Franz Ferdinand
Sarajevo assassination victim
Franz Ferdinand refers most often to Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 triggered World War I.
The event is a standard reference point in discussions of how small sparks ignite large conflicts: It was their Franz Ferdinand moment.
Franz Ferdinand is also a Scottish rock band formed in 2002, known for the hit "Take Me Out."
- assassinationMurder of a prominent figure
- SarajevoBosnia's chief city
- World War IFirst global military conflict
- indie rockSelf-released alternative music genre
- Take Me OutRequest for an outing
Sophie · militarism · guitar riffs · heir apparent · Glasgow · Treaty of Versailles · nationalism · Central Powers · Austro-Hungarian Empire · powder keg · chain of events · Allied Powers · Scotland · trench warfare · archduke · League of Nations · Serbia · imperialism
- WWI FiguresKaiser Wilhelm II, Woodrow Wilson, Tsar Nicholas II, King George V, Winston Churchill
- archdukesMaximilian, Rudolf, Karl, Johann, Otto
- WWItrenches, no man's land, no mans land, trench warfare, armistice
- 2000s MusicBeyonce, Britney Spears, Eminem, Justin Timberlake, Usher
- Alt-RockNirvana, Radiohead, R.E.M., The Cure, Pixies
- Austria-HungaryAustro-Hungarian Empire, Austria-Hungary, Habsburgs, Habsburg, Austrian Empire
Franz FerdinandWoodrow Wilson
Twenty-eighth American president
Mahatma Gandhi · peacemakers · Nelson Mandela · Dag Hammarskjöld · Desmond Tutu
Franz Ferdinandassassin
Paid murderer of targets
Lee Harvey Oswald · John Wilkes Booth · murderer · triggerman