A Shot that Changed the World – The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand I PRELUDE TO WW1

On June 28th, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a nationalist working for the Serbian underground organisation “Black Hand” (officially known as “Unification or Death”). From today’s perspective, the assassination is seen as the event that triggered the chain reaction leading to the outbreak of the Great …