Thursday, January 12, 2012

January 12, 2012

Memorial Day in Turkmenistan  (1881)


National Youth Day in India



Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania  (1964)



ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg   {1969} [son of Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (sister of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark)]



ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Princess Astrid of Norway & Johan Martin Ferner   {1961}







HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

475   Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony at the Hebdomon Palace in Constantinople.

1528   Gustav I {Gustav Vasa} is crowned King of Sweden.


1539   The Treaty of Toledo is signed by King Francois I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

1872   Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.


1875   Guangxu becomes Emperor of China.



HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1483   Count Henry III of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, Lord of Breda (d.1538)


1562   Carlo Emanuele I "the Great", Duke of Savoy (d.1630)


1721   Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick-Luneburg (d.1792)


1751   King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d.1825)


1810   King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (d.1859)



DEATHS

1321   Marie/Maria of Brabant, Queen consort of France

1519   Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Romans, King of Germany, King of Hungary, Dalmatia + Croatia, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Lorraine, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Limburg, Luxembourg + Gelderland, Landgrave of Alsace, Prince of Swabia, Count Palatine of Burgundy,  Princely Count of Habsburg, Hainaut, Flanders, Tyrol, Gorizia, Artois, Holland, Seeland, + Namur, Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Lord of Frisia etc


1759   Princess Anne of Great Britain, Princess Royal, Duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg, Princess of Hanover, Princess of Orange, Princess-Regent of Friesland


1974   Princess Victoria Patricia of Connaught, Lady Ramsay

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