Tuesday, March 27, 2012

March 27, 2012

World Theatre Day




ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Sara bint Al Faisal of Jordan   {1997} [twin] [daughter of Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan (brother of King Abdullah II of Jordan)] (see below for photo)

Princess Aisha bint Al Faisal of Jordan   {1997} [twin] [daughter of Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan (brother of King Abdullah II of Jordan)]
                                                         (the twin sisters pictured here a few years ago with their father)




HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

196 BC   Ptolemy V Epiphanes ascends the throne of Egypt as Pharaoh/King.


1309   Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.

1329   Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.

1625   Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland + Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.



HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

972   King Robert II "the Pious/the Wise" of France, King of the Franks, Duke of Burgundy (d.1031)

1785   King Louis XVII of France + Navarre (d.1795)


1970   Princess Leila Pahlavi of Iran (d.2001)



DEATHS

973   Hermann Billung, Duke of Saxony

1191   Pope Clement III


1350   King Alfonso XI of Castile, Leon + Galicia

1378   Pope Gregory XI

1462   Vasily II "the Blind", Grand Prince of Moscow


1482   Mary, Duchess of Burgundy, Brabant, Guelders, Limburg, Lothier + Luxembourg, Margravine of Namur, Countess Palatine of Burgundy, Countess of Artois, Charolais, Flanders, Hainault, Holland, Zeeland + Zutphen, Archduchess of Austria



1625   King James I/VI of England, Scotland + Ireland


1879   Prince Joachim Friedrich Ernst Waldemar of Prussia (b.1868) {son of German Emperor Friedrich III; grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland}

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