Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 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 they could be combined into a Yugoslavia. The assassins' motives were consistent with the
This Grave Is Too Small for Me This Grave Is Too Small for Me This Grave Is Too Small for Me (Serbian: Mali mi je ovaj grob, alternatively given translations such as This Tomb Is Too Small) is a dramatic stage production, written by Serbian playwright Biljana Srbljanović, that focuses on assassin Gavrilo Princip and his associates in the weeks leading up to Princip's murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. The assassination played a major role in world events and moved things towards the breakout of World War I. As a historically-based work adapting the controversial period, moral conflicts and other character-driven issues are explored although