But anyway, on 28th June 1914, the prince of Austro-Hungary, Ferdinand, with his wife, Sophie, went to visit the annexed territory in Bosnia. They wanted to travel through the newly acquired territory, but soon that cause much suffering to them. Six Bosnian revolutionaries planned to assassinate them.
Around 10 in the morning, a revolutionary named Cabrinovic, threw a bomb near Ferdinand’s car. But the bomb bounced on the car and blew up in a side street. Injuring 20 people. Ferdinand escaped this. The meeting he was headed to was then cancelled because of the shock and tells the Bosnian mayor that They decided to cancel the program and go to the hospital. To meet the injured people.
On the way to the hospital, their car takes a wrong turn mistakenly. When they tried to get back to the correct route, they realized that actually, they were a mere 5 feet away from a revolutionary. A 19-year-old school student, Gavrilo Princip, we talked about him at the beginning of the article.
This was the person to shoot at Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. And so assassinated the prince of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Gavrilo Princip was arrested immediately but he was 2 months short of 20 years and so, according to the law, he couldn’t be given the death sentence. Gavrilo was sentenced to 20 years in jail for this assassination.
