The Royal Calendar

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Happy Independence Day!

July 4

Independence Day (aka The Fourth of July), USA

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Queen Sonja of Norway {1937} (wife of King Harald V of Norway)

Prince Michael of Kent {1942} (1st cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)

Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand {1957} (daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej "Rama IX" of Thailand)

Princess Rayet bint Al Hashim of Jordan   {2008} [daughter of Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein of Jordan (half-brother of King Abdullah II of Jordan)]

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1120 Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.

1187   The Crusades: Battle of Hattin - Saladin (Sultan of Egypt + Syria, etc) defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.

1253   Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes, Count of Hainaut defeats Guy of Dampierre, Count of Flanders.

1534   Christian III is elected King of Denmark + Norway in the town of Rye.

1918 Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.

1918 [July 4 - Julian calendar date] Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife and children.

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1546 Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d.1595)

1799 King Oscar I of Sweden + Norway (d.1859)

1918 King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (d.2006)

DEATHS

907 Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
943 Emperor Taejo of the Goryeo Dynasty (Korea)

965 Pope Benedict V
1780 Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine

1931 Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy-Aosta, 2nd Duke of Aosta

2011 Archduke Otto of Austria, Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary, Croatia + Bohemia, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary, Croatia + Bohemia, etc.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

July 3

July 3

Feast Day of Saint Thomas the Apostle

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, Count of Rietberg & Duchess Sophie in Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria {1993}

ROYAL CHRISTENING

Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein, Count of Rietberg {1995} [son of Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein (son of Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein)]

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

324 Battle of Adrianople: Emperor [& Saint] Constatine I "the Great" of the Roman Empire defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.

987 Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.

1849 The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.

1996 Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1423 King Louis XI "the Prudent/Cunning" of France (d.1483)

1442 Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d.1500)

1676 Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d.1747)

1743 Queen consort Sophia Magdalena of Sweden, Princess of Denmark + Norway

DEATHS

1642 Marie de' Medici, Queen consort of France + Navarre

1704 Tsarevna Sophia Alekseyavna of Russia, Regent of Russia

1918 Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire

1934 Prince consort Hendrik of the Netherlands, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Monday, July 4, 2011

July 2

July 2

ROYAL WEDDING

Prince Albert II of Monaco, Duke of Valentinois, Marquis de Baux, Count of Polignac & Charlene Wittstock (aka Charlene, Princess of Monaco as of July 1, 2011) {2011} [religious]

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Sheikh Mishaal bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar {1972} (son of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar)

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

Prince Albert of Belgium, Prince of Liege & Paola, Princess Ruffo di Calabria {1959}

Prince Kubrat of Bulgaria, Prince of Panagyurishte, Duke of Saxony & Carla Maria de la Soledad Royo-Villanova y Urrestarazu {1993}

ROYAL CHRISTENING

Maud Angelica Behn {2003} [daughter of Princess Martha Louise of Norway (daughter of King Harald V of Norway)]

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

626 Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Incident at Xuanwu Gate.

706 In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang outside Chang'an.

963 The imperial army proclaimes Nicephorus Phocus Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea (now Kayseri in Central Anatolia, Turkey).

1298 The Battle of Gollheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.

1561 Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia defeats a revolt in Emfraz.

1871   King Vittorio Emanuele II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

419   Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d.455)
1262   Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d.1312)
1363   Queen Maria of Sicily, Duchess of Athens
1492   Princess Elizabeth [Tudor] of England, daughter of King Henry VII of England (d.1495)
1698   Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d.1780)