ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Jazmin Grace Grimaldi {1992} (illegitimate daughter of Prince Albert II of Monaco)
Prince Paul Louis of Nassau {1998} [son of Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg (son of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg & brother of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg)]
ROYAL CHRISTENING
Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway {2006} [son of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway (son of King Harald V of Norway)]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
51 Nero, later to become Emperor of the Roman Empire, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
852 Duke Trpimir of Croatia issues a statute, a document with the first known written mentions of the 'Croats' name in Croatian sources.
932 Translation of the relics of martyr Saint Wencelsaus/Vaclav I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1351 Uthong/Ramathibodi I becomes King of Siam.
1386 "Jogaila" Wladyslaw II Jagiello, Grand Duke of Lithuania, is crowned King consort of Poland.
1461 War of the Roses in England: King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1665 King Charles II of England, Scotland + Ireland declares war on the Netherlands, marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1681 King Charles II of England, Scotland + Ireland grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania, USA.
1848 King Carlo Alberto of Piedmont-Sardinia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia.
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1890 The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.
1991 Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1188 Blanche/Blanca of Castile, Queen consort of France (d.1252)
1394 Infante Henrique "the Navigator" of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (d.1460)
1484 Georg "the Pious", Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d.1543)
DEATHS
251 Pope Saint Lucius I
561 Pope Pelagius I
1172 King Stephen/Istvan/Stjepan/Stefan III of Hungary, Croatia + Dalmatia
1193 Sultan Saladin {Salah ad-Din Yusuf Ayyub} of Egypt + Syria, Mesopotamia, Hejaz + Yemen
1238 Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland
1238 Grand Prince Yuri/George II of Vladimir [Georgy II of Vsevolodovich]
1303 Grand Prince Saint Daniel/Daniil Aleksandrovich of Moscow
1484 Prince Saint Casimir/Kazimierz/Kazimieras of Poland + Lithuania
1496 Archduke Sigismund/Siegmund of Further Austria
1710 Louis III, Prince of Conde, Duke of Bourbon, Duke of Montmorency, Count of Sancerre, Count of Charolais
1793 Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthievre, Prince of Lamballe, Prince of Carignano, Duke of Rambouillet, Duke of Aumale, Duke of Gisors, Duke of Chateauvillain, Duke of Arc-en-Barrois, Duke of Ambois, Count of Eu, Count of Guingamp
1821 Princess Elizabeth of Clarence {daughter of the future King Willaim IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland} (b.1820)
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