How Did The Archduke Franz Ferdinand Cause Ww1

“Sophie dear, Sophie dear, don’t die! Stay alive for our children.” Those were his last words. Franz Ferdinand was the archduke of Austro-Hungary. He was the heir to the empire. The assassin was Gavrilo Princip. Princip was a Serbian nationalist. The archduke traveled to Sarajevo in June of 1914. He was there to inspect the imperial armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A lot of events unfolded after his assassination. It was one of the main causes of World War 1.
The archduke Franz Ferdinand was born on December 18th in 1863. He was born in Graz, Austria. In 1900, Franz gave up his children rights to the throne to marry a lady-in-waiting. He started his military career when he was 12. He quickly rose through the ranks. At age 31, he was a Major General. He inherited the throne. His dad died of a typhoid fever. The emperor’s son committed suicide.When he was in power, he tried to restore Austro-Russian relations while being allied with Germany.
He tried to turn the gun on himself but someone from the crowd stopped him. Princip was 18 when he killed the archduke. He was enraged about the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. There was another assassination attempt. The archduke deflected a bomb thrown at him. He was going to visit the people injured in the blast when he was killed. Princip was a part of the Black Hand, a nationalistic movement favoring a union of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. The day the archduke and his wife visited happened to be the anniversary of the First Battle of Kosovo in 1389. That day was significant to the Black