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