He was ordered (by his uncle, Emperor Franz Josef) to attend military drills that were held that summer in Bosnia. After the drills completed, he and his wife decided to go on a tour of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia.
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Archduke Ferdinand was ordered to Bosnia by the Emperor to inspect their military there. After his inspection he traveled to Sarajevo with his wife to open the new state museum.
Franz Ferdinand traveled to Sarajevo to check the navy and to see whether they were coping or not.
the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.
Franz Ferdinand is famous because of the fact that his assassination triggered the beginning of the First World War. Franz Ferdinand was a heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary and he was assassinated in Sarajevo in the year 1914.
In Sarajevo, then in Serbia, now capital of Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand June 28th, 1914, in Sarajevo, resulted in Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia, eventually culminating in WWI.
The assasination of Austrian Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo by the Serbs.