Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Archduchess Sophie of Austria ... Over 800,000 British soldiers died during World War One. There is no one clear reason as to why the war began and no one clear ...

Following the 1914 assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip, the nations of Europe slid into World War I. On August 1, 1914, Germany joined the ...

BBC Documentaries marking the centenary of World War ... the road to war in 1914, broadcast every day between the anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand through to the ...

World War I, also known as the Great War, started in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted until 1918.

BBC drama programming to mark the centenary of World War One ... the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914, to the declaration of war between Britain and Germany on ...

The warring parties in first world war signed no fewer than ... five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that sparked the war, this treaty designated Germany responsible ...