00:00Europe takes a deep breath. The 20th century has barely begun, but the air smells of gunpowder.
00:06Empires regard each other with suspicion. The Austro-Hungarian, the Ottoman, the Russian—they all know that the balance is fragile.
00:15And in Sarajevo, a 19-year-old man clutches a revolver to his chest.
00:21His name is Gabriel Principi. His target is an archduke. His legacy is the end of a world.
00:31Nostradamus, the visionary from Salon de Provence, had written it three centuries earlier, in his 5th-19th century.
00:38The prophet speaks of a great royal treasury of gold, a metaphor for the splendor of the Habsburgs, but peace is
00:45because it's breaking.
00:46Peace broken, by young open war, their quatrain warns, and so it was.
00:51People saddened by a lamentable leader, the earth will be covered with barbarian blood.
00:56The young man is Principi. The deplorable boss is Francisco Fernando.
01:02His assassination is the spark that ignites the fuse and Europe burns.
01:06Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, all dragged into a brutal conflict.
01:13Nostradamus writes in his quatrain 5-26, the people are key, not slaves, but Slavs.
01:20The southern peoples, tired of being vassals. The archduke falls, and with him, the stability of a continent.
01:27The Schlieffen Plan is set in motion.
01:31As the trenches fill up, another empire bleeds out.
01:34The Ottoman Empire, its splendor reduced to ashes.
01:38In 1917, the Russian Slavs rose up.
01:42Nicholas II, the last salt, falls.
01:45The price will be terror.
01:47At that very moment, a provincial emerges, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyano, Lenin.
01:53The architect of a new order rises from the ashes.
01:57In Vienna, Charles I inherits a non-existent throne, his empire disintegrates, and the Habsburgs are expelled.
02:11Near Lake Lehmann, he will be driven.
02:14Carlos and Zita flee to Switzerland; it is exile, the end of an era.
02:20Nostradames mentions locusts and mosquitoes, a possible metaphor for the Spanish flu that ravaged the fronts in 1918.
02:28Four empires have fallen along with millions of dead, and the prophet's words resonate, clear and chilling.
02:37Was it a coincidence, or had Nostradames seen the mechanism of history before it began to turn?
02:44A single shot in Sarajevo not only killed an archduke, it also buried a world.
02:51Did anyone see it coming?
02:54These texts are part of the fifth century of the book Prophetic Chronology of Nostradamus.
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