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ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated
On the 28th of June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austo-Hungarian throne, was shot dead in Sarajevo, along with his wife Sophie Duchess of hohenberg. he was shot by a member of a radicle group trying to break off Austria-Hungary's south-slav province to be combined into a Yugoslavia or a Greater Serbia. The Archdukes death led directly to World War I -
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World War I
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First battle of Ypres starts
First battle of Ypres commonly know as first battle of Flanders, was fought for the stategical important town of Ypres in October and November of 1914. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties signed at the end of World War I. It ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in sarajevo
