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Italy probes alleged “sniper tourism” in 1990s Bosnia

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 siege of the Bosnian...

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Vienna Plans a Coercive Ultimatum

7–23 July 1914 — Austro-Hungarian leaders debate how to transform the Sarajevo assassination into a confrontation with Serbia. Officials increasingly favor demands severe enough to justif...

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Who Turned an Assassination Into a World War?

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 investigation shoul...

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Weapons and Assistance Reach the Sarajevo Conspirators

May–June 1914 — Members of the assassination conspiracy obtain pistols, bombs and assistance through contacts associated with Serbian nationalist and military-intelligence circles. The ev...

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Black Hand Network

1911–1917 — Unification or Death, commonly called the Black Hand, is a secret Serbian nationalist organization containing influential military officers. Individuals associated with this n...

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Assassination at Sarajevo

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 Princip, a Bosnian Serb as...

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Austria-Hungary Declares War on Serbia

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 as a decisive Balkan ...

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Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf

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 1914 he repeatedly advo...

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Gavrilo Princip

Bosnian Serb nationalist who assassinated Franz Ferdinand and Sophie in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

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Leopold Berchtold

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 decisive confrontati...

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