Crowds stand around immediately after anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo in 1914. (Wikimedia Commons) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

July 27-28, 1914: Austria-Hungary Declares War on Serbia In the final week of July 1914, after a decade of confrontation and near misses, mounting tensions between the two main European alliance blocs ...

Often viewed as the "spark" that ignited the First World War, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on June 28, 1914. As one of the very first ...

(CNN) — Here’s some background information about World War I, also known as the First World War and the Great War, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of ...

Cardinal Vinko Puljic, president of the bishops’ conference of Bosnia-Herzegovina, holds a relic and picture of Emperor Charles I of Austria during a March 8 assembly in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about books, economics, foreign policy, and history. After the Great War had ended, an Austrian diplomat and a German ...

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