Tankosić, however, rejected Princip as being " too small and too weak ".

The immediate origins of the war, however, lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the Crisis of 1914, casus belli for which was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife by Gavrilo Princip, an irredentist Serb.

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.

This set off a chain of events that led to World War I. Princip was a Yugoslav nationalist associated with the movement Mlada Bosna ( Young Bosnia ) which predominantly consisted of Serbs, but also Bosniaks and Croats.

Gavrilo Princip was born in the remote village of Obljaj, south-western Bosnia, at the time part of Austria-Hungary.

In February 1912, Princip took part in protest demonstrations against the Sarajevo authorities, for which he was expelled from school.

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 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo in Austria-Hungary by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist from Bosnia, Austrian subject and member of Young Bosnia, was the reason why this ultimatum was made.

It was there that he produced Das Princip unserer Kirche nach dem innern Verhältniss seiner zwei Seiten betrachtet ( 1841 ).

Image: Gavrilo Princip Cell. JPG | The cell where Gavrilo Princip was kept

That occupation enraged Serbian nationalists and was a catalyst for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by the Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip.

In 1914, Bosnian Serb Black Hand member Gavrilo Princip was responsible the assassination of Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, which set off an international crisis that led to the First World War.

It was not a coincidence that Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Vidovdan, triggering the First World War.

The. 32 ACP was used in the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip, and the pistol, a Browning M1910 ( serial number 19074 ), is on display in the Army Museum of Vienna.

During a Serbian kangaroo court in French-occupied Salonika in 1916-1917, Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis testified that he had organized the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914, ( the assassin was Gavrilo Princip ).

" The political union of the Yugoslavs was my basic idea I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be free from Austria "- Gavrilo Princip during his trial

Several famous bridges span it, including the Latin Bridge close to which the infamous assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria by Gavrilo Princip was performed.

When Dimitrijević heard that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was planning to visit Sarajevo in June 1914, he sent three members of the Young Bosnia group, Gavrilo Princip, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Trifko Grabež and four others from Serbia to assassinate him.

Gavrilo Princip, the main perpetrator of the assassination in Sarajevo of 1914, was born in the village of Obljaj located just east of Bosansko Grahovo.

Princip was a member of Young Bosnia, a group whose aims included the unification of the Yugoslavs and independence from Austria-Hungary.

After the assassination, Princip was captured.

When it was announced that Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austro-Hungarian Empire, was going to visit Bosnia and Herzegovina in June 1914, Dragutin Dimitrijevic, the chief of the Intelligence Department in the Serbian Army and head of the Black Hand, sent three men, Grabež, Nedeljko Čabrinović and Gavrilo Princip to Sarajevo to assassinate him.

For this picture people are thinking that is Gavrilo Princip ( second from right ) being arrested by police.

The 28 June 1914 assassination of Austrian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia and one of seven assassins, served as a pretext for the Austrian declaration of war on Serbia on 28 July 1914, marking the beginning of World War I, despite Serbia's acceptance three days earlier of nearly all of Austria-Hungary's demands.

An error by his driver took them past Gavrilo Princip, who wasted no time in shooting Ferdinand and his wife.

In the event that triggered the World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.

The bullet that killed him, fired by Gavrilo Princip, is now an exhibit at the castle's museum.

On Sunday, 28 June 1914, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip.

Princip and Nedeljko Čabrinović were captured and interrogated by the police.

Princip and Nedjelko Cabrinovic were interrogated by the police.

On Sunday, 28 June, 1914, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie von Chotkow were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip.

Princip and Nedeljko Čabrinović were captured and interrogated by the police.

Later that day the Archduke and his wife were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip.

Princip and Nedeljko Čabrinović were captured and interrogated by the police.

On Sunday, 28 June 1914, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie von Chotek were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip.

Princip and Nedjelko Čabrinović were captured and interrogated by the police.

On Sunday, June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie von Chotkova were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip.

Princip and Nedjelko Cabrinovic were captured and interrogated by the police.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip in June 1914 set off a chain of events such as the Austrian July Ultimatum to Serbia, the subsequent Austro-Hungarian declaration of war on Serbia and the eventual outbreak of World War I.

An Appendix to the main text listed various details from " the crime investigation undertaken at court in Sarajevo against Gavrilo Princip and his comrades on account of the assassination ", which allegedly demonstrated the culpability and assistance provided to the conspirators by various Serbian officials.

Princip planned to join the komite, an irregular Serbian guerrilla forces committee of the secret society Unification or Death ( Ujedinjenje ili Smrt ), known as Black Hand.