January 29, 2012

Feast of Saint Francis de Sales  (Roman Catholic, traditional)

Constitution Day in Gibraltar  (2006)

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein, Count of Rietberg & Angela Brown   {2000} [religious]

ROYAL ACCESSION ANNIVERSARY

Sheikh Sabah IV Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait   {2006}

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

904   Pope Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.

1676   Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.

1856   Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland institutes the Victoria Cross.

1891   Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1584   Frederik Hendrik, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, etc. (d.1647)

1749   King Christian VII of Denmark + Norway, Duke of Schleswig + Holstein (d.1808)

DEATHS

1119   Pope Gelasius II

1342   Louis I "the Lame", Duke of Bourbon, Count of Clermont, Count of La Marche

1608   Friedrich I, Duke of Wurttemberg

1676   Tsar Alexei  of Russia

1696   Tsar Ivan V of Russia

1820   King George III of of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland, King of Hanover

1870   Leopoldo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany

1901   King Milan I of Serbia

1906   King Christian IX of Denmark, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg

1912   Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, Marquess of Macduff

1948   Prince Aimone of Savoy-Aosta, Duke of Aosta, Duke of Spoleto, Prince of Cisterna + Belriguardo, Marquess of Voghera, Count of Ponderano, King [as Tomislav II] of Croatia (1941-1943), Prince of Bosnia + Herzegovina (1941-1943), Voivode of Dalmatia, Tuzla + Knin (1941-1943)

1950   Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait