# Sarajevo assassination triggers European crisis (1914)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1914-sarajevo-assassination-triggers-european-crisis
Location: Europe

The alliance system drew France into the escalating July Crisis after the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Within the broader Third Republic period, The Third Republic survived war, the Commune, constitutional crises and fierce ideological conflict. It expanded mass schooling and empire, faced the Dreyfus Affair, fought World War I and entered the troubled interwar era. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Raymond Poincaré (President of the French Republic). Sarajevo assassination triggers European crisis mattered because it reshaped France’s external relationships, territory or place in wider international systems. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Sarajevo assassination triggers European crisis mattered because it reshaped France’s external relationships, territory or place in wider international systems.

Ruler at the time: [Raymond Poincaré](https://history-france.com/rulers/raymond-poincare)

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