Sunday, December 18, 2011

December 18

4th Sunday of Advent  (Christianity)


International Migrants Day


O Antiphons  (Roman Catholic)


Republic Day in Niger  (1958)


National Day in Qatar  (1878)


New Jersey Day  (New Jersey, USA)


Las Posadas  (Roman Catholic; Mexico, Latin America, Southwestern USA)



ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Thomas "Tom" Parker Bowles   {1974} [son of the Duchess of Cornwall (Camilla) (wife of The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales {son of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland})]


Princess Annemarie of Bourbon-Parma, Duchess of Parma + Piacenza, Countess of Molina   {1977} [wife of Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma + Piacenza {nephew of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands})]



ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar & Sheikha Maryam bint Nasser Al-Ahmad  Al Thani of Qatar   {2008}


ROYAL CHRISTENINGS

Count Friedrich Richard of Pfeil + Klein-Ellguth   {1999} [son of Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Countess of Pfeil + Klein-Ellguth (niece of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark)]




















Countess Emma Luana of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg   {2005} [daughter of Prince Johan Friso of Orange-Nassau (son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands)]










HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1271   Kublai Khan, Khagan of the Mongol Empire + Emperor of China, renames his empire "Yuan", officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of Mongolia & China.

1878   The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.



HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTH

1863   Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Prince Royal of Hungary + Bohemia (d.1914)



DEATHS

1290   King Magnus I "the Strong" of Sweden

1495   King Alfonso II of Naples + Jerusalem

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