Even Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination in 1914 triggered the World War I, came to hunt in Nepal invited by Maharajah Bir Shumsher in March 1893.

She was considered for the hand of Archduke Charles of Austria, who was a candidate for the throne of Spain and later became Holy Roman Emperor.

In two years, Europeans will commemorate the centennial of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, and the subsequent July crisis that triggered World War I that August.

The assassination on 28 June 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Young Bosnia organization, led to Austria Hungary declaring war on Serbia.

Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914, Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia under the pretense that Serbia was responsible for the assassination, marking the beginning of the First World War.

In early July 1914, after the murder of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Wilhelm egged on the Austrians, but by the end of the month he couldn t restrain his own subordinates from starting a war, following the dictates of military strategy the famed Schlieffen Plan.

The world s first wave of economic globalization, led by the British Empire in the nineteenth century, came to an end literally with a bang on a Sunday afternoon in 1914, when Gavrilo Princip killed (with two uncannily well aimed bullets) Austria s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.