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Post by Susan » Wed July 21st, 2010, 12:15 am

July 21 in royal history:

July 21, 987 – Death Geoffrey I (Greymantle), Count of Anjou

July 21, 1831 – Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, uncle of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, ascends to the throne of Belgium

July 21, 1858 – Birth of Maria Christina of Austria, second wife of Alfonso XII of Spain
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Post by Susan » Wed July 21st, 2010, 11:47 pm

July 22 in royal history:

July 22, 1210 - Birth of Joan, daughter of King John, at Gloucester, England

July 22, 1298 - Edward I combines bowmen and cavalry to defeat William Wallace's Scots at Falkirk

July 22, 1461 – Death of Charles VII of France at Mehun-sur-Yèvre, France; buried at Saint Denis Basilica

July 22, 1478 - Birth of Philip the Handsome, Duke of Burgundy, husband of Queen Juana of Castile

July 22, 1535 – Birth of Katarina Stenbock, third wife of Gustav I of Sweden

July 22, 1596 - Birth of Michael Feodorovich Romanov, first Romanov tsar

July 22, 1816 - Wedding of Princess Mary, daughter of George III, and Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, her first cousin, at the Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace
At age 40, Mary married her first cousin William, son of her father’s brother. Mary was the last of George III’s children to die (in 1857) and was a favorite aunt of Queen Victoria.

July 22, 1832 – Death of Napoléon II, Emperor of the French, at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna; originally buried in the Kapuzinergruft in Vienna; his remains were transferred to Les Invalides in Paris, but his heart remains at the Herzgruft in the Augustinerkirche in Vienna, and his viscera remains at the Ducal Crypt in Stephansdom in Vienna

July 22, 1848 – Birth of Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

July 22, 1896 - Wedding of Princess Maud, daughter of Edward VII, and Prince Carl of Denmark, later King Haakon VII of Norway, at the Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace

July 22, 2002 - Birth of Prince Felix of Denmark, son of Prince Joachim
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Post by Ken » Thu July 22nd, 2010, 2:37 pm

Well, at least this week anyway, Tweety Pie (and Daffy Duck) is 60years old! "I tawt I taw a putty tat! I did I taw a putty tat!"




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Post by emr » Thu July 22nd, 2010, 7:03 pm

[quote=""Ken""]Well, at least this week anyway, Tweety Pie (and Daffy Duck) is 60years old! "I tawt I taw a putty tat! I did I taw a putty tat!"
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Thank you for the smile. I really needed it today ;)
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Post by Susan » Thu July 22nd, 2010, 11:23 pm

July 23 in royal history:

July 23, 1645 - Death of Tsar Michael I in Moscow; buried at the Cathedral of the Archangel in Moscow

July 23, 1885 - Wedding of Princess Beatrice, daughter of Queen Victoria, to Prince Henry of Battenberg, at St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham, Isle of Wight

July 23, 1892 - Birth of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia

July 23, 1952 - King Farouk of Egypt deposed by military coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser
Farouk is famous for saying, "In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards."

July 23, 1961 - Death of Mrs. Higashikuni Morihiro, formerly Princess Teru, at the Imperial Household Agency Hospital
Princess Teru was the eldest sister of Emperor Akihito.

July 23, 1986 - Wedding of Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Sarah Ferguson, at Westminster Abbey

July 23, 1993 - Wedding of Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein and Duchess Sophie of Bavaria

July 23, 1999 - Death of King Hassan II of Morocco in Rabat, Morocco; buried at the King Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca, Morocco

July 23, 2007 - Death of Mohammed Zahir Shah, last king of Afghanistan, at the presidential palace compound in Kabul; buried at Maranjan Hill at the presidential palace compound in Kabul
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Post by Susan » Fri July 23rd, 2010, 12:18 pm

July 24 in royal history:

July 24, 1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots forced to abdicate her throne to her 1-year-old son James VI

July 24, 1689 – Birth of William, Duke of Gloucester, son of Queen Anne, at Hampton Court Palace, Richmond, England

July 24, 1817 – Birth of Grand Duke Adolpe of Luxembourg

July 24, 1860 – Birth of Princess Charlotte of Prussia, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, at Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany
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Post by Susan » Fri July 23rd, 2010, 12:20 pm

July 25 in royal history:

July 25, 306 - Constantine I proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops

July 25, 1554 - Wedding of Mary I and Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral

July 25, 1603 - Coronation of James I

July 25, 1797 - Birth of Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, wife of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, at Rumpenheim Castle, Kassel, Germany

July 25, 1860 - Birth of Louise Margaret of Prussia, wife of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, at Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Germany

July 25, 1876 – Birth of Elisabeth of Bavaria, wife of Albert I of the Belgians

July 25, 1938 – Death of Prince Franz I of Liechtenstein at Valtice, now in the Czech Republic; buried at the Liechtenstein Crypt in Vranov nearby Brno, Czech Republic

July 25, 1970 - Birth of Lord Nicholas Windsor, son of the Duke of Kent

July 25, 1996 - Birth of Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece, daughter of Crown Prince Pavlos
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Post by annis » Fri July 23rd, 2010, 10:33 pm

Seeing we seem to be in a Scottish phase currently :)

24 July, 1411 was the date of a fierce Scottish inter-clan battle known as the Battle of Harlaw(in Scottish Gaelic Cath Gairbheach). The Highland clans led by Donald of Islay (Dómhnall Íle), Lord of the Isles, were pitted against the lowland clans in a conflict so bloody it became known as Red Harlaw.

The Battle of Harlaw features in Nigel Tranter's novel The Captive Crown, third in the Stewart Trilogy It covers the years 1402–1411 – following directly from Folly of Princes and ending with the Battle of Harlaw.

The Battle of Harlaw is also the name of a traditional song inspired by the event, the version here sung by The Old Blind Dogs (lyrics here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KSE7CwK ... 1&index=24
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Post by Susan » Sun July 25th, 2010, 10:29 pm

July 26 in royal history:

July 26, 1469 – Lancastrian victory at the Battle of Edgecote Moor

July 26, 1533 - Murder of Atahualpa, the last Incan King, on orders of Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro

July 26, 1867 – Death of former King Otto of Greece, born Prince Otto of Bavaria, at palace of the former bishops in Bamberg, Germany; buried at Theatinerkirche St. Kajetan in Munich

July 26, 1944 - Death of Reza Shah Pahlevi, former Shah of Iran and father of the last Shah, in exile in Johannesburg, South Africa; buried at Reza Shah's mausoleum in Ray, Tehran, Iran which was later destroyed during the 1979 Iranian Revolution

July 26, 1958 - Debutantes presented at the British royal court for the last time
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Post by Susan » Mon July 26th, 2010, 11:07 pm

July 27 in royal history:

July 27, 1365 - Wedding of Isabella, daughter of Edward III, and Enguerrand VII de Courcy, Earl of Bedford, at Windsor Castle

July 27, 1626 – Death of Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

July 27, 1889 – Wedding of Princess Louise, daughter of Edward VII, and Alexander Fife, 6th Earl Fife

July 27, 1980 - Death of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, in Cairo, Egypt, buried at the Al Rifa'i Mosque in Cairo
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