Thursday, August 2, 2012

August 2, 2012

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENT

1830   King Charles X of France + Navarre abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson, Henri, Duke of Bordeaux.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1674   Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, Duke of Chartres (d.1723)


1696   Sultan Mahmud I "the Hunchback" of the Ottoman Empire (d.1754)


1858   Princess Adelheid Emma of Waldeck + Pyrmont, Queen consort (1879-1890) {also Queen Dowager: Queen Regent (1890-1898) + Queen Mother (1890-1934)} of the Netherlands, Grand Duchess consort of Luxembourg (d.1934)


1868   King Constantine I of Greece {King of the Hellenes} (d.1923)



DEATHS

686   Pope John V



924   King AElfweard of Wessex

1100   King William II (William Rufus) of England


1589   King Henri III of France (1574-1589), King of Poland + Grand Duke of Lithuania (1573-1575)


1849   Muhammad/Mehmet Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha, Khedive of Egypt + Sudan


1955   Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria, of Franconia + in Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine




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