ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
The Princess Margaret of Great Britain & Antony Armstrong-Jones, Esq. {1960}
Infanta Maria del Pilar of Spain & Don Luis Gomez-Acebo y Duque de Estrada, Viscount de la Torre {1967}
Laura Parker Bowles & Harry Lopes {2006}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1527 Spanish & German troops sack Rome. 147 Swiss Guards die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo.
1536 King Henry VIII of England orders English language Bibles be placed in every church.
1682 King Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
1910 George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, King Edward VII.
1960 First televised royal wedding, of Princess Margaret & Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey, London.
1994 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President Francois Mitterand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
2001 During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1501 Pope Marcellus II (d.1555)
1574 Pope Innocent X (d.1655)
1769 Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d.1824)
1882 Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia/Germany (d.1951)
DEATHS
680 Muawiyah I, first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty
1910 King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
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