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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Duchess Sophie received fatal gunshot wounds, officials have confirmed Questions being asked about security arrangements on royal tour Archduke’s dying words ...

The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, was the flashpoint that started a catastrophic chain of events. It set the crumbling Austrian-Hungarian Empire on a collision ...

Sarajevo, 28 June 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir-presumptive to the crowns of Austria-Hungary, and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, have been shot dead in the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia ...

The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's throne was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, set off a chain events that led to the ...

Family: He was the eldest of son of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria and Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He married Sophie, Duchess of Hohenburg in 1900; she was assassinated along ...

ONE hundred years ago, one of the most dramatic incidents in world history took place in the far-off city of Sarajevo. The assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Archduke Franz ...

Much depends on the way the Austrians see fit to investigate the killing in Sarajevo and if they desire to lay the blame on the Serbs. St Petersburg correspondent Oleg Boldyrev. Watch the full report ...