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Gavrilo Princip was born on 25 July [ O.S. 13 July] 1894, [1] [2] in the remote hamlet of Obljaj, near Bosansko Grahovo, in western Bosnia. [3] At the time of his birth, Bosnia was administered by Austria-Hungary, while still formally a province of the Ottoman Empire. [4] He was the second of his parents' nine children, six of whom died in infancy.
May 29, 2024 · Gavrilo Princip, South Slav nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his consort, Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg, at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914, giving Austria-Hungary an excuse to open hostilities against Serbia, precipitating World War I.
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Gavrilo Princip outside the courthouse. Unknown to the Black Hand, a second plot against the archduke had arisen that spring of 1914 when student Gavrilo Princip was shown a newspaper cutting announcing Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria's visit to Bosnia in June, by his friend and fellow Young Bosnia member Nedeljko Čabrinović.
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Jan 3, 2022 · Learn about the life and motives of Gavrilo Princip, the young revolutionary who killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1914. Discover how his act sparked the First World War and changed the course of history.
Gavrilo Princip was a Serbian nationalist who shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo in 1914. His act triggered World War I, the "Great War" of 1914 to 1918.
Jun 27, 2014 · Nineteen-year-old Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip fired the shots that killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife, Sophie, during a visit to Sarajevo on ...
Jun 28, 2024 · It’s well-known that Gavrilo Princip’s murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo 110 years ago started a chain of events that led to World War I. Less known is the revolutionary ideology ...
