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The Archduke’s driver slammed on the brakes to try and catch up with the other car. During the journey to the hospital the car with his bodyguards took a wrong turning. Besides, he had never been taught at a moving target.At 10.45 am the Archduke decided to cut short his reception at the town hall and decided to visit a policeman injured in the bomb attack on his car. He had fired a few practice shots the day before, but had missed the target. When he saw the Archduke’s car go flying by he felt depressed and decided to have a cup of coffee in a nearby cafe.
He was a member of the Black Hand and at first he thought that his other friends had been successful. Assassination of Franz Ferdinandĭuring the two failed attempts to kill the Franz Ferdinand another young assassin called Gavrilo Princip, a 19 year old Serb, was waiting for his chance to kill him. However, the third assassin was lucky enough to succeed in killing the Archduke. The people next to him were jammed against his side. One man failed because he could not get the bomb out of his pocket. Unknown to him there were at least two other men waiting to try and assassinate him. Source B: The last photograph of Franz Ferdinand taken shortly before his death.Įven though someone had just tried to kill him, the Archduke decided to carry on with his royal visit. The damaged car was pushed onto the pavement. The bomb bounced underneath the next car in the procession and injured about 20 people. The driver saw the bomb coming and accelerated his car so it missed him. At 10.10 am a tall man wearing a long black coat and hat threw a hand grenade and at the Archdukes car. Security was lax as there were no soldiers on duty and only a few police. They were visiting Sarajevo to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Franz Ferdinand visits Saravejoįrom the beginning of their visit the royal couple were cheered everywhere they went. They decided the best time and place to do this was when he visited Sarajevo with his wife Sophie on the 28th June 1914. In order to achieve this it was decided to assassinate the Archduke.
A secret terrorist organisation called the Black Hand was set up in Serbia with the aim of freeing all Slav people. Their fellow Slavs in Serbia encouraged this unrest. Many of these Slavs wanted to break away from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and set up their own country. The large Austro-Hungarian Empire contained many different nationalities, including millions of Slavs. Source A: Archduke just before he was assassinated, 1914. The key event, which started this chain reaction was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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The events that took place in Sarajevo in 1914, unleashed a series of events that finally lighted a fuse which would explode into the First World War. Tension had been rising between the European powers for many years. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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