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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand (1914)
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28 Jun 1914 — Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old Bosnian Serb, shoots Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie at point-blank range — after the motorcade takes a wrong turn. Five weeks of diplomacy later, the continent is at war.
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- July Crisis and outbreak of WWI (chapter 3 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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