However, the bomb bounced off the car and landed under the next car in the motorcade. A man named Nedeljko Cabrinovic threw a bomb into the car with the Archduke. On the way to the Town Hall, the first assassination attempt occurred. The Black Hand had several assassins positioned along the route. On JFranz Ferdinand and his wife were in the third car of a motorcade traveling through Sarajevo to the Town Hall. These assassins were members of a terrorist group called the Black Hand. With help from the neighboring country of Serbia, assassins were recruited and trained to kill the Archduke as he traveled through the streets of Sarajevo. When Archduke Ferdinand announced his trip to Sarajevo, Bosnian nationalists (people who wanted Bosnia to be its own country) saw their opportunity to strike at the Austrian Empire. Serbia was an ally with the powerful Russian Empire and Austria-Hungary was allied with Germany. The country of Serbia, just south of the Austria-Hungary border also wanted the freedom of the Bosnians. Many of the Bosnians wanted to have their own country and not be under the rule of Austria-Hungary. In the southern portion of Austria-Hungary was a region called Bosnia.
He was married to Sophie, the Duchess of Hohenberg. His uncle, Franz Joseph, was the current emperor of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. After his cousin and father died, he became the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. The Archduke and his wife were shot while riding in their carĪrchduke Franz Ferdinand was born in the city of Graz on December 18, 1863. Gavrilo Princip killing Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo
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