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World War 1
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 eventually led to the first outbreak of the First World War. The assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was a member of a Bosnian Serb nationalist group seeking to unite territories under Serbia's control. -
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
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Battle of Verdun
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Battle of the Somme
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Russian Revolution
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The Treaty of Versailles