Is there disagreement about the date of Gavrilo Princip’s death? Was it April 24, 1916(according to the citation below) or April 28 1918 (all websites I’ve seen give this date). Why the discrepancy?
André Gerolymatos’s book “The Balkan Wars”
p. 45
"Despite the rhetoric about the unjust regime of the Habsburgs, Austria’s laws did not permit the death penalty for offenders under twenty. Although Princip missed the gallows, he had to spend the remainder of his life in chains. Two years later, on April 24, 1916, he died of bone tuberculosis.
The date given above is not a misprint!
The text from the book is too specific to be a mix-up. Interestingly , the April 24, 1916 happens to be the day of the Dublin Easter Rising
“Out the children poured on that glorious Easter Monday morning, April 24, 1916** , as 300 rebels marched from Liberty Hall”
" Irish Volunteers who died between 24 April 1916"
Why do you say that? An author can easily put in a wrong date. If the editing was sloppy it would easily get through to publication.
Of the books I have, four(I didn’t do an exhaustive search) of them mention the date of Princip’s death, and all state it as April 28, 1918. One of them - The Assassination of the Archduke, by Greg King and Sue Woolmans (St. Martin’s Press 2013) - goes into some detail about his cell at Theresienstadt(with a picture!), how the location of his unmarked grave was leaked to Serbian nationalists by one of the guards, etc. Plus, as you say “all websites” give the date as 1918.
Based on that, I would go with 1918 as being correct, and that Gerolymatos got it wrong.
I accept your point Bayaker. I’ve come to the same conclusion. I just thought the date he chose was very odd and the build up to it:"…“Two years later, on April 24, 1916, he died of bone tuberculosis.”
Yup. I have a book that talks about computer sabotage in “1919,” as opposed to the correct date of “1991.” That is, it’s a book I wrote