Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand during Yugoslav rule, is currently preserved in the Art Gallery of B&H in Sarajevo. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip. Princip was one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak) coordinated by Danilo Ilić, a Bosnian Serb and a member of the Black Hand secret society. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so
SMS Viribus Unitis above the casemates. Three more 7 cm K10 guns were mounted on the upper turrets for anti-aircraft duties. Four submerged torpedo tubes were fitted, one each in the bow, stern and on each broadside; twelve torpedoes were carried. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria travelled aboard "Viribus Unitis" in late June 1914 en route to Bosnia to observe military manoeuvres. On 25 June, he boarded the ship in Trieste Harbour and travelled to the mouth of the Neretva River, where he transferred to another vessel. On 30 June, two days after Ferdinand and his wife were killed by Gavrilo Princip in