Gun Used to Kill Archduke Ferdinand

The particular pistol he used is believed to be a 32 caliber. On June 28 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed by an assassin firing a Browning FN Model 1910 effectively starting WWI.

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380 ACP was the handgun used by Gavrilo Princip to assassinateshoot both Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the neck and shot Sophie in the stomach of Austria in Sarajevo on June 28 1914 the act that precipitated the First World War.

. Gavrilo Princip aimed a gun at Franz Ferdinand then accidently hit his wife Sophie before they died GETTY After days of rain Sunday June 28 1914 broke bright in Sarajevo. An FN M1910 serial number 19074 chambered in. Mooseman you are a 22 guy how about a Iver Johnson Cadet 55-A Sirhan Sirhan used to assinate RFK.

It catalysed the political bureaucratic and martial wranglings which saw Europes slow descent into the Great War. Gavrilo Princips assassination of Austria-Hungarys Archduke Franz Ferdinand is perhaps one of historys best known assassinations. Small almost tiny even.

As part of the exhibition at the House of European History it is kept safe behind glass on a plastic stick showing it standing up as one might hold it. The Browning M1910 noted for the fact that it was from it that the terrorist Gavril Princip shot at the Archduke Franz Ferdinand which ultimately became the reason for the First World War. Though the article did not specify the weapon used by the Archduke it.

Live for our children were the last words uttered to his wife by Archduke Ferdinand. An FN M1910 serial number 19074 chambered in 380 ACP was the handgun used by Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 the act that precipitated the First World War. Pistol that sparked First World War goes on display.

Numerous previous sources erroneously cited the FN Model 1900 in 32 calibre as being the weapon Princip used. The suppression on this 1916 uprising sets the course for a century of troubles in Ireland and the UK. Like the Model 1910 that killed Archduke Ferdinand the Model 1911 is available chambered for 380.

The Gun That Killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The particular pistol he used is believed to be a 32 caliber. The Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were shot by Gavrilo Princip using a FN Browning model 1910 pistol.

It catalysed the political bureaucratic and martial wranglings that led to World War I. The Browning pistol that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and sparked the crisis leading to the First World War has been discovered gathering dust. G-43 semi auto rifle converted to use the 792x33mm Kurz and for use of StG-44s magazines.

It is hard to imagine that a bullet from this gun could kill anyone. The gun Princip used to kill Ferdinand an FN-Browning M1910 is therefore one of historys most significant weapons. Princips act gave Austria-Hungary the excuse that it had.

The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand is perhaps the most important single event of the 20th Century the spark that ignited the hellish inferno of the First World War which in turn lead to the Russian Revolution the Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Republic the rise of the Third Reich the Second World War and the Cold War that followed. Final Thoughts Guns have shaped the world in a number of ways from allowing settlers to tame the wild west to be the weapon of. Gavrilo Princips killing of Austria-Hungarys archduke Franz Ferdinand is perhaps one of historys best known assassinations.

Its always nice to talk about the weapon that you at least held in your hands. According to a story published in Aufbau und Friedn a Prague newspaper in July 1865 Archduke Franz Ferdinand once shot 2333 animals in one days hunting. Gavrilo Princip born July 25 July 13 Old Style 1894 Obljaj Bosniadied April 28 1918 Theresienstadt Austria South Slav nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and his consort Sophie Duchess von Hohenberg née Chotek at Sarajevo Bosnia on June 28 1914.

The Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were shot by Gavrilo Princip using a FN Browning model 1910 pistol. I am standing in front of the pistol Gavrilo Princip used to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand 103 years ago. The treaty that ends the war is overly punitive to Germany laying the groundwork for a failed art student who fought in the trenches to take power and plunge the entire world into an even worse war 20 years later.

So I was recently lucky to hold one completely unique pistol in my hands. A pistol used to assassinate the Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparking the First World War. What group conspired to kill.

The gun used to kill the couple a 9mm FN Browning model serial number 19074 and the other items are all on display together in a gallery on the second floor of the museum.

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