Hanukkah (Judaism)
Las Posadas (Roman Catholic/Mexico, Latin America, southwestern USA)
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
King Hussein of Jordan & Alia Baha Ad-Din Touqan {1972}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1294 Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope, replacing Pope Saint Celestine V, who had resigned.
1939 World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
1951 Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
3 BC Emperor Servius Suplicius Galba Augustus of the Roman Empire (d.69)
1166 King John "Lackland" of England (d.1216)
1389 Yann/Jean VI/V "the Wise", Duke of Brittany, Count of Montfort, Earl of Richmond (d.1442)
1588 Archduchess Constance/Konstanze of Austria, Queen consort of Poland [as Konstancja], Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania (d.1631)
1634 Archduchess Maria Anna "Mariana" of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (d.1696)
1784 Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Hereditary Grand Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d.1803)
1837 Duchess Elisabeth "Sissi/Sisi" in Bavaria, Empress consort of Austria, Apostolic Queen consort of Hungary, Queen consort of Bohemia + Croatia (d.1898)
1845 King George/Georgios I of Greece {King of the Hellenes}, Prince of Denmark [as Wilhelm/Vilhelm] (d.1913)
1879 Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Queen consort of Denmark + Iceland (d.1952)
DEATHS
1257 John I of Avesnes, Count of Hainaut
1660 Princess Mary Henrietta of England, Scotland + Ireland, Princess Royal, Princess consort of Orange, Countess consort of Nassau [daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland + Ireland and mother of King William III/II of England, Scotland + Ireland]
1813 Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan
1976 Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza
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