Friday, December 2, 2011

December 2

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery


National Day in Laos



ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Lea of Belgium   {1951} (sister-in-law of King Albert II of the Belgians)


Crown Prince Kardam of Bulgaria, Prince of Turnovo, Duke of Saxony   {1962} (son of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria)


Princess Dechen Yangzom Wangchuck of Bhutan   {1981} (daughter of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan & sister of King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck of Bhutan)


Sheikha Al Jalila bint Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai   {2007} (daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Emir of Dubai, and Princess Haya bint Al Hussein of Jordan, Sheikha of Dubai
                                             



WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones & Rodolphe von Hoffmannsthal   {2006} (Lady Frances is the half-sister of David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, as she is the daughter of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, ex-husband of the deceased Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II)


HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1804   At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.


1848   Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.


1852   Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French (Napoleon III).


1908   Child Emperor Puyi {Xuantong/Kangde} ascends the [Qing] Chinese throne as emperor at the age of two.



HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTH

1825   Emperor Pedro II "the Magnanimous" of Brazil (d.1891)



DEATHS

1348   Emperor Hanazono of Japan


1463   Archduke Albert VI "the Prodigal" of Inner Austria


1849   Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland, + Hanover, Duchess consort of Brunswick

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