Monday, April 11, 2011

April 11

April 11

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

491   Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name Anastasius I.
1689   William III & Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.

1921   Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
1951   The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey.  It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.



HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

145   Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor (d.211)
1357   King Joao I of Portugal (d.1433)
1492   Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henri II of Navarre (d.1549)



DEATHS

1034   Romanus III, Byzantine Emperor
1165   Stephen (Istvan) IV, King of Hungary
1240   Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd

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