Sunday, July 10, 2011

July 9

July 9

ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Princess Alexia of Greece + Denmark & Carlos Morales Quintana   {1999}







HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

455   Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

1357   Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV assists in laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.


1540   King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.

1807   The Treaties of Tilsit are signed by Emperor Napoleon I of France and  Tsar Alexander I of Russia.


1810   Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.

1900   Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an Act creating the Commonwealth of Australia, thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1511   Queen consort Dorothea of Denmark + Norway (d.1571)

1578   Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Serbia + Bulgaria,  Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, + Luxembourg (d.1637)

1654   Emperor Reigen of Japan (d.1732)
1786   Princess Sophie Helene Beatric of France (d.1787)

1848   Robert I, Duke of Parma (d.1907)

1929   King Hassan II of Morocco (d.1999)



DEATHS

518   Anastasius I, Byzantine Emperor
1386   Duke Leopold III of Austria
1553   Maurice, Elector of Saxony

1654   Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, King of Hungary + Bohemia

1737   Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

1746   King Felipe V of Spain

1985   Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Princess of Nassau-Weilburg, Princess of Bourbon-Parma

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