Assassination in Sarajevo

Photograph showing the arrest of Gavrilo Princips, leader of the group of Serbian nationalists, who assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on June 28th 1914, during a tour of Sarajevo. The incident was used as a pretext for Austria to attack Serbia, thus precipitating World War I

Archduke Assassinated Gavrilo Incident Nationalists Precipitating Pretext Sarajevo Serbia Serbian

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