Star Wars Day, "May the Fourth be with you!"
Feast Day of Saint Monica of Hippo (traditional)
Greenery Day (Japan)
Remembrance Day (Netherlands)
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Pauline Ducruet {1994} [daughter of Princess Stephanie of Monaco (sister of Prince Albert II of Monaco)]
Prince Henrik of Denmark, Count of Monpezat {2009} [son of Prince Joachim of Denmark (son of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark)]
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia & Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia {1938}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1256 The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull.
1471 War of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
1493 Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain & Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
1675 King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
1776 Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
1814 Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1814 King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1008 King Henri I of France (d.1060)
1654 Emperor Kangxi of China (d.1722)
1913 Princess Katherine of Greece & Denmark, Lady Brandram (d.2007)
DEATHS
1471 Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales
1519 Lorenzeo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino
1774 Anton Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg
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