Las Posadas (Roman Catholic/Mexico, Latin America, Southwestern USA)
ROYAL ENGAGEMENT ANNIVERSARY
Prince Laurent of Belgium & Claire Coombs {2002}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
211 Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrives the Praetorian Guard murders him and he dies in the arms of his mother Julia Domna.
324 Licinius I abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
1154 King Henry II of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1490 Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, by proxy.
1920 King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes (Greece) after the death of his son King Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1554 Philip William, Prince of Orange (d.1618)
1587 Duchess Dorothea Sophia of Saxe-Altenburg, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (d.1645)
1683 King Felipe V of Spain (d.1746)
1778 Princess Marie Therese of France, Dauphine of France, Duchess of Angouleme [daughter of King Louis XVI & Queen consort Marie Antoinette of France] (d.1851)
DEATHS
211 Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor
401 Pope Saint Anastasius I
1075 Edith of Wessex, Queen consort of England
1327 Princess Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
1370 Blessed Pope Urban V
1737 James Louis [Jakub Ludwik] Sobieski, son of King Jan/John III Sobieski of Poland
1751 Prince Louise/Louisa of Great Britain, Queen consort of Denmark + Norway
1944 Khedive Abbas II Hilmi Bey [Abbas Hilmi Pasha] of Egypt + Sudan
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