Causes of World War I corrective." British Diplomat Arthur Nicolson wrote in May 1914, “Since I have been at the Foreign Office I have not seen such calm waters.” On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead, by two gun shots in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, 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 assassination is significant because it was perceived by Austria-Hungary as an existential challenge
Milena Mrazović and articles for European newspapers, covering important events such as the Annexation Crisis, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and the trial of Gavrilo Princip. Mrazović was keenly interested in ethnography. She was one of the founders of the National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1888 and its regular benefactor. In 1889, Mrazović became the first woman to be accepted into the Anthropological Society in Vienna. In February 1896, at the invitation of the Ethnographic Society, she gave the first lecture about Bosnia-Herzegovina in Vienna. As a travel writer, Mrazović presented Bosnia-Herzegovina to the German-speaking world. Accompanied by the painter Augusta