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Hey Simon, when you get a chance, I think you should do a biographic on either Casanova or Warder Cresson (Cresson was a Quaker who was made first consul to Israel for America, converted to Judaism and faced a lot of crap for it).
This absolutely could have been avoided. The real villains were Berchtold and Sazanov. Austria did not not need to send an ultimatum to Serbia or wait a month before they did. The Russian mobilization is what sent the wheels in motion, diverting the would-be localized Balkan war to a European-wide war.
@@twincities867 looking from a historical perspective, princip was self educated and was very smart. The issue for him is he didn't understand the regional politics of his time. He was easily swayed. The man he killed was the one man he would never have killed. Ferdinand didn't want war. He was the sole person against it. There are 2 alternative timelines I am curios about, 1. A timeline where princip had access to real information about Ferdinand as a person and his views against war 2. A timeline where Princip survives the war and is liberated. Would be interesting to see if he would have been able to truly start a state for his people and unite them under 1 banner or if he would have seen what the western powers, particularly the United States influence on the region, and align his people under the western flag. Being so central in Europe, i wonder how ONE MAN'S survival would have influenced World War 2
chaos... But to be fair, it is like domino's. Some idiot put all the stones in such a way it all falls down by a minor action. Small actions can have big consequences because of the networks we create. WWI was basically a few families fighting and using everything they owned to win. It ended a lot of monarchies...
Without a doubt this guy has to be one of the most influential people in history. When you think about it he's responsible for WW2, the decolonization of the empires and the modern history of the world today all because of what he had one. Created a butterfly effect
@@foxfire1112while he's not directly responsible for those event, he still the one that push the first domino that pretty much change our world forever
@@bunnitomoe3866 Saying someone is responsible is implying they need to be held responsible. You're not going to blame him for anything that happened outside of this event
@@foxfire1112idiot he directly started ww1 that caused empires to collapse and indirectly caused Hitler to come to power and start ww2 regardless he he flop his wings and caused a butterfly affect
Remember parents...topics to talk to teens about: drugs, bad...sex, though fun unprotected sex, bad...racism, bad...porn addiction, bad...video game play over 12 hours a day, bad...education much needed, college debt, bad...living at home after 19, bad...unemployment, bad...not knowing your date of birth, bad, well until you assassinate a leader...starting World Wars, very very bad, unless your side wins then you will get a memorial maybe even a statue. Got it mom and dad?
He looked so depressed in the photo… when you don’t take care of your people, they end up taking “care” of you… power tends to look down on the poor, and forget they are humans and the will of a human being has proven in history to be hablle of doing amazing things… good and bad. Never forget the human dignity of a fellow human. Cause… Karma is a b…..
The war might have been inevitable, but combined with the time it happened, with the way it happened, with the aftermath, along with how dramatically different the world would have looked, makes Princip possibly the most important man in modern history.
Not sure the word important is the right descriptor for an assassin of a National leader. Has that commie feel to it, like how he also precipitated the start of the USSR.
@@josephdozier5592 WW1 has many outcome which is good but unlike Germany and Japan they boost themselves for nationalism to start another World War. Many Empires fall and leads to making a bright light of independence for countries under colonialism also the market competition already started on that time that boost U.S economy on.
Yes. But so are our day to day actions. Some intentional, some not. The pen lost on the bus ride back from the library found it's way to a poet who comforted many with her words, written on a napkin lest she lose a single jewel. The dog kicked in anger, who turned against humans, and killed a toddler for saying "Here doggy, doggy." deprived us of a 22nd century cure for all cancers. The old couple a driver swerved to avoid in the intersection, who goes on to endow a new wing to the hospital where woman from Sierra Leon gives birth to the 57th President of these United States. Yes, the law of unintended consequences is always at play in the affairs of men. If we think the tangled trail Covid leaves in those who come in contact with it is complicated and devious, everyday words and actions have their own simi-life that changes the story of us forever.
@@fabriciamichalsky6779 so u rly think an Austrian royal family member being asassinated (by a terrorist) is enough of an excuse for Germany to immediately invade neutral Russia, France, Belgium and Luxembourg?
