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How old was Gavrilo Princip when he shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914?
Princip was 19 — too young under Austro-Hungarian law to receive the death penalty. He was sentenced to 20 years and died of tuberculosis at Terezín on 28 April 1918, aged 23. The First World War followed within weeks.
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The Two Bombs and Six Shots Fired in Sarajevo on the Morning of 28 June 1914 by Six Bosnian Serb Students That Started the First World War Six members of the Young Bosnia movement attempted to assassinate the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on the morning of 28 June 1914. The first attempt — a bomb thrown by Nedeljko Čabrinović — failed. The second — two pistol shots by Gavrilo Princip — killed the Archduke and his wife Sophie. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia within a month. The First World War followed.
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