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{{Act_of_Villainy|Box title = Act of Villainy| | {{Act_of_Villainy|Box title = Act of Villainy|image = DC-1914-27-d-Sarajevo-cropped.jpg|perpetrator = Gavrilo Princip, members of Black Hand|date = June 28, 1914|location = Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina|motive = Separation of South Slav states from Austria-Hungary|crimes = Assassination, Mass violence}}{{Quote|In June 1914, an Archduke of Austria was shot by a Serbian. And this then lead, though nations having treaties with nations - like a line of dominos falling - to some schoolboys from England fighting in France, during the most terrible war the world had ever seen.|Doctor Who, "The Family of Blood", which recounts the beginning of World War I.}}The '''Assassination of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]''' occurred on June 28, 1914, in the city of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo Sarajevo]. Both Franz Ferdinand and his wife [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie,_Duchess_of_Hohenberg Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg] were shot and killed by assassin [[Gavrillo Princip|Gavrilo Princip]], a Yugoslav nationalist with ties to the Pan-Serbian [[Black Hand|Black Hand society]]. | ||
The assassination was one of the major events that brought forth the beginning of [[World War I]], and the dissolution of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary]. | The assassination was one of the major events that brought forth the beginning of [[World War I]], and the dissolution of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary]. |