The irony was that Franz Ferdinand had been keeping the Czar and Kaiser speaking to each other, he was tireless in his attempts to keep the peace. His death not only sparked the war it took out the one senior member of the European elite who realised the catastrophic consequences of a European war.
He should have not visited Sarajevo, because there was high chance of him getting killed and so he got killed, because Serbians hated Austrian empire and so wanted to kill their ruler, so if Franz had never visited Sarajevo. History would have been diffrent.
@@deceiver123m there's logic behind what you say yet also very cold and even psychopathic thinking.But it's good to know there are pll like that in this world to always be ready for whenever they plan on harm your loved ones to have no mercy on them,to say the most politely as I can.
Linguistically "great" is related to the word "gros" both mean "big". "greater manchester" = "the larger area surrounding manchester" i.e greater = bigger
It’s crazy to think just how much.. the butterfly effect is such that the world was so changed none of us would have ever been born. The course of history would have been so different there’s no way our grandparents and parents would have been conceiving the next generations in the exact same time and place for any of us to exist at all
In regards to the ending, I'm reminded of a quote that Otto von Bismarck once said. "Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal … A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all … I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you where … Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off." He was unfortunately right. It wasn't a matter of if WWI would start, but when.
@@scottydu81 wdym, it was obvious that war was inevitable for a long time. Increasing tension between nations on political and economic fronts, militirisation and formation of groups/allies, Balkan wars, question of who will control east Europe resulting in turkey vs Russia, pan slavism vs young turk movement going on, William II's agressive contentalism policy... All of these things were going on it was obvious war was inevitable. It just needed a spark which was provided by the assassination. So bismark there was right so don't underestimate IQ and prediction of a guy who United Germany at a time when it seemed impossible.
Tensions seem to be similar nowadays. Tbh ever since Covid19 was leaked from the lab, tensions have been high for China, now with Russia invading Ukraine, further hightens tensions. I feel WW3 is itching close, I wonder where that line will be crossed and ignited
Princip badgered officers to let him join the Serbian Army but they had to reject him as too frail, sickly. This so humiliated him that he vowed to do something independently. Then came terrorist training where he excelled.
@@KorpusV6 Yes, starting a war that killed 20 million people which then also laid the groundwork for another war that killed 80 million people is so positive. Princip has more deaths on his hands than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined.
@@Neat_profile his actions started the modern world. The fall of monarchies, improvement in science/technology, rise of communism, US becoming a superpower. There's a lot of change which happened, lots positive and lots negative
@@mikeoneil5770 In this 'modern' world, there will be no ties to land and people, only fleeting allegiances to branded consumables. Nothing worth fighting for, nothing worth living for, nothing worth dying for
@@mikeoneil5770 His name will forever be uttered and written in history, learned about and intow became a piece that changed the world forever. This guy will die a nobody cos he drunk at parties, who cares.
When people talk of grand conspiracies as the only way that world shattering events come to pass, I’m reminded of this: a young, penniless teenager and a few friends, fed up with Imperial oppression, armed with a couple of guns and homemade bombs, changed the entire world. Two shots from the gun of a 19 year old, fundamentally changed everything. And THAT is both powerful, and terrifying.
Gavrilo was literally part of a secret society that conspired against the archduke in an effort to create a South Slavic state. If anything it literally proves that grand conspiracies are not far-fetched.
We all try to throw a stone into the centre of a pond. Will it hit near the edge and cause short ripples in the wrong direction? Or will it hit the centre with just the right energy and angle, sending out ripples that are felt and altered through out the entire pond? And how can we tell the difference? Only time and effort knows.
An old Balkan tale: One day a farmer was in his field working when a Samodiva (water fairy) greets him and says 'I will grant you one wish, but know that whatever you wish for I'll give double to your neighbours' The farmer thinks about this and says 'take one of my eyes.'
Polish version: Some fisherman cough a golden fish. - Release me, then I will grant you two wishes and double that for your neighbour said fish. - Ok. I want a beatyful and good in bad women and remove me one testicle.
