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Sarajevo assassination
Tag
(01)
1914
June
28
Key event
Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
On 28 June 1914 Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, setting off the July Crisis.