November 3, 2014 :: Part I

Culture Day in Japan {1948}

Unity Day / Consolidation Day in Russia {November 3-4}

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Phuong Lien of Vietnam   {1938}

David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (UK)   {1961}

Prince Philippe of Orleans   {1998}

Princess Zein bint Al Hamzah of Jordan   {2012}

ROYAL WEDDINGS

(Philippe of France, Duke of Anjou) King Felipe V of Spain (1700-1724; 1724-1746), King of Naples + Sicily & Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy   {1701} [IN PERSON] in Figueras, Spain

Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince Napoleon & Susan May Williams   {1829} in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin & Princess Auguste Reuss   {1849} in Ludwigslust, Germany

Prince Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Prince von Noer (1864-1865) & Mary Esther Lee   {1864} in Paris, France

Prince Maximilian of Schaumburg-Lippe & Duchess Olga of Wurttemberg   {1898} in Stuttgart, Germany

October 30, 2014 :: Part I

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Archduke Gerhard of Austria   {1957}

Prince Karim Bey of Tunisia   {1972}

Princess Leonie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach   {1986}

Sophie von Lattorff   {2009} (Liechtenstein)

ROYAL WEDDINGS

King Manoel I of Portugal + the Algarve, Duke de Beja + Viseu & Maria of Aragon + Castile   {1500} in Alcacer-de-Sal [IN PERSON]

Ferdinand, Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld & Countess Ernestine of Solms-Baruth   {1736} in Baruth, Germany

Princess Louisa of Great Britain & King Frederik V of Denmark + Norway   {1743} [PROXY] in Hannover, Germany

Archduke Joseph of Austria & Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia   {1799} @ Gatschina, St. Petersburg, Russia

Emperor Napoleon I of the French (1804-1814; 1815) & Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie   {1804} [RELIGIOUS] @ the Palais de Tuileries, France [divorced 1809; annulled 1810]

Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg & Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg   {1834} @ Schloss Gottorf, Luisenlund, Germany

October 28, 2014 :: Part III

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS, continued

Queen consort Marie of Denmark + (until 1814) Norway, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel   {1767}

Princess Shams Pahlavi of Iran   {1917}

IN MEMORIAM

Maxentius, Emperor of the Roman Empire   {312 AD}

Queen Margareta/Margrete/Margaret I of Denmark, Norway + Sweden   {1412}

Archduchess Anna of Austria, Queen consort of Spain   {1580}

Prince George of Denmark + Norway, Duke of Cumberland   {1708} (Great Britain)

Empress Anna Ioannovna of Russia, Empress + Autocrat of All the Russias (1730-1740), Duchess of Courland (1711-1730)   {1740}

Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg   {1917} (United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland)

October 28, 2014 :: Part I

National Day in Greece (Ochi Day) {1940}







ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Sophia of Romania   {1957}

Julia Rawlinson Ogilvy   {1964} (UK)

Hereditary Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein, Countess of Rietberg, Princess of Bavaria, Duchess in Bavaria   {1967}

Princess Tessy of Luxembourg   {1985}

ROYAL + ARISTOCRATIC WEDDINGS

King Christian I of Denmark + Norway, Count of Oldenburg, Duke of Schleswig + Holstein & Dorothea of Brandenburg, Queen consort/Dowager of Denmark, Sweden + Norway   {1449} in Copenhagen, Denmark

Ivan IV “the Terrible”, Tsar of All the Russias & Marta Bogdanovna Sobakin   {1571}

Princess Maria Anna Czartoryski & Duke Ludwig Friedrich of Wurttemberg   {1784} in Siedlic, Poland [divorced]

October 25, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL + ARISTOCRATIC WEDDINGS, continued

Adolf I, Prince Schaumburg-Lippe & Princess Hermine of Waldeck + Pyrmont   {1844} in Arolsen, Germany

Prince Reginald of Croy & Princess Isabelle of Ligne   {1920} in Brussels, Belgium

Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (1918-1943) & Princess Giovanna of Savoy/Italy   {1930} [1^ST CEREMONY – ROMAN CATHOLIC] in Assisi, Italy

Prince Dimitri Alexandrovich of Russia & Countess Marina Sergeievna Golenistcheva-Koutouzova   {1931} in Paris, France [divorced 1947]

Princess Luise of Saxe-Meiningen & Baron Gotz von Wangenheim   {1936} in Detmold, Germany

Prince + Duke Charles-Louis of Arenberg & Philomene Toulouse   {1975} in St. Cirq la Popie, France [divorced before 2005]

Princess Sibylla of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg & Dieter Franz   {1980} [RELIGIOUS] in Glucksburg, Germany

Prince Dmitry Bagration-Moukhransky & Karina Kharysova   {2003} in Kiev, Ukraine [divorced]

Amelie Roussel de Courcy (de La Rochefoucauld) & Patrice de Baudus   {2008}

ROYAL CHRISTENING

Prince Gabriel of Belgium   {2003}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Queen consort Elisabetha/Elisabeth/Elisabetta/Isabel Farnese of Spain, Queen consort of Naples + Sicily, Duchess of Anjou, Princess of Parma   {1692}

Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Wurttemberg (after marriage known as Tsarina/Empress consort Maria Feodorovna of Russia), Empress consort of All the Russias   {1759}

October 22, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL WEDDINGS, continued

Archduchess Michaela of Austria & Count Hubertus von Kageneck   {1994} [divorced 1998]

Prince Floris of Orange-Nassau & Aimee Sohngen   {2005} [RELIGIOUS] @ the Grote Kerk, Naarden, the Netherlands

Duchess Beatrix of Oldenburg & Sven von Storch   {2010} [CIVIL] @ Eutin Castle, Germany

PAPAL INAUGURATION ANNIVERSARY

Pope John Paul II   {1978}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Emperor Juntoku of Japan   {1197}

King Joao/John V "the Magnificent/the Portuguese Sun King" of Portugal + the Algarves (1706-1750)   {1689}

Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire, Queen consort of the Germans, Queen consort of Bohemia, Electress + Duchess in Bavaria   {1701}

August Viktoria, German Empress consort + Queen consort of Prussia, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein   {1858}

Emperor Bao Dai of Vietnam (1926-1945)   {1913}

Jean-Charles Rey   {1914} (Monaco)