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Two of the strongest, but A life-changing event occurred in , when the heir to the throne met Countess Sophie Chotek, who served as a lady-in-waiting to Archduchess Isabella, at a ball in Prague. Stubborn and determined, Franz Ferdinand refused to marry anyone else. Yet the Emperor set down some harsh conditions. Sophie was also forbidden to sit in the royal carriage or royal box.
The Emperor, his brothers and families refused to attend the ceremony. Sophie was given the title of Princess of Hohenberg and Duchess of Hohenberg.
During the summer of , as Inspector General of the Army, Franz Ferdinand accepted the invitation from General Oskar Potiorek to watch, along with his wife Sophie, military maneuvers in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia.
The couple was aware that it would be a dangerous undertaking. When Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina in , it stirred an unsettling reaction from the West, and many Serbians wanted a pan-Slav state directed by Serbia, a province that had better relations with Russia than with Austro-Hungary. The six Bosnian Serbs assigned to assassinate Franz Ferdinand strove to liberate the south-Slav provinces from Habsburg rule in order to create a Greater Serbia or Yugoslavia.
While it missed its target, bouncing off the folded back of the convertible cover and rolling into the street, the bomb did a lot of damage, injuring 20 people as it exploded under the fourth car in the procession. Young Bosnia was inspired from a variety of ideas, movements, and events, such as German romanticism, anarchism, Russian revolutionary socialism, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, and the Battle of Kosovo.
Following the maneuvers, Ferdinand and his wife planned to visit Sarajevo to open the state museum in its new premises there. Duchess Sophie, according to their oldest son, Duke Maximilian, accompanied her husband out of fear for his safety. Franz Ferdinand was an advocate of increased federalism and widely believed to favor trialism, under which Austria-Hungary would be reorganized by combining the Slavic lands within the Austro-Hungarian empire into a third crown. A Slavic kingdom could have been a bulwark against Serb irredentism, and Ferdinand was therefore perceived as a threat by those same irredentists.
The day of the assassination, June 28, is the feast of St. In Serbia, it is called Vidovdan and commemorates the Battle of Kosovo against the Ottomans, at which the Sultan was assassinated in his tent by a Serb. The assassination of Ferdinand led directly to the First World War when Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia, which was partially rejected.
Austria-Hungary then declared war. The assassins, the key members of the clandestine network, and the key Serbian military conspirators who were still alive were arrested, tried, convicted, and punished.
Those who were arrested in Bosnia were tried in Sarajevo in October The declaration of war sets off a series of cascading declarations that lead to World War I. October 26, Princip and Cabrinovic are found guilty of high treason along with twenty-two accomplices. October 28, Princip and Cabrinovic are both sentenced to twenty years of hard labor, while four other conspirators are sentenced to death. Princip and Cabrinovic were both too young to receive the death penalty.
January 20, Nedjelko Cabrinovic dies in prison. April 28, Gavrilo Princip dies in prison. Back to top. Hosted by Springshare.
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