On a summer day 100 years ago today, two men crossed paths in Sarajevo. One was stout, middle-aged and powerful; the other undernourished, barely out of his teens and a non-entity. The older man was ...

“Archduke,” the title of Rajiv Joseph’s new play, sounds like the answer to a high school social studies quiz on 20th century European history. As I hope all of you remember, the assassination of ...

This darkly comic and unexpectedly human take rewinds history to reveal the fateful journey of Gavrilo Princip—best remembered as Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassin—and his fellow revolutionaries in ...

The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's throne was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, set off a chain events that led to the ...

You can now get a first look at Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway production of Archduke! Archduke began previews on Thursday, October 23, 2025, and opened officially on Wednesday, November 12 ...

A contemporary painting depicting—rather sensationally—the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie. The events surrounding their deaths have attracted abundant rumor and legend, none ...

Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie Duchess of Hohenberg were assassinated on 28 June 1914 World War One was a tragedy with particularly Austrian roots, sparked by the assassination of the heir to ...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand is best known as the man whose assassination is believed to have led to the outbreak of World War I. But behind that figure lies a story of forbidden love, an obsession with ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A huge, internally flawless diamond from India's fabled Golconda mines was sold at auction in Geneva on Tuesday night for a record 20.355 million Swiss francs ($21.48 million), ...

Metallica didn't take their name from a historical Austrian archduke. But in a bit of proof that the band appeals across generations better than others, some students recently guessed that they did.