ROYAL BIRTHDAY
Princess Alia bint Al Hussein of Jordan {1956} (half-sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan)
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1462 Treaty of Westminster is finalized between King Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
1542 Catherine Howard {Queen consort of England}, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
1575 King Henri III of France is crowned at Rheims, marrying Louise de Lorraine-Vaudemont on the same day.
1660 With the death of Swedish King Carl X Gustav, the Swedish government can start to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War - something that King Carl X Gustav had refused. As his son and successor on the throne, King Carl XI, is only 4 years old, a regency takes over the ruling of Sweden until 1672.
1689 William III + II and Mary II are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1739 Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah Afshar {Shahanshah of Persia} defeats the forces of the Mughal Emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
711 BC Emperor Jimmu of Japan (d.585 BC)
1457 Mary, Duchess of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant, Limburg, Lothier, Luxembourg + Guelders, Margravine of Namur, Countess Palatine of Burgundy, Countess of Artois, Flanders, Charolais, Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland + Zutphen (d.1482)
1599 Pope Alexander VII (d.1667)
1913 King Khalid bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia (d.1982)
DEATHS
858 King Kenneth I MacAlpin {Cinaed mac Ailpin} "The Conqueror" of the Picts, King of the Scots
1130 Pope Honorius II
1141 King Bela II "the Blind" of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia + Rama
1199 Stefan Nemanja, Grand Prince of Serbia {aka Saint Simeon the Myrrh-streaming}
1332 Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos of the Byzantine Empire
1539 Isabella d'Este, Marchesa of Mantua
1542 Queen consort Catherine Howard of England {fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England}
1542 Jane Boleyn, Dowager Viscountess Rochford (sister-in-law of Queen Anne Boleyn of England}
1660 King Carl X Gustav of Sweden, Duke of Bremen + Verden
1662 Princess Elizabeth of England, Scotland + Ireland, Queen consort of Bohemia "the Winter Queen"
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