Saturday, April 7, 2012

April 7, 2012

Holy Saturday / Easter Eve / Black Saturday  (Western Christianity: Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Episcopal)



Passover  (Judaism)



ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Elisabeth of Yugoslavia   {1936} (a cousin of Crown Prince Alexander II of Yugoslavia/Serbia)


Jaime de Marichalar y Saenz de Tejada   {1963} [ex-husband of Infanta Elena of Spain, Duchess of Lugo (daughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain)]



HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

529   The first draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Emperor Justinian I of the Eastern Roman Empire.

1831   Emperor Pedro I of Brazil abdicates his throne.  He assumes the title 'Duke of Braganza' and later returns to Portugal.



HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1652   Pope Clement XII (d.1740)


1853   The Prince Leopold of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland, Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, Baron Arklow (d.1884)



DEATHS

1498   King Charles VIII "the Affable" of France, Duke of Brittany, King of Naples (1495)


1747   Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau


1782   King Taksin "the Great" of Siam, King of the Thonburi Kingdom


1789   Sultan Abdul Hamid I of the Ottoman Empire

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