March 12
...is the name day of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden!
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Princess Farahnaz Pahlavi of Iran {1963}
Prince Gabriel of Nassau {2006} (son of Prince Louis of Luxembourg; grandson of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg)
Xan Windsor, Lord Culloden {2007} (UK, son of the Earl & Countess of Ulster; grandson of the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester)
Benjamin van Vollenhoven {2008} (son of Prince Bernhard of Oranje-Nassau; grandson of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands)
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENT
1868 Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1270 Charles of Valois, son of King Philippe III of France (d.1325)
1478 Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d.1516)
1637 Anne Hyde, Duchess of York & Duchess of Albany (d.1671) (wife of King James II of England & Ireland, VII of Scotland)
1781 Frederica of Baden, Queen consort of Sweden (d.1826)
1889 King Idris I of Libya (d.1983)
DEATHS
604 Pope Gregory I
1289 King Demetre II of Georgia
1374 Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan
1447 Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia & Transoxonia
1507 Cesare Borgia, Italian general & statesman
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