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...
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...
During the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995, reports and court filings alleged that weapons of Israeli origin were transferred to Serbian forces. In 2016, Israeli human rights attorney Ei...
Srebrenica Genocide On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces captured the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia, a United Nations-declared “safe area.” The town was predominantly inhabited b...
Bosnian Genocide On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces captured the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia during the Bosnian War. The town had been declared a United Nations “safe area” f...
World War I, also known as the Great War, began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The conflict quickly escalated, drawin...
The Battle of the Margus was a significant confrontation during the Roman civil wars, taking place near the city of Margus in the Roman province of Moesia. The conflict was fought between...
The Battle of the Margus was a significant confrontation between the Roman emperors Carinus and Diocletian. The battle took place near the Margus River, in the region of Mačva, which is i...
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...
July 1914 — Russian leaders view Serbia as both a political partner and a test of Russian great-power credibility in the Balkans. Previous retreats in regional crises make another diploma...
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...
1914–1918 — Austro-Hungarian, Italian, French, Serbian and other forces occupy different parts of Albania. The country largely loses unified central government during the conflict, and it...
1912–1914 — Officials in Germany and Austria-Hungary increasingly fear that Russia and Serbia will become stronger with time. Railway construction, military reforms, population growth and...
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...
1908–1914 — Austria-Hungary faces growing nationalist pressures in the Balkans following the Bosnian annexation crisis and Serbia's expansion during the Balkan Wars. Serbian national ambi...
c. 1343–1355 — Stefan Dušan's Serbian Empire expands across much of Albania, Epirus and Macedonia. After Dušan's death, the empire fragments and local noble families increasingly establis...
c. 1190–1255 — Arbanon emerges as the earliest known autonomous Albanian principality. Centered in north-central Albania, it operates between Byzantine, Serbian, Venetian and later Epirot...
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...
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 ...
23 July 1914 — Austria-Hungary presents Serbia with a severe ultimatum designed to suppress anti-Habsburg activity and permit substantial Austro-Hungarian involvement in Serbian investiga...
1903–1917 political and intelligence influence — Dragutin Dimitrijević is a Serbian army officer, intelligence chief and leading figure associated with the Black Hand. His network reaches...
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...
Bosnian Serb nationalist who assassinated Franz Ferdinand and Sophie in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
1 August 1914 — Germany declares war on Russia after demanding that Russian mobilization stop. German military planning assumes that a war with Russia will also involve France. Berlin the...
5 July 1914 — Austro-Hungarian envoy Alexander Hoyos receives powerful assurances in Berlin that Germany will support Vienna if it acts against Serbia, even if Russian intervention widens...
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...
30 July 1914 — Tsar Nicholas II approves general mobilization of Russian forces after growing alarm over Austria-Hungary's attack on Serbia. Russian leaders fear that partial mobilization...
25 July 1914 — Serbia submits a conciliatory reply accepting most Austro-Hungarian demands while rejecting or qualifying provisions that would allow foreign officials to exercise authorit...
1909–1917 — Bethmann Hollweg serves as German chancellor through the July Crisis and most of the first three years of war. He confirms Germany's strong support for Austria-Hungary and acc...