Gavrilo Princip

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Born in Obljaj, Bosnia on July 25, 1894 (or 1895), Gavrilo Princip was the Bosnian Serb nationalist whose assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Countess Sophie in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, precipitated the Austrian action against Serbia which triggered World War I.

Princip was a member of the pro-Serbian group "Young Bosnia" (Mlada Bosna), advocates of Bosnia's unification with Serbia. The group was equipped with pistols and bombs supplied by the Black Hand, a secret society with links to Serbian military, government and royal circles. Austrian demands for power to investigate the conspiracy within Serbia led to the outbreak of war on July 28, 1914. Having been too young at the time of the assassination to face the death penalty, Princip received the maximum sentence of twenty years in prison, where he was held in unsanitary conditions exacerbated by wartime hardship, and died of tuberculosis of the bone on April 28, 1918.

See also: List of assassins

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