Armed Forces Day in the United Kingdom
ROYAL BIRTHDAY
Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah of Kuwait {1937} (half-brother of Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Juwait)
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
253 Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae.
841 The Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
1530 At the Diet of Augsburg, the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1741 Maria Theresia of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1242 Princess Beatrice of England, Countess of Richmond, Duchess of Brittany (d.1275)
1755 Grand Duchess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia, Tsesarevna of Russia (formerly Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt (d.1776)
1900 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British Viceroy of India (formerly Prince Louis of Battenberg) (d.1979) (uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh & great-grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom)
1902 Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu of Japan (d.1953) (son of Emperor Taisho of Japan, and brother of Emperor Showa of Japan)
DEATHS
253 Pope Cornelius
635 Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty
1134 King Niels of Denmark
1533 Princess Mary Tudor of England, Queen consort of France, Duchess of Suffolk
1665 Archduke Sigismund Francis of Further Austria
1861 Sultan Abd-ul-Mejid I of the Ottoman Empire
No comments:
Post a Comment