The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

• Franz Ferdinand, the heir to Austria-Hungary, visited Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia


  28th June 1914
• Assassins


  • 8 assassins lined the route the Archduke was due to take
• The Black Hand


  The assassins were part of this group and were armed by rogue Serbian government officials
• 1st Assassination Attempt

  A man threw a grenade at Ferdinand's car, it bounced off the back and rolled under the car behind, blowing it up
• 2nd Assassination Attempt

  1. When the driver realised they were travelling down the same road the prior attack had happened on, he tried to turn around quickly but stalled

  2. Gavrilo Princip was, by chance, on the street corner where the car stalled

  3. He took 2 shots; one landed in Sophie's stomach and one hit the Archduke in the neck

  They were dead within minutes
• Gavrilo Princip


  A 19-year-old Serbian nationalist and part of The Black Hand