Archduke Franz Ferdinand's wife was named Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. She was born Sophie Chotek and married Franz Ferdinand in 1900. Their marriage was morganatic, meaning that Sophie and her descendants would not inherit the archducal titles or privileges. Both were assassinated in 1914, an event that sparked World War I.
he made it clear that once he became Emperor, he would make changes to the rules.
That would be Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
The two go hand in hand, the assassination was the short term cause of the war. When you look at the war as a whole there were numerous long term causes such as the militarism, building alliances and imperialism of the major European powers of the time. So the was waiting to happen and the assassination of Franz Ferdinand was just the spark that ignited the fire, the war probably would have happened without the assassination but the assassination would not be as well known had it not started the war.
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the Austrian throne and his death started World War I. He was killed by Serbians who did not want to be part of the Austrian empire. Russia said that they would help protect their Serbian brothers. So all these nationalist feelings led to the war.
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.
Many would say that Archduke Franz Ferdinand did deserve to die. His assassination led to a chain of events that started World War 1.
That would have been Woodrow Wilson.
The population of Austria was outraged(Think how the English people would react if something similar were to happen to Prince Charles or Prince William)
he made it clear that once he became Emperor, he would make changes to the rules.
That would be Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
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After a failed assassination effort against Franz Joseph made Colonel Dimitrievitch decide to focus his murderous attentions on the heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand. He believed that the Archduke's intention to grant concessions to the southern Slavs would make them uncontrollable.
His occupation was being the Crown Prince. Eventually he would have become the Emperor.
The Serbian Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand thought that the death of the Archduke would be the key that would unlock the chains binding his people to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in the jugular by Gavrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia and The Black Hand. He was wearing constrictive clothing to make himself look slimmer, and by the time his would-be rescuers were able to remove his coat, he had bled to death.
Because Franz Ferdinand died and that pissed Austria off.