The Archduke was a representative of a repressive imperial government that refused to listen to the various ethnic groups of the empire. Some people in those ethnic groups decided to take matters into their own hands and through a series of mishaps by both the Archduke and assassins he, and his wife, were shot to death. And the world has been recovering from the fallout of those events for the last 104 years or so.
The Archduke was a representative of a repressive imperial government that refused to listen to the various ethnic groups of the empire. Some people in those ethnic groups decided to take matters into their own hands and through a series of mishaps by both the Archduke and assassins he, and his wife, were shot to death. And the world has been recovering from the fallout of those events for the last 104 years or so.