Its often been said that the web of alliances prior to the first world war was so fragile that something had to give, even if events in Sarejevo had not happened. Its also been said that there were a bunch of incidents prior to the Ferdinand assassination that could've sparked a war, but didn't. Does anyone know (or care to speculate) what these incidents were, or could have been? I sense a rich gold mine for AH here, and I've been banging my head against the wall trying to come up with a good spark for my own patchwork timeline.