The Royal Calendar: Finland

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Sunday, November 23, 2014

November 17, 2014 :: Part III

IN MEMORIAM

Flavius Valentinianus/Valentinian I "the Great", Emperor of the Roman Empire {375 AD}

Leo II, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire {474}

Emperor Jomei of Japan {641}

Queen Mary I “Bloody Mary” of England + Ireland, Queen consort of Spain + Sicily, Queen consort of Naples, Princess of Sicily, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Milan, Burgundy + Brabant, Countess of Habsburg, Flanders + Tyrol {1558}

Antoine, Duke of Vendome, King consort of Navarre {1562}

King Johan/John/Juhana III of Sweden, Duke + Grand Prince of

Finland

{1592}

Princess Sophie Auguste Friederike of Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, Empress consort Yekaterina Alexeevna of All the Russias (1761-1762), Empress + Autocrat Catherine II “the Great” of All the Russias (1762-1796) {1796} {New Style Date}

Queen consort Charlotte of Great Britain, Ireland + Hanover, Duchess consort of Brunswick, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz {1818}

Alexander I, The Prince of Bulgaria (1879-1886), Prince of Battenberg {1893}

Sunday, September 2, 2012

September 1, 2012

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Ion George Nicholas Alexander Lambrino/von Hohenzollern {1961} (half-nephew of King Michael I of Romania)

Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini of Swaziland {1987} (daughter of King Mswati III of Swaziland)

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Grand Duke Karl Peter Ulrich of Russia, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, King of Finland (the future Tsar Peter III of Russia) & Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst (the future Empress Catherine II "the Great" of Russia) {1745} [Old Style date is Aug.21]

DEATHS

1715 King Louis XIV "the Great/the Sun King" of France + Navarre

1922 Princess Helena of Waldeck + Pyrmont, The Duchess of Albany

Sunday, April 22, 2012

April 22, 2012

Earth Day

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Daniel Chatto {1957} [husband of Lady Sarah Chatto (niece of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)]

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, Prince of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont & Princess Margherita of Savoy {1868}

ROYAL CHRISTENING

Prince Gabriel of Nassau {2006} [son of Prince Louis of Luxembourg (son of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg & grandson of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg)]

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1451 Queen Isabella/Isabel/Ysabel/Sabela I of Castile + Leon, Queen consort of Aragon, Majorca, Naples + Valencia, Queen consort of Sicily, Countess consort of Barcelona (d.1504)

1610 Pope Alexander VIII (d.1691)

1852 Grand Duke Guillaume IV of Luxembourg, Duke of Nassau (d.1912)

1868 Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Princess Imperial of Austria, of Hungary + Bohemia, Princess of Tuscany (d.1924)

1872 Princess Margaret/Margarete "Mossy" of Prussia, Landgravine of Hesse {Queen consort of Finland + Karelia, Duchess of Aland, Grand Duchess of Lapland, Lady of Kaleva + of the North (Oct.9-Dec.14, 1918)} (d.1954)

1906 Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Vasterbotten (d.1947)

DEATHS

296 Pope Saint Caius/Gaius

455 Emperor Petronius Maximus of the Western Roman Empire

536 Pope Saint Agapetus I

Thursday, March 29, 2012

March 29, 2012

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan {1980} (half-brother of King Abdullah II of Jordan)

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

January 22, 2012

Feast of Saint Vincent of Saragossa (Roman Catholic + Anglican)

Ukrainian Day /Reunion Day in Ukraine /Day of Unity of Ukraine (1919)

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1521 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, opens the Diet of Worms.

1689 The Convention Parliament convenes to determine if James II, the last Roman Catholic King of England, had vacated the throne when he fled to France in 1688.

1901 Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland.

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1440 Grand Prince Ivan III "the Great" of All Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (d.1505)