The victims of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination on June 28, 1914, included the Archduke himself and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. They were shot by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the nationalist group known as the Black Hand, while their motorcade was passing through Sarajevo. The assassination set off a chain of events that ultimately led to the outbreak of World War I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand's birth name is Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph von Habsburg-Lothringen.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria died on 1914-06-28.
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.
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.
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.
Franz Ferdinand was born on December 18, 1863.
The Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand, although his murder wasn't the primary cause.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand's birth name is Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph von Habsburg-Lothringen.
Franz Ferdinand was inspecting the troops of Austria-Hungary.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was Austrian. Not german.
The killer of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was Gavrilo Princip.
SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand ended in 1926.
Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by The black handgroup.