Timeline June 1914

Events in June 1914 6

• 1843 – 1914 Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) Died 21 June 1914, aged 71 An Austrian writer and pacifist, von Suttner authored the influential anti-war novel Lay Down Your Arms and helped inspire Alfred Nobel to create a peace prize. In 1905 she became the first woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She died just weeks before the war she had spent decades warning against.
• 1911 – 1914 The dig at Carchemish Carchemish, Ottoman Syria Four seasons excavating a Hittite city on the Euphrates for the British Museum. He learned Arabic, ran the local workforce, and formed the view of Arab life that shaped everything he did later.
• 1914 – 1984 Yuri Andropov Former KGB chief who briefly led the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (June 9, 1914 – February 9, 1984) was the Soviet leader from November 1982 until his death in February 1984, just 15 months in office. A former KGB chief, he began some tentative reforms but died before he could implement them.
• 1914 – 1984 Yuri Andropov (1914-1984) Died 9 February 1984, aged 69 Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and former KGB chairman, died in Moscow after a long illness having led the country for only fifteen months. He was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko.
• 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand The Spark of WWI The heir to the throne was killed in Sarajevo, triggering the chain of events that led to World War I.
• 1914 Franz Ferdinand is assassinated Sarajevo, Bosnia Gavrilo Princip shot the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife Sophie after the motorcade took a wrong turn and stopped in front of him. Six other conspirators had already failed that morning.