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July Crisis: Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
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July Crisis
1914 events leading to World War I
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Austria-Hungary
1867–1918 empire in Central Europe
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Ultimatum of July 23, 1914
Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia issued in the buildup to World War I
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Country in Southeast Europe (1882–1918)
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
1914 murder in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Heir presumptive of Austria-Hungary (1863–1914)
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July 28
Day of the year
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