Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria mb-code 42-27077513 with coats of arms above

with coats of arms above the door

Eighteen figures of assorted fossil bones found at Kirkdale Cave

Two studies of birds' nests

by Samuel Felton

Loughborough House

Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria mb-code 42-27077513 with coats of arms aboveEmperor 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