Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo The anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo consisted of large-scale anti-Serb violence in Sarajevo on 28 and 29 June 1914 following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Encouraged by the Austro-Hungarian government, the violent demonstrations assumed the characteristics of a pogrom, leading to ethnic divisions unprecedented in the city's history. Two Serbs were killed on the first day of the demonstrations, and many were attacked, while numerous houses, shops and institutions owned by Serbs were razed or pillaged. In the aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip, anti-Serb sentiment ran high
Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria () (born 25 October 1942 at Schloss Leutstetten in Starnberg, Bavaria, Nazi Germany) was a member of the Tuscan line of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and Archduke and Prince of Austria, Prince of Hungary, Bohemia, and Tuscany by birth. Leopold Franz was the titular Grand Duke of Tuscany from 21 January 1984 to 18 June 1993. Leopold Franz was the third eldest child and only son of Archduke Gottfried of Austria and his wife Princess Dorothea of Bavaria. Leopold Franz married Laetitia de Belzunce d'Arenberg, eldest child and only daughter