Interestingly, which I had never heard before (or if I had I hadn't understood the significance), the good Archduke was visiting the Balkans on the anniversary of the Serbian defeat in the Battle of Kosovo (1389). It is THE Serbian national holiday, the day they celebrate being Serbian, equivalent to the US's July 4th or Mexico's May 5. Touring Bosnia to promote Greater Austria-Hungary on that day was either a deliberate provocation, or an act of political stupidity unequalled before or since. I hate to say anybody deserves to be shot. But this guy came close.

Alex