Archduke Franz Ferdinand was born into the Austrian ruling house and in 1889 became the heir to the Imperial throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo in current-day Bosnia just over fifty years later precipitated the July Crisis that brought on the First World War. (By John Osborne)
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Österreichische Rundschau, Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand, unser Thronfolger (Vienna, Austria: Österreichische Rundschau, 1913), 9.
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