Friday, March 16, 2012

March 16, 2012

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Princess Majeedah Nuurul of Brunei   {1976}



ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran & Princess Fawzia bint Fuad of Egypt   {1939} [divorced 1948]








HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

37   Caligula becomes Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Emperor Tiberius of the Roman Empire.

455   Emperor Valentinian III of the Western Roman Empire is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers while training with the bow on the Campus Martius (Rome).

1792   King Gustav III of Sweden is shot, he dies on March 29.


1815   Prince Willem of Orange-Nassau proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.



HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1473   Heinrich IV "the Pious", Duke of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen, Lord of Friesland (d.1541)


1687   Princess Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia, Electress of Brandenburg {Old Style date is Mar.16; New Style date is Mar.26} (d.1757)


1800   Emperor Ninko of Japan (d.1846)


1856   Napoleon, Prince Imperial of France {son of Emperor Napoleon III of the French} (d.1879)




DEATHS

37   Emperor Tiberius of the Roman Empire


455   Emperor Valentinian III of the Western Roman Empire

1485   Lady Anne Neville, Queen consort of England

1747   Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst {father of Empress Catherine II of Russia}



1890   Princess Ljubica Petrovic-Njegos of Montenegro, Princess [as Zorka] of Serbia


1923   Queen consort Milena of Montenegro

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