http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/28/sarajevo-franz-ferdinand-first-world-war?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-1%20Main%20trailblock:Editable%20trailblock%20-%20news:Position4 Sarajevo: city commemorates end to 'a century of conflict', but divisions still run deep Archduke and his wife a few minutes before the assassination The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, did not start the First World war. The war would have taken place sooner or later, even if Princip had not fired the fatal bullets. In fact the assassination may not have taken place at all had the driver taken the correct route and had not been ordered to stop and reverse right opposite to where Princip was standing, following the first failed attempt by the other conspirators earlier that day. Chance hangs on such slender threads. Gavrilo Princip The prime cause of the Great War was the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its determination to attack Se...