Feast Day of Saint Thomas the Apostle
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, Count of Rietberg & Duchess Sophie in Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria {1993}
ROYAL CHRISTENING
Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein, Count of Rietberg {1995} [son of Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein (son of Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein)]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
324 Battle of Adrianople: Emperor [& Saint] Constatine I "the Great" of the Roman Empire defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
987 Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.
1849 The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
1996 Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1423 King Louis XI "the Prudent/Cunning" of France (d.1483)
1442 Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d.1500)
1676 Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d.1747)
1743 Queen consort Sophia Magdalena of Sweden, Princess of Denmark + Norway
DEATHS
1642 Marie de' Medici, Queen consort of France + Navarre
1704 Tsarevna Sophia Alekseyavna of Russia, Regent of Russia
1918 Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire
1934 Prince consort Hendrik of the Netherlands, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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