The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the Austrian throne and his death started World War I. He was killed by Serbians who did not want to be part of the Austrian empire. Russia said that they would help protect their Serbian brothers. So all these nationalist feelings led to the war.
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Heir to the Austrian throne, he was shot with his wife by a Serbian nationalist
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Franz-Ferdinand was the heir to the Austrian throne. He was assassinated by a Serbian terrorist group as an act of defiance against Austria-Hungary. Shortly after, Austria declared war on Serbia, which was the beginning of World War I.
it was by the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand heir of the Austro-Hungarian throne.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand's birth name is Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph von Habsburg-Lothringen.