I have a friend whose parents met during the Bosnian Civil War (I was never told whose side they ended up on, but they're genuinely good people). Her dad took a couple rounds and some shrapnel and her mom happened to be working at the medical station he ended up at. She took the metal out, they eventually got married and moved to the US, been together ever since.
@@TucsonHat Thank you. From a victim of that genocide/ethnic cleansing. Btw I very much enjoyed the story of your friend's parents finding happiness in such an unexpected place/time. Hugs!! 🤘💙
@@A_Ducky Im glad you survived it, I couldn't begin to imagine the hardship of having to experience that. Despite what my friends parents had to live though, they're incredibly sweet and welcoming people. They give me some hope for the future, they met in a warzone and are now happily married in the States with a daughter who just became a doctor! 🙂✌️💚
The accidental most important dude of the 20th century. 2 world wars and untold carnage can be traced back to him being in the "right place at the right time"
fun facts , here in sarajevo there used to be a mark of gavrilos footprints from where he shot Franc Ferdinant however they moved the block with the footprints inside of the museum...I walk past that place many times a day
When taught this in school in America, 2015, they told us they were young and almost failed and princip got lucky. Didn't tell us they were smart, just young rebels. Thanks for sharing more information than literal school does
@@xxxxxJAYMILLZxxxxxxx well also remember that the US is the US so it makes sense that they would prioritize their own history with lots of details and quickly gloss over the history of others, and every nation does this Meaning if you want better detailed accounts of history you'll have to look elsewhere that what is the bare minimum of mandatory schooling, typically higher education such as college or university
Actually, they did almost fail. Two bombs were thrown that failed to kill the Archduke and Countess before the third was aborted. The young insurgents fled their separate ways to avoid getting caught. Gavrilo Princip went to a cafe to have lunch when the royals passed. He ran out there and killed them both. Yes, he was lucky. Many Americans and Westerners in general believe this was a sinister plot by "evil Serbia" to destabilize the region so they can dominate it through war. That's what a Western education teaches.
It's technically correct. If you distill it down to the basics of the situation that day it was all luck that Princip would be the one to actually kill Ferdinand. Let's just be glad the US Education system got the names and date right at least.
Since history is written by the victors, he was written off as a petty "nationalist"....What you should have learned, is that him and his co-conspirators were terrorists, who were trained by the Al-Qaeda of the Balkans at the time, which was the Black Hand. Serbia was a state sponsor of terrorism, and Hitler should have blamed Serbia for WW1, instead of the Jews.
@@r.i.pnicemusic "Can you imagine the trial? Judge: Mr. Princip, where are you born? Gavrilo: in Vukojebina " Vukojebina means secluded place far away from civilization. Those places are common in Blakans where people live in mountains a far away forests.
I think we all can now agree that the person who really was responsible for WW1 and all of it's impacts on the world is the person who yelled "Hey, your'e going the wrong way!" to Franz Ferdinand's driver
They weren't "revolvers" that went missing. The assassins were not armed with revolvers. They were Browning designed FN 1910 .380 (9x17mm) pistols. All four have been accounted for and are in collections of museums or private collections. Princip used pistol, serial number 19074, to kill the Archduke. Yet, for some reason, the guns used have often been misidentified as "revolvers" or the Browning designed FN 1900 pistol. While all the time, all four pistols had been recovered, all were FN Model 1910 .380s. Go figure. The pistol is on display at the military museum in Vienna, Austria. Along with the car Ferdinand was riding in when he was assassinated.
I had the chance to be locked up for 2 minutes in Princip's cell in the Terezín fortress. There was no light coming in. I wouldnt want to spend there a day, let alone 4 years.
@@ibrahimabubakar5 Small room with no light source, heavy steel doors and no sound coming in. Really isolated place. I remember The tour guide asking me for assistance and then shoving me inside and locking the doors. Thank god i dont have claustrofobia.
@@ibrahimabubakar5 I think its a bit more complicated than just labeling him. But judging by the video, he was misguided and radicalized and couldnt have possibly known how big the consequences were going to be.
