Canada Day
ROYAL WEDDING
Prince Albert II of Monaco, Duke of Valentinois, Marquis of Baux, Count of Polignac & Charlene Wittstock {2011} [civil]
ROYAL BIRTHDAY
Charles Armstrong-Jones {1999} [son of David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (nephew of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)]
(pictured here holding his father's hand)
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom & Prince Ludwig of Hesse {1862}
Princess Irene of Greece + Denmark & Prince Aimone of Savoy-Aosta, Duke of Spoleto {1939}
Crown Prince Alexander II of Yugoslavia & Princess Maria da Gloria of Orleans-Braganza {1972} [divorced February 19, 1985]
Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, Prince of Denmark & Marie-Chantal Miller {1995}
Princess Stephanie of Monaco, Countess of Polignac & Daniel Ducruet {1995} [divorced October 4, 1996]
ROYAL INVESTITURE ANNIVERSARY
Prince Charles of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland invested as Prince of Wales {1969} [he had been created Prince of Wales on July 26, 1958]
ROYAL CHRISTENING
Princess Isabella of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat {2007} [daughter of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark (son of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark)]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
69 Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
1097 Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by Prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by Sultan Kilij Arslan I.
1569 Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
1949 The merger of two princely states in India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family.
1960 Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be its Head of State.
1999 The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1481 King Christian II of Denmark, Sweden + Norway (d.1559)
1506 King Lajos II of Hungary, Bohemia + Croatia (d.1526)
1534 King Frederik II of Denmark + Norway, Duke of Schleswig (d.1588)
1961 Diana, Princess of Wales (d.1997)
DEATHS
552 Totila, King of the Ostrogoths
1109 King Alfonso VI "The Barve/Valiant" of Castile, Emperor of All Spain, King of Leon, King of Galicia + Portugal
1277 Baibars, Mameluk Sultan of Egypt
1708 Emperor Takle Haymanot I of Ethiopia
1839 Mahmud II, Ottoman Sultan
