Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
1914 · Event
Killed in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip; triggers the chain of declarations leading to WWI.
On these timelines: July Crisis & Outbreak of WW1, Master, Eastern Europe & the Balkans, World War I, The Habsburg Dynasty
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- Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia (1914)
- Russia orders general mobilisation (1914)
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Around 1914
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- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)