Volume 11 , Issue 36

1914 Political Events

A World War begins in Europe July 28 one month after the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne in Bosnia. Riding in a 1912 Graf und Stift motorcar at Sarajevo, the 52 year old Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed by tubercular high school student Gavrilo Prinzip who had been hired by Servian terrorists to kill the nephew of the emperor Franz Josef.

Austrian militarists had been spoiling to enter the wars that had embroiled the Balkans since 1912, and Vienna used the incident at Sarajevo in June as an excuse to declare war on Serbia.

August 1, 1914, the war quickly widened as Germany declared war on Russia. August 3, 1914 Germany declared war on France. Neutral Belgium was invaded by German troops August 4, 1914 and Britain declared war on Germany around that same time.

Montenegro declared war on Austria August 5, 1914. Serbia declared war on Germany August 6, 1914. Montenegro declared war on Germany August 8, 1914. Britain and France declared war on Austria August 12, 1914.
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