Simon... I'm from Croatia and hearing you say Vukojebina and giving a description about what that means made me scream laugh for hours. Thank you so much 😂😂😂
Fantastic. In my (HS) senior history class, we were asked to write a final paper on a single topic: The most influential person of the 20th century (this was 1980). Most of my classmates chose Churchill, Hitler, FDR, or MLK. I chose Princip. As I recall, I earned an A-, but my biggest regret was not saving the paper. I think I tossed it after graduation. LOL. Thanks, Simon, for "taking me back" to my youth!
I’ve now watched about 10 of your videos, and I just have to tell you how superb the writing and delivery is! This is one of the best channels I’ve run across on RU-vid! I’m going to definitely tell my family and friends about you!! Well done and thank you for teaching me more about some of the most interesting individuals in history!!
He did not start the ww1. He merely put things in motion that will lead to the ww1. It was austria that started the war with the declaration of the war.
@@slimdiddyd i still disagree... Hötzendorf was actively looking for a war with serbia, so the war was inevitable. Princip did accelerate the start of the war, but it was militaristic and openly hostile austria that wanted and started the war.
@@gordanpocuc6458 All major powers were culpable for WW1 , you have to remember their was basically a mini Cold War between the European powers leading up to WW1 . In which both sides were becoming more militaristic and aggressive.
Awesome video. Thank you for telling the story of how a murder of two people, changed the course of the human race. Both of my grandfathers fought for the Kaiser in "The Great War". Both survived. One past away just after I was born and the other was cut down in his prime of life at age 92 - consuming daily doses of whiskey amd cigarettes. In his 70s, he started telling me stories of WW1, a change of heart as he never spoke of it before. Not ever. Horrible stuff - really many levels beyond comprehension for those who never had to fight in war. Oddly, some of the very scenes depicted in the movie, "1917", he told me about in the 1960s. He was one of the ones playing "football" (soccer) with the enemy during the Christmas Truce in 1914. Rest in peace Grandpa. You were one serious tough guy. I miss you.
@@annescholey6546 People only listened to the guy saying nein, nein, nein because there already was tension building up. Most of Europe could have done better post-WW1, each country involved was responsible for WW2.
He wasn't the cause, he was simply the catalyst. The samurai rebellion that ended in the death of 500 samurai and their culture was not caused by general Saigo or his students but rather the tension brought about by their unwillingness to modernize.
The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was not the reason for the start of WW1. In fact, nobody really cared about him becoming the next emperor. The emperor Franz Joseph didn't like him, nor did he consider Franz as a good successor for the throne. Even the people didn't care about him. In the day after, his death wasn't even front news in the papers. But his death was the perfect excuse, that Austrian Field Marshall Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, needed to invade Serbia. In the last couple of years, Hötzendorf had made dozens of request for emperor Franz Joseph to allow the invasion of Serbia. But the emperor always said no. The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was the perfect excuse to demonize and justified a war with Serbia. And it worked.
Actually, even with that excuse, Franz Joseph was reluctant to go to war, but the Kaiser, wanting a "place in the sun" for Germany, egged him on, promising to support him.
Legend tells that shortly before his death in prison, Princip inscribed a warning on the walls of his cell: “Our shadows will walk through Vienna, wander the court, frighten the lords.”
@@lepredator1789 you say that just cause he's Serbian. Their ideology was to start war anyway, he tried to kill Franc Ferdinand and his wife to stop their ideology, but anyway they declared war. If Gavrilo didn't kill them, Englishman would.
As a Croat I’ll tell you about vukojebina so we use that jame for any place that is extremely remote populated or not for example in the USA you could say the deserts of texas are one big ole vukojebina
As a Croat I’ll tell you about vukojebina so we use that jame for any place that is extremely remote populated or not for example in the USA you could say the deserts of texas are one big ole vukojebina
1:30 - Chapter 1 - In the vujojebina 3:30 - Chapter 2 - A history of violence 6:20 - Chapter 3 - Crisis years 9:50 - Mid roll ads 10:55 - Chapter 4 - Belgrade blues 13:40 - Chapter 5 - The dominoes fall 17:05 - Chapter 6 - Death in sarajevo 20:55 - Chapter 7 - Death of the old world
I'm not going to lie: this is one of the very best ever done on BioGraphics. It is very hard to separate everything that followed from the events (not just a single event) which precipitated it. Excellent job.
