Book theatre tickets for Archduke, Royal Court. Lyndsey Turner directs this European premiere, designed by Es Devlin.

From 5 to 23 November, this year's Autumn Auction at Hermann Historica GmbH offered buyers the usual wide range of high quality, precious objects from numerous eras and from every corner of the globe.

Metallica didn't take their name from a historical Austrian archduke. But in a bit of proof that the band appeals across generations better than others, some students recently guessed that they did.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was only the trigger — the real causes ran deeper. Austria-Hungary saw a chance ...

Saturday marked one hundred years since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. In hindsight, the assassination clearly marks the beginning of the process ...

Instead, the bomb hurled by Nedeljko Cabrinovic exploded under the car behind, injuring its ­passengers but leaving the archduke unscathed. Later that same day, June 28, 1914, freakish ill fortune ...

The assassination Monday of the Russian ambassador to Turkey is a horror and a tragedy, but please stop comparing it to the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which sparked World War I.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos responded with some dismay to the fact that his band had inadvertently started trending as people drew comparisons between the assassination of the group’s ...