Republic Proclamation Day in Brazil (1889)
America Recycles Day (USA)
Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium
beginning of Winter Lent/Nativity Fast/Philip's Fast/Philippian Fast (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox & Eastern Catholic churches)
Feast of Saint Albert "the Great" {aka St. Albertus Magnus/St. Albert of Cologne} (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Saint Leopold {aka Margrave Leopold III of Austria} (Roman Catholic; also a public holiday in Lower Austria & Vienna)
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Princess Elena of Romania {1950} (daughter of King Michael of Romania)
Peter Phillips {1977} [son of The Princess Anne, Princess Royal (daughter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)]
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
King Carol I of Romania & Princess Elisabeth of Wied {1869}
Princess Sayako of Japan, Princess Yori & Yoshiki Kuroda {2005}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
655 Battle of Winwaed: King Penda of Mercia is defeated by King Oswiu/Oswy/Oswig [of Northumbria] of Bernicia.
1315 Battle of Morgarten: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I, Duke of Austria.
1889 Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II of Brazil is deposed in a military coup.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1316 King John I "the Posthumous" of France + Navarre, Count of Champagne, reigned for five days (d. Nov. 20, 1316)
1397 Pope Nicholas V (d.1455)
1498 Archduchess Eleanor of Austria, Infanta [as Leonor] of Castile, Queen consort of Portugal + France [as Leonor/Eleonore/Alienor], Duchess of Touraine (d.1558)
1559 Archduke Albert VII of Austria, Duke of Lothier, Brabant, Limburg, Luxembourg, Burgundy, Carinthia, Carniola, Wurttemberg, + Guelders, Count of Flanders, Habsburg, Tyrol, + Artois, Count Palatine of Burgundy, Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland, + Namur, Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Lord of Frisia, Utrecht, + Groningen (d.1621)
1784 Jerome-Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Westphalia [as Jerome I], 1st Prince of Montfort, French Prince (d.1860)
1852 Muhammed Tewfik [Tawfiq] Pasha, Khedive of Egypt + Sudan (d.1892)
1895 Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia [New Style date is Nov.15, Old Style date is Nov.3] {daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia} (d.1918)
DEATHS
655 King Penda of Mercia
1028 Emperor Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire
1136 Margrave + Saint Leopold III of Austria
1463 Giovanni Antonio [Giannantonio] Del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto, Duke of Bari, Count of Lecce, Acerra, Soleto, + Conversano, Count of Matera + Ugento, Grand Constable of the Kingdom of Naples
1544 King Jungjong of Joseon {Korea}
1853 Queen Maria II of Portugal + the Algarves
1908 Empress Dowager Cixi of China, Regent of the Qing Dynasty
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