Flag Day in Romania
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Princess Marie-Astrid of Liechtenstein {1987} [daughter of Princess Margaretha of Liechtenstein, Princess of Luxembourg (daughter of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg & sister of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg); daughter of Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein (brother of Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein)]
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Princess of Oranje-Nassau {2005} [daughter of Crown Prince Willem Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince of Oranje (son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands)]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
221 Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
1409 Western Schism: the Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander IV after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1718 Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Tsar Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1857 The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1995 Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1575 Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Queen consort of Denmark + Norway (d.1612)
1681 Princess Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, Duchess consort of Holstein-Gottorp (d.1708)
1899 Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia {new style June 26; old style June 14}, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d.1918)
DEATHS
363 Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor
1718 Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia
1830 King George IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland, King of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick
1878 Infanta Maria de las Mercedes of Spain, Queen consort of Spain
1922 Prince Albert I of Monaco
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