March 24, 2012

World Day for Achievers

World Tuberculosis Day

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1401   Amir Timur/Tamerlane of the Timurid Empire sacks Damascus.

1603   King James VI of Scotland also becomes King of England [as James I].

1707   The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1721   Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTH

1628   Duchess Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Luneburg, Queen consort of Denmark + Norway (d.1685)

DEATHS

1284   King Hugh/Hughues [de Poitiers/de Lusignan] III "the Great" of Cyprus, King of Jerusalem [as Hugh I]

1455   Pope Nicholas V

1603   Queen Elizabeth I of England + Ireland {"The Virgin Queen", "Gloriana", "Good Queen Bess"}

1805   Prince Aloys I of Liechtenstein

1953   Princess Victoria Mary of Teck (1867-1893), Princess of Saxe-Coburg + Gotha (1893-1917), Duchess in Saxony (1893-1917), Queen consort of the United Kingdom + the British Dominions, Empress consort of India

1986   Prince Michael Petrovic-Njegos of Montenegro, King [as Mihaijlo I] of Montenegro {1921-1929/1986}, Grand Duke of Grahovo + Zeta

February 18, 2012

Feast of Saint Bernadette Soubirous  (Roman Catholic: France)

Independence Day in the Gambia  (1965)

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Prince Ra'ad bin Zeid of Iraq   {1936} (Pretender to the throne of Iraq)

Princess Maria Christina of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld   {1947} (sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands)

Queen consort Komal of Nepal   {1951} (wife of King Gyanendra of Nepal)

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

King Letsie III {David Mohato Bereng Seeiso} of Lesotho & Anna Karabo Mots'oeneng {now known as Queen consort 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso}   {2000}

November 21

National Adoption Day  (USA + Puerto Rico)

World Hello Day

World Television Day

Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh 

Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary/The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos in the Temple  (Roman Catholic; Eastern Orthodox churches following the Gregorian Calendar)

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Maria Teresa Sartorius y de Liechtenstein   {1992} [daughter of Princess Nora of Liechtenstein, Countess of Rietberg, Dowager Marchioness of Marino (sister of Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein)]

                                                           (shown here at 9 yrs. old with her mother)



ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Hereditary Prince Georg Ludwig of Brunswick-Luneburg & Duchess Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Celle   {1682} [divorced 1694] (in 1714 he became King George I of Great Britain + Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Archtreasurer + Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire)

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

235   Pope Anterus succeeds Pope Pontian as nineteenth pope.

1386  Amir Temur/Timur/Tamerlane [of Samarkand] of the Timurid Empire captures and sacks the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, taking King Bagrat V "the Great" of Georgia captive.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1840   Princess Victoria of Great Britain, Princess Royal, Empress consort of Germany, Queen consort of Prussia (d.1901)

1853   Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt (d.1917)

1854   Pope Benedict XV (d.1922)

DEATHS

496   Pope Gelasius I

1011   Emperor Reizei of Japan

1150   Garcia Ramirez (sometimes Garcia IV, V, VI, or VII) "the Restorer", King of Navarre

1361   Duke Philip I of Burgundy, Count Palatine of Burgundy [as the II], Count of Boulogne + Auvergne [as the III], Count of Artois [as the III]

1916   Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Bohemia + Croatia, King of Dalmatia, Slavonia, Illyria, Galicia + Lodomeria, King of Jerusalem, Archduke of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany + Krakow, Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Carinthia, Styria, Carniola + the Bukovina, Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia, Duke of Upper + Lower Silesia, Duke of Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Friuli + Ragusa, Princely Count of Habsburg + Tyrol, Prince of Trent + Brixen, Margrave of the Upper + Lower Lusatia, Lord of Trieste, etc.

1969   Kabaka [king] Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda [aka Major General Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II]

2001   King Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah of Malaysia, Sultan of Selangor