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
Coffee culture in former Yugoslavia time prevented from kafanas by a strong social prohibition. In the 1900s, young Serbian nationalists in Belgrade met in the city's kafanas where they openly discussed hatred for Austro-Hungary, and desire for Yugoslavism. Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, visited those kafanas in 1912. The "Crni konj" ("Black horse") café in Varoš-kapija quarter was a meeting place for Ottoman Serb refugees and "pečalbari" (seasonal workers). In the late 1970s, a new type of drinking establishment first appeared in Yugoslavia: the "caffe bar" or colloquially "kafić". These bars normally serve espresso instead of Turkish coffee, tea and soft drinks,