Modern History Timeline

Assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Jun 28, 1914

Syllabus Point
- Shaping the Modern World
* The Nature of WWI
- The outbreak of war in 1914 Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand is shot and killed along with his wife by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. This is argued to be what triggered the start to World War I

World War I

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918