{"id":7687,"date":"2014-06-28T06:32:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T10:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2014-06-28T06:32:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T10:32:48","slug":"28-june-1914-archduke-franz-ferdinand-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/28-june-1914-archduke-franz-ferdinand-assassinated\/","title":{"rendered":"28 June 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7689\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 245px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/490px-Franz_ferdinand.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7689 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/490px-Franz_ferdinand-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"490px-Franz_ferdinand\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: On June 28, 1914,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria\">Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heir_presumptive\">heir presumptive<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Austria-Hungary\">Austro-Hungarian<\/a> throne, and his wife, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sophie,_Duchess_of_Hohenberg\">Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg<\/a>, were shot dead in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarajevo\">Sarajevo<\/a>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gavrilo_Princip\">Gavrilo Princip<\/a>, one of a group of six assassins coordinated by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danilo_Ili%C4%87\">Danilo Ili\u0107<\/a>. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Slavs\">south-Slav<\/a> provinces so they could be combined into a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greater_Serbia\">Greater Serbia<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yugoslavia\">Yugoslavia<\/a>. The assassins&#8217; motives were consistent with the movement that later became known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Young_Bosnia\">Young Bosnia<\/a>. Serbian military officers stood behind the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The assassination led directly to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_World_War\">First World War<\/a> when Austria-Hungary subsequently issued a 48 hour ultimatum against Serbia, which was partially rejected. Austria-Hungary then declared war on July 28, 1914, marking the outbreak of the First World War.<\/p>\n<p>At this time many in Europe and the British Empire, including Canadians, were feeling that war was a distinct although unwelcome possibility.\u00a0 Canadian Militia units had already started to notice an increase in enlistments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Partial source:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: On June 28, 1914,\u00a0 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}