Sunday, May 15, 2011

May 14

May 14

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia   {1953}

The Hon. Margarita Armstrong-Jones   {2002} [daughter of David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (nephew of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland)]

Isabella van Vollenhoven   {2002} [daughter of Prince Bernhard of Oranje-Nassau, van Vollenhoven (nephew of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands)]







ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

Infante Juan Carlos of Spain, Prince of Asturias & Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark   {1962}






Prince Constantin of Liechtenstein & Countess Maria Kalnoky de Korospatak   {1999} [civil]

 (photo NOT from their civil wedding, but from their engagement on November 5, 1998)

Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark & Miss Mary Donaldson   {2004}






HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1264   Battle of Lewes:  King Henry III of England is captured & forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
1483   Coronation of King Charles VIII "the Affable" of France.


1610   King Henri IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
1643   Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father King Louis XIII.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1316   Karl IV, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia & Count of Luxembourg (d.1378)

1553   Marguerite of Valois, Queen consort of France & Navarre (d.1615)

1666   King Vittorio Amedeo II of Sardinia (d.1732)

1710   King Adolf Fredrik of Sweden (d.1771)

1725   Ludovico Manin, last Doge of the Republic of Venice (d.1802)



DEATHS

964   Pope John XII

1470   King Carl VIII of Sweden & (Carl I) of Norway
1608   Charles III, Duke of Lorraine
1610   King Henri IV of France

1643   King Louis XIII of France

1912   King Frederik VIII of Denmark

1959   Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Dowager Duchess of Parma

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