Explain the events that led to the shot heard round the world?

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Raegan Hurley

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15 April, 20:54

Explain the events that led to the shot heard round the world?

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Elle Munoz · Answer 1

In June 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie traveled to Bosnia for a state visit. they were shot by an assassin who wanted their rule on his country to end.

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Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb member of Young Bosnia who sought an end to Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina he committed the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, an event considered to be one of the immediate causes of World War I.