Veteran Affairs Canada, Submitted The nations of Europe were at war soon after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand ...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was only the trigger — the real causes ran deeper. Austria-Hungary saw a chance ...

Sarajevo, Bosnia, June 29, 1914. -- The second attempt in the same day proved successful and Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, together with his morganatic wife, the ...

Gavrilo Princip helped spark World War I when he assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne a hundred years ago. In death, he's been a... The Shifting Legacy Of The Man Who Shot Franz ...

Even in our modern day, when it seems so easy to fact-check, the telling of history is wrought with mistruths, mistakes, ...

Depending who you ask, the meeting on June 12-13, 1914 between Kaiser Wilhelm II and Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the thrones of Austria and Hungary, was either a war council—or the exact ...

Multiple would-be assassins were involved in the plot, and while several had had the chance to act and failed, and a bomb intended for the Duke had gone off under the wrong car, 19-year-old Gavrilo ...

Every seventh-grade history student knows that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914 set off a chain of events that culminated in the outbreak of World War I. So what, in an ...