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March 13

...beginning of Daylight Savings Time

1st Lenten Sunday

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Grand Duke George of Russia   {1981}

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught & Strathearn, Prince of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, Duke of Saxony and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia   {1879}


HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1809   King Gustaf IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'etat.
1881   Tsar Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him (It was March 1 on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia).


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1372   Louis of Valois, Duke of Orleans, brother of King Charles VI of France (d.1407)
1615   Pope Innocent XII (d.1700)
1741   Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d.1790)


DEATHS

1516   King Ladislaus II of Bohemia & Hungary
1569   Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Conde
1767   Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, mother of King Louis XVI of France
1808   King Christian VII of Denmark
1881   Tsar Alexander II of Russia

1955   King Tribhuvan of Nepal