the Serbian organisation Black Hand was one of the main triggers of World War I.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by a Serbian nationalist in 1914 led to a chain of events that ultimately resulted in World War I. The war escalated and involved numerous countries, including the King's own country, leading to the disruption and ruin of plans for both the Duke and the King.
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