@F**k KKKonservatives! The first two World Wars, the Cold War even 9/11 and anime for that matter. All because of one butterfly effect that brought empires to their ruin. If WW1 started differently sooner or later then there might have still be monarchies in Eastern Europe today....and colonies in some cases. We have this man to thank and loathe since we might not even have this conversation here if it wasn't for his actions...as thoroughly destructive in hindsight as they were. Yugoslavia, which was his Slavic dream, even became true. So I'm not exaggerating when I say that with two bullets he had changed everything and gave AH the perfect excuse to declare war on Serbia. And the rest is history. Sure some events might have happened differently (& some even independently from his actions) with him out of the picture but that timeline would've been night and day to ours. Small deed, big impact.
On the wall of the cell where he died, Princip wrote: "Our shadows will walk around Vienna. Wander around the court, they will frighten the lords..." „Наше ће сјене ходати по Бечу. Лутати по двору, плашити господу...”
@joss vicitoli Lol he is not even a serial killer, double homicide is not a mass murder. Your logic says that if I slap you and you cousin kills me and my family after I am a killer and suicidal maniac...
@joss vicitoli That is so wrong that I find it amusing you think that. But on a serious note I am very interested in your sources because I have never encountered such claims. Especially that Croats were a majority in Bosnia, I never knew there were so many Muslim and Orthodox Croats... You live, you learn... :D
@joss vicitoli And all that was happening in the 19th and 20th century? Or you just skipped couple of centuries to say something that has noting to do with what you said earlier?
@Libby Berman because if you are writing to someone at work, that is a proffessional enviroment i.e when you need to present yourself a certain way, unlike youtube which is a casual setting
People can't understand one thing. Such complex things must be viewed from several directions of time and opportunity in Bosnia. As a Bosnian Serb, whose ancestors lived here for thousands of years, I know the details of the genocidal acts of the Austro-Hungarians in Bosnia. Many of them ended up in Austro-Hungarian death camps. The assassination in Sarajevo was a drop in the ice,the whole tense situation in Europe. To understand its origins, they would have to live here in the Balkans at the time. When asked at the trial in the fall of 1914 why he killed the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, Gavrilo Princip answered: "The people suffer because they are completely orphans, because they consider them cattle ... I am a village son to take revenge and I am not sorry." is a turning point in what will happen. Princip's close friend Borivoje Jevtic told future historians that "when it comes to research and research of what is in us", the economic and political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina must be understood. Just a few hundred kilometers from Vienna, where modern European culture flourishes, where Gustav Klimt and Sigmund Freud created, the Austro-Hungarian political elite in Bosnia and Herzegovina maintains a feudal serf system. The Bosnian serf, like his father Gavril Princip, paid taxes to the emperor, taxes to the spahis, and was forced to pay the Austro-Hungarian administration. Although this period of European history is known as the Belle Epoque, it was not like that for many. Despite the fact that Bosnia and Herzegovina, where Gavrilo Princip grew up, has ten times more gendarmerie stations than schools, Austria-Hungary presented its government and administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina as "civilization missions". Senior Viennese officials said they were bringing "European culture" and "European values" to areas previously cut off from civilization and culture. "The Austro-Hungarian monarchy is not a 'European missionary' in Bosnia and Herzegovina," but a conqueror and kidnapper. Young Bosnians were aware that the mission of civilization was a cover for undemocratic government. . The Habsburg monarchy boasted of the magnificent facades of the Sarajevo City Hall, but the Young Bosnians noticed that no one was talking about the hundreds of police stations behind the City Hall. The occupier came to "exploit and peel, not raise." The people of Young Bosnia wrote that the occupier also brought "an army of hungry and unscrupulous officials" to divide the state with his colonists, and "tear the locals apart". Borivoje Jevtić pointed out that