First Sunday of Advent (Christianity)
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
Prince Florestan of Monaco [the future Prince Florestan I of Monaco] & Marie Caroline Gibert de Lametz {1816}
Crown Prince Nikola/Nicholas II of Montenegro & Francine Navarro {1976}
Fernando Gomez-Acebo y de Borbon & Monica Fernan Luque {2004} [separated July 2011]
ROYAL ENTHRONEMENT ANNIVERSARY
King Juan Carlos I of Spain {1975}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
176 Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
1095 Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1295 The first representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I of England to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
1940 In Romania, the ruling party Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
2004 Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1127 Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (d.1194)
1630 Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d.1665)
1635 Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise of Maintenon, morganatic wife of King Louis XIV of France (d.1719)
1833 Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Duchess consort of Teck, Princess of Hanover, Duchess of Brunswick + Luneburg (d.1897)
DEATHS
450 Aelia Galla Placidia, Empress-mother of the Western Roman Emperor, previously Queen consort of the Goths (from 414-415), daughter of Roman Emperor Theodosius I, regent for Emperor Valentinian III
511 Clovis I, King of the Franks
602 Emperor Maurice of the Byzantine Empire
1198 Queen regnant Constance of Sicily, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire, Queen consort of the Romans
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