It would have been incomprehensible, at the turn of the nineteenth century, to believe that the actions of one man could set in motion a series of events that would reverberate through history for the...
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Gavrilo Princip's assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary was the catalyst for events that ultimately led to World War I. Princip and his cohorts sought autonomy for Bosnia-Herzegovina, which...
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"If I hadn't done it, the Germans would have found some other excuse [for war]."
This statement was made by Gavrilo Princip, the Bosnian student who assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajev...
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On June 28, 1914, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia by Gavrilo Princip, a Slavic nationalist. This ignites a war assumed to be short, between Seberia ...
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Gavrilo Princip
Gavrilo Princip