the assassins came from the ranks of "humiliated and insulted". Chased from the doorstep like a dog, a foreigner in his country, the Young Bosnian felt "where it hurt, "Jevtic noted. The details of his stay in prison have not been confirmed with certainty until today, and they are known only on the basis of the testimonies of individual prisoners and the memories of the guards. The prisoners in Terezin mostly served their sentences in horrible living conditions. They fed them irregularly, constantly tortured them, and if someone got sick - they were left to die rather than be treated. All these "treatments" were many times worse for the "emperor killer". It was rumored that Gavrilo received food only every fifth day, and that he was tortured every day in particularly cruel ways. Allegedly, they put it in a wooden barrel in which a lot of nails had been driven in before, so they would roll it in it while driving nails into Gavrilo tortured body. And one more thing, Gavrilo Princip declared himself a Yugoslav (atheist), and Young Bosnia was not a Serbian organization but a Yugoslav one that sought to unify all southern Slavs in any form. The members of Young Bosnia (many of whom participated in the assassination of Franz Ferdinand) were Serbs, Muslims and Croats. Gavrilo (Petar) Princip - 25 July 1894 - 28 April 1918, the voice of humiliated, insulted and oppressed,rest in peace!
Suggestion: Bayinnaung. He created the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia and he not very well known. So, it will be interesting to learn more about him.
@0288_ Nguyễn Hoàng Long what part of “Southeast” do you not understand? Alexander the Great never got to East Asia, let alone Southeast Asia. Russia was North Asia and Persia was Western Asia. The mongols never got to Southeast Asia and the Chinese only dipped their toes in a couple times.
One random guy can't start a war, countries and their leaders can. Austro-Hungarian Empire already wanted a war so they could take over Serbian territories, Gavrilo Princip's actions were used as an excuse to do just that. If he didn't do anything on that day, they would just find some other reason to occupy Serbia, it was only a matter of time. So Gavrilo didn't start WW1, Austria-Hungary did. Everyone who knows a thing or two about politics and situtaion of that time can confirm this, look around the internet for a bit and you'll find the same answer.
You’re correct to a certain degree. If I douse a house with fuel and then walk away while another person comes by and strikes a match, who started the fire?
"Everyone who knows a thing or two about politics and situtaion of that time can confirm this, look around the internet for a bit and you'll find the same answer." Nope. The topic is hotly contested among historians up to this day, with increasingly favourable views being afforded to interpretations pointing at just how not-inevitable WWI really was. I think Simon explained it rather concisely with the remark that had the shots been fired a bit earlier, or a bit later, things would have been very different. But even that aside, Austria-Hungary never desired any Serbian territory, mostly because Serbia was an economically dead backwater filled with a ton of extremely nationalistic slavs, and the Empire had quite enough of those at home. The demands for war coming from Hotzendorf (ignored by the Emperor as they were) were for a punitive war, to punish and humiliate Serbia, and force it's government back into the Austrian sphere of influence. No conquest or annexation was ever desired.
@@huanromanriqelme716 "Empire had enough of those at home" - which suggests that nationalists were never considered an unsolvable problem. PS: A reminder that in two short decades they will be dissolving Czechia, deconstructing Poland, carrying out genocide in Yugoslavia while drawing explicit plans on turning Rus into a Germanic lebensraum. Seems difficult to assume that in 15 years someone could go from having no claims on Serbia to drawing plans on everything; that's quite a mental leap.
In the Vukojebina this made me laugh out loud cause I'm a Serbian national and I know what it means as do many others who are listening to this in the Bosnia and Croatia and Montenegro I literally fell out of the chair I was sitting in when I read that 😂😂
@@sandybarnes887 More wolves 😅 Vukojebina and Bogu iza nogu "behind god's legs" are the ways to say that something is remote and far away from civilization, very creative ways to say that
It would be very intresting to see what Prinicip thought when a guard passed him newspapers showing scenes of devastation after the declaration of war.
