The assassin who sparked World War I

Gavrilo Princip

A Bosnian Serb nationalist and student active in Austro-Hungarian-ruled Bosnia. He joined "Young Bosnia" (Mlada Bosna), which aimed for the unification of South Slavic peoples and liberation from Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and participated in an assassination plot linked to the Serbian secret society "Black Hand." On June 28, 1914, he shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo. Known as the Sarajevo Incident, this assassination triggered the July Crisis and served as one of the direct catalysts leading to World War I following Austria-Hungary's declaration of war on Serbia. After his arrest, he escaped the death penalty due to his minor status at the time and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Imprisoned at the Theresienstadt fortress, he contracted tuberculosis and died in prison in 1918 at the age of 23.

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Year	Gavrilo Princip
1879	Birth (Age: 15 years before birth, Period: July 25, 1894, Location: Obljaj (present-day Bosansko Grahovo municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina))
1894	Birth of Gavrilo Princip (Period: July 25, 1894 (July 13 in the Julian calendar), Location: Bosansko Grahovo (present-day Obljaj village, Bosansko Grahovo municipality, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina))
1903	Beginning of Primary Education (Age: 8 years old, Period: Around 1903, Location: Around Obljaj (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina))
1907	Relocation and Schooling in Sarajevo (Gavrilo Princip, Age: 12 years old, Period: Around 1907–1912, Location: Sarajevo (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina))
1911	Joining Young Bosnia (Age: 16 years old, Period: Around 1911, Location: Sarajevo (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina))
1912	First Balkan War (Age: 17 years old, Period: 1912–1913, Location: Balkan Peninsula, especially the theater between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire) Anti-Austrian Movement in Sarajevo (Age: 17 years old, Period: Around 1912–1913, Location: Sarajevo (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)) Relocation to Belgrade (Age: 17 years old, Period: Around 1912, Location: Belgrade (present-day Serbia)) Volunteering for the First Balkan War (Age: 17 years old, Period: 1912–1913, Location: Southern Serbia, etc.)
1913	Intensification of Anti-Austrian Repression (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1913, Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina)
1914	World War I (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Europe, Middle East, and Africa) Participation in the Assassination Plot (Age: 19 years old, Period: Early 1914 – June, Location: Belgrade, Sarajevo, etc.) Assassination Plot against Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Age: 19 years old, Period: June 1914, Location: Sarajevo (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)) The Sarajevo Incident (Age: 19 years old, Period: June 28, 1914, Location: Sarajevo (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)) Sarajevo Incident (Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Age: 19 years old, Period: June 28, 1914, Location: Sarajevo (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)) Arrest of Princip (Age: 19 years old, Period: June 28, 1914, Location: Sarajevo (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)) Trial of Princip (Age: 20 years old, Period: October 12 – October 28, 1914, Location: Sarajevo (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)) Imprisonment in Theresienstadt Fortress (Age: 20 years old, Period: December 1914 – 1918, Location: Theresienstadt (present-day Czech Republic))
1918	Death of Gavrilo Princip (Age: 23 years old, Period: April 28, 1918) Death in Prison (Age: 23 years old, Period: April 28, 1918, Location: Theresienstadt (present-day Czech Republic))
Unknown	Marriage (Gavrilo Princip, None, Period: N/A, Location: N/A)

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German Leader	Friedrich III Wilhelm II Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg Georg Michaelis Georg von Hertling Max von Baden
Emperors of Austria-Hungary	Franz Joseph I Charles I Archduke Franz Ferdinand Archduke Friedrich Archduke Eugen Zita of Bourbon-Parma
The Sarajevo Incident	Archduke Franz Ferdinand Sophie Chotek Gavrilo Princip Nedeljko Čabrinović Danilo Ilić Leopold Berchtold
Science and Medicine	Albert Einstein Max Planck Sigmund Freud Erwin Schrödinger Lise Meitner Paul Ehrlich

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