Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria mb-code 42-27077513 With right ascension

With right ascension

the Oxfordshire village where he had settled

by Samuel Felton

Two studies of birds' nests

14th May 1971

Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria mb-code 42-27077513 With right ascensionEmperor 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