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Anti-Serbian rioting breaks out in Sarajevo, June 29, 1914. Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo – Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina Oskar Potiorek declared a state of siege in Sarajevo as violent pogroms were carried out against ethnic Serbians. Over 1,000 Serbian homes, businesses and churches were vandalized with little or no intervention by law ...
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
May 16 – June 23 Eastern: Battle of Konary. May 23 Politics: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. [24] May 24–25 Western: Battle of Bellewaarde, final phase of the Second Battle of Ypres. May 31 – June 10 African, Kamerun: Second Battle of Garua. June–September Eastern: The Russian Great Retreat from Poland and Galicia. June 4
The imperial couple were dead by 11:30 a.m on 28 June 1914; [101] Sophie was dead on arrival at the Governor's residence, and Franz Ferdinand died 10 minutes later. [ 102 ] There is a myth which states that Princip had eaten a sandwich at Schiller's delicatessen just prior to the shooting, but there are no primary sources from the time which ...
Flag flown on Government House, Hong Kong and the governor's official car during British rule: A Union Jack defaced with the then Coat of arms of Hong Kong. 1910–1931: Flag of the governor-general of the Union of South Africa: A Union Jack defaced with the Coat of Arms of South Africa. 1914–1952: Flag of the governor(-general) of Nigeria
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead after a wrong turn by two gun shots [10] in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak) co-ordinated by Danilo Ilić, a Bosnian Serb and a member ...
The crisis began on 28 June 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. A complex web of alliances, coupled with the miscalculations of numerous political and military leaders (who either regarded war as ...
World War I – major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers , [ 1 ] which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred on the Triple Entente of Britain , France and Russia ) and the Central Powers (originally centred on the Triple Alliance of ...