Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated 100 years ago today. This April 4, 2014 photo shows a reproduction of a London newspaper front page from 1914, which writes about the assassination of ...

The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, set off a chain events that led to the start of World War I one month later. Here's a look at the people, places, and events connected ...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Czech Countess Sophie Chotek, leave the reception at City Hall in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 shortly before they were assassinated.

The first was the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, a centuries-old empire that included most of central Europe. When his aging uncle Emperor Franz Joseph died ...

On June 28, 1914, assassins killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and set off a chain of events that led to the First World War. Here’s how it went down on that momentous day. There were ...

As I hope all of you remember, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is widely thought to have triggered World War I. Joseph, the daredevil author of ...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand is best known as the man whose assassination is believed to have led to the outbreak of World War I. But behind that figure lies a story of forbidden love, an obsession ...

The broader forces behind the war included the rise of nationalism, social Darwinism, and the European arms race -- but it took the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in ...

He believes that World War One could have been prevented, if Archduke Franz Ferdinand had survived the assassin's bullet. "Franz Ferdinand was the strongest spokesman for peace in Austria-Hungary.