Why was Franz Ferdinand assassinated before World War 1?

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina (formally annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908), by a Bosnian Serb student, Gavrilo Princip. The assassination was a defining event that led to the outbreak of World War I.

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Lambert Simnel,“The Dublin King”, the man who challenged the first Tudor king
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenet. That a king of England should be crowned in Dublin and not in London is strange; that it was when there was already a monarch of England crowned and reigning in London is even more so. However, as strange as it may seem, this event took place in Ireland
Conquest of Toledo
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How much harm has Ben-Hur done to the Roman navy!
Although at a tactical level the battle of Accio did not have the substance of the great naval battles between the Romans and the Carthaginians in the First Punic War, or those derived from the Sicilian revolt of Sextus Pompey,Accio it marked the end of an era when it came to fighting at sea. With