Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria mb-code 42-27077513 Two studies of birds' nests

Two studies of birds' nests

With right ascension

Loughborough House

14th May 1971

18th century (1885)

Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria mb-code 42-27077513 Two studies of birds' nestsEmperor Franz Josef I of Austria, 23 July 1914. Acting on the advice of his foreign minister, Leopold von Berchtold, Franz Josef I (1830 1916) issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Franz Josef's nephew and heir, in Sarajevo. The ultimatum was rejected as unacceptable by the Serbs, prompting Austria to declare war and setting in motion a chain of events that would plunge Europe into the First World War