This Day in History

[Susan]

January 21 in royal history:

January 21, 1338 – Birth of Charles V of France at the Château de Vincennes outside of Paris, France

January 21, 1542 - Parliament passes bill of attainder against Catherine Howard

January 21, 1793 - Execution of Louis XVI of France at the Place de la Révolution, Paris; originally buried in a mass grave near the location of today's La Madeleine church, reburied at the Basilica of St. Denis

January 21, 1829 - Birth of Oscar II of Sweden and Norway at Stockholm Palace

January 21, 2004 - Birth of Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, daughter of Crown Prince Haakon, at the Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

[Susan]

January 22 in royal history:

January 22, 1260 - Wedding of Beatrice, daughter of Henry III, and John of Dreux, Earl of Richmond at the Abbey of St Denis, Paris, France

January 22, 1440 - Birth of Ivan III the Great of Russia in Moscow

January 22, 1592- Death of Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Charles IX of France, in Vienna; buried first in the Clarissine convent, since 1782 in the Ducal Crypt at St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna

January 22, 1689 - Parliament invites William and Mary to become joint sovereigns

January 22, 1797 – Birth of Maria Leopoldina of Austria, wife of Pedro I of Brazil/Pedro IV of Portugal, in Vienna

January 22, 1831 - Birth of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, husband of Princess Helena (daughter of Queen Victoria), at Augustenburg, Denmark

January 22, 1858 – Death of Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Baden, in Karlsruhe

January 22, 1901 - Death of Queen Victoria at Osborne House, Isle of Wight; buried at the Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore, Windsor

January 22, 1954 – Death of Princess Margaret of Prussia, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, at Schönberg, Kronberg, Germany
Princess Margaret, known as Mossy in the family, was the daughter of Victoria, Princess Royal and Kaiser Frederick III of Germany. She married Landgrave Frederick Carl of Hesse.

[Susan]

January 23 in royal history:

January 23, 1045 - Wedding of Edward the Confessor and Edith of Wessex, daughter of Godwin, Earl of Wessex

January 23, 1516 – Death of Ferdinand II of Aragon in Madrigalejo, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain; buried in the Royal Chapel in the Cathedral of Granada

January 23, 1570 - Assassination of James Stewart, Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland, illegitimate son of James V; buried at St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh

January 23, 1688 - Birth of Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden at Stockholm Palace

January 23, 1820 - Death of Edward, Duke of Kent, son of George III and father of Queen Victoria, at Sidmouth, Devon, England; buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

January 23, 1874 - Wedding of Prince Alfred, son of Queen Victoria, and Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna, daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, at the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia

January 23, 1896 – Birth of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg at Berg Castle, Luxembourg

January 23, 1957 - Birth of Princess Caroline of Monaco

January 23, 1999 - Wedding of Princess Caroline of Monaco and Prince Ernst of Hanover

[Susan]

January 24 in royal history:

January 24, 41 - Assassination of Caligula, Roman emperor

January 24, 76 - Birth of Hadrian, Roman emperor

January 24, 1328 - Wedding of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault at York Minster

January 24, 1712 - Birth of Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia in Berlin

January 24, 1746 - Birth of Gustav III of Sweden in Stockholm Palace

January 24, 1779 - Birth of Louise of Baden, wife of Tsar Alexander I, in Karlsruhe, Baden
Known as Elizabeth Alexeievna after marriage

January 24, 1924 – Death of former Grand Duchess Marie-Adélaïde of Luxembourg at Hohenburg Castle in Bavaria, Germany; buried at Cathedral Notre-Dame in Luxembourg
Marie-Adélaïde was a nun from the time of her abdication in 1919 until her death.

January 24, 1924 - Wedding of Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan (later emperor) and Princess Nagako

[Susan]

January 25 in royal history:

January 25, 1308 - Wedding of Edward II and Isabella of France, at Boulogne Cathedral, France

January 25, 1327 - Edward II is deposed in favor of his son Edward III

January 25, 1477 – Birth of Anne of Brittany, wife of Charles VIII of France and second wife of Louis XII of France, in Nantes, Brittany

January 25, 1533 - Wedding of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, at the Palace of Westminster, London

January 25, 1559 - Death of Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden at Kalundborg Castle; buried at Saint Canute's Cathedral in Odense, Denmark

January 25, 1630 – Birth of Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

January 25, 1661 - Birth of Prince Antonio I of Monaco

January 25, 1755 - Birth of Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, first wife of Tsar Paul I, in Prenzlau, Brandenburg, Prussia
Name after marriage: Natalia Alexeievna, died after childbirth at age 21

January 25, 1858 - Wedding of Victoria, Princess Royal, daughter of Queen Victoria, and future German Emperor Frederick III at the Chapel Royal, St. James Palace, London
The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn became a popular wedding recessional after it was played at the Princess Royal's wedding. The music is from a suite of incidental music to Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Queen Victoria loved Medelssohn's music and he often played for her when he visited Great Britain.

