April 29

April 29

Arbor Day (USA)

Feast of St. Catherine of Siena (new)

ROYAL WEDDING DAY!

Prince William of Wales & Catherine Middleton   {2011} (as of today TRH The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge)

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg   {1944} (sister of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark)

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

Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti of Thailand   {2005} [son of Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand (son of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand)]

(pictured here with his parents)

Infanta Sofia of Spain   {2007} [daughter of Crown Prince Felipe of Spain, Prince of Asturias (son of King Juan Carlos I of Spain)]

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaevich of Russia & Princess Anastasia of Montenegro   {1907}

Princess Irene of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld & Prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma   {1964} [divorced 1981]

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1818   Tsar Alexander II of Russia (d.1881)

1876   Empress Zewditu of Ethiopia (d.1930)

1901   Emperor Hirohito of Japan (d.1989) (aka Emperor Showa)

DEATHS

926   Burchard II, Duke of Swabia
1688   Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg

April 28

April 28

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Lady Helen Taylor   {1964} [daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1st cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland)]

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

Tsarevich Alexander of Russia & Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhyne   {1841} (the future Tsar Alexander II of Russia & Empress consort Maria Alexandrovna of Russia)


King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) of Thailand & Sirikit Kitiyakara   {1950}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

32   Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman emperor (d.69)
1442   King Edward IV of England (d.1483)

DEATHS

1192   Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem
1936   King Fuad I of Egypt

April 27

April 27

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange   {1967}

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany & Princess Helene of Waldeck and Pyrmont   {1882}

King Zog I of Albania & Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagyappony (created Princess Geraldine of Albania on January 10, 1938)   {1938}

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENT

1909   Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother Mehmed V.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTH

1650   Queen consort Charlotte Amalie of Denmark & Norway (d.1714)

1701   King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d.1773)

1806   Queen Maria Christina of Spain (d.1878)

1848   King Otto I of Bavaria (d.1916)

DEATHS

630   King Ardashir III of Persia
1404   Philip II, Duke of Burgundy
1605   Pope Leo XI
1694   Johann Georg IV, Elector of Saxony
1831   King Carlo Felice of Sardinia

April 26

April 26

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Prince Philippos of Greece & Denmark   {1986} [son of King Constatine II of Greece]

Prince Mirko Panagyurishtski of Bulgaria   {1995} [son of Prince Kubrat of Bulgaria, Prince of Panagyurishte (son of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria)]

(pictured here at his christening in 1995 with his parents & grandparents)


ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

Prince Christian of Denmark & Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin   {1898}

Prince Albert, Duke of York & Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon   {1923}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

121   Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d.180)

1573   Marie de' Medici, Queen Consort of France & Navarre, wife of King Henri IV of France (d.1642)

1648   King Pedro II of Portugal (d.1706)

1662   Maria Luisa of Orleans, Queen Consort of Spain (d.1689)

1782   Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, Queen Consort of the French (d.1866)

DEATHS

1192   Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan

1943   Prince Alastair, The Duke of Connaught & Strathearn

1994   Queen Zein of Jordan

(pictured here with her son, the future King Hussein of Jordan in 1941)

April 25

April 25

Easter Monday

ANZAC Day (Australia & New Zealand)

Feast Day of St. Mark the Evangelist

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Muna al-Hussein of Jordan   {1941} (mother of King Abdullah II of Jordan)

Prince Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou   {1974}

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1644   The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zecheng.
1804   The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire.
1986   Msawti III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1214   King Louis IX of France (d.1270)

1228   King Conrad IV of Germany (d.1254)

1284   King Edward II of England (d.1327)

1608   Gaston, Duke of Orleans, son of King Henri IV of France (d.1660)

1775   Infanta Carlota of Spain, Queen of Portugal (d.1830)

1776   Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester & Edinburgh (d.1857)

1843   Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d.1878)

1897   Princess Mary, The Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood (d.1965)

DEATHS

1077   King Geza I of Hungary
1295   King Sancho IV of Castile
1605   Naresuan, King of Siam
1644   Emperor Chongzhen of China
1875   Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama

Happy Easter!

April 24

Easter

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Princess Iman bint Al Hussein of Jordan   {1983} (half-sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan)

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, King of Bohemia and Croatia, Apostolic King of Hungary & Duchess Elisabeth "Sisi" in Bavaria   {1854}

Princess Alexandra of Kent & The Hon. Angus Ogilvy   {1963}

Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands, Prince of Oranje-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg & Mabel Wisse Smit   {2004}

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1479 BC   Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut.

1558   Mary, Queen of Scots marries the Dauphin of France, Francois, at Notre Dame de Paris.
2005   Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

2006   King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTH

1533   Willem I "The Silent" of Orange (d.1584)

DEATHS

1185   Emperor Antoku of Japan
1338   Theodore I of Montferrat
1342   Pope Benedict XII

1736   Prince Eugene of Savoy

1986   Wallis, Duchess of Windsor