Monday, February 13, 2012

February 13, 2012

World Radio Day




ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Princess Alia bint Al Hussein of Jordan   {1956} (half-sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan)





HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1462   Treaty of Westminster is finalized between King Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.

1542   Catherine Howard {Queen consort of England}, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.


1575   King Henri III of France is crowned at Rheims, marrying Louise de Lorraine-Vaudemont on the same day.


1660   With the death of Swedish King Carl X Gustav, the Swedish government can start to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War - something that King Carl X Gustav had refused.  As his son and successor on the throne, King Carl XI, is only 4 years old, a regency takes over the ruling of  Sweden until 1672.

1689   William III + II and Mary II are proclaimed co-rulers of England.


1739  Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah Afshar {Shahanshah of Persia} defeats the forces of the Mughal Emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.



HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

711 BC   Emperor Jimmu of Japan (d.585 BC)


1457   Mary, Duchess of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant, Limburg, Lothier, Luxembourg + Guelders, Margravine of Namur, Countess Palatine of Burgundy, Countess of Artois, Flanders, Charolais, Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland + Zutphen (d.1482)


1599   Pope Alexander VII (d.1667)


1913   King Khalid bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia (d.1982)



DEATHS

858   King Kenneth I MacAlpin {Cinaed mac Ailpin} "The Conqueror" of the Picts, King of the Scots


1130   Pope Honorius II


1141   King Bela II "the Blind" of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia + Rama

1199   Stefan Nemanja, Grand Prince of Serbia {aka Saint Simeon the Myrrh-streaming}


1332   Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos of the Byzantine Empire


1539   Isabella d'Este, Marchesa of Mantua


1542   Queen consort Catherine Howard of England {fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England}


1542   Jane Boleyn, Dowager Viscountess Rochford (sister-in-law of Queen Anne Boleyn of England}

1660   King Carl X Gustav of Sweden, Duke of Bremen + Verden


1662   Princess Elizabeth of England, Scotland + Ireland, Queen consort of Bohemia "the Winter Queen"

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