Candlemas / Presentation of Jesus in the Temple / Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christianity / Gregorian Calendar)
Imbolc (Northern hemisphere/Gaels, Britons, Neopagans, etc.)
Anniversary of the Treaty of Tartu (Estonia, 1920)
Constitution Day in the Philippines (1987)
World Wetlands Day
Inventor's Day in Thailand
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Princess Maria Beatrice "Titti" of Savoy {1943} (sister of Crown Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, Prince of Naples)
(shown here on her wedding day in 1970)
Archduke Christoph of Austria, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary, Croatia + Bohemia {1988} [son of Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria, Princess of Luxembourg (daughter of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg & sister of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg)]
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
Marina Ogilvy & Paul J. Mowatt {1990} [divorced Dec.4, 1997]
Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange & Maxima Zorreguieta Cerruti {2002}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
506 Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates the Breviary of Alaric, a collection of Roman law.
962 Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
1032 Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II becomes King of Burgundy.
1901 The funeral is held for Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland, Empress of India, at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1208 King James [Jaume/Chaime/Jaime/Jacme] I "the Conqueror" of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, Lord of Montpellier (d.1276)
1455 King John [Hans/Johannes/Johan] of Denmark + Norway, King of Sweden {as the II}, Duke of Schleswig + Holstein (d.1513)
1493/1494 Bona Sforza, Queen consort of Poland, Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania, Duchess of Bar, Princess of Rossano (d.1557)
1649 Pope Benedict XIII (d.1730)
DEATH
1124 Borivoj II, Duke of Bohemia
1218 Konstantin Vsevolodovich of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod
1250 King Erik XI "the Lisp + Lame" of Sweden
1294 Ludwig II, Duke of Bavaria, Count Palatine of the Rhine
1307 Temur Oljeytu Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan, Khagan of the Mongols, Emperor of China
1461 Sir Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England.
1660 Prince Gaston of France, Duke of Orleans {son of King Henri IV of France; brother of King Louis XIII of France}
1769 Pope Clement XIII
2002 Dr. Leslie Robin Medforth-Mills [ex-husband of Princess Elena of Romania (daughter of King Michael of Romania)]
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