January 2, 2012

Ninth Day of Christmas  (Christianity)

Ancestry Day in Haiti

Feast of Saint Basil the Great  (Roman Catholic, Anglican)

Bank Holiday in Scotland

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Princess Muneerah Madhul of Brunei   {2011} [daughter of Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah of Brunei (son of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei)]

ROYAL ACCESSION ANNIVERSARY

Sheikh Saud bin Rashid Al Mu'alla of Umm al-Quwain   {2009}

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

533   Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.

1871   Prince Amadeo/Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Savoy becomes King of Spain (as King Amadeo I).

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1642   Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire (d.1693)

1699   Sultan Osman III of the Ottoman Empire (d.1757)

1836   Queen consort Emma {Kaleleonalani} of Hawai'i [of the Hawaiian Islands] (d.1885)

1895   Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg (grandson of King Oscar II of Sweden) (d.1948)

DEATHS

1861   King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia

2000   Princess Maria de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Infanta of Spain, Countess of Barcelona (mother of King Juan Carlos I of Spain)

                                                                     (pictured at right)