March 3, 2012

Hinamatsuri / Girls' Day / The Japanese Doll Festival  (Japan)

Liberation Day in Bulgaria  (1878)

Mother's Day in Georgia  [the nation of Georgia]

Sportsmen's Day in Egypt

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Prince Charles-Philippe of Orleans, Duke of Anjou, Duke-Consort of Cadaval   {1973} (nephew of Prince Henri of Orleans, Count of Paris, Duke of France)

Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal   {1997} (daughter of Prince Dom Duarte Pio of Portugal, Duke of Braganza, Prince Royal of Portugal)

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg & Martin Jorgensen   {2007}

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Crown Prince of Qatar & Anoud bint Mana Al-Hajri   {2009} [2nd polygamous marriage]





HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1575   Emperor Akbar "the Great" of the Mughal Empire defeats a Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.

1904   Emperor/Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.

1905   Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1455   King Joao II "the Perfect Prince" of Portugal + the Algarves (d.1495)

1778   Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg (1778-1793), Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1778-1793), Princess Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia (1793-1798), Princess Friedrich Wilhelm of Solms-Braunfels (1798-1815), The Duchess of Cumberland + Teviotdale (1815-1841), Queen consort of Hanover (1837-1841) (d.1841)

DEATH

1111   Prince Bohemund I of Antioch, Prince of Taranto

1239   Vladimir IV Rurikovich, Prince of Pereyaslavl (1206-1213), Prince of Smolensk (1213-1219), Grand Prince of Kiev (1223-1235)

1554   Johann Friedrich I "the Magnanimous", Duke of Saxony

1606   King Nyaungyan Min of Burma

1916   Princess Elisabeth of Wied, Queen consort of Romania  {aka Carmen Sylva}