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1st Lenten Sunday
ROYAL BIRTHDAY
Grand Duke George of Russia {1981}
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught & Strathearn, Prince of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, Duke of Saxony and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia {1879}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1809 King Gustaf IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'etat.
1881 Tsar Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him (It was March 1 on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia).
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1372 Louis of Valois, Duke of Orleans, brother of King Charles VI of France (d.1407)
1615 Pope Innocent XII (d.1700)
1741 Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d.1790)
DEATHS
1516 King Ladislaus II of Bohemia & Hungary
1569 Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Conde
1767 Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, mother of King Louis XVI of France
1808 King Christian VII of Denmark
1881 Tsar Alexander II of Russia
1955 King Tribhuvan of Nepal
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