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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand (1914)
On the WWI map as “Sarajevo”
28 Jun 1914 — The motorcade takes a wrong turn in Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old Bosnian Serb, shoots Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie at point-blank range. Five weeks of diplomacy follow; then the continent is at war.
When 28 Jun 1914 Type Turning point Chapter July Crisis and outbreak of WWI (chapter 3 of WWI)Atlas The Great War, 1871–1923 TURNING POINT · THE GREAT WAR, 1871–1923 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · Anglo-Russian Convention, 31 August 1907, articles I–II
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Source polygons retained with original identities; geographic selections and corrections by Maps of History.. CC BY 4.0 Made with Natural Earth; geographic reference and physical land only. No modern political boundary is used as a historical boundary.. Public domain US Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States; convention’s named places define the two concession spheres.. Historical treaty facts, independently reconstructed Annual source features can describe claims, legal territory or military control. Occupied extensions are separated from the prewar Central Power homelands, while the original source names and shapes remain available.
The displayed state is iss 14 jul. Geographic reference dates and reconstruction methods are recorded for each feature.
reconstruction: 1871–1918 · reconstruction: 31 August 1907 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1864–1921 · vector: 1871–1914 · vector: 1871–1916 · vector: 1873–1914 · vector: 1890–1914 · vector: 1895–1917 · vector: 1898–1914 · vector: 1900–1918 · vector: 1905–1914 · vector: 1905–1915 · vector: 1905–1921 · vector: 1908–1935 · vector: 1912–1914 · vector: 1912–1915 · vector: 1912–1919 · vector: 1912–1921 · vector: 1912–1955 · vector: 1913–1914 · vector: 1913–1915 · vector: 1914–1914 · vector: 1914–1915 · vector: 1914–1916
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