Flag Day in Denmark (Day of Valedmar & Reunion Day, celebration of Valdemar II of Denmark's victory in a battle in Estonia in 1219, at which Denmark got its national flag, Dannebrog.)
ROYAL BIRTHDAY
Bruno Gomez-Acebo y de Borbon {1971} [son of Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz, Dowager Viscountess de la Torre (sister of King Juan Carlos of Spain)]
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia & Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine {1884}
Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Skane(Scania) & Princess Margaret of Connaught {1905}
Princess Christina of Sweden & Tord Magnuson {1974}
King Hussein of Jordan & Elizabeth "Lisa" Najeeb Halaby (known as Queen Noor after wedding) {1978}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
923 Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles The Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolphe of Burgundy.
1184 King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the Battle of Fimreite.
1215 King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
1245 With the death of Duke Freidrich II "the Warlike/Quarrelsome", the Babenburg dynasty ends in Austria.
1520 Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in the papal bull Exsurge Domine.
1580 King Felipe II of Spain declares Willem I "the Silent", Prince of Orange, to be an outlaw.
1888 Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1330 Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Prince of Aquitaine "the Black Prince", son of King Edward III of England, father of King Richard II of England (d.1376)
1519 Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond & Somerset, illegitimate son of King Henry VIII of England (d.1536)
DEATHS
923 King Robert I of France
991 Empress Theophanu (also spelled Theophano, Theophana, Theophania), Empress consort & Empress Regent, Byzantine wife of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor
1073 Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan
1184 King Magnus V of Norway
1246 Duke Friedrich II "the Warlike/Quarrelsome" of Austria
1341 Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor
1383 John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor
1389 Murad I, Ottoman Sultan
1389 Tsar/Prince & Saint Lazar of Serbia
1467 Philippe III "the Good", Duke of Burgundy
1888 Emperor/Kaiser Friedrich III of Germany, King of Prussia
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