The assassination of sarajevo
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- The assassination of Sarajevo.(28th June 1914)
- 1. Sarajevo was in Bosnia, the province that - to Serbia's anger - had been annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908
- 2. Sarajevo was in Bosnia, the province that - to Serbia's anger - had been annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908
- 3.Seven young Bosnian Serbs planned to assassinate Franz Ferdinand as he drove along the main road in Sarajevo, the Appeal Quay.
- 4.The first conspirator who tried to kill Franz Ferdinand threw a bomb at his car. He missed and was arrested.
- 5.The Archduke escaped unhurt. He decided to abandon the visit and return home via a different route to the one planned. .
- 6.No one had told the driver the route had changed. On the way back, therefore, the driver turned into Franz Josef Street, following the published route and, when told of his error, stopped the car to turn around.
- 7.Unfortunately, the car stopped in front of Gavrilo Princip, one of the conspirators, who was on his way home thinking he had failed.
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