ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
Prince Richard of Gloucester & Birgitte [Henriksen] van Deurs {1972}
Prince Bernhard of Oranje-Nassau & Annette Sekreve {2000} [religious]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1663 King Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
1709 Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava - Tsar Peter I of Russia defeats King Carl XII of Sweden at Poltava, thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
1808 Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as a basis for his rule as king of Spain.
1859 King Carl XV & IV acceded to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1966 King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1528 Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Savoy (d.1580)
1545 Carlos, Prince of Asturias, Infante of Spain (d.1568)
1792 Queen consort Therese of Bavaria (d.1854)
1830 Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, Grand Duchess of Russia (d.1911)
DEATHS
810 King Pepin of Italy (King of the Lombards)
975 King Edgar I "the Peaceful" of England
1153 Pope Eugene III
1623 Pope Gregory XV
1850 Prince Adolphus of Great Britain, 1st Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Tipperary, Baron Culloden
1859 King Oscar I of Sweden + Norway
1996 Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, of Franconia + in Swabia, Count Palatine + the Rhine
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