January 25, 1978 - Birth of Charlene Lynette Wittstock, wife of Prince Albert II of Monaco, in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

[Susan]

January 26 in royal history:

January 26, 1763 - Birth of Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, French Marshall, later Charles XIV, King of Sweden and Norway, in Pau, France

January 26, 1876 – Death of Amélia of Leuchtenberg, second wife of Pedro I of Brazil/Pedro IV of Portugal, in Lisbon; buried first in the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon, since 1982 in the Ipiranga monument in São Paulo, Brazil

January 26, 1947 – Death of Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten, eldest son of Gustaf VI Adolf and father of Carl XVI Gustaf, in an airplane crash

[Susan]

January 27 in royal history:

January 27, 1708 – Birth of Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, daughter of Peter I (the Great) and Catherine I of Russia, mother of Peter III, in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Anna Petrovna died at age 20, several days after giving birth to her son.

January 27, 1773 - Birth of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, son of George III at Buckingham Palace

January 27, 1836 – Death of Wilhelmine of Baden, wife of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine

January 27, 1859 - Birth of Kaiser Wilhelm II, son of Kaiser Frederick III and Victoria, Princess Royal, at Berlin, Germany

January 27, 2001 – Death of Marie José of Belgium, wife of Umberto II of Italy, at Geneva, Switzerland; buried at the Cistercian Abbey of Hautecombe, Savoy, France

[Susan]

January 28 in royal history:

January 28, 814 - Death of Charlemagne at Aachen, Germany; buried at the Aachen Cathedral

January 28, 1271 – Death of Isabella of Aragon, wife of Philip III of France; buried at the Basilica of St. Denis

January 28, 1457 - Birth of Henry VII at Pembroke Castle, Wales

January 28, 1547 - Death of Henry VIII at Whitehall Palace, London; buried at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle

January 28, 1768 - Birth of Frederik VI of Denmark and Norway at Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen

January 28, 1845 – Death of Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, first wife of Adolphe of Nassau, the future Grand Duke of Luxembourg, in childbirth at Castle Biebrich in Wiesbaden; buried at the Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Elizabeth in Wiesbaden

January 28, 1941 - Death of Alfonso XIII of Spain, in exile, in Rome, Italy; first buried at Church of Santa Maria di Monserrato, the Spanish national church in Rome, in 1980 his remains were transferred to San Lorenzo de El Escorial in Spain

January 28, 1950 – Birth of Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, in Riffa, Bahrain

[Susan]

January 29 in royal history:

January 29, 1601 – Death of Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, wife of Henri III of France, at Moulins, Allier in France; first buried at was buried at the Convent of the Capuchins, re-interred in 1817 next to her husband in the Saint Denis Basilica

January 29, 1749 - Birth of Christian VII of Denmark and Norway at Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen

January 29, 1820 - Death of George III at Windsor Castle; buried at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle

January 29, 1844 – Death of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in Gotha
Ernest was the father of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband. He was also Queen Victoria’s uncle.

January 29, 1860 – Death of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, wife of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden, in Nice, France

January 29, 1906 - Death of Christian IX of Denmark at Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen; buried at Roskilde Cathedral
King Christian was the father of King Frederick VIII of Denmark, King George I of Greece, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom and Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia. He was as much the "grandfather of Europe" as Queen Victoria was the grandmother. His grandchildren sat upon the thrones of Denmark, the United Kingdom, Russia, Greece and Norway. Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Queen Margrethe of Denmark, King Harald of Norway, King Albert II of Belgium, Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, Queen Sofia of Spain and former King Constantine of Greece are among his many descendants.

January 29, 2000 - Wedding of Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein and Angela Brown, civilly in Vaduz, Liechtenstein on January 21, 2000 and religiously in New York City at St. Vincent Ferrer Church on January 29, 2000

[Susan]

January 30 in royal history:

January 30, 1649 - Charles I is beheaded at the Palace of Whitehall; buried at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle

January 30, 1676 - Death of Tsar Alexis I at Moscow; buried at the Cathedral of the Archangel in Moscow

January 30, 1730 - Death of Tsar Peter II of Russia at Moscow; buried in the Kremlin, Moscow
Peter II, the grandson of Peter the Great, died of smallpox at age 14.

January 30, 1889 – Apparent suicides of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Baroness Marie Vetsera at Mayerling, Austria; Rudolf was buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna; Marie was secretly buried in the cemetery of Holy Cross Abbey in Heiligenkreuz

January 30, 1894 - Birth of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria in Sofia, Bulgaria

January 30, 1962 - Birth of Abdullah II of Jordan in Amman, Jordan

January 30, 1968 - Birth of Felipe of Spain, The Prince of Asturias, in Madrid, Spain

January 30, 2005 – Birth of Prince Hashem of Jordan, son of Abdullah II, in Amman, Jordan