Hajj (Islam)
All Saints' Day in Sweden
Feast of Saint Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist (Roman Catholic & some Lutheran churches)
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Princess Fawzia of Egypt (formerly Queen consort of Iran) {1921} (ex-wife of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran & aunt of King Fuad II of Egypt)
Prince Kubrat of Bulgaria, Prince of Panagyurishte, Duke of Saxony {1965} (son of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria)
Alejandro Gomez-Acebo y Cano {2004} [son of Bruno Gomez-Acebo y de Borbon (nephew of King Juan Carlos I of Spain)]
ROYAL ENGAGEMENT ANNIVERSARY
Prince Constantin of Liechtenstein & Countess Maria Kalnoky de Korospatak {1998}
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Prince Louis Alphonse/Luis Alfonso of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou & Maria Margarita Vargas Santaella {2004} [civil]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1138 Ly Anh Tong is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, starting a 37-year reign.
1688 The Glorious Revolution begins. Prince William of Orange, Stadholder of Holland, lands in Brixham. He is later proclaimed King of England (and reigned jointly with his wife Mary) on February 13, 1689 and crowned on April 11, 1689. They accepted the Scottish crown on May 11, 1689.
1757 Seven Years' War: King Friedrich II "the Great" of Prussia defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
1913 King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title King Ludwig III of Bavaria.
1916 The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTH
1615 Ibrahim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d.1648)
DEATHS
1370 King Casimir [Kazimierz] III "the Great" of Poland
1828 Tsarina Maria Feodorovna of Russia, Empress consort of All the Russias {formerly Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Wurttemberg} (2nd wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia & mother of Tsar Alexander I of Russia & Tsar Nicholas I of Russia)
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