the first world war broke out as measured by when gavrilo princip was assassinated on 28 july 1914.
the first world war broke out as measured by when gavrilo princip was assassinated on 28 july 1914.
when was the first world war broke out as measured by when gavrilo princip was assassinated?
28 july 1914
prior to 1992 the site on the pavement on which princip stood to fire the fatal shots was marked by embossed footprints. these were torn out during the war in bosnia from 1992-95. 









































as of 2014, there is a plaque at the corner where gavrilo princip stood when he fired the shots, which apolitically states: "from this place on 28 june 1914, gavrilo princip assassinated the heir to the austro-hungarian throne franz ferdinand and his wife sofia."
gavrilo princip
despite petar's opposition, gavrilo princip began attending primary school in 1903, aged nine. he overcame a difficult first year and became very successful in his studies, for which he was awarded a collection of serbian epic poetry by his headmaster. at the age of 13, princip moved to sarajevo, where his elder brother jovan intended to enroll him into an austro-hungarian military school. however, by the time princip reached sarajevo, jovan had changed his mind after a friend advised him not to make gavrilo "an executioner of his own people." princip was enrolled into a merchant school instead. jovan paid for his tuition with the money he earned performing manual labour, carrying logs from the forests surrounding sarajevo to mills within the city. after three years of study, gavrilo transferred to a local gymnasium. in 1910, he came to revere bogdan žerajić, a bosnian serb revolutionary who attempted to assassinate marijan varešanin, the austro-hungarian governor of bosnia and herzegovina, before taking his own life. in 1911, princip joined young bosnia (), a society that wanted to separate bosnia from austria-hungary and unite it with the neighbouring kingdom of serbia. because the local authorities had forbidden students to form organizations and clubs, princip and other members of young bosnia met in secret. during their meetings, they discussed literature, ethics and politics.
gavrilo princip