Today

February 26

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Prince Ernst August of Hanover   {1954}

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

364   Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.

1266   Battle of Benevento:  An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German & Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily.  Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as King of Sicily & Naples.

1658   Treaty of Roskilde:  After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655-1661), the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.

1794   Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen burns down.

1815   Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.

1876   Korea's status as a tributary state of the Qing Dynasty (China) is ended by a treaty.



HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1361   Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d.1419)
1746   Archduchess Marie Amalie of Austria, Duchess of Piacenza (d.1806)
1861   King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d.1948)

1909   King Talal of Jordan (d.1972)