The Assassination of Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand on 28th June 1914
Francis Ferdinand was born on December 18th, 1863, Graz, Austria and died on June 28th, 1914, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Austrian Archduke’s assassination triggered off World War I.
Francis Ferdinand was the oldest son of the archduke Charles Louis, who was the brother of the emperor Francis Joseph. The death of the heir, the archduke Rudolf, in 1889, made Francis next in succession to the Austro-Hungarian throne after his father, who died in 1896.