Scientists have coined a term called the Butterfly Effect, where a small change in one thing can lead to enormous changes in systems later on.

Nothing in history exemplifies this more than the series of unfortunate coincidences that occurred on June 28,

1914 in Sarajevo. The repercussions of those events can still be felt around the world today.

Learn more about the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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To understand the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand we need to

understand what was happening in Europe in 1914.

Franz Ferdinand was the heir presumptive of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, under then Emperor Franz

Joseph. He was a very unlikely heir to the throne as it required

both the suicide of his cousin Prince Rudolph and the death of his father to

typhoid fever. He was a particularly well-traveled person having circumnavigated the world in 1898,

and spent time in Australia and the Pacific. He was also one of the wealthiest people in Europe,

having been named the heir of the Duke of Modena in Italy.

Europe at the time was dominated by a few large countries,

and in particular in Eastern Europe,

the Austro-Hungarian Empire dominated a huge part of the map.

Serbia and Montenegro were independent,

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