A month later the first shots of the first world war were fired.How should Sarajevo mark June 28th 2014?
Cultured, cosmopolitan Sarajevo became the epicentre and the icon of this anguish.
John Paul had tried to visit Sarajevo during the war, but the trip was called off for security reasons.
A study of 6,000 concentration-camp inmates in Sarajevo found that 80% of men reported having been raped.
Some 100,000 people were expected to come from across the region to Sarajevo, a largely Muslim city of 300,000 that was once known as "Europe's Jerusalem" for its interfaith harmony among Christians, Muslims and Jews.
She recalls seeing Welcome to Sarajevo, Michael Winterbottom's film about the war in Bosnia.
The events take place this summer between 28 June, the date the shot was fired in Sarajevo that toppled Europe into war, and 4 August, the date Britain officially declared war on Germany.
Pope Francis has arrived in Sarajevo for a one-day visit to encourage the dwindling number of Catholics to stay and help forge a peaceful future with Bosnia's Muslims and Orthodox Christians following a devastating three-way war.
The pontiff said Sarajevo is "a city that has suffered so much in history.
Twenty years after the Bosnian war ended, the Russians for the first time abstained in November on a UN vote extending the EU peacekeeping mission in Sarajevo.
Yet he has been working for decades, his early career comprising a series of "oblique" BBC-funded documentaries like Serbian Epics, in which he travelled to Bosnia during the 1994 civil war to film Radovan Karadžić, the Bosnian Serb leader later accused of ordering the Srebrenica massacre, as he read garish poetry on the hills above the besieged shell of Sarajevo.
