Image from Smithsonian Magazine . Illustrated supplement from Le Petit Journal, published in 1914. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. Franz Ferdinand was Archduke and heir apparent of Austria-Hungary, and found himself in conflict with Emperor Franz Joseph I on several occasions. The first major source of tension between Franz and Franz stemmed from Ferdinand's romantic interest in Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess, which was not a relationship that the emperor approved of. Another cause for soreness between the two had political roots; Austria-Hungary was a multiethnic empire, with much conflicts between ethnicities. Archduke Ferdinand attempted several peaceful negotiations, such as amending Austro-Hungarian rule to be a triple monarchy between Germans, Magyars, and Slavs, or the creation of...