Gavrilo Princip

Bosnian assassin (1894–1918)

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Lived 1894–1918, aged 24

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1894–1918
Aged 24

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Updated 2026-05-29

Shot the Archduke of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo in 1914, a bullet fired that sparked the diplomatic dominoes leading to World War I. Princip was a Bosnian Serb student whose single act reshaped the 20th century's bloodiest century.

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Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. The assassination set off the July Crisis, a series of events that within one month led to the outbreak of World War I.

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