June 20

June 20

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester   {1946} [wife of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1st cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland)]

Prince Moulay Rachid ben al-Hassan of Morocco   {1970} (brother of King Mohammed VI of Morocco)

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1605   After only 3 months as tsar, 16-year-old Feodor II of Russia is assassinated.
1837   Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1469   Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan (d.1494)

1566   King Sigismund (Zygmunt) III Vasa (Waza) of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d.1632)

1634   Duke Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy (d.1675)

1647   Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony (d.1691)

1754   Hereditay Princess Amalie of Baden, Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt (d.1832)


DEATHS

451   Theodoric I, King of the Visigoths

840   Louis I "the Pious", King of the Franks, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Aquitaine
1605   Tsar Feodor II of Russia
1837   King William IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland, King of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick + Luneburg

1856   Prince Florestan I of Monaco, Duke of Valentinois

1945   Luis Fernando de Orleans y Borbon (formerly Infante of Spain)