Friday, March 4, 2011

March 4

March 4

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Prince Paul Louis of Luxembourg   {1998}







HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1152   Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1351   Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386   Wladyslaw II Jagiello is crowned King of Poland.
1461   War of the Roses in England:  Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1665   English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1681   King Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1991   Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTH

1188   Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d.1252)


ROYAL DEATHS

251   Pope Lucius I
561   Pope Pelagius I
1172   Stephen III of Hungary
1193   Saladin, Kurdish sultan
1238   Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II
1238   Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir
1303   Daniel of Moscow, Russian saint & Grand Prince of Muscovy
1484   Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland
1496   Sigismund of Austria
1619   Anne of Denmark, Queen Consort of King James I of Great Britain & Ireland

1710   Louis III, Prince of Conde
1821   Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, daughter of King William IV of Great Britain & Ireland (b.1820)

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