ROYAL BIRTHDAY
Crown Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah of Jordan {1994} (son of King Abdullah II of Jordan)
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
Princess Maria Christina of the Netherlands, Princess of Oranje-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld & Jorge Guillermo {1975} [divorced 1996]
Princess Caroline of Monaco & Philippe Junot {1978} [civil] [divorced October 9, 1980; annulled 1992)
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1461 Edward IV is crowned King of England.
1519 Karl V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1838 Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland.
1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
1921 King Alexander I of Yugoslavia proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1476 Pope Paul IV (d.1559)
1491 King Henry VIII of England (d.1547)
1641 Queen consort Maria Kazimiera of Poland, Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania (d.1716)
DEATHS
548 Theodora, Byzantine Empress, wife of Justinian I
572 Alboin, King of the Lombards
767 Pope Paul I
928 Louis the Blind, King of Provence + Italy, + Holy Roman Emperor
1061 Floris I, Count of Holland
1175 Prince Saint Andrei I Bogolyubsky of Vladimir-Suzdal
1194 Emperor Xiaozong of Song, Emperor of China
1385 Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor
1389 Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic of Serbia (June 29 New Style; June 15 Old Style)
1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Prince Royal of Hungary + Bohemia, Duke of Modena
1914 Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
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