Of these, 16 were found guilty and nine were acquitted. Twenty five men identified as conspirators were apprehended and were tried in October 1914 for conspiracy to commit high treason. Her Highness was however determined to share the danger with her husband.’ What happened to Gavrilo Princip and his co-conspirators? ‘The Archduke is said to have been warned in vain against undertaking his projected journey, and to have himself attempted to dissuade the Duchess from meeting him in Bosnia. What would normally have been a day of national mourning had become instead a national celebration in Serbia and for Serbians in Bosnia and Croatia, following the defeat of the Turks by the Serbian Army in 1912 and the regaining of Serbia and Old Kosovo.Ĭontinuing his despatch, Sir Maurice de Bunsen reported that: That Sunday, the day on which the assassinations took place, was also the 525 th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, in which the Serbians had been heavily defeated by the Turks. This was a Serbian movement for the liberation of the southern Slavs from Austro-Hungarian rule and the creation of a Greater Serbia, who were said to have recruited Princip and his fellow assassins. The Archduke’s uncle, the Emperor Franz Joseph, had survived an assassination attempt by The Black Hand. Gavrilo Princip and his co-conspirators were members of Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnia), a group of Serbs, with some Bosnians and Croats who believed in a unified Yugoslavia, free from the yoke of Austrian rule. Both the manoeuvres and the state visit to the capital had been widely reported in the Austrian and Bosnian press. As part of the visit the royal couple had been invited to open the state museum in its new location in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. Just the previous year he had been appointed Inspector-General of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces. The Archduke was in Bosnia to attend a series of mountain exercises by part of the 15 th and 16 th Army Corps, which took place on Friday 26 June and Saturday 27 June to the south of Sarajevo. He has made a most happy recovery from his most recent illness.’ Why was the Archduke there? His majesty has thus lived to see his nephew and heir added to the list of his nearest relations who have died violent deaths. The news of the murders was broken about midday yesterday to the Emperor at Ischl, where His Majesty had arrived only the day before. It is presumed that it was thrown away by a third conspirator, on perceiving that the second assault had been successful. A few steps from the scene of the murders an unexploded bomb was found. The Duchess of Hohenberg was struck in the side and expired immediately after reaching the Konak to which both were carried…. The Archduke’s jugular vein was severed and he must have died almost instantaneously. Undeterred, it is said by suggestions that it would be wiser to abandon the remainder of the programme, His Imperial Highness and the Duchess proceeded in the direction of the Town Museum, or as some accounts have it of the hospital to which the wounded had been carried after the bomb outrage.Ī man (Gavrilo Princip) ran in from the crowd and fired rapidly several shots from a browning pistol into the car. At the town hall speeches were exchanged between the Burgermeister and the Archduke, the latter expressing his satisfaction at the cordiality of his reception and alluding to the failure of the dastardly attempt on his life.ĭespatch from Sir Maurice de Bunsen to Sir Edeward Grey, British Foreign Secretary. On their way from the station to the Town Hall the official account states that a bomb was thrown at them (by Nedeljko Cabrilovitch) but was warded off by the Archduke, exploding immediately behind the Imperial motor car and wounding slightly the two officers who occupied the next car, and more or less seriously some 20 persons in the crowd of onlookers. ‘Yesterday, Sunday June 28 th, His Imperial Highness, after attending mass at Ilidze, proceeded by train, with the Duchess, to Sarajevo, as arranged, for the purpose of making a progress through the town and receiving loyal addresses. Clearer news came through on Monday 29 June in a despatch from Sir Maurice de Bunsen, British Ambassador in Vienna to Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary. ![]() Initially news came through to the Foreign Office at 6pm via a despatch from John Francis Jones, British Consul in Sarajevo, with very limited information. The attack took place on a Sunday afternoon. ![]() Franz Ferdinand was the nephew of the ageing Emperor of Austria, Franz Joseph, and heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. On this day exactly 100 years ago, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, and his wife Sophia, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia. ![]() Bosnian stamp issued on June 28, 1917, to commemorate the third anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Archduchess Sophia.
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