February 21, 2012
last day of Mardi Gras / Shrove Tuesday / Fat Tuesday / Pancake Tuesday / end of Carnival season (Western Christianity/Anglican/Roman Catholic; USA: Alabama, Louisiana & Mississippi; Brazil, Columbia, Trinidad + Tobago, Canada: Quebec City; Mexico; other parts of the Caribbean & Latin America; Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, etc)
International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
King Harald V of Norway {1937}
King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan {1980}
Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary + Bohemia, Hereditary Prince of Modena {1986} [son of Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este (daughter of King Albert II of the Belgians)]
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
King Willem II of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Duke of Limburg & Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia {1816}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENT
1613 Michael I [Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov] is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1484 Prince-Elector Joachim I Nestor of Brandenburg (d.1535)
1728 Tsar Peter III of Russia, Emperor + Autocrat of All the Russias (d.1762)
1783 Princess Catharina of Wurttemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia, Princess of Montfort (d.1835)
DEATHS
1437 King James I of Scotland {King of Scots}
1513 Pope Julius II
1730 Pope Benedict XIII
1824 Eugene de Beauharnais, Prince Francais, Prince of Venice, Hereditary Grand Duke of Frankfurt, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg, 1st Prince of Eichstatt {step-son + adopted child of Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte of the French Empire}
1846 Emperor Ninko of Japan
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