This cover so many bases and versions of the story really well. By telling his story with honour, you honoured his life and the lives of all the youth taken from this world during that war.
That Princip would meet the heir again wasn’t just sad or unfortunate for Europe; nations far away also felt the effects of that subsequent meeting. They don’t call it World War 1 for nothing.
Interestingly Gavrilo Princip was sentenced to 'only' 20 years in prison, which is remarkable given that many suspects in Serbian army were executed on suspicion of a plot. It was a maximum sentence for his age, which again I find amazing that 100 years ago justice system was more lenient than it is now in the USA, where teenagers can be put away for life for lesser crime
It was not really lenient for Princip and his comrades. Many were sickly young men, dying of tuberculosis. That is why they were eager to self-sacrifice. Princip was chained in a damp cell. He was routinely beaten, tortured with nails driven in his flesh, forced to sleep on boards with no mattress/blankets in winter. No sanitation. Rats, lice. The sadistic guards spit in the slop they fed him. His condition worsened till he was covered with pus and oozing lesions. They had to amputate his arm. Princip died within 4 years. Weighed 88 lbs. No guards were punished.
@wakenbaker-uk it'll depend where you are and how modern your history education got. I knew of him as the guy who pulled the trigger that started WW1, but not from what I learnt at school. Didn't know he was only 19 tho...
Until I was a history buff, living in Britain all I learned was an Austrian was murdered by a Serbian, Serbia and Russia are friends, *Austria and Germany sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!* and Belgium is our friend.
@DurianHP Stopped 2,000 years of Austrian invasion and expansionism into Europe. If you're a slave and you escape, which leads to a civil war to free slaves in which many people die you're still a hero.
@DurianHP Idiot? He freed our people, i dont really care about others. Our people are free now and have their country cause Gavrilo shot 2 shots:) He is a hero to my nation and always will be. “Our shadows will walk through Vienna, wonder the castles, haunt the gentlemen”- Gavrilo Princip
Wouldn’t really call him a hero, even if you give him the benefit of him not knowing he would start WWI, it still would have resulted in diplomatic tensions being raised. Imagine if a Russian shot the VP when they were on a diplomatic mission? Tensions would rise and war would become a possibility. He wasn’t a hero or a villain, he was a young, dumb adult that didn’t know what he was doing.
I'm adding "Vukojebina" to my vocabulary! Actual Serbian (EDIT: not Croat) word - seems to refer to "godforsaken wilderness" in practice, but those discussing it agreed: it's a vulgar phrase, quite insulting, does literally translate more or less to what you said. Americans might say "East Bumblef*ck" referring to a place out in the middle of nowhere (or "EBF" for short, such as "I had to park my car out in the middle of EBF!")
I don't know about anyone else but I like and love when these videos or biographies make me think about what I've read, watched or heard about history and the people who influenced it. A big thank you to Biographics and Simon Whistler for their due diligent research and telling the stories in such a manner that they make people think about what they too, have seen heard or read about. Keep up the awesome work and never stop doing what you guys and gals do best.
this teen has the highest kill count in a single shot in human history. That shot starting WW1 and killing millions, the way that war ended causing WW2 20 years later killing even more millions. it can be argued he is one of the single most important people in human history.
please make a BIOGRPAHICS EPISODE of ; Willem van oranje (William of Orange) is known as the founding father and hero of The Netherlands. he made his fame when he led the Dutch uprising against the rule of the Spanish Habsburg, The uprise led to the 80-year war (1568-1648) between the Dutch states and Spain There is a English page on wikipedia "William the Silent" that's his nickname
@@martijndaem4074 haha, sorry just trolling a bit here is hoping he will cover the 80years of war with Spain. hopefully he’ll throw in some V.O.C. exploits as the Dutch are so proud of it should be around that era Batavia and all that jazz. The Dutch do have a rich history... of exploiting 😆
Great video, as always, but the handgun used by Princip was a Browning (FN) M1910, chambered in the then new .380 ACP cartridge. This handgun is a semi-automatic in operation and not a revolver, as is stated in the video.
