1906: The first event started 8 years before the the actual start of the First World War! It was the launch of the HMS Dreadnought a new naval ship which made every other ship in the world obsolete. Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II wanted to equal the new ship and make more starting a naval race. They were eager to face off and see whos navy was stronger.
1908: Austria- Hungary took some land from the Ottoman Empire and made a new country Bosnia and Herzegovina which angered the empire of Serbia forming a hate between the two countries , this spiraled into 2 mini-wars the first Balkans war and the second Balkans war which shrunk the Ottoman Empire.
28 June 1914,: Archduke Franz Ferdinand the heir to the Austria- Hungary throne and his wife Sophie visited the Bosnian and Herzegovinian capital of Sarajevo they drove to the capital.
10:28 am: A group of six assassins with weapons from the Serbian gang Black hand planned to kill him the first assassin threw a grenade at the car and hit the car behind Franz.
10:40 am - 10:45 am: The Couple wanted to see the people that the grenade actually hit in hospital but the driver took a wrong turn and stopped to reverse Gavrilo Princip (the last assassin) ran in front of the car and shot the Archduke and his wife with a pistol he was treated as a criminal in Bosnia and Herzegovina but in Serbia he was a hero.
28 July 1914: Austria- Hungary and Germany declared war on Serbia, See that Germany declared war Britain declared war as well as France and Russia.
There you have it a quick History of the lead-up to World War One!.
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