HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
141 BC Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.
1230 Tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
1566 David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1796 Napoleon Bonaparte, the future Emperor Napoleon I of the French, marries his first wife, Josephine de Beauharnais.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1213 Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (d.1271)
1285 Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (d.1318)
1629 Tsar Aleksey/Alexis I of Russia (d.1676)
1900 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) (d.1948)
DEATHS
1202 King Sverre of Norway
1888 Kaiser Wilhelm I, German Emperor, King of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg, Count of Hohenzollern, Duke of Silesia, Grand Duke of the Lower Rhine, Duke of Saxony, Westphalia, Pomerania, Holstein + Schleswig, Madgeburg, Bremen, Guelders, Cleves, Julich + Berg, & Mecklenburg, Landgrave of Hesse + Thuringia, Margrave of Upper + Lower Lusatia, Prince of Orange, East Friesland, Paderborn, Pyrmont + Nassau, Princely Count of Henneberg, Count of Ravensberg, Hohenstein + Sigmaringen, Lord of Frankfurt, etc.
1991 Luis Gomez-Acebo y Duque de Estrada, Viscount de la Torre, Grandee of Spain [husband of Infanta Pilar of Spain (sister of King Juan Carlos I of Spain)]
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