World War I, also known as the Great War, started in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted until 1918.

As the Archduke of Austria and presumptive heir to the Austro ... imagines what led three young men to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. (Courtesy of The Wilma Theater) So, before ...

It was the home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination in 1914 was the spark that lit the fires of the First World War. By all accounts, Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were ...

The situation in the Balkans remained unstable and came to a head on June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated by Gavrilo ...

Cristian Movilă Long known as Sacel, the castle was recently renamed for Baron Franz Nopcsa ... as a hussar in the army of Maximilian, Archduke of Austria and Emperor of Mexico.

Following the 1914 assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip, the nations of Europe slid into World War I. On August 1, 1914, Germany joined the Great ...

The town was a first-class fortress, whose develop= ment had been an object of special solicitude to the late Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Of course it was ... for the Russian= policy of Austria, like ...

sickly boys searching for meaning were manipulated into hate by a bombastic ideologue and inspired to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The event is historically viewed as the catalyst of ...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 is widely considered to be the spark that lit the fire of the First World War — and ultimately led to the end of the Habsburg Monarchy.

You may have hazy memories of Franz Ferdinand (the Austrian royal ... which set off World War I. "Archduke" centers on three boys recruited to kill the nobleman and the desperation fueling ...