Through its purported connections to the June 1914 assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, the Black Hand may have been one of the principal catalysts to the start of World War I, fueling the July Crisis of 1914 and giving Austria-Hungary a pretext to invade Serbia.

It was also in 1914 that Apis decided that Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir-apparent of Austria, should be assassinated.

Gavrilo Princip ( Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип, ; 28 April 1918 ) was the man who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip participated in the assassination in Sarajevo of the Austrian Archduke.

* 1914 – The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.

* 1914 – World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

* 1914 – Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

After Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914, Krupp bought his villa Blühnbach, in Werfen in the Austrian Alps, and which was a former residence of the Archbishops of Salzburg.

On 24 June 1914, just four days before Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo, Pacelli, together with Cardinal Merry del Val, represented the Vatican when the Serbian Concordat was signed.

The conservative lifestyles during the first half of the decade, as well as the legacy of military alliances, was forever changed by the assassination, on June 28, 1914, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

* 28 June 1914 – Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo leads to World War I

* December 18 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria ( d. 1914 )

On 28 June 1914, the assassination of the heir-presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, at the hands of Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, resulted in Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against the Kingdom of Serbia, which was Russia's ally.

The first " adoptee " was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ( b. 1863, not descended from Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d ' Este ), who took the name Austria-Este and in 1896 became the heir presumptive of the Habsburg Empire, but was murdered on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo.

"), an Austria-Hungary | Austrian propaganda caricature, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914, portraying the Serbs as terrorists and anarchists.

On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student and member of Young Bosnia, assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

The tower was used to communicate with an identical radio telegraph station in Eilvese, Germany starting on Jun 19, 1914, less than two weeks before the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

The tower was used to communicate with an identical radio telegraph station in Eilvese, Germany starting on Jun 19, 1914, less than two weeks before the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was wearing a silk bulletproof vest when he was attacked by a gun-wielding assassin.

Charles became heir presumptive to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1914 after the assassination of his uncle Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and acceded to the throne in 1916 after the old emperor's death.

Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, Bethmann Hollweg and Foreign Secretary Gottlieb von Jagow were instrumental in assuring Austria of Germany's unconditional support regardless of Austria's actions against Serbia.

Requiem Mass for Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at the Catholic Church of St. Catherine, Saint Petersburg, 1914.

* 1914 – World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.

The Trial ( Kafka's original German title:, later as and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925.

" General Petrović was then killed too ( Vojislav Tankosić organized the murders of Queen Draga's brothers ; Dimitrijević and Tankosić in 1913 – 1914 figure prominently in the plot to assassinate Franz Ferdinand ).

Rehe im Walde ( Deer in Woods ), 1914, by Franz Marc

image: Fighting_Forms. jpg | Franz Marc, Fighting Forms, 1914.

Dr. Max Ferdinand Perutz, OM, CH, CBE, FRS ( 19 May 1914, Vienna, Austria – 6 February 2002, Cambridge, United Kingdom ) was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins.

Max Ferdinand Perutz was born in Vienna on 19 May 1914.

* Olby, Robert ; ' Perutz, Max Ferdinand ( 1914 – 2002 ), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan 2008

* Ferdinand I of Romania ( 1865 – 1927 ), became king 1914

* Ferdinand I of Romania ( 1865 – 1927, king from 1914 )

* 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany ; Austria declares war on Russia.

But most damaging, the new situation effectively trapped Russian foreign policy: After 1913, Russia could not afford losing its last ally in this crucial area and thus had no alternatives but to unconditionally support Serbia when the crisis between Serbia and Austria broke out in 1914.

* Archduchess Adelheid of Austria ( 1914 – 1971 )

He was the 1, 152nd Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Austria and the 851st Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1914.

In addition to their heavyweight Wagnerian cousins, there was a plethora of baritones with more lyrical voices active in Germany and Austria during the period between the outbreak of WW1 in 1914 and the end of WW2 in 1945.

Constantine rebuffed Kaiser Wilhelm who in 1914 pressed him to bring Greece into the war on the side of Austria and Germany.

The Triple Alliance was the military alliance between Germany, Austria – Hungary, and Italy, ( as opposing the Triple Entente which consisted of an alliance between Britain, France and Russia ), that lasted from 1882 until the start of World War I in 1914.

When Austria – Hungary found themselves at war in August 1914 with the rival Triple Entente ( Britain, France, and the latter's ally, Russia ), Italy pledged to support the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and later the Ottoman Empire ( Turkey ).

Austria invaded twice in 1914 and was turned back.