Wednesday, March 16, 2011

March 16

March 16

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran & Princess Fawzia of Egypt & Sudan   {1939} (divorced 1945/1948)


HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

37   Caligula becomes Roman Emperor after the death of his great-uncle, Tiberius.

1792   King Gustaf III of Sweden is shot, dying on March 29.

1815   Prince Willem of the House of Oranje-Nassau proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.



HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1473   Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (d.1541)
1687   Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen consort of Prussia (d.1757)
1800   Emperor Ninko of Japan (d.1846)

1856   Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France (d.1879)
1877   Reza Shah Pahlavi, Iranian Shah (d.1944)



DEATHS

37   Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor

455   Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor
1485   Anne Neville, queen consort of King Richard III of England

1747   Christian Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Empress Catherine II of Russia
1890   Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia

1923   Queen Consort Milena of Montenegro

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