Tuesday, December 27, 2011

December 22

Hanukkah  (Judaism)


O Antiphons  (Roman Catholic)


Las Posadas  (Roman Catholic/Mexico, Latin America, Southwestern USA)


Armed Forces Day in Vietnam

Mother's Day in Indonesia



Unity Day in Zimbabwe



Feast of Saint Francesca Xavier "Mother" Cabrini  (Roman Catholic pre-1970)


Winter Solstice / Yule




ROYAL CHRISTENINGS

Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece + Denmark   {1996} [daughter of Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, Prince of Denmark (son of King Constantine II of Greece)]




Isabella van Vollenhoven   {2002} [daughter of Prince Bernhard of Orange-Nassau (nephew of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands)]





HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENT

69   Emperor Vitellius of the Roman Empire is captured and murdered at the Gemonian stairs in Rome.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

244   Emperor Diocletian of the Roman Empire (d.311)


1095   King Roger II of Sicily (d.1154)


1178   Emperor Antoku of Japan (d.1185)


1690   Emperor/Meidingu/King Pamheiba of Manipur (northeastern India) (d.1751)


DEATHS

69   Emperor Vitellius of the Roman Empire


1100   Duke Bretislaus/Bretislav II of Bohemia

1603   Sultan Mehmed III of the Ottoman Empire


1708   Princess Hedvig Sophia/Sofia of Sweden, Duchess consort of Holstein-Gottorp

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