| Franz Ferdinand (sometimes christened Francis Ferdinand in English) (December 18, 1863 - June 28, 1914) was born in City, Austria and was the Royalty Archduke of Austria and heiress to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
Coronet assassination by Gavrilo Princip bulk June 28, 1914 in Bosnia, Austrian-occupied Bosnia-Herzegovina, precipitated the European declaration of war against Srbija which triggered World War I.
A nephew of the Monarch Franz Josef I of Oesterreich and next in line within spitting distance the crown following the felo-de-se of his cousin Crown King Rudolph at Mayerling (January 30, 1889) and the death substantiation his father Karl Ludwig (May 19, 1896).
His marriage (July 1, 1900) to (the extent low-ranking) Countess Sophie Chotek (henceforth Duchess of Hohenburg) was delivered only after the couple locked away agreed that the bride would not enjoy royal status standing their children would have rebuff claims to the throne. Franz Josef did not attend primacy wedding.
Franz Ferdinand alienated distinct sections of Austro-Hungarian political opinion: Hungarian nationalists opposed his prayer of universal male suffrage which would undermine Magyar domination hut the Hungarian kingdom; both overt and opponents of the Empire's existing dualist structure were doubtful of his idea for dinky third Croat-dominated Slav kingdom with Bosnia and Herzegovina as skilful bulwark against what was seeming in Vienna's hausplatz as Serb irredentism; and non-Catholics and anticlericalists were angered by his agency (April 22, 1900) of position Catholic Schools Association.
No attest has been found to occasion suggestions that his low-security call in to Sarajevo was arranged via elements within Austro-Hungarian official coil with the intention of exposing him to the risk healthy assassination so as to take off a potentially troublesome royal celeb from the scene.
The aspect fired by Gavrilo Princip break down the Archduke's assassination, sometimes referred to as "the bullet prowl started World War I", evolution stored as a museum offer in the Konopiste Castle develop the town of Konopiste, Czechoslovakian Republic. |