Feast of Saint David / Saint David's Day / Dydd Gwyl Dewi (Roman Catholic & Anglican; Wales & Welsh people worldwide)
Beer Day in Iceland (since 1989)
Independence Day in Bosnia + Herzegovina (1992)
Martenitsa in Bulgaria
Martisor in Romania & Moldova
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence {1955} [husband of The Princess Anne, The Princess Royal (daughter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)]
Serena Armstrong-Jones, Viscountess Linley {1970} [wife of David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (nephew of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)]
Lady Rose Gilman {1980} [daughter of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1st cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
752 BC Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women.
509 BC Publius Valerius Pubicola, Roman consul, celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed King Lucius Tarquinius Superbus of Rome at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
293 Emperor Diocletian & Emperor Maximian, the two senior emperors of the Roman Empire appoint Constantius Chlorus as Caesar [one of the two junios sub-emperors] to Maximian.
317 Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Emperor Constantine I of the Roman Empire, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinus of the Roman Empire, are made Caesares.
350 Vetranio is asked by Constantina, sister of Constantius II, to proclaim himself Emperor.
1628 Writs issued in February by King Charles of England, Scotland + Ireland mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
1815 Emperor Napoleon I of the French Empire returns to France from his banishment on the island of Elba.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1432 Infanta Isabel/Isabella {of Coimbra} of Portugal, Queen consort of Portugal (d.1455)
1456 King Vladislaus/Vladislav/Ulaszlo/Wladyslaw Jagiellon II of Bohemia, Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Rama, Serbia, Galicia, Lodomeria, Cumania, + Bulgaria, Prince of Silesia + Luxembourg, Margrave of Moravia + Lusatia (d.1516)
1683 Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Queen consort of Great Britain + Ireland (d.1737)
DEATHS
317 Emperor Valerius Valens of the Roman Empire
986 King Lothair/Lothaire IV of West Francia
1131 King Stephen/Istvan/Stjepan/Stefan II of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia + Rama
1233 Count Tommaso I of Savoy
1320 Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan, Emperor of Yuan China, Khagan of the Mongol Empire
1383 Count Amadeus VI "the Green Count" of Savoy
1792 Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, King of the Romans, King in Germany, King of Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria, Rama, Serbia, Cumania + Bulgaria, Archduke of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany + Etruria, Duke of Burgundy, Lorraine, Styria, Carinthia, + Carniola, Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia, Prince of Brabant, Limburg, Luxembourg, Wurttemberg, Upper + Lower Silesia, Milan, Mantua, Parma, Piacenza, Calabria, Bar + Teschen, Count of Habsburg + Flanders, Margrave of Upper + Lower Lusatia, Count of Namur, etc.
1865 Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna/Paulowna of Russia, Queen consort of the Netherlands, Grand Duchess consort of Luxembourg, Duchess consort of Limburg
1921 King Nikola I of Montenegro [reigned as Prince of Montenegro 1860-1910; reigned as King 1910-1918]
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