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World War I 📍 Bosnia

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Assassination in Sarajevo triggers the July Crisis

📅 28 June 1914

Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie Chotek were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist. The killing became the trigger for a diplomatic crisis, but the wider war grew from...