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On February 5, 2026, Italian prosecutors in Milan confirmed they are investigating allegations that some individuals paid to shoot at civilians in Sarajevo during the ...
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7–23 July 1914 — Austro-Hungarian leaders debate how to transform the Sarajevo assassination into a confrontation with Serbia. Officials increasingly favor demands sev...
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28 June–4 August 1914 — Sarajevo creates the crisis, but successive decisions by Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France and Britain determine how far it spreads. The...
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May–June 1914 — Members of the assassination conspiracy obtain pistols, bombs and assistance through contacts associated with Serbian nationalist and military-intellig...
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1911–1917 — Unification or Death, commonly called the Black Hand, is a secret Serbian nationalist organization containing influential military officers. Individuals as...
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28 June 1914 — Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie are assassinated during an official visit to Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princi...
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28 July 1914 — Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia exactly one month after the Sarajevo assassination. Artillery soon targets Belgrade. What Vienna hopes to treat a...
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1906–1917 senior military influence — Conrad serves as chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff for most of the years preceding and during the early war. Before 191...
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Bosnian Serb nationalist who assassinated Franz Ferdinand and Sophie in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
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1912–1915 — Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Leopold Berchtold becomes one of the central decision-makers in the July Crisis. After Sarajevo he increasingly favors a ...
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