Thursday, March 3, 2011

March 3 in Royal History

March 3

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1284   The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.

1575   Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.

1861   Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto freeing serfs.

1878   Bulgaria regains its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.


1904   Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.
1905   Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.
1924   The 1400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1455   King John II of Portugal (d.1495)
1778   Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Hanover (d.1841)


HISTORICAL ROYAL DEATHS

1111   Bohemund I, Prince of Antioch
1239   Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev
1554   John Frederick, Elector of Saxony
1707   Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India

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