August 18
Feast of Saint & Empress Helen[a] (of Constantinople) (Roman Catholic date)
Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women's suffrage (USA)
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENT
1572 Marriage in Paris of future Huguenot King Henri IV of Navarre to Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
1606 Infanta Maria An[n]a of Spain, Archduchess of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, Queen consort of Hungary + Bohemia (d.1646)
1611 Queen consort Ludwika Maria of Poland, Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania (d.1667)
1819 Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess consort of Leuchtenberg (d.1876)
1830 Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Croatia, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Slavonia, Illyria, Galicia + Lodomeria, King of Lombardy + Venice, King of Jerusalem, Archduke of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany + Krakow, Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Bukovina, Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia, Duke of Upper + Lower Silesia, Duke of Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Teschen, Friuli, Ragusa, Princely Count of Habsburg + Tyrol, Prince of Trent + Brixen, Margrave of Upper + Lower Lusatia + in Istria, Lord of Trieste (d.1916)
DEATHS
1276 Pope Adrian V
1503 Pope Alexander VI
1559 Pope Paul IV
1620 Emperor Wanli of China
1645 Tsarina/Tsaritsa consort Eudoxia/Yevdokiya of All Russia
1765 Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Romans, King in Germany + of Jerusalem, Archduke of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Duke of Calabria, in Silesia of Teschen, Count of Provence
1781 Prince Franz Joseph I of Liechtenstein
2010 Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Duke of Madrid, Count of Montemolin
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