June 11
Trooping the Colour, the monarch's official birthday celebration in the UK
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Queen Fabiola of Belgium {1928} (sister-in-law of King Albert II of the Belgians)
Henrik, The Prince Consort of Denmark, Count of Monpezat {1934} (husband of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark)
Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein {1968} (son of Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein)
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Princess Norberta "Nora" of Liechtenstein & Vicente Sartorius y Cabeza de Vaca, 4th Marquess of Marino {1988} [religious]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1509 King Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
1594 King Felipe II of Spain recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paves the way to the stabilization of the rule of Principalia (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
1898 The Hundred Days' Reform is started by Emperor Guangxu of China with a plan to change social, political, & educational institutions in China, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform, though, led to the abolition of the Imperial Examination in 1905.
1903 A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenovic of Serbia & his wife, Queen Draga.
1917 King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, King Constantine I of Greece, abdicates under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1403 John IV, Duke of Brabant (d.1427)
1456 Lady Anne Neville, Queen consort of England, wife of King Richard III of England (d.1485)
1726 Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain, Dauphine of France (as Marie Therese Raphaelle) (d.1746)
1897 Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (d.1918)
DEATHS
1183 Henry The Young King, Junior King of the English, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou & Maine, son of King Henry II of England
1216 Henry of Flanders, Latin Emperor of Constantinople
1488 King James III of Scotland
1557 King Joao III of Portugal
1712 Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome, Marshal of France, great-grandson of King Henri IV of France
1727 King George I of Great Britain & Ireland, Elector of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire
1879 Prince Willem of the Netherlands, The Prince of Orange, Prince of Orange-Nassau
1903 King Alexander Obrenovic of Serbia
1903 Queen consort Draga of Serbia
1914 Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
2006 Major Bruce